State House, OPC confirm Uladi resignation as Mutharika’s aide: DPP veep ‘stunned’
State House spokesperson and Office of President and Cabinet (OPC) have said it is true that presidential advisor on parliamentary affairs Uladi Mussa has resigned.
State broadcaster MBC quoted chief secretary to government Lloyd Muhara and State House spokesman Mgeme Kalilani confirming that Mussa has ceased to perform duties of presidential advisor on parliamentary affairs.
But Mussa on Monday said he did not resign.
Asked to comment after State House and OPC confirmed his resignation, Mussa whom Mutharika on June 19 appointed as his special adviser of parliamentary affairs and also serves as governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for the Central Region, said he was stunned.
“Is that so? It’s news to me,” said Mussa.
OPC announced Mussa’s resignation with immediate effect amid reports that donors have been questioning his appointments following his ongoing corruption court case.
Mussa is linked to a passport and citizenship scandal that shocked the country as he is answering charges of aiding about 55 foreign nationals from Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda to illegally obtain Malawian passports and business permits when he served as minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security in the Cabinet of former president Joyce Banda in 2013.
Recently, the United States of America (USA) banned the President’s aide and his spouse for his alleged “involvement in significant corruption”.
The US Embassy in Lilongwe said in July that Mussa’s designation was made under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Act of 2019 which empowers the Secretary of State where there is “credible information that foreign officials have been involved in significant corruption or gross violations of human rights” to be ineligible for entry into USA.
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Mussa in March 2017 on charges of negligence and abuse of office, but Mussa, who was then serving as interim leader of People’s Party (PP), said at the time that his arrest was politically-motivated.
He handed himself to the ACB after reports surfaced that the bureau wanted to arrest him in relation to the granting of citizenship and passports.
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Uladi has been forced to resign due to pressure. Osati accountability. All along samadziwa kuti Uladi has skeletons? Bull shit. How many politicians are still serving yet they have skeletons? Ife athu akuda we can better with mzungu as a leader. Without them we are just animals. Mzungu mmodzi anandiuza kuti if we can swap. All Americans and Europeans abwele ku Africa asiye ndalama ma infrastructures iwo kubwela ku Africa with nothing, still tizizapepha chithandizo kwa azungu ku Africa after we have looted everything killed each other. Bombed each other. Ife tinazolowera ufiti basi
kikikiki koma Malawi! So we have breaking news that Change golo has resigned and has been confirmed by government officials. The owner of the resignation is stunned! He is not aware of his own resignation…
Giringo,wake up !Know that politics is ta play here.Chenjigolo has been forced to resign by Che Mbwiye.
Nde pano mwavomela ndipo mwamuchotsa kuti USA isangalale!! Nanga enawo, monga awoooooo muwachotsa liti? Boma la anthu akuba ngati ili sindinalionenso!! So if the allegatin is some quarters aren’t happy, inu mwavomela kuti ameneyu ndi munthudi owononga? Nanga enawooooooooo? nanga popeza akana wachiwiri kwa president, kenako sitimva kuti akananso kugwira ntchito ndi President wa chipani uja akuti nayenso achotsedweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk Koma zipani zinazi!
amalemba makalatayo bwanji osamulembelanso gogo uyuyu olandira 145 million kuchokera kwa mmwenye immediately after mwenye atalandila ndalama za contract ya ku boma???
Basi mlandu uyambikenso apapa
JANE ANSAH ATENGERE CHITSANZO NGATI CHIMENECHI CHOMATURA UDINDO ULI NDI MILANDU
nde jane ansah ali ndi milandu yanji mbuzi iwe?
Kkkkk Uladi stunned after kalata yolemba nokha? Apa Change Goal amudzulira magolo mpira usanathe kalatayo alemba ndi amzanu inu muli ku Salima. Bwana Muhara mwayamba bwinotu mukanangolemba makalata awiri kaya.
Uladi Musa was more of liability than an assert. The Americans were right that Uladi is morally rotten man. Only DPP can accommodate and tolerate him.
HOW ABOUT PP? DID THEY NOT EVEN MAKE HIM THEIR PRESIDENT?
It’s time for u Mr Mussa to bid farewell to Malawi politics. Just retire from politics and concentrate on pursuing the Case in Court.
You have spoiled our country big time, it was very easy with Malawian passport to go to UK but not anymore due to your reckless dealings.
One person in the name of Uladi Mussa has caused our peaceful country with hardworking people to be condemned by outside world as criminals. So don’t cry it’s a pay back time by Americans.
Zawo izo. I saw Alex Ferguson of Manchester United and he looked very old. What about APM who is older than Fergie? That’s another State Funeral around the corner. Chimulirenji just start polishing your English basi.
Did he call or was.he pushed?
This guy should not be in government. How can you say you are cleaning up the state and it’s officials when people of his caliber are allowed to come close to the cookie jar. Let him go
Kkkkk. Who is fooling who?
Uladi Mussa,aka Mr Change golo, this marks the beginning of the end of your political career! On one hand the Americans have banned you and your wife(should read wives) and on the other hand APM has dumped you due to pressure from the Americans! Now very soon the American allies will follow suit: ban you from visiting Europe. Gule kwao!! Mwatha basi eish tipume a Malawi.!!
You may be a primary school teacher, but you have a gut unlike educated Jane Ansah.