Youthful politician Alfred Jiya of opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has won with a landslide primary elections for Lilongwe City Centre Constituency to be the candidate to represent the party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections . Jiya defeated legislator Alekeni Menyani who had relocated from Dedza North west and another challenger lawyer Gift […]
Since Malawi Congress Party (MCP) started conducting primary elections started in Dedza last month to identify candidates to represent the party in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, only two female aspirants have won. These aspirants are Lydia Kadzongwe who has won primary elections for Dedza North west and Shyreen Gamulani who has won for […]
Top Malawian officials have declined to explain why the government has engaged a Zimbabwean firm to provide anti-corruption software worth ten billion kwacha – three years after the tender process. A Treasury source said Zimbabwean-owned Twenty Third Century Systems – a “gold partner” of German-based multinational SAP – has been sent a letter accepting its bid, even though it […]
Parliament’s powerful and influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says civil servants continue to plunder public money through dubious sourcing of goods and services. The chairperson of PAC Alekeni Menyani told parliament on Wednesday that for instance, the Immigration department paid out a staggering K2.7 billion for what he described as bogus substandard goods. “They (controlling […]
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Alekeni Menyani said state produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) is being used as a tool for money laundering and Cashgate, said billions of money have been siphoned at the institution. “Admarc is losing billions of kwacha but nobody wants to do a functional review of the […]
An investigative audit report has revealed that Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has been spending millions of public funds illegally with Malawi Police put on spotlight of using money without the authority of Treasury. Chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Alekeni Menyani, said they Auditor General’s report on the accounts of government for […]
Malawi Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said it will summon all district commissioners whose offices were concerned with the K80 million constituency development fund by some members of parliament. Chairman of PAC Alekeni Menyani said the parliamentary committee feels the members of parliament have no case to answer on the issue. Finance minister Goodall […]
Malawi Parliament says public officers are derailing probe into former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s K70 billion wealth believed to be stashed in offshore accounts. Alekeni Menyani, chairperson of of Public Accounts Committee of parliament says his committee feels let down by the public officers. “We summoned them in February but we received so many excuses. […]
Parliament through the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said it will wait for the Speaker Richard Msowoya to return from foreign trip before releasing names of individuals and businesses identified in the recent forensic audit that established that about K236 billion in public funds could not be reconciliated between 2009 and December 31 2014. The […]
Officials from Public Accounts Committee of parliament (PAC) has vowed to make public its findings on the infamous K236 billion’cashgate’ – grand corruption scandal. Chairman of PAC Alekeni Menyani says the report will be made public on January 31. “This will include names of the cabinet ministers, other individuals and companies contained in the 13 […]
Public Accounts Committee (Pac) of Parliament chairperson, Alekeni Menyani, said his committee may use discretion to release the names of suspects in 13 case files regarding K577 billion audit report in what is known as Malawi’s ‘grand corruption’ Cashgate scandal —the plunder of public resources at Capital Hill. Menyani said corruption in Malawi government is rampant […]
The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has said President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has no love for Malawians and do not care despite their suffering. The party has since warned that it will hold peaceful civil unrest against the poor governance which has left ordinary people in unrelenting poverty […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party has threatend to the country “ungovernable” if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government fails to bring an Electoral Reforms Bill in Parliament next month. African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission Report for 2014 elections specifically recommended, among other things, the review of the current electoral system to ensure that the […]
Malawi’s Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) has finally been funded to scrutinise evidence that former president Bingu wa Mutharika has over K92 billion stashed in offshore accounts. The late Mutharika is accused of getting 10 per cent of all government contracts offered to Mota Engil as kick backs, accusations the government denies. Chairman of […]
Malawi Parliament through the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will summon director of graft-busting body to disclose names of individuals and businesses identified in the recent forensic audit on the country’s grand corruption that established that about K236 billion in public funds could not be reconciliated between 2009 and December 31 2014. PAC chairperson Alekeni Menyani […]
Parliament’s powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has told the Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa to deal with the latest audits of government as fears for more plunder of government money at Capital Hill, the seat of government continue. PAC chairman Alekeni Menyani said the Auditor General is four years behind but the parliamentary committee wants the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) public relations director, Alekeni Menyani MP, has faulted President Peter Mutharika for debating the Access to Information (ATI) bill in public and offering amendments before parliament. Mutharika is on record saying ATI law should not apply retrospectively and that it should only focus on information generated after its adoption. President Mutharika […]
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) on Monday took turns responding to calls from four regional chairmen, who wrote the party’s leadership to call for early convention citing nepotism and maladministration as some of the key reasons, with the paying those are baseless allegations and that its problems are a result of external influences. Stowell Gondwe […]