Former president late Bingu wa Mutharika has been named has having taken a US$124,000 loan in Zimbabwe for the purchase of tractors which he did not repay. According to documents, Mutharika was the beneficiary of the Zimbabwe government funded Farm Mechanisation Scheme. The documents showed that he took US$124,111 for his farm in Zimbabwe. Mutharika […]
Former president Joyce Banda has hailed former president late Bingu Wa Mutharika for making Malawi a hunger free country through Farm Inputs Subsidy Programme (FISP). Banda said Mutharika was a wise leader who introduced FISP programme to reach out to poor Malawians who could not afford to buy inputs at higher prices. She praised late […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika —widow of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) founding president and the incumbent President’s elder brother Bingu —has taken ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) secretary general Grazider Jeffrey demanding K500 million for saying the former first lady killed her husband Bingu wa Mutharika. Callista through lawyer Ambokire Salimu has filed the lawsuit files […]
Former President Bingu wa Mutharika’s alleged offshore bank accounts with K61 billion has literally knocked down debate in Parliament as the opposition demands that the money be brought back to Malawi. Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire brought a motion in the House asking the Minister of Justice Samuel Tembenu and the whole government machinery to […]
Tiwonge Kumwenda –Nyasa Times Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has deployed a battalion of its youth cadets in the northern border district of Karonga where there is tension with the impending protests against the renaming of a road linking the district with Chitipa after late president Bingu wa Mutharika. President Peter Mutharika, a brother to […]
Former President Bingu wa Mutharika’s family of his wife Callista and her step children is still divided and cannot see each other eye to eye over the alleged K92 billion estate the former head of state left. Callista, not in black mourning attire which she had donned on such occasions in the past years, did […]
He was, once, the consummate outsider. The first time Peter Mutharika got close to power was seven years ago—the then leader, Bingu his elder brother, had appointed him a presidential adviser on constitutional affairs. His pressing job was to create legal tactics to save his brother’s minority government from the hovering cutlass of Section 65 […]
As the governing People’s Party scratches its heads over its jarring loss in last week’s controversial presidential, parliamentary and local elections, the role played by the West in propping up the Banda regime should nudge Malawi, which turns 50 this year, to move in a direction that will bring about true economic independence. That is […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said it is excited that President Joyce Banda is using the manifesto of the party and its founding leader late Bingu wa Mutharika . DPP Regional Governor for the North, Ken Sanga said this in an interview on Tuesday when he was asked to comment as to how his […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Peter Mutharika has said the country will need a new president and government for it to develop independently. Mutharika was speaking at Zuc lodge in Balaka district where he presented certificates and nomination forms to the elected 40 MPs and 46 counsellors of the 5 eastern region districts who will […]
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 […]
Malawi Law Society (MLS) has added its voice on the revelations that former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika accumulated about K61 billion (about $152m) wealth, saying the deceased estate may have been overblown. According to published report, MLS secretary Felisah Kilembe said Mutharika had put some of the property under several trusts some of […]
For the past four weeks Malawians from all walks of life have been expressing fury that while they were wailing and gnashing teeth with excruciating poverty due to the poor economic policies of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, he was in turn amassing and stashing a fortune home and abroad to the obscene levels of […]
Former Malawi first lady Callista Mutharika has withdrawn her application in court to remove her stepchildren, Duwa and Tapiwa, as administrators of the controversial K61 billion (about $152m) deceased estate left by the late Bingu wa Mutharika, opting for an out-of-court settlement. Callista lodged an application at High Court in Zomba to revoke letters of […]
The DPP is insulting the intelligence of Malawians by trying to deliberately draw their attention away from the issue at hand—how the party’s former leader, the late Bingu wa Mutharika, amassed such an obscene amount of assets amounting to K61 billion—by talking about a non-event in the name of the possible arrest of Peter Mutharika. […]
Business in the Malawi National Assembly came to a brief standstill on Wednesday after the issue of the K61 billion wealth said to have been accumulated by the country’s former President Bingu wa Mutharika sneaked into the day’s business with government claiming that the money was stolen from the public pulse. The accusations has since […]
A vocal human rights activist Billy Mayaya has resounded the call for President Joyce Banda to declare her assets I the wake of reports that former president late Bingu wa Mutharika had accumulated wealth up to K61 billion in the eight years he was in power. Mayaya told Nyasa Times that civil society wants President […]
As battle for the wealth of former Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika continues, it has been revealed that the former first lady Callista Mutharika’s name is nowhere to be seen in the last Will late Mutharika wrote entitled “My last will testament”. Since Mutharika died, there has been a battle of his wealth amongst the […]