Malawi’s President Arthur Peter Mutharika has appointed private lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale as the new Attorney General replacing Anthony Kamanga who left the post soon after former President Joyce Banda lost the May 20 Tripartite Elections. Initially, the Malawi leader had appointed former Anti-Corruptio Bureau (ACB) Director Alexius Nampota, who is said to have turned down […]
Former Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) executive director Alex Nampota is not taking up his appointment as Attorney General, Nyasa Times understands. Nampota was appointed by President Peter Mutharika to be Attorney General this week replacing Anthony Kamanga whose contract expired. The AG’s office automatically fell vacant after Kamanga’s term technically came to an end following the […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed former Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Alex Nampota to be the Attorney General replacing Anthony Kamanga. State House press office confirmed on Sunday that Nampota will take over from Kamanga, who contract expired. Barely weeks after taking over from the late president Bingu wa Mutharika, had the Joyce Banda administration pressurised […]
Malawi’s governing Peoples Party (PP) spokesperson Hophmally Makande has accused the former head of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) of costing a lot of public funds due to his inabilities and incompetence while serving his position. Makande said this inside Capital FM’s Straight Talk interview programme monitored by Nyasa Times on Tuesday evening. Immediately after the new […]
Members of the Malawi’s Public Appointments Committee of Parliament, (PAC) say the committee does not recognise the vacancy of the director which government authorities and other stakeholders claim exists at the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Government authorities fired then ACB director Alex Nampota for allegedly abuse of office a development which did not go down well with […]
Democracy is all about transparency. We at the Nyasa Times opposed the Bingu wa Mutharika government because of the backroom deals that characterized some public appointments and firing. We are afraid a similar trend may emerge with the new Joyce Banda administration. There are four cases that we can point to: The ACB Director was […]
Malawi Police arrested a man identified as James Mussa, who broke into the office of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Alex Nampota in the city on Wednesday night. Blantyre Police Station assistant public relations officer Lameck Thembachako and ACB spokesperson Egrita Ndala confirmed the arrest. Thembachako said Mussa is being questioned for breaking into the office […]
Out-of-favour Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Alexius Ernest Nampota has been exposed for contradicting himself in the battle to save his skin over a decision to terminate his contract and his subsequent interrogation by Malawi Police Service for abuse of office charges. Nampota has gone to court to sue Attorney General (AG) Ralph Kasambara and Chief Secretary […]
For the past few weeks, operations at the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) have almost come to a standstill with no investigations on new cases, a development some employees have laid blamed on President Joyce Banda. Sources have told Nyasa Times for about six weeks now business at the anti-graft body has been paralyzed since government […]
The High Court in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre, on Tuesday adjourned the ongoing corruption case involving former president Bakili Muluzi to October 8 to 26 . The former president has been accused of misappropriating about $11millionof funds from Taiwan, Morocco and Libya. Muluzi denies the charges – and has always said they were linked to […]
Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director, Alexius Nampota, was on Thursday arrested by Fiscal Police in Blantyre and given bail after being interrogated on wrongful self-enrighment. Nampota is said to have been quizzed on ” abuse of office” charges among others on a story Nyasa Times carried on October 24, 2011(http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2011/10/24/acb-boss-nampota-in-corruption-scam/) which indicated he had abused his […]
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 […]
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 […]