Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) officials accompanied by armed police officers on Friday raided offices of the government-hired valuer of the estate of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, and went away with computers and files after a six-hour search, it has been reported. Yeremiah Chihana,, proprietor of YMW Property Investment in Lilongwe, said officials […]
The legal attempt to declare public the Bineth Trust of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika to become a replica of Press Trust, which was initially established as a public trust but operated and was used as a personal entity of Malawi’s founding president, the late Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, has been foiled after […]
South Africa-based Malawian lawyer Professor Danwood Chirwa has said government will have to prove that former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika diverted public funds into his Bineth Trust which would add weight to its pursuit to turn Bineth into a public trust. Attorney General Anthony Kamanga commenced proceedings for a declaration that the Bineth […]
Former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cannot hide behind the issues being “multifarious” in the Capital Hill looting saga which started on its watch as its spokesman Nicholus Dausi would like Malawians to believe. Just like the ruling PP, the DPP leadership owe Malawians an explanation on their role in how they dubiously procured IFMIS […]
Employees of Bineth Trust from Malawi’s former President late Bingu wa Mutharika‘s farms in Thyolo and Mitundu in Lilongwe are boycotting work for non-payment of their salaries. The disgruntled employees are demanding arrears of their salaries which date back to some five months ago. During the just ending week, scores of the workers journeyed to […]
Documents in Nyasa Times’ possession prove that in the course of Yeremia Chihana’s assessment of late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s estate, Ralph and Arnold Associates – a firm connected to the Minister of Justice, Ralph Kasambara S.C., and Yeremia Chihana’s YMW Property Investment Company Limited, the valuer, pocketed a cool K26 million from the whole fiasco – with […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika has renewed his claims that “government is into property grabbing” of his deceased brother’s property, late president Bingu wa Muthatrika, saying he feels the State is deliberately victimizing the children and grand children of the former president to settle a political vendetta. Bingu died of cardiac arrest […]
Children of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika feel government is all out to persecute them on political grounds by freezing their bank accounts and to have deceased estate Bineth Trust declared public. A source close to the family told Nyasa Times that they feel government wants to squeeze them on the belief that […]