As Malawi celebrates 62 years of independence, a powerful question hangs over the nation: Has political freedom truly delivered the economic liberation that millions of Malawians still long for? While the country commemorates the historic events of July 6, 1964, three former Heads of State have delivered a strikingly similar message—Malawi’s greatest battle is no […]
Graft-busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it will evaluate the alleged corruption case against former president Bakili Muluzi which now enters its 15th year, to see whether it should be discontinued or not, within 90 days. The Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs has been putting pressure on ACB to discontinue the case, saying it […]
Former Malawi presidents are mourning Tanzanian president John Magufuli who died last night following Covid-19 complications. Magufuli died aged 61 from a heart condition according to his vice president Samia Suluhu Hassan which some medics say might have been triggered by Covid-19, an infection which he denied its existence. Former president Joyce Banda said the […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi has become the latest high profile figure in the country to get Covid-19 AstraZaneca vaccine. Director of Health and Social Services for Blantyre Dr. Gift Kawalazira administered the jab on Muluzi on Monday at his BCA Hill residence in Blantyre. The high spirited Muluzi cracked jokes as he took the life […]
President Lazarus Chakwera and former president Bakili Muluzi never discussed anything about the ongoing ‘corruption case’ involving the latter, when the two met at BCA Hill days ago, State House has said. Presidential Press Secretary, Brian Banda responding to a question from journalist on whether the two leaders discussed about Muluzi’s perceived politically motivated case […]
President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday visited former president Bakili Muluzi at the former president’s private BCA residence in Blantyre. Presidential Press Secretary Brian Banda confirmed that the Malawi leader “paid a courtesy call” on Muluzi. “The purpose of President Chakwera’s visit was to express his best wishes to Malawi’s second president during his time of […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has noted that ever since former president Bakili Muluzi launched the mission of Mzuzu University in 1999, the institution has set the pace in embracing “progressive change.” Chakwera said this when he presided over the graduation ceremony at Mzuzu University (Mzuni) which was held virtually. He said it’s been 24 years since […]
Government has made some changes to security detail for former presidents Joyce Banda, Peter Mutharika and Bakili Muluzi. Malawi Police Service has withdrawn two security guards from Banda and replaced with five; and deployed five to Mutharika and one to Muluzi. This is according to police communication dated 17th February, 2021. The withdrawn police guards […]
There has been calls at different times by different people to discontinue the K1.7 billion former president Bakili Muluzi corruption case which has now entered the 15th year. The Public Affairs Committee has also added its voice to urge President Lazarus Chakwera to discontinue the case. PAC has questioned the rationale of spending taxpayers money […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) has faulted quasi-religious body Public Affairs Committee (PAC) for their proposal that the State should discontinue the protracted prosecution of former president Bakili Muluzi on corruption charges relating to K1.7 billion, saying it is tantamount to elevating politics over rule of law. PAC raised the issue in its statement assessing […]
Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a quasi-religious governance watchdog, has asked government to discontinue the case of former president Bakili Muluzi’s alleged K1.7 billion corruption case, a position which it says was already advanced in parliament by President Lazarus Chakwera and his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) while in opposition. PAC formed in 1992 during the country’s political […]
President Lazarus Chakwera isn’t the first Malawi leader to pay courtesy call on a frustrated, angry and irritated immediate former president. Bakili Muluzi did that in 1994 when he took off time and visited the ailing and tired Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda at Mudi Residences in Blantyre. It was a courtesy call that, in all […]
The alleged corruption case against former president Bakili Muluzi which now enters its 14th year should be discontinued or concluded as tax-payers continue to lose resources each passing year, the Parliament’s Legal Affairs Commiittee has said. The committee’s chairperson Yusuf Nthenda – a lawyer by profession – said this in reaction yo a report Attorney […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba who is on recording saying he strongly believes the corruption case against former president Bakili Muluzi which now enters its 14th year needs a political solution because it is not prosecutable, has told parliament that all parties are to blame for the delay in concluding the perceived politically motivated […]
Immediate past president Peter Mutharika did not attend President Lazarus Chakwera’s inauguration ceremony to hand over the sword because he was feeling poorly, a source in the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said. Mutharika, 80, who is at his retirement home in Mangochi along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi, did not travel to […]
Malawi’s former president Bakili Muluzi has congratulated President-elect Dr Lazarus Chakwera following his victory in the presidential elections. Chakwera defeated incumbent Peter Mutharika with 58.57% of the vote in Tuesday’s court-sanctioned fresh presidential poll. For the first time, the winner needed over 50% of the votes to avoid a run-off election The new president is expected […]
Former president Bakili Muluzi on Tuesday joined the que to cast his vote at Nainunje Primary School in Machinga North East Constituency and urged Malawins to accept the outcome of the fresh presidential election. Muluzi, the first democratically elected president made the call at his home, has always voted at the polling station since the […]
A picture of former president Bakili Muluzi standing smilingly behind a campaign poster for the DPP/UDF alliance has caused a stir and a storm in social media platforms. The picture shows Muluzi leaning on the half-man size poster with symbols of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the alliance partner, the United Democratic Front (UDF). […]