Mtambo calls for probe on DPP crimes, wrongful enrichment: Clearing Malawi rubble to fix the ruins

July 8, 2020 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 34 Comments

Citizen for Transformation Movement (CFT) leader Timothy Mtambo has urged government to probe cases which stalled during former president Peter Mutharika’s regime to be in tune with President Lazarus Chakwera’s mantra of clearing the rubble to fix the ruins of the nation.

Mtambo with chairperson for CFT diaspora wing Linda Khembo Nwosu

Mtambo said this at a news conference he held in Lilongwe on Wednesday.

He said:  “Implementation of justice must be among the top priorities whereby Malawi should recover what she had lost to looters and plunders.”

He cited cases such as the saga of police officers who allegedly raped women in and around Msundwe area along the Lilongwe-Mchinji Road in October last year.

Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) established that some police officers perpetrated sexual violence against civilians but Police shielded the suspects among its rank and file.

In its report, MHRC said it established that police officers raped 13 women, defiled one girl and sexually-assaulted three under-18 girls during their October 8 2019 operation around the area.

Mtambo also wants closure on circumstances that led to the deaths of suspects such as Buleya Lule in police cell, as he was being tried in a case involving a person with albinism; third year Polytechnic engineering student and political activist Robert Chasowa and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate services Issah Njaunju, among other cases.

“CFT would like to see the new administration quickly enabling the instruments of law enforcement to investigate and prosecute those who have plundered and hurt this country in so many ways,” said Mtambo, a former leader of Human Rights Defenders Coalitions (HRDC).

Mtambo also said former president Mutharika’s cronies should be investigated for wrongful enrichment.

“Those that looted and criminally injured us as a nation, regardless their age and status in society, must be impartially subjected to the law enforcement agencies until they are all brought to book. We are all equal under the law and justice must never be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency,” said Mtambo.

He said all ill-gotten wealth that was looted from public vault must be restored back to the people of Malawi.

Mtambo has recommended that there should be an ‘Asset Recovery Taskforce’ headed by competent and patriotic Malawians to recoup any money stolen from the public sector including parastatals which were being used as finance transfer pumps for politicians.

“The recovery of the lost resources will quicken the healing process of the nation,” he pointed out.

Now frontline politician, Mtambo, who campaigned for Chakwera, says as the CFT leader he will continue playing his role to ensure those who committed offences are held accountable.

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34 replies on “Mtambo calls for probe on DPP crimes, wrongful enrichment: Clearing Malawi rubble to fix the ruins”

  1. Mr Mtambo i understand you are also part of the same govt. Dont play innocent. This is your time. You are in govt. Do what you think needs to be done. Full stop. You want the public to see you as good from the rest of the current govt people? Mukayamba kumanga, muyambilire inuyo. You know how you pocketed money from those who sponsored you which you used to support nsundwe thugs. So big up do the job. We want all of you greedy policiticians to rot in jail

  6. Also don’t forget deals happening in the Accountant General’s office where Accountant General Sungani Mandala is giving stationery orders to ex girlfriend / wife. Conflict of interest and abuse of office in the highest order.

  7. All those who are killing people now! all those who led demonstrations that destroyed our buildings in malawi, our feeling stations, looted the shops all those should be brought to justice. Beating up people until you kill them like rats! making people disappear and killing them! making people live in fear! all those people should be rounded up and given appropriate punishment so that Malawi can Squeaky clean under Totally!Totally! Chakwera! I agree totally Totally!

    Its ok to disagree in politics but you do not have to kill or destroy each other that’s just barbaric! an excuse for being a putrid savage!

  8. He is Rabble-Rousing!

    Rubble can be used as masonry to build anew unless there is too much of it. And if there is too much rubble it means there was war, in this case perhaps a war that was waged in Malawi by the previous opposition.

    Wise people don’t bother with ruins, they clear a new site and start building new buildings, bothering with ruins is a sign of poverty of ideas, can be complicated, wastes time and is dangerous unless it is a post war situation perhaps.

    1. Yes Indeed.If you recover all the money lost during cashgate and pour that back into malawi honestly then you will find the hospitals wiil be improved, jobs will be created and we might even work towards not need donors! we did do without donors under APM! so its possible!

  11. All those that destroyed people’s businesses and killed a Policeman during your Demonstrations must be brought to book. That should include You Mtambo as a Leader who incited Violence. If we are all equal under the Law, they then You have a Case to answer.

    1. Your old man Peter Muthalika had a very weak Police intelligence Team to advise him not to hold a provocative political celebration rally in Lilongwe at that particular time.That is waht costed the life of a police man.

  12. Mcheka Chilenje and Chiwaya must also be investigated for pocketing two house allowances each during the first term of APM. The matter started, but nobody knows how it ended.

  13. Please also investigate illegal interest rates at certain banks that were used to seize people’s homes and sold to bank employees below market value. Those same banks have used their influence to make sure cases never go to trial. It would be a huge mistake to assume that it was only in government where crimes were committed.

  14. Other countries like South Africa have the ‘Assets forfeiture Act’, an enabling law which makes it lawful to forfeit any assets that had been acquired using ‘stolen money’ by the person found guilty of wrongfully enriching themselves. How do you explain one person whose bank cheques used to be regularly dishonored by the banks before they got into a high political office, but suddenly acquire/ buy more than twenty-four properties country-wide within twelve months of holding the high political office? Such people continue to boast that they will continue to live their lavish lifestyle even after leaving office. Why is this? Simply because subsequent governments have turned a blind eye to the outgoing looting government officials as they (the incoming)get themselves ready to do exactly the same as their predecesors. No no no! The new Tonse philosophy administration must not allow any ‘state sponsored theiving’ terrorists to go scot-free!. There are scores of whistle-blowers ready to spill the beans, and this is an opportune time to embark on the daunting task of clearing the rubble of state-sponsored corruption in the aftermath of the re-run elections. Mind you, the ex-mafia gang members are also not sleeping as they plan their escape strategies, possibly while hiding away their loot. Some of them have already crossed our borders into neighbouring countries and yet others more will be leaving the country en-manse. Thanks to covid-19 international travel restrictions, the exodus of economic terrorists might be slowed down a bit. But the Tonse government need to act fast before the rubble of corruption clears itself out.

  15. I like what Mtambo says and what he has personally done for Malawi. Koma za title ya Commander in Chief’zi nzosemphana ndi Malamulo a Dziko lathuli. There is only one Commander in Chief Mr. Mtambo and that is H.E. Dr. Lazarus Itsanana Chakwera. Komanso tikaona mau oti Commander in Chief, timakamba za wamkulu wa nkhondo zomwe zili zosiyana ndi “Movement” ya People Power, zomwe ndi gulu lomwe akutiuza kuti likuthandiza struggle for our liberties. Mtambo needs to clarify his title or let it go. It’s contradictory of what he stands for.

    1. This Mtambo guy is full of himself.commander in chief, army yake iti? Galu ameneyi. Malawi is watching you. Akupaka manyi omwe ulinawowo and u will fail to clean up

  16. Mr Mtambo, your speech was well delivered and you have tampered a number of rotten parts of the governance system that needs scrutiny by law enforcement agencies. In fact it is democratic to put the past regime on a benchmark of justice; those that fail the test must be jailed. However, I would like to draw you to the lengthy yet unattended cry of soldiers that went to the DRC in 2014-15. Our young, patriotic, innocent soldiers were abused by the DPP led government and some army officers including general Maulana and General Spoon Phiri. We understand our soldiers after participating in a peace keeping mission were supposed to receive K8,000,000.00 (eight million kwacha) yet they were pinned down, threatened to be fired and were paid only K4,000,000.00 (four million kwacha only). This issue is sensitive Mr Mtambo, please lead the advocacy for our soldiers.

  17. Good Mtambo. Auzeni it looks like new government has lost truck. We need our money fast. Arrest them all who stole our money. we want action not kulubwalubwa.

  18. Mtambotu akuchindaso mkazi ameneyo. Mtambo hule wachabe chabe. Ma burundi onse a pabwandilo wamaliza kuchinda. Shame

  21. Mtambo, jealous won’t take you anywhere. Sizatheka okumba mseu kulandila ndrama kuposa bwana. Some of dpp guys worked hard, and earned every penny they have while you and your loudmouths friends were writing gay funding proposals. Idiot. With people like you surrounding clueless chakwera nothing will improve much.

    1. Phuma bwanji Zex? Mtambo is talking about ill-gotten wealth. Those who got it legally have no reason to worry.

  22. I agree but please start with Matafale, chasowa, Njaunju, Buleya and also Imedi. Let us not be selective. All these people lost their lives and need closure of sorts.

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