More school plots encroached as lang-grabber Mustag ‘untouchable’ for his DPP links
Apart from Livimbo School in Lilongwe’s Area, more public schools have been encroached by individuals after the plots were dubiously sold, Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has said.
The committee’s chairperson Kezzie Msukwa told journalists that their inquiry found the schools like Chimutu, Chilambula, New Shire and Magwero have also their plots been invaded by some developers.
Msukwa said other schools in Blantyre were also encroached.
“What is happening at the Ministry of Lands is stinking and we shall ensure that all bad elements are exposed and brought to book, and all illegal developments shall be destroyed in accordance with the laws,” said Msukwa.
He added: “We have realised that there are more government plots and land allegedly encroached; so we will engage a full throttle investigation.”
Minister of Lands and Urban Development, Symon Vuwa Kaunda conceded that public schools had been targetted in the land-grabbing scams that his ministry is also investigating
But the parliamentary committee said they will also investigate the sale of plots in new Area 43 in Lilongwe which were reportedly sold to immigrants.
Police recently busted a syndicate which run a parallel government lands office in the Capital City by selling land to unsuspecting buyers using fake documents.
However, the matter has stalled as sources at Police headquarters say one of the arrested land-grabber Mustag Mahomed is “powerful” and cannot face the law.
Mustag is member of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and is seen in public rallies by President Peter Mutharika and the recent one he attended was in Balaka.
“This case will go no where. Mustag is powerful and untouchable. There is more to this land-grabbing scam than meets the eye,” said a top police source.
Mahomed was arrested together with Chifuniro Simumbe and the lawyer Umahu Mataka whilst the fourth suspect Alex Mawaya is on the run.
“These people transacted and sold plots using fake documents,” said Principal secretary in the ministry of Lands and Urban Development Joseph Mwandidya.
He said six plots were sold by the suspects.
“We have been receiving complaints from people of their plots being sold without their knowledge,” he said.
The principal secretary said the plots include one on plot number 47/1219 which was sold by Mahomed at K300 million whilst Simumbe and Mawaya sold plots on plot numbers Area 43/999, Area 43/998, Area 43/995, Area 43/994 and Area 43/993 at K50 million each.
Also suspected in the ‘landgate’ scam include Mustak Chotia and Suleman Ismail who bought the land dubiously from Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) and sold three flats developed there to Roza Mbilizi of Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA).
Chothia and Ismail have been exposed by former official at Ministry of Lands and Urban Development, Flemings Chifombo, who was arrested on allegations that they were forging signatures and produce lease documents.
The law enforcers also nabbed Diverson Mlozi, Rose Ajasi and an Indian Abubooker Istiaq.
Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development busted a parallel ‘Lands Office’ in Lilongwe which allegedly transacted and sold plots with counterfeit documents. Seven suspects were arrested in connection with operations of the dubious ‘Lands Office’.
The syndicate has been discovered after President Peter Mutharika had directed the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development to attend to a lot of complaints on double land allocations and issuing of illegal certificates and deeds, according to Mwandidya.
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KU ZOMBA ANTHU AKUMANGA NYUMBA MALO A CENTRAL HOSPITAL.WHAT KIND OF A NATION IS THAT WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THAT YET A FEW WANT SUCH NONSES TO CONTINUE I FOR ONE I WILL CHANGE MY CITIZENSHIP IF THIS NONSES CONTINUES NEXT YEAR.I BETTER BE A CITIZEN OF ANOTHER COUNTRY NOT TO BE PART OF MANMADE SHAMEFUL COUNTRY.
MALAWI IS ON THE VERGE OF CORRUPSE.THOSE WHO THINK EVERYTHING IS WELL.JUST ASK ECONOMICS TRUE ONE THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT WE ARE NOSE DIVING NOW. NKHANI YA MALO NDIKUGULA NYUMBA ZABOMA MOPANDA DONGOSOLO NDIZOMWE TAPINDULA SINCE 1994.FULL OF NONSES A NATION AT ITS BEST.REAL MALAWIANS WILL CHENGE THE STATUS CORE SOON.AMEN
These amwenye crooks I don’t think they are true Muslims. They are practising Islam as culture. They have no heart for poor Malawians. That’s why I don’t take the seriously when they engange in charity activities. They come to Malawi with no underwear but they become instant millionaires.
So, every ‘mwenye’ is a Muslim according to you ? Don’t confuse yourself and others by mixing religion with race … there are Malawians that are Muslims also – your mindset is single tracked – people believe what they want to believe …
If the President himself grabbed Malawi housing House dubiously at a a cheap plus other plots of land, the dpp cadets are grabbing too coz like father like sons and daughters.
Look at the houses they are building.
If we want to see change, DPP needs to go.
True , kuononga ngati Mbalame yotchedwa Pumbwa.
True. That’s why we say everything else will be rotten if the top, the leadership, is rotten to the core. Because APM/DPP is rotten, the rot trickles down to the offspring. Any wonder the country is in such a mess; and the Indians, Asians of Malawi origin, have capitalised on this because they have the money, most of it ill-gotten through cheap labour they forcibly employ.
Kenzie you seem to be talking too much. Kodi ka filling station kako ka pa jenda kalipo? But one thing that you mcp, utm, pp and fp should know is that dpp mwayesetsa kuti muichotse koma mwalephera. You wanted pipo to be on civil war koma zinavutaso. Amalawi ndi okonda mtendere kwambiri. You have tried every trick in the book but have yielded nothing. Izi zinaoneka ku khothi, no real issues. Ngati ana. By the way, who wants to have a phd yabwino ku chanco? Some of the facts, south korea will nevet go yo war with noryh korea, china will never invade taiwan, Israel and Iran will nevet fight one another, south Arabia will never wage war on iran despite the differences on shiattes and Sunnis in these countries. Panopa angelezi akumathandizira internal strife in othet countries for their own reasons. So ana anyadaland take care.
Well said TimveZiti.
My view, however, is that things get out of hand if you have weak and greedy leadership. Corruption trickles down if the people entrusted to guide us are corrupt because, like it or not, those below emulate. It becomes almost impossible to stem the vice.
It’s very rare that you have foreigners being included in party policy makers as is the case, we are told, with some Indians in DPP. Is it any wonder our Asians of Malawi origin have become so bold as to belittle even a cabinet minister?
The holy Scriptures teach that what a man sows that shall he reap. Corruption is a ‘seed’ that Malawi leadership has been sowing since the advent of multiparty democracy. The political unwillingness to fight against the wide spread ‘sowing’ of this evil seed is what is producing the corrupt harvest. An ex minister of agriculture involved in the Zambian maize purchase scandal that rocked the country ends up being rewarded with other ministerial portfolios instead of ending up in jail. It is a terminal political cancer that has gripped the current government.
nde poti maso amakhala ali n’ganin’gani mabwanaoso mma ofesimu.
amayambitsa ndio omwe kuti mmwenye adumphe mzele. ati akuthamangila ku ncito. ncito yanjiyo?
as if the pthers on the que got nothing to do..we thought we adopted the british, 1st come 1st served.
WATCH OUT
a kachapila michuleni mai ameneyu. tizilongosola apo bii basi pitala wakhalila mazila ngakhale ndiaeni
I do not think it is proper to put to blame all these on DPP only, corruption started way back slowly slowly now it has grown… nthawi ya angwazi anthu ankaba koma mochepa (akagwidwa zilango zake zimakhala zothana pompopompo, now we came with ma rights etc anthu angoba anyhow, public offices not being taken care of)
just wait ,you are connected to People who will be soon gone,and we will take back what belongs to us
Does the president have to intervene in every ministry for a rot to be exposed?
What does this tell us? Most public offices are occupied by toothless incompetent people who will do their work once there is a possibility that they will lose their jobs, this includes ministers who are driving around clocking extra allowances doing absolutely nothing. I will trust this government once Indians start to serve jail time. Our Indian brothers love ruling parties because they are easy to corrupt.
DPP can you really deny your officials are rotten to the core? Who is running this country and who should be held accountable? Not you?
Are you surprised why this nation is poor? It’s not a curse we have officials who are not willing to change anything because doing that closes taps for their survival, so continuing with same old suits them better
Also investigate the land opposite St. John of God hospital that was earmarked for the hospital expansion. Greedy woman sitting on that land!!!
If the president and all those surrounding him are greedy expect more “untouchables”. It has already been seen kuti cadet police cannot and will never do anything to these amwenyes. You may wonder how the amwenyes get access to the pitalaman.
In Area 25
Kabwabwa Primary & Secondary Schools please investigate. Churches mbwee in the surrounding area which was previously for school only
amalawi inu ndi choncho amwenye amalowa mma ofc like registration bureau, lands, road traffic and immigration ngati akulowa mnyumba mwao. mmenemo amalwi ali khuma panja milomo mbu ndi njala. dziko liti mmalawi angakaopedwe kuposa eni dziko?
The problem starts with us Malawians. We have watched and tolerated corruption being born, crawling, standing, walking and now it’s running. Corruption has taken root so much and we have even accepted it as a norm. If we accept all this corruption now imagine the generations to come. Our children are growing up and taking it as a way of life.
The foreigners will only take advantage of our foolishness in accepting corruption. Corruption comes in many forms. We are a corrupt society. Even those few kwachas we pay traffic police to let us go encourages corruprion.
Let’s all wake up and root out corruption of any form or size for the sake of our children.
DPP are devil worshippers, alibe mzimu ndi chikondi cha dziko. Ana a njoka onse.
We should not Peter Mutharika to destroy this country in that manner! He must go back where he come from but not to play with Malawians he is big fool. He is not Malawian so he must leave Malawi in peace Manner.
Malawians at all levels and all tribes timakonda kulemekeza obwera. So even mtsogoleri asinthe amwenye apitirizabe kutitola. Tisinthe ndikuyamba kuona amalawi amnzathu ngati anthu
So you mean he is a feeder
a China tamuchuleni lawyer amapanga ma trip ku US ,DUBAI etc.
pano tsopano palibe zomuika munthu kumbuyo. aululeni tithane nao.
So kuli madukulu osewa grabbed then only livimbo ndiyomwe inatuluka poyera,for this egg head Vuwa kumanjanja ,a plesdent andituma fwefwefwr musanafufuze kaye,idiots.
and pitala cannot help on this when he and and this dolly parton getrude,are the master minders, Cisale body guard included plus the rest. We got MP s snorting at the parliament fighting for loans with no interest.
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This is the worst government ever. The ministries and their Ministers are the worst people of the century. Zoona kumagulitsa malo kwa a mwenye ngati tomato? Eni ake dziko tikulira koma inu zoona anthu obwera kumatinjoya chonji ?
Trouble is that Indians have been tolerated for much too long. A greedy leadership plus foreigners, Indians and Chinese especially, is too bad for Malawi. We have kissed Indians arses for too long to the extent that they are becoming bolder by the day such that they are now able to challenge authority including parliament, the executive and judiciary. Kamuzu would not tolerate this nonsense
Illegally acquiring land, particularly schools land, is unforgivable. Let them challenge Malawians in court.
Too bad for you then. Indians have contributed to the growth of Malawi and so have the Chinese. You can sit there and blame people, or you can shut your mouth and grind – What do you want from the Chinese/Indians ? You want to be put on a pedestal ? “I’m black/white/brown/yellow, and so I deserve better care than the whites/blacks/browns/yellows” ? …
How have they contributed. All the fuckers know is to steal. Things are gonna be different.
Well said Lomwe; our fellow brothers here are a little too extreme – their mindset is the ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL … Rather than being more analytical/critically thoughtful, it seems like our brothers here like to turn to scapegoats and love to play the blame-game… It’s a shame
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome someday…
Oh deep in my heart, I do believe, that we shall overcome someday
Lets wait for re-run. asowe amenewa
Pali bwenzi la Mwenye kuposa chilima?
Malawi wapita basi amoyo ine.
WE SHOULD REMEMBER WHAT HE SAID,,INE SIMALAWI ,I AM NOT A MALAWIAN.
SO I DONT THINK HE CAN BE SERIOURS ON THIS ISSUES OF LANDGATE.
This is whats gonna happen if a party relies of thugs for its survival. Pitala is rotten to the roots, receiving money from dealers like mustag… something has to be done. This is the worst government we have ever hard. Things are completely out of hand. How can the whole police say theese are untouchables! zoona!
alas I am told my old primary school called Mzimba LEA aka Leya school has also been encroached. may the parliamentary committee investigate as well
Mr President please protect Malawi from these people: Indians, Pakistanis ,Chinese and the scum from West Africa. We do not have anyplace to call home apart from Malawi which your officials are selling. There is this Rwandan who has put up his pig houses near Winners Chappel in Lilongwe. Another Mwenye has no parking space at the same place for his wholesale business. Cement trucks are parked along the road sometimes outside the gates of the nearby government primary school
The problem is that government departmens and ministries do not have their premises well demarcated and as the lapses and staff change there is nobody who can be able to ascertain definitively the boundaries hence the encroachments. Its all over go to rural health centres agricultural EPAs its the same even the Lands ministry itself has land emcroched into Lunzu in Blantyre is an example so let’s holistically look at the issue and find means to stop it. Most of the land was acquired during the one patty era and till now most locals have grudges as regards how the land was taken and this these new found freedoms the chicks have come home to roast
I am speechless with this DPP Government.Surely one day we shall wake up and find out that the whole country has been sold.May GOD intervene in our land.
DPP Government won’t see this as a problem, they will continue saying opposition is jealousy and baseless. Yet the truth is there is high-level corruption. We need to unite to fight it instead of choosing to different in everything. Blacks cannot do this in India
Lets fight corruption regardless of party affiliations which are artificial
Lilongwe lands is corrupted to the core about area 43 plots please mumfufuze this lady lawyer akugwila Ku lands Ku Lilongwe who travels every year with antchito Ku US and Dubai every year.At what salary can you do this?
There is no leadership in Malawi. The leaders are only interested in amassing wealth at any cost. It is sad that all this is happening whilst the law is being selective on who to prosecute. Munthalika a law professor is heading One of the most corrupt government in Africa. Whilst poverty is rising.