Police arrest Mainja of the infamous Pest Chem B1 on K6.2 bn scandal
The police in Lilongwe have arrested Mr. Martin Mainja of Pest Chem B1, a company implicated in the 6.2-billion-kwacha audit report on Covid-19 funds.
According to the audit report, the company was awarded contracts to fumigate Capitol Hill and State house at inflated prices.
Our inside source at Lilongwe police says, Mainja was picked at about 5pm at airwing in Lilongwe and will later be moved to area 30 police headquarters.
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Good Mr President , bite them or just kill them akafuna change . Even in the bible Jelobiyani anati ngati bambo anga amakumenyani ndi tengo ene ndi kumenyani ndi shamboko. Inu ndiye mulilandi little salary Boma , no allowances, ukatenga allowance waba
These arrests are just face covers. Picking accounts assistant leaving the ones who approved payment. I find this very wanting.
Eeeee izi tidikile kuti timve how did Auditors arrive at the decision of inflated prices if the quotations were there and even the LPO if any.
If I were Mr Mainja, government can’t win this case against me. I was told to work for the government. I charged so much for my services. Government didn’t tell me my charges were inflated. They nevertheless gave me the work. I worked so hard and finished my job. Government paid me. Why then arresting me on being paid for the job I did?
Please, the problem is not the one who supplied the services to the government. Problem is one who gave him the job without following proper procedures at government. Problem is one who agreed to pay for the inflated charges. Government had all time to refuse his services. Typical of politicians arresting irrelevant people in a case leasing behind the real culprits just to clear the general public that take accent pastor is working. Za ziiiii
There may be evidence of sharing the loot.
Ur right nkhani ndi quotation yake ikuti chani and how did the auditors come to the conclusion that the charges were inflated?Zinazi sazikwanitsa
You’re free to join the case as a witness pr an interested party and make those arguments in court. See you there…we have evidence
go and read the Financial Crimes Act vis-a-vis Money Laundering Act contents ….
No hiding behind ‘Chipande’ & the others that tolerated the so called inflated prices are accomplices to theft, fraud & corruption….
Time will tell ….
I am an engineer and it’s true I’m an amateur in financial issues but I know that Malawi is a free market. Everyone decides charges/cost of his service or product. There are no standard prices for products and services. Fanta yemweyo some sell at 300 others 700. My point is; if we say Mainja inflated his charges, on what standard are we basing? Is there a standard charge for fumigation in Malawi? The truth is it was Nick Chakwera, son to Chakwera who hand picked Mainja to do this job. Now instead of arresting Nick Chakwera, you are busy arresting munthu otumidwa, kusiya otumayo. This is my layman’s point of view za Financial Act zo phandani ndiinu bwana
“He who does a thing through others, does it for himself” Qui tacit per aliam tacit per se!!!
there is suspected collusion between him and the public officers who inflated prices. there is a case here.
Pachipanda a Malawi kutokota ndi kuzitsata bwenzi tili madzi. Pano tapenya a Malawi tikudziwa zochita sizofunikanso kupitira ku school izi. Achita bwino kumangidwa but what next abwenze ndalama pasanathe 7 days ndipo amangidwenso kukagwira ntchito yakalavula gaga chifukwa ativutitsa ife a Malawi kwambiri. Komanso wa ku OPC yo amapereka tender kwa Mainga nayenso amangidwe. Apo ndiye tinkhutitsidwa. Za Phuka zija zinathera pati tiyeni tifufuzenso a Malawi naye amangidwe ndi ma DC wonse sizongoti atchotsedwa ntchito akudya ndalama ayi. A Chakwera musalimbe mtima kuti a Malawi akodwa adziwa choonadi yayi, inunso mupange step down ndithu zikukulirani. Kodi mudzingokhalirira kuti ndalama zisokonezeke ndiye inu mudzichitapo kanthu . Nanunso muli ndi murandu woyankha kwa a ife a Malawi pa Malonjezano anu.
Chakwera wangodana naye,audit report sinatchule president and ufune usafune uyu ndimpaka 2025 wooooo pepa
if he was used, he is not a minor let him reveal the partners in the deal.
Otherwise on paper he is the one who benefited from the deal and its not wrong to pick him only.
On the other hand, the so called prosperity gospel preachers Mulungu akulangeni. Mukusokoneza ana ndinu. you no longer preach Jesus Christ but money money.
Money grabbing Leeches with no thought for anyone. They must all rot in jail for other Leeches to learn.
The way Malawian authorities reason exceedingly amazes me, who must be arrested between the one handpicked for dubious business deal or the one responsible for handpicking? it seems either I may be the one who is lost here or something is very wrong with authorities
I totally agree. This guy was chosen to supply goods and services the one who didn’t negotiate the prices should be the one to be nabbed. Apapa ndi zisudzo Chabe to pretend to Malawians that akupanga act.. phula mmaso
eti? Walakwanji munthui? anapasidwa business. Sanazipase yekha. Let omupasao be arrested. If they point fingers at him for whatever reasons u can then decide to arrest him.
Arrest ministers too
Cast down your idols.Success is not having money.Yuo can climb up the ladder and find there is nothing up there except vanity.This why some of us are not fezzed up for riches.Chalo nimazgola chikazgola Gamphani pa Nkhamanga. Any way God uses the troubles to show what your identity is..You can not save God and money at the same time.
Kunamiza anthu. Akuti amanga anthu omwe amachita oversee. Zangazanga Chikhosi is the one overseeing thisbrotten system and Chiponda Kandodo overseeing the task force yet they are still working. Mbusayu ndi wabodza palibe chichitike akungofuna ma demo asachitike
Tiyeni nanga mabwana aliku? Simumati task false yonse idapakula nawo. Musakondere tufuna chilungamo
I heard he is friend to the powers that may be.
He is just a scapegoat. Arrest the elephant which is still free. Who are the shareholders in that company. Lift the veil and check who is behind and hiding in the shadows of this company. This man is is just a scapegoat when real crooks are lying low. Arrest the elephant in the room. Who ever gave him that contract had a choice to seek for an alternative cheaper company. Instead they went on with the contract. On the hierarchy of rogues ,this man is the bottom. Arresting these rogues should be from Top to bottom and not the opposite.
treasury komanso a ku disaster office amangidwe for distributing money popanda budget…what was their basis and criteria for the distribution of the money to those that had not presented their budget? osamanga anthu because they used money basi…mangani omwe sanatsate malamulo…from those the top then we will know that we are serious.
It takes two to tango, where are his counterparts in the racket? He should not be the only one arrested. Those who handpicked him without following laid down procedures for public procurement should also spend time in a cooler.
Just a conduit for Chakwela, Assemblies of God in action.
Optics iyi kuti ikamakwana 8pm akhale ndi narrative. It will only mean something if these people are prosecuted expeditiously.. osati milandu adjourn mpaka 15 years…..aah