Malawi government has sharply denied accusations from former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, of property grabbing in Bingu’s deceased estate. Nyasa Times reported on Thursday that Peter Mutharika speaking at a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ceremony in Lilongwe where he welcomed about 22 people who claimed to have defected from the ruling […]
The story that governments of Malawi had struck a deal South Korea to export labour turned that it was yet another pack of lies and deceit. If there’s any truth in it then it probably lays somewhere between the government of Malawi’s claim that it was a done deal and South Korea’s denial of such […]
Malawi Immigration Department says it has ordered late president Bingu WA Mutharika’s children to surrender their diplomatic passports and that all former ministers with diplomatic passports should also surrender. Chief Immigration Officer Hudson Mankhwala confirmed to Nyasa Times that the published reports on the matter were true, saying the revocation of the diplomatic passports in […]
It does not need a genius to know that government is about continuity from one administration to another. Therefore, it is of paramount importance that each administration should implement productive programs that can easily be continued if need be by the next government. First and foremost people should not condone programs whose main objective is […]
The recent revelations that former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika accumulated a staggering K61billion within eight years in office refuses to die as new developments shows that DPP leader Professor Peter Mutharika had joint accounts with his late brother outside the country. Yeremia Chihana of YMW Property Investment Limited and Registered Property Evaluator , […]
Predictability fashions vulnerability. Vulnerability is the powerhouse of despotism and corruption. Clarified, it is only when an individual gains insights about the thinking mode and activities of another will that individual have most advantage over the other. And because is certain of the vulnerability of the other will that individual have the potent arsenal over […]
Former First Lady Callista Mutharika is suspicious that her late husband’s children might have played a fast one on her following revelations that her name is missing on the list of beneficiaries of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s Will. The will was written after the death of Mutharika’s first wife Ethel in 2007. Callista said in an interview with Nyasa […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has said she is not on self-enrichment like her predecessor late Bingu wa Mutharika, challenging her critics to investigate her should they think she is amassing wealth from the public purse. Former president Mutharika accumulated more than K61 billion (about $152m) in a short period when his assets were valued around […]
Centuries ago, corrupt African leaders and Western traders made an unwitting yet deliberate business pact. A few Africans made fortunes; Western interests found cheap labour, and 12 million people lost their freedom. The African plight is not much changed now, half a century after the so-called African independence boom of the sixties. Many African leaders […]
A Mzuzu-based rights activist has called on President Joyce Banda government to thoroughly investigate close allies to late President late Bingu wa Mutharika reported to have amassed K61 billion while in office, arguing that they were involved in aiding the ‘wrongful self-enrichment’. Mutharika, at the time of his ascendancy to the presidency in 2004, declared that […]
Viewed by many as “wrongful self-enrichment’” when a newspaper exposed former President late Bingu wa Mutharika to have amassed K61 billion, it has been reported that late Mutharika could be over the reported K61 billion following revelations that he had more bank accounts and property in three other countries. Mutharika, at the time of his […]
Leader of the opposition People’s Transformation party (Petra) Kamuzu Chibambo is demanding officials in the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to break the silence and explain about the recent revelations that the party’s president the late Bingu wa Mutharika accumulated a staggering K61billion within eight years in office. In statement made available to Nyasa Times, Chibambo says […]
Malawi former First Lady, Callista Mutharika has denied speculations that she has strong ambitions to contest for the presidency, saying she is not interest to run for any political office. Another former First Lady, Shanil Muluzi, who divorced with former president Bakili Muluzi, has expressed interest to contest for a member of parliament. In an […]
A rift between Malawi’s former first lady Callista Mutharika and her step daughters shows no sign of abating following Callisita’s latest move in which she is asking the Malawi High Court to remove the children as administrators of the late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s estate. The two parties are already embroiled in another legal battle […]
Fear has gripped opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over the issue of the K61 billion wealth said to have been accumulated by the country’s former President Bingu wa Mutharika, saying the party has been tipped its president Peter Mutharika, brother to the former president has been tipped he will be arrested. According to a statement […]
Human rights activist Justin Dzonzi of Justice Link, in an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times, has called on the authorities to investigate on how former President late Bingu wa Mutharika managed to amass worth totaling to K61 bilion in seven years. Dzonzi’s calls add on views expressed by many people on comments posted on Nyasa Times and […]
The revelation that Malawi’s former President late Bingu wa Mutharika had, within eight years of his reign, amassed unexplained and eye raising wealth amounting to over K61 billion has smashed up political life of his young brother, Peter. Professor Peter Mutharika, who is President of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), a party founded by […]
In a country where the majority of the population still lives below the poverty line of about less than about K400 per day, the revelation that former president, the late Bingu wa Mutharika, died while he had a mega K61 billion wealth, some stashed in off shore accounts, should make all the 13 million Malawians deeply […]