Barrister Allan Ntata, a former legal adviser to the late President Bingu wa Mutharika, has warned that Vice-President Jane Ansah’s decision to pursue legal channels in response to her exclusion from government fails to grasp the true nature of the problem confronting her. In a Facebook post, Mr Ntata said Dr Ansah’s admission that she […]
A Malawian government deputy minister has been accused of threatening to unleash violence against opposition supporters — in astonishing remarks that legal experts say expose him as constitutionally unfit for office. Norman Chisale, who serves as Deputy Minister of Homeland Security with responsibility for Operations, is said to have warned members of the opposition UTM […]
President Lazarus Chakwera met London-based law expert Allan Z. Ntata who launched a citizen-led initiative to help build and ensure public accountability. State House Director of Communication Sean Kampondeni told the Weekly Press Conference in Lilongwe that Chakwera maet Ntata a law barrister who had previously worked at Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and also served as […]
Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, better known as Natwarlal, is considered the greatest con man in India. And for good reason—he sold the Taj Mahal three times, among other scams and several prison escapes. Natwarlal was a lawyer before he scammed people. His arsenal consisted of more than 50 aliases and masterful signature forging skills. Simply watching […]
As Malawi burns and reels from animosities stirred to the surface because of a botched-up election, the ready and steady answer to the question of who will heal this land in an apparently religious country like this is to assign that responsibility to God or Allah or any of the other deities than Malawians worship. […]
As a lawyer and a governance professional, I am grappling with the question of how a society can effectuate real change to a governance framework within the law in a democratic, consensual, non-violent way when the law’s normal procedures are inadequate or held captive by anti-legal forces and selfish private agendas. As I observe the […]
The impunity with which ruling party cadets and those killing people with albinism have proceeded in their respective disgusting acts cannot be handled simply by a presidential press release proclaiming that the president disapproves of these horrible activities. The fact that as a country and as a nation, we seem satisfied with Mgeme Kalilani’s press […]
To understand the reason a small country like Malawi with very solvable problems is living on the fringes of utter poverty and struggling to develop, one simply needs to understand what Malawian politics since the dawn of the multiparty era. Malawian politicians have perfected the artof creating problems and then campaign against them. Have you […]
“When a fire breaks out inside the enemy’s camp, respond with an immediate attack from the outside”, so advises Sun Tzu in his old classic military strategy book “The Art of War”. With a severe fire raging in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the form of a bitter argument between the past (incumbent president […]
Is it really illegal to steal in Malawi? I mean, is it illegal to steal when say, one is a senior member of the so-called ruling party or a cabinet minister or a president, and when one uses the money to advance the party agenda, or to buy beer for college students, or to promote […]
Shocking as this may sound to many people, the Constitution of Malawi does not as a matter of fact recognize the concept of a “ruling party” in its framing of the governance framework of the country. Even a cursory reading of the constitution reveals very quickly that as far as the presidential election goes, the […]
Not too long ago I pointed out that the cleansing of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) would require more than just the grafting of the gifted Saulosi Chilima to its leadership potion. The events that transpired this past week, especially the DPP parade that invaded the streets on Friday afternoon apparently demonstrating against CSO protests […]
In Chief Kyungu’s ejaculation that those of us who take our time to analyse professor Mutharika’s presidency and point out where things could be better are fools, we see the evidence of the sycophancy that has crippled this nation’s progress from the moment Kamuzu Banda was sworn in as the first president of this republic. […]
A patient lies in a hospital bed in the neurological ward, his head wrapped in bandages. He is suffering from a major trauma to the brain. The injury has wiped out the region that controls motion in his left arm. More than that, it has destroyed the man’s ability to even conceive of what moving […]
If you take the time to think about it carefully and dispassionately, then you must come to the conclusion that what is surprising is not the fact that the United States government finally decided call time OUT on funding Malawi’s unrepentantly corrupt government, but the fact that it kept faith with it and continued to […]
Your Excellency, It is said that when the truth finally dawned upon him regarding the Bay of Pigs debacle, John F Kennedy asked himself time and again, “How could I have been so stupid?” It was way too late when President Kennedy finally discovered that he had been led down a garden path by his […]
Nowadays it seems that (rightfully so) everybody has something critical to say about the country’s President, His Excellency Abraz Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and the ruling elite that surround him whether that is cabinet members, members of parliament, aides and other Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials. Some are raising up the ante and have now […]
If the saying “behind every great man is a great woman” is true, then it must also hold true that behind any failure of a man, their must be a woman of small and limited intelligence who is unable to help her husband become great. The importance of the role of a man’s so called […]