The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) yesterday worked to chart a new direction in the fight against corruption through the full engagement of the faith based organisations (FBOs) in Malawi. During the meeting that took place at the Crossroads Hotel, ACB’s officials led by a Mrs. Mary Phombeya who is the graft body’s chief corruption prevention and […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda is to make appointments of new head of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to be confirmed by Parliament following the sacking of ‘lame-duck’ boss Alex Nampota. Private practising lawyer and Malawi Law Society (MLS) President John Gift Mwankhwawa has come out as hot favourite for the top job of the country’s graft bursting […]
Malawi government has fired the head of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Alex Nampota and President Joyce Banda is expected to appoint new boss to be confirmed by Parliament. Nampota was told of his dismissal on Thursday 17 May 2012 and next day proceeded to Zambia for official business. He confirmed that Chief Secretary to the Office of […]
Barely days after Malawi’s graft watchdog the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) zeroed in on one of most feared figures in the former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Lewis Ngalande, Nyasa Times understands the youth leader had stormed ACB offices in December last year where he confronted two bureau officers, it has been established. Ngalande according to ACB, tried […]
Time up for DPP’s terrorist-in-chief Lewis Ngalande. The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested him for using students to access K2 million youth loans and bought personal truck. ACB inside sources confirmed the arrest of Ngalande on Wednesday in connection with corruption concerning Youth Enterprise Development Fund (Yedef). His arrest comes after the local media […]
The remarks made by Dr. Andrew Mwaba – the AfDB Resident Representative – at the opening of the Bi-Annual 2012 Common Approach to Budget Support (CABS) Review at Sunbird Capital Hotel in Lilongwe on May 8, 2012 cannot go without comment. Before doing that it is in order to acknowledge support rendered by the CABS […]
Malawi’s graft bursting body the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested Lilongwe based police officer for soliciting MK50, 000 from a wife of suspect. The officer identified as Ernest Saulosi was arrested earlier this month after a complaint alleging the law enforcer demanded the money from Stella Kuliramboni in order to release her husband on bail. […]
Some disgruntled Blantyre City Council (BCC) employees have tipped the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to probe the council’s Director of Administration (DAS), Alfred Chanza, and the security officers over the manner in which they have been handling theft cases of millions of property at the institution. Investigations by Nyasa Times have revealed that over the […]
Malawi’s anti-graft busting body, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested High Court Judge Justice Joseph Manyungwa, for alleged for allegedly taking a bribe and passing judgement in a case that was presided over by another judge. ACB’s Public Relations Officer Egrita Ndala said Manyungwa prepared judgement on a matter, civil cause No. 2158 of […]
Ndala: ACB on track to tackle corruption The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has fared very well in 2011 as it surpassed its set targets says the bureaus Senior Public Relations Officer, Egrita Ndala. She says in corruption prevention the target was to establish 20 Institutional Integrity Committees and 22 were established. Ndala says in public education […]
Presidential hopeful Atupele Muluzi on Sunday took a swipe at the state sponsored graft busters Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for what he called intimidation of lawyers in the country. He was referring to an incident where two lawyers, Wapona Kita and Lusungu Gondwe of Ralph & Arnolds Law Firm who were recently summoned by ACB on allegations that they […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika’s ruthless regime of intimidation continues in a country where he has stifled all forms of democratic engagement and human rights as he has now ordered the re-arrest of his former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, some lawyers and judges. According to Nyasa Times sources, Mutharika has directred the state-run corruption-busting body Anti Corruption […]
The state-run corruption-busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has summoned another lawyer who worked on obtaining bail ‘political prisoner’ former Attorney-General Ralph Kasambara to quiz him his role on how they obtained bail while courts are on strike. ACB has already interrogated two lawyers from Kasambara’s law firm, Ralph and Arnolds, Wapona Kita and Jonathan Kara on […]
Lawyer Wapona Kita, representing critic of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, former Attorney General Ralph Kasambara, on Monday appeared before the graft bursting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in Blantyre. ACB boss Alexious Nampota summoned Kita and his workmate at Ralph and Arnolds law firm, Jonathan Kara, to explain how they managed to get […]
The arrest and bail given to lawyer Ralph Kasambara has taken many dimensions and the hstate-run corruption-busting body, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has poked its nose into the affair. The ACB summoned the Blantyre Magisstrate Innocent Nebi on Friday and the bureau has also summoned all judiciary staff who were involved in the processing of Kasambara’s […]
The political persecution of outspoken critic of President Bingu wa Mutharika, lawyer Ralph Kasambara, has deepened as the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has now zeroed in on the matter by summoning lawyers Wapona Kita and Jonathan Kara in Kasambara’s law firm, Ralph and Arnolds . The lawyers have been summoned to explain how they got […]
Top government officials involved in massive corruption probe are said to have hired thugs to destroy evidence at Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and the National Audit Office (NAO). ACB and NAO are acurrently investigating the loss of K400 million ($2.3m) at the Accountant General’s office which also implicates the Police , Malawi Defence Force […]
Police in Mzuzu made a lunch hour arrest of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Investigations Officer for allegedly cultivating Indian Hemp at his Katoto yard. Mzuzu Police Spokesperson Edward Longwe confirmed the arrest of Kondwani Zulu, 35, of Kachilenga Village, Traditional Authority Mzukuzuku in Mzimba district who is currently in Police custody pending investigations. Longwe said […]