Shocking facts come to light about looting at Malawi Revenue Authority
Work equipment, machinery and money that was supposed to assist Malawi’s taxmen and women to collect enough domestically mobilised resources for development have disappeared at Msonkho House and they are untraceable even at other Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) offices.
The revelations are coming out barely few days after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Reyneck Matemba is on record to have said that the bureau will see to it that proceed of crime are not transferred by acquiring assets.
A high placed source in government says when the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won back power in 2014 assets, for the public tax collecting body started disappearing.
“A year old executive Toyota V8 Cruiser metallic in colour registration number BS 5858 used by a former commissioner general was supposed to be sold by tender. However, it was withdrawn from the process and driven to Sanjika Palace.
“Another newly bought Toyota Prado TX that the then HR director a Mr Kayuni was given for official use was grabbed unceremoniously from him by a driver Paul Mphepo, a son to DPP’s administrative secretary Francis Mphepo. The status of the cars are not known and are yet to be handed over to Msonkho House,” highlighted the official.
Investigations by Nyasa Times reveal that it is not only the two cars that are missing and a specially purposed speed boat used to fight-off smugglers on lake Malawi is also untraceable.
As if that is not enough, other departments are also skinning MRA. As at 3rd July 2020, tens of cars bought for by MRA for hunting smugglers and easing mobility challenges when collecting taxes are taken by capital hill officials at the treasury department. This is the case every year since 2014.
The recent fleet grabbed from MRA features the official ministerial vehicle Toyota Prado TX that even the new appointed minister of finance Felix Mlusu has reservations to use it.
After the court ruled in February that a fresh presidential election must be conducted, MRA management quickly issued orders to sell all of the organisation’s houses, except only those ones at office premises.
Staff who are occupying the houses were shocked to receive notices that the houses will be owned by others since they are selling them.
The action however, did not go down well with the tenants and many with serious concerns from the tax collectors workers group that they want government to construct staff houses for MRA that matches the number of employees to ease the heavy burden of paying rent which is extremely high, K100,000 for a decent house in most townships.
“It gets more unbearable when compounded by the trend by landlords who always require 3 to 4 months rent payment in advance. Our work funds the nation, we have to be considered,” the say.
In a latest event the deputy commissioner general Roza Mbilizi and commissioner of finance Sam Zuze, orchestrated a refund transaction which has seen over K100 Million refunded to Yafuka Produce.
This company is owned by the then Irrigation Minister Charles Mchacha. The refund was done without subjecting the application to audit and review as it is always the case. It is believed loot of this nature is shared between those whose applications are served like this and the highest officials.
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Corruption cries heard every hour of the day. Arrest them! arrest them! arrest them! So goes the song. We don’t hear investigate them! investigate them! Arrests are desired but this can only be done if prima facie cases have been established first before issueing such warrants of arrests. To successfully investigate, the crippled ACB that is always found lacking of professional man power and adequate funding needs these resources. Check the 20/21 budget to see if they have such adequate funding included. If not, I guarantee that such arrests won’t come easily. The suspects are in a cyndicate involving from clerks to politicians who currently are busy destroying evidence. We are yet to see.
Bola asatiphere a atsogoleri athuwa ~Chakwera and Chilima.
May God guide and protect them so that they might fulfil the assignment of collecting all the monies ill gotten by these foolish and heartless dpp top dogs
They MUST face the music
Dausi, get ready, I wonder which prison is waiting for Dausi. Tisabwe, sikidzi udzudzu nditina toluma uluma tidikire nyenkhwe Dausi.
My heart will be calm when Dausi is arrested, failing to arrest him I will dye of bp.
The current administration should follow up on these issues and bring everyone to book. This is why Malawi is still poor to date but inside a poor country, there are people whose wealth is stinking.
This must stop.
choncho Dausi akuti mukuwamanga pa zifukwa za ndale, is he really a Malawian? DPP Government did a lot of damage to our beloved country.i feel like these people are demons.
Mr Malaya, ur such an embarrassment to the country. After earning too much of respect from the private sector and now u end on a very nepotistic and corrupt note!? Where is your professional ethics knowledge. Are u satisfied now????
After years of learning and building reputation….very sad
No no no … uku ndiye mukwecheko kwambili
kkkkk ndende zachepa enawa kaya akakhala kuti????? Dausi manyazi ulibe? Ai ntchito zanu zimenezo
Malawians, don’t worry. Everything they have done will catch up with them. I can assure you that toothless and his cronies are already trembling in their boots, right now.
Lord bless Malawi, Guide Chakwera & SKC as they begin to rebuild our nation. May you punish all outgoing selfish leaders who plundered our resources thereby depriving the poor the basic needs.
KODI ZIMENE AMABA ANYAMATA A MRA MMA BORDER MU SIMUKUNENA BWANJ
Arrest those involved enough is enough with destructive DPP
Arrest them all.
Koma yaaaaa this country and everything in it was being handled like family property under the reign of DPP…and so much we still dont know about…what a beautiful, little country would have been without this rot!!! Its sickening…and to think that a woman is behind all this…scary!!!!!
Thanks almighty God for rescuing Malawi. I can’t imagine how the country would have been in the next five years under dpp thugs. Arrest ALL THE thieves and reform the whole organisation.
Do the same in city and town assemblies. Anyamata adyamo koophya and its the playground of rooting and siphoning public funds also
Stories from third world countries are not complete, but just assumptions. When are we going to move from this syndrome. Orrgh God have mercy, our thinking is way backwards. This is what Kamuzu was doing, anyone who did well he was subject to investigation, yet Kazamira and family were busy building flats in Area10 and 15 village. Some of the plots were ruins like in Area 10; 43 all owned by the royal family. Let us move from this third world thinking and embrace new ways.
AYI NDITHU ZOVUTILAPO
Even those who entertained the registration, in the botched registration, of kids must be arrested
Arrest them please please
Arrest all these thieves asap, put them in jail and throw away the keys 😡😡😡
Am Allan based in SA, am quite very happy with the new government policies to halt the system of ripping off poor people’s tax money meant to develop the country. I wish government to invest a lot into anti_corruption organization to have a speedy curbing of such corruption behavior. Let them act like the hawks in South Africa. All that are guilty should be brought to book with immediate diet effect.
Arrest them, pater is also involved in these criminal activities. Let the law deal with them.
Govt provides clean wage to all public officers. Why should they build houses doe MRA officers only. How about teachers, police agricultural officers etc.
koma yaaaa
kodi ce Malata is it a son in law of m busa Mgawi???( hubby to adress)??
oh God
No….the brother at Road Fund Administration is the son in law
Yes, yakwana apakire akawole mu ndende
Koma Rosa Mbilizi wadya one. Ambuye achite nanu mwazintchito zanu.
I have had a personal experience with this woman!!!! What a bully..
Amadya chamba ameneyu kuyambira ku CHANCO Rosa yu
Mzimayi ameneyu ngwa Jah too much 🚬🥬
Arrest them immediately. Don’t waste any time. All thieves must rot in jail.
they have been manipulating applIcants CV ndikuikamo ma names wa ma relative ao eg
Dausi son anali pa poly. daft as he was and is apite ku MRA to satisfy his dad’s greediness.
dausi rented him a 3 bedroom house in kanjedza and driving a prado boozing everyday with friends and boom high music that neighbours who have to be going to work in the morning so his dad could cone their taxes for his luxurious life , could not have a sound sleep or rest, were scared to report this boy’s behaviour , son of a bastard.
i bet if he passed then he was just ticked off like the jerusalemu certificates.
ANJATENI OSE AMATIKWERERA OPANDA OUR CONSENT. AND AND THROW THE KEY IN A PIT LATRINE
Very sad story indeed our taxpayers funds are going uncounted shame
The old man was sitting on a filthy rotten system but still wanted another term? For all patriotic malawians regardless of ethnic background we surely should demand Mutharika and his clowns to be answerable for this…you have no idea how many Malawians went to early grave in the hospitals due to lack of medicine caused by this rot!!
I wonder why he could not query the All good and ok in their so called SYSTEM! sizzitelotu. ndekuti nayeso anali mommo.
CINJATENI
The stench from the corruption bag is unbearable. Malawi has a serious problem in that all the potbellied thieves never attended public school they were born with a silver spoon so this self aggrandisement is a result of comfort from crib to the day they start working. They are heartless middle class puppies whose milk is everflowing.
Refunding a minister for totally nothing a middle class without integrity wallowing in buffoonery
mchacha
beni somanja
george malemia nankhumwa
jomo
college , university zake anapita zitizo?
let alone secondary school education kutito
Now that the rot has been exposed ….Tonse alliance supporters (and we are about 60% of the electorate) and all Malawians of good will direct SKC and LMC to go after the looters and those who plundered our economy. I can give a hint on how this should be done…a new law should be enacted and LMC should quickly assent to it. The law should be ” that anyone who stole more than 100 million Kwacha of public assets or money should be charged for PLUNDER. And plunder should be an UNBAILABLE offence. Why unbailable…2 reasons. 1. Its equal to mass murder…killing Malawians by denying them development. 2. Most importantly if these rascals are denied bail they will not instruct their lawyers to find ways of delaying the cases to reach 2025 so that they can be bailed by a potential DPP comeback.
Most DPP officials are thieves and once most of them are behind bars….that will be end of DPP and ofcourse the end of Mulhako!!!!
Please don’t bring back forfeiture law that was used by MCP for over 30 years to harass its political opponents
K100m is even too far. Missàppropriating even 1m or less can potentially result in someone loosing life at a public hospital
Not 100 mita but 50 mita amwene…this should result into a never again mentality to all malawians
This country was in total darkness. Let there be light.
ROT 🇲🇼
Catch all theives and they should pay what they have taken from malawians.visionless leaders amangoba.Amangidwe basi,zonyengererana ayi.These arrests should teach future leaders some lessons to take care about the country’s resources and benefits malawians.
SKC will sort you out… ubwino wake he kept repeating this during campaign and we are waiting with bated breath!!
Asanza ndalama zimenezo
REFUND THE MONEY TO MRA.
With interest perhaps
We may not have enough room in our prisons for these thieves, the next few weeks will be very interesting!!!
Lock them up! Lock them up