Mutharika rubbishes ‘fake news’ on corruption report involving Malawi police rations
President Peter Mutharika has dismissed reports that accuses him of fraudulently benefiting from K2.8 billion government contact, calling it “fake news” as part of a ploy to smear him ahead of a national election next year.
The denial came amid reports from several news organisations, citing Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) leaked report that suggest Mutharika may have benefitted from K145 million that a supplier deposited in a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) account for which he is the sole signatory.
Graft-busting body has been investigating a $3.9 million Malawi police food supply contract awarded to Pioneer Investments – a firm owned by an Asian-born Malawian businessman Zameer Karim who reportedly deposited the money.
Mutharika has blamed his detractors for fabricating the matter with malicious intention.
“I did not personally benefit in any way from the contract and that’s why I am concerned about the lack of truth. I am worried about what our country has become in as far as peddling of fake news on social media is concerned,” said Mutharika as quoted by Reuters.
“I do understand that it’s election season and my opponents will come up with all manner of lies to in an attempt to win the hearts and minds of people.”
Malawians next go to the polls in May 2019 to elect the president, parliament and ward councillors.
Mutharika said he had made it clear that graft isn’t acceptable. He said he’d fired a senior cabinet minister George Chaponda who was implicated in wrongdoing, refused to shield senior several government and party officials from investigations and backed greater independence for the Anti-Corruption Bureau.
“We are fighting corruption,” he said in another interview with Bloomberg News. “The massive corruption thing has become more of a cliche, it’s political now. It’s a collective effort. If we all work together we can stop this scourge, but not one person.”
Presidential spokesperson Mgeme Kalilani has also made an apparent attack to vice-president Saulos Chilima to have coordinated and sponsored character assassination campaign against President Mutharika and the DPP.
Kalilani said President Mutharika “never beniffitted” from the police deal “and he did nothing wrong.”
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I wonder if this man you call APM is educated.From the point of view an educated person could have resigned since they are so many allegations against him but he is still clinging to power.Look at what THABO MBEKI did sometime when they told him to resign he did exactly and now he gets respect.Though JACOB ZUMA is not educated but he resigned also.But this man he claims to be educated he can not do so,why?
CSO let’s demonstrate against banks as well. They have been key in corruption. Why do we leave these free?,they will hv to close with demonstrations. They fund corruption in malawi.
Banks note we shall be on you for facilitating stealing.
577 billion check! MSB toxic bail-out check! Maizegate check, 145million check! We are fighting curruption really? 577 was audit quarry on the word go, maize gate was Joseph nthawi yanjara kkkkkk and 145million fake news. Seach me who is professor of thieves?
Anthu ena amalankhula mopanda manyazi ndithu. Tiye nazoni kuno ndi kunja kumayanja lichero. Zingadzakhale zoona mawa mutatuluka mboma kaya 2024 mukunenayi
Dagobert, you appear to have a point. Let the bank’s come out clearly and speak. We also need the bankers of a person constructing a very expensive house at maula in Lilongwe do the same.
If any Malawian wants to seethe face of a thieving nkhalamba then look at the face of this dude! Eish, how else can you explain a donation from a Mwenye who was paid billions of tax payers money a few days before? Corruption …corruption ….corruption! No other explanation agogo inu…..!!!Of this was the US where you stayed for 40 years….the president would have resigned. Shame on you and your thieving party!!!
This is an abomination Sir, its a crime, I cant believe you are trying to find excuses, I’m sick to my stomach
My advice to Peter Muthalika: If you are surrounded by stupid people like Ngolongolindo dont ever think that all Malawians are stupid.This is a straight forward corruption issue, by the way what type of a learned professor are you, Peter Muthalika?.For you, Mgeme Kalirani, go back to school, ka diploma kaja kaya ndi ka law kaya journalism sikanakuthandizeni, your have demonstrated shallow thinking of the highest order.
Embassies and their foreign governments promote this corruption. When it is about gay they come in very fast and rebuke and withdraw funding.but here they are passively follow this. We need to wake them up.
APM is very lucky that Malawians are not south Africans. Ukachoka straight like Zuma. No wonder malawo is poorest coz of its sleeping pipo plundered by their own leaders.
Zikundiwawa. DPP chipani chokuba
President kuba ndalama kodi ulilimo ukazidyera kuti komaso ndapsantima ndikufufuzabe zankhaniyi ndikangopeza umboni ndikujandola sindigwirisa ntchito lezala ayi koma chigwandali chosathwa ala nkhalamba yonvesa chisoni kananji chapondayo nkhopeyo mabamba zipsera kukhwima nyima ameneyi wamusambirira peter lero wankulu wangoti ndwiiii
Hello Prince of Thieves? How are you? Moyenda ali bwanji? Nanga nzake uja? Mwati simunabe MK145 million? Fake news? OK.Munangotenga kwa Karim basi? Yonseyo munadya osawagairako Gresseder ndi Mchacha?
A Treasurer General amaidzuwa nkhaniyi? Nanga kodi Project ija ya likulu la chipani cha DPP mwati mwamanga kufika pati? Oh? Ndalama zake mulinazo ndizonyenyeka
Sizikukwanabe? Oh? Mufuna mubeko kachikena kaye? Mwati Ben Phiri wabweretsa kale zinazo? OK.
Hello? Hello, my Prince of thieves? Mwati munayika kaye foundation stone ya Headquarters ya DPP? Nde muyamba liti? Oh?? Zachepa? Nde mwati mwayamba kaye mwadya MK145 millioniyo musanayambe kumanga Head Office ya DPPyo mukudikilira kuti ndalama zina zibwera ku ESCOM ndi ku MERA? OK zikomo. Bye my Prince.
Quote ‘ I didn’t personally benefit from the 2.8b contract’ implying someone, may be DPP, benefited.
I am surprised and wondering why our President keeps telling us that…….is fake news whenever there is negative news about him or DPP. Yet he keeps quiet whenever real Fake News, such as EIU poll comes up. That’s the problem of living in denial.
Thief, what are you saying? Didn`t your party receive a ~donation~ of K145,000,000.00 from a supplier who had just been paid by Malawi Police Service on a dubious contract? Your Secretary General told Malawians that your party never received such money while your press officer, without shame, admits the theft but he sees is no problem with the theft because it was a donation! Mbuzi za anthu..
The bulldog, he was backing Chaponda in the maize deal but after the commission of equally the report came out very clear that Chaponda is a thief according of SC Annastizio Msosa . Just yesterday he was telling the nation that he received the MWK145million which is not his annual salary, today he is telling the nation that he is not a thief. Mbabva iwe, leave our country in peace,!you were not with us during referendum , foreigner with an American green card.
Mr President, whatever you’re saying is giving a lot of nonverbal info on the same!
First of all where did Mgeme got the details he initially communicated? Why are you contradicting each other!
Za manyazitu izi, munthu wamkulukulu caught pants down, ndiye kumapitilila kulabwalubwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mukuona ngati a Malawi zitsiru ndipo angakumveleni zopusaziiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Mukamufunse Kamuzu ku manda kapena Bakili ku BCA akakuuzani zomwe amachita a Malawi ndi anthu odzitama komanso odzikonda ngati inuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!! Tiye nazoni, muona zomwe ndikunenazi mu May 2019.
You’re clever now koma the game is not yet over until elections
Can the Banks not finally come in the open and make a stand, instead of hiding and covering up corrupt criminals an there parties?
What is it that APM refers to as FAKE? What is said appears to be verifiable FACTS, not necessarily opinions.
Does the said account exist? Is the account in DPP’s name? (Not in APM’s?) But is the president a sole signatory? At least Botomani seems to agree the alleged check exists and was really signed but according to him with a forged signature. Again was the due amount really adjusted upwards/ inflated? Did Karim deposit the money into DPP’s account after the police food ration deal? Did APM withdraw the 145 million or part of it Karim had deposited?Are sequence of events correct? If this is NOT freud, what will be in DPP’s eyes?
So what is FAKE here? But that’s what happens when one has run out of ideas defending the INDEFENSIBLE.
Shame!!!
No amount of lying can burry this one. This is a naked act bwana . I have never seen a stupid professor like yourself in my entire life. You want to flee after losing the May 2019 elections. but be assured that we shall fetch you from there. Distance is not barrier.
A very dull old man we cannot trust anymore! the deal happened and he says it’s fake, how? a thief will always be in defense of his evil act.
Kodi Santana alikuti timafuna atiuze bwino za nkhani ya mbwiye wacheyi Peter!
Bwana-Koma RATIONGATE imeneyi inuyo mulimo.Mukhala bwanji sole sinagtory on an account used to collect a donation from somebody you gave a contract to?Similar to KALOSWE GATE!
There is no way anyone with all their faculties can defend this, this is a shame, its an abomination, its a crime, I ‘m sick to my st0mach!!!
LIES these people are things, taking away from poor Malawians. The country is slowly going to waste. what a shame that as Malawians we fail to fight for what is right. we fail to stand up and fight. it is heartbreaking. Malawi is gone. we are lagging behind in development at the bottom 3 of the poorest countries in the whole world all because of these people who are heartless, evil and just want to put money in their pockets. what a shame Malawi. We should all be ashamed for tolerating such evil, corrupt and fraudently behaviors. our children have no future in Malawi because 20 years from now this place will just be as good as a dump. that is where we are headed. How i wish we could fight, we could stop supporting mediocrity and start to challenge our leaders for truth and honest leadership. Oh how i wish this country and it’s people would wake up. Oh Malawi wake up from your slumber. oh Malawi how i cry, how i hurt, how my heart breaks for Malawi. So much potential yet constantly defiled by wicked hearts….
President of Malawi His excellency Peter Mutharika waba ndalama za boma K145million! mwinanso kuposera apa kafukufuku alimkati kuti apeze figure yeniyeni!
Adadi pauuuuuuuuuleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeendoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So of all accounts why did Mr Kareem deposit the stolen money into the DPp account in which u are the sole signatory , and why spend the money …….Mr Pitala ife si ana..
Have we not been told that he has admitted receiving MK 145 million as a DPP donation, deposited into an account of which he is the sole signatory? Why did he start withdrawing money from that account without first establishing the source of funding? Mr president you have been cornered this time. Your involvement in this scandal is in your withdrawal of ill gotten money.
No wonder you are shielding Chaponda, zoona kutsegula account in the name of the party cholinga udzibera, koma ndiwe chimbava
Wakubayo! wakubayo!
😂😂😂😂😂😂has a thief ever said I am thief, of course he’s gonna deny.
😂😂😂😂😂😂have you ever seen normal people donating to thieves.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂what a joke they have made out of our country.
guys (media at large) you might as well just close this chapters of bringing these VVVIP thieves to public knowledge about their loots as we all know we cannot do anything about these daylight robbers. Just hand over the keys to RBM to them…busi akamalize zonse) If Malawians were serious then these thieves would have been kicked out a long time ago. We might as well remove clause of impeachment from the Republic Constitution…… coz it’s total useless and occupying unnecessary space in the constitutional bible. What a shame and a pity really…….even the donors, who are fully aware, are also keeping their lips closed. GOD BLESS MALAWI
As long as you are a sole signatory the account is yours and you ve to face the Law.
La 40 lakwana, mbava muonekera ng’amba. Pyuuuuuuu
Tell us who benefitted Mr President. The money went into an account which you are the sole signatory right after Pioneer had been quickly paid billions in taxpayers Money. You mean you didnt know the relationship? Someone pays. 148 million kwacha into your account and you dont ask why? You are very corrupt and a disgrace your excellency. So of us thought you were just sleepy, but to discover that you are corrupt and a liar too makes you unsuitable for state house.
Step down if you have any self respect.
So explain what the money was for. Why are you friends of dishonest people? Birds of a feather flock together. Do not deny karim today