Mutharika alleges being victim of identity fraud in Malawi cement-gate scandal
Former president Peter Mutharika has denied instructing his personal bodyguard Norman Chisale for the controversial importation of K5 billion worth of cement allegedly using Mutharika duty-free status for sitting presidents.
Chisale was arrested by Fiscal Police and faces fraud and money laundering charges as he is alleged to have used Mutharika’s taxpayer identification number to facilitate the transactions.
According to particulars of the offences, Chisale during the years 2018 and 2019 “by deceit or other fraudulent means imported 800 000 bags of cement without paying duty thereby causing a pecuniary detriment of 5 billion Malawi kwacha to the Government of Malawi.”
But in a statement released on Friday and made available to Nyasa Times, former president Mutharika appears to be distancing himself to the importation of the cement from Zambia and Zimbabwe using the duty free status that presidents enjoy to import goods for personal use.
Reads the statement signed by Linda Salanjira the personal secretary to Mutharika denied to have bought nor instructed anyone to buy or import the cement in question.
“Accordingly, the former president did not, as he could not, request the Malawi Revenue Authority to invoke any of his privileges to clear the alleged consignment of cement duty- free.
“Further, the former President was never at any point undertaking any construction project (s) requiring such substantial volumes of cement,” reads the statement in part.
Fiscal Police also arrested businessperson Shaffe Chunara, owner of Prestige Imports and Exports, in connection with the controversial K5 billion duty-free cement saga.
Chunara reportedly told the police “the truth” on how he got the cement that impliucates the former president’s aides and MRA.
But Mutharika in a statement said: “In any event, the former president does not operate any business to sell cement on retail or wholesale.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the former president did not have any dealings with the alleged cement traders either personally or through a third party.”
Written correspondence between State Residences and MRA indicated that through former director general of State Residences Peter Mukhito, Mutharika asked the public tax collector to facilitate clearance of the cement duty-free.
In his statement, Mutharika spears to be distancing himself from the cement-gate, paying way for his personal legal defence.
Observers say Mutharika could not be called as a witness to testify against his aides because the former president is saying he is a victim of identity fraud.
Police also arrested former Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy commissioner general Roza Mbilizi in connection with cement-gate scandal.
Before Mutharika was ousted from power in the June 23 fresh presidential election, State House and MRA on June 16 justified the transaction as “within the law”, as it was for personal use.
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APM says he did not anything about billions of
Kwacha worth of cement imported in his name! But Ngeme his ex spokesman said the President I added inpoterd the cement and was legally using his privileges!Either way this is a very sad situation! Here is an old and tired former President who was used and abused by the people he trusted so much! APM cuts a very pathetic figure! He was not meant to be our leader this guy….he is better left alone to his private life. Am sure APM now is happier than when he was President. We saved him from the corrupt politicians who were using his name to get favours and inducements from Amwenye!!
DPP shall slap MCP on the face again in 2025 like it did with the accidental acting president Joice Banda. DPP is a system. No more judicial coups in 2025 please . We vote as a country and it is not fair for five corrupt judges to rule against the will of the people by reversing election results the way the regime change judges handled the 2019 elections results.
Chakwera konzeka kusamuka, we want our government back .
Keep on dreaming! Hope this dream is not in black and white
Nkhani ngati izi ndizimene zinagwetsa Joice Banda Kuti adzitchedwa Mai cash gate , mbava zimene zimaba mdzina la president asakudziwa. Joice Banda anauza a IMF Kuti awafufuze amene amaba ndalama Za boma mapeto Ake anatchedwa madam cash gate, awa muwapatsa dzina lanji coz ndalama ndiye zabedwatu muulamulilo wao wa a pitalawa .opeleka Maina tiywni nazoni.
Mgeme Kalirani can you please explain this to the nation
Eish. What comes to mind – I paid for these buses out of my own pocket. If Mutharika can lie about a bus purchase what credibility does he have about cement when the Secretary of the Government has said no issue here Mutharika can buy cement duty free.
I have been reading Nyasatimes for over 12 years. The above post is one of the most to the point and responsible ever.Thank you.
Police show your independence from political interference by bringing Old Fool Mutharika to account for saying that he paid for the 2 buses the cement gate and many other crimes.
A Maliseche akusambirani mmanja ma cadet! He just threw you under the rug
Bus you mean?😂😂
@Mbava
Whatever the case it just vindicates the fact that APM was not fit for office. How does the whole of the president not know all these massive looting and financial scandals?
Ma news amalemba, mabungwe were raising the red flag but APM was dismissive and arrogant. Appointing crooks in positions of influence. He shouldn’t cry foul today he didn’t know. No, no, no! He was in fact the architect and beneficiary of this mass looting. The PI scandal is just an example
Amnesia kapena dementia kkkk mndhara wakunama uyu. m bale ace uja anfayu akanathandizana kuyantha with all the fraud looting of our monies. thank God amao anafa kale she would have been more mentally disturbed for bearing these 2 bastard rats .
liars
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Shall we say sleeping on the wheel? We all along said that the country was on autopilot during nkhalambas rule, didn’t we? That aside, didn’t we have his people defending him to the effect that he was entitled to duty free imports? Hence his argument doesn’t hold water and I believe the net is closing in now.
You mean Chisale bought the two buses from Peter’s pocket? How can you fail to understand that Peter is a crook? He was the master crook. His subordinates just perfected the art of crookery to suit the master.
Iwe Nankhumwa ndiye uziti this is witch-hunt. You can see that Mukhito, Chisale, Mbilizi, Chunara, Tadikira and possibly Getu played a role to enrich themselves from this. It was shows that Muthalika was not in control of this country. Does it not now surprise you that Mukhito bought tens of cars and possibly under the name of Muthalika? Unyolo avekedwe basi anthu amenewa. Chisale is using a Bible to draw public sympathy. ACB please look for more of these thieves and they must return the money to the public.
This Mutharika is very stupid. Where was he when all this was happening? What was he really doing at State House?Where was his concubine Gertrude when all this nonsense was happening? Gertrude should know all this. She may also have benefited from the loot and may have used that cement to build her flats near Mtaya, a school in Area 36, Flats in Area 6 and some houses in Area10, 12, 43, 44 and some other places. Bring back the loot! Let’s do operation bring back the loot!
shaggy and rayvon sang that song ‘It wasnt me’.sounds so appropriate. Faced with irrefutable and unconfortable evidence that there has been wrong doing at the heart of his administration and with his knowledge or someone within his inner circle, thats all this man can come up with. Well he might as well tell us how he expects anyone with any inch of a brain cell to believe his denials. He was all noise, all thief, all liar and all absolutely rubbish. A wasted six years when somebody (am talking man of steel and integrity)Chilima who was his deputy would have taken the country far had he been allowed to. Thank god we have the Wise Chakwera who has seen through it and is ready to transform the nation. Pay back what you owe, the country needs the funds to enable development for the future whilst you rot in prison.
This is just a proof that our country was indeed on Autopilot under Peter Muntharika, How did the whole president with security apparatus at his disposal could not know that someone was using his TPN ??
That’s why our taxes or acc number 1 was based on free for all, plundering it left and right.
You were not doing your job Mr former president that’s why your house is incomplete while Chisales Lodge is finished and operating.
May be u just want to blindfold us , u used Chisale to construct this Lodge so that if anything Malawians react then the blame should go to Chisale and not u. We know in reality that it’s your lodge though it was registered in Chisales name.
A Dad ndiye muzakhala mboni ya bomatu..kapena mungosayina umboni olumbira pa maso pa lawyer wanu, apo biii, mukonzekere kupita ku Lilongwe. Ubwino wake ulendo uno mipita masana palibe zoyenda ndi usiku kusogozedwa ndi a kasinja.
Peter Mutharika, just payback our money. It’s not good for you to be arrested. It won’t be a good thing. Also clear yourself of 145,000,000.00 Mk Zameer Karim issue.
Stupid idiot former president in Mutharika.
APM shld also watch some of mgemes press briefings,he might also ,be un aware what was happening under his watch….words alone can’t Express…you failed from first day.
He may have been exempted from paying duty but he must have been submitting tax returns through which he should have learnt something was grossly wrong and acted accordingly. Or was he sleeping as usual?
And to think this dude was running the country! It gives you shivers.
Chilima anayankhula kale Kuti izi mukuchitazi Kaya mukutumidwa Kaya mwanokha tikadzakumangani mabwanawa adzakukanani Kuti sakuzidziwa ndiye izi. Udzandikana katatu pitala tambala🐓 asanalile katatu kkkk izi😂😂😂🤔. Achisale zawavuta .
Chimbava ichi chi APM, he only came from exile to divide Malawi, kill innocent people, above all steal our public funds…. We are eagerly waiting for the conclusion of all the high-profile cases. We deserve justice on this if Tonse is to survive next elections
This old man is a liar. Everyone in Malawi new what chisale was doing. It was in all the media outlets, whether electronic or print. Yet some people, in the name of Peter mutharika, want us to believe that they didn’t know ….!!! That’s an unforgivable lie. Pathetic…!!!
It is all politics. The once trusted bodyguard one Norman Paulos Chisale is the sacrificial lamb. It appears APM has to let his once right hand man go to the crocs to save himself.
😃😃😃😃😃,,,What is this? Is this really the best you can come up with? Where have you been? If you were here on earth you would have known that few months ago the nation published a story on the same and the same Mutharika justified the buying of cement through Mgeme Kalirani. What has changed now? It is uneducated journalists like the ine who wrote this article who gives these thieves a platform to deceive the masses.
As for Muthatika, we all know that his only motivation for coming toMalawi was to steal our hard earned taxes. Mbava yavhabe chabe yopanda mano. I hope he will rot in jail.
Chibakha ichiso mukuti Mutharika, pamene Mgeme Kalirani amanena zoti he Mutharika is entitled to duty free, pa nkhani ya Cement, where was he? Za bodza he knows what was happening, he just want to hide himself. Let him taken for questions!
You report to the authorities if you are a victim of fraud which this fool knew ages ago but did nothing. He has to be answerable, he is not above the law
This Mgeme Kalirani is an accomplice too and needs to be questioned and possibly eventually locked up for the statement uttered.
Mr President, your wife knew. How else did she build all the town houses? She is very close to Chisale.
What a sorry excuse! It would be very, very interesting to hear what Roza Mbilidzi and Norman Chisale have to say now. See, there really is no honour among thieves. Not in my wildest dreams would I have seen the once mighty DPP crumble so quickly once out of power. Apart from naked tribalism, it would seem the only other thing that held the party together was the booty from the govt coffers.
a Mgeme kupupuluma.
munkayankha mwini wa musanafunse?
kapena inuso mmadziwapo kanthu?
He had said it was within the law before. So, he can clarify what’s within the law in court or spend the rest of his life in coolers – basi tu
This just confirms that we had an absent president who was not in touch with reality! Massive rooting of public resources happened right under his watch and today he can not claim that he didn’t know! We hold you APM accountable for all the looting.
Kutereku Mutharika samadziwa kanthu biii ?
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If the former president didnt know that his TPIN is being used for such huge transaction , then Malawi is the only country found to be in the stone age era. If something is trying to access my personal email with unknown code, I will be alerted and if someone has accessed my bank account and make a purchase,I will be alerted as well.How can personal identification of the president be easily accessed and corruptly used without him being aware? Am ashamed of being a Malawian
Mbuzi, how did he get hold of your details? What a lame excuse. You were either complicit or part of the system. Either way, your days are numbered too.
APM should blame Gertrude who shielded Norman for long
APAO MIZU YA KACHELE
When Chilima talked about this during his rallies why did you APM investigate this? Were you really in charge of this country you idiot? Mukhito bought almost 100 top of the range vehicles and his son boasted. Tadikila mwana wa mkazi wako was in the thick of stealing and iwe ngati step father chetee. Mtengeni APM akunama. You boasted that the economy was fine when you saw a lot of cars in the streets and you could not question where the money was coming from. Houses has been built in area 25, 49, 43, 44 etc by civil servants through corruption and theft of taxes. We talked about it and just paid no attention. Zameer used food rations in your name and we talked about it. Today arrests are being made you issue a press release? You hid Bakili Muluzi another thief for six years. Lock them up. The cadets killed. The cadets filled all positions and you will say Muhara and your niece Chimwemwe did that behind your back. You were supposed to be reading newspapers online. Usatitayitse nthawi pano.
…..and the Rashy football team buses, you also did not know anything? Thieves!
This old age pensioner is guilty. Wasting our time giving stories. Let him be questioned by the police. Summon him to Lilongwe Police Station. Old man don’t waste our time. Your firmer IG signed the letter to MRA.
Where did APM take the cement he used to build his house?. Asamukane lero Chisale poti wakwidzingidwa.
A kunena zoona he is indeed a victim in this cement scam but he could have prevented this had he listened to what people were telling him unfortunately Gertrude is related to Chisale a pitala amapusisidwa ndi jezebel
self inflicted victimisation. wasnt he on the driver seat????? DZIPULUMUTSE WEKHA
Its up to chisale to bite the bullet or not. If he wants to protect his boss he will bite it but if her is smart let him simply spill the beans that it was Mutharika who instructed the transactions…and get a lessor sentence.
That is the problem of electing an idiot into office. Mr Arthur Peter Mutharika is and will remain an Idiot. NEVER elect idiots as president!
MRA officer who authorised the duty freeLogic should have told them that 800,000 bags of cement could not be for personal use. I think police officers are hesitant to arrest Mukhitho because most of them benefited when he was IG
Mufuniranji umboni wina. The fall of Chisale. I can see another Lutepo.
Ongoing investigations will reveal the truth eventually. This cement-gate news broke out while Mutharika was still in
borrowedtime power and the state house officials publicly defended the presidential cement transactions as lawful. Didn’t Peter Mutharika know about all this then? Was that not the right time to tell tge nation that there was an identity fraud? Anyway, prepare your legal defense in court sir. You will need to explain to Malawians why you allowed Mkhito to communicateyour requestto MRA or else Mkhito has a case to answer. Official documents emanating from the State House clearly indicate that (thinking you and your inner circle were all above the law) Malawians were being economically ripped apart under your watch! You may still be liable to negligence of duty for allowing a free for all looting of the national treasury under your custodianship. If there was ever a time your professorship at law might bail you out of a quagmire this is the time. Good luck!That’s it, apm has no further information on the subject.
It is so surprising that a head of state who all along claimed to be the most well informed person in the country to the point that he knew everything that was taking place in the bedrooms of his opponents in the opposition parties but did not know what his own bodyguard and the First Lady we’re doing behind his back
Mutharika was told several times about what norman chisale was doing ,but choose to ignore .this is it now.
Band kugawana zida. Ndiye wina aziti fyo fyo Norman akumangidwa popanda chifukwa shupit
Mutharika is punishing Chisale …he s fighting back now!!!
MY advice to Vice president Chilima and Chakwera Please watch out for some crooked corrupt MOHAMED family in area 9 that seem to be befriending you as you are now in power.
This MOHAMED family will soon let Malawians have a negative view of what you touted about fight against corruption .in short these guys are corrupt to the core.
We are watching the ticking bomb Please learn from the Mtharika cement gate
a very wise and timely advise
True. Mutharika should’ve known all this because it was awash thru social media, mainstream media, and opposition political leaders. He should’ve had the curiosity to investigate.