The Lilongwe Magistrates Court on Thursday convicted Phyoka Oscar Kaunda on his own plea of guilty in the “cashgate” corruption scandal. Phyoka owns Hardline Construction Company which was one of companies that were used to defraud government billions of Kwacha without offering any service. Government officers at Capital Hill were making an unauthorized entries into the Integrated […]
Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP) on Thursday irked Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda when he branded him one of the corrupt ministers in President Peter Mutharika’s cabinet. “He (Chaponda) is one of the most corrupt Ministers that we have ever had in this country,” said Kalua attracting applause from […]
European Union (EU) could resume budgetary support to Malawi if the results of verification exercise of the agreed performance target is met. EU has engaged a team of independent consultatnt to take verifiactaion exercice on any evidence of achievements on the agreed targets it was given for the multilateral body to resume direct budget support […]
President Peter Mutharika on Monday 21November 2016 completely left Malawian youths with no hope about their future as he addressed the nation through national broadcaster MBC in what ciritics say he recycled the same old story. Given that the President does not easily give media interviews, Monday night many Malawians were eagerly waiting for the President […]
Germany has remained non-committal on resuming budget support to Malawi in the near future but assured that it is committed to continue supporting the people of Malawi on their path to sustainable development. Angered by ‘Cashgate’ corruption scandal which dates back from 2005 but uncovered between September and November 2013, Malawi’s major donors including Germany—who […]
Lawyers for former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander General Henry Odillo are arguing that the State’s allegations on financial fraud and abuse of office related to K2 billion Cashgate, are “vague” and contingent. Odillo, 57, his then deputy Clement Kafuwa, 63, former Accountant General David Kandoje, Retired Lt Colonel Nelson Kauwa Banda, 62, and Ganizani […]
Businessman Limumba Karima, his co-accused Sympathy Chisale failed to appear in High Court on Wednesday in the K2.4 billion money laundering case in which former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo is among the accused. Lumumba and Chisale were wanted in court to plead to counts of money laundering in which 18 civil servants […]
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has pleaded not guilty to charges in the K2.4 billion money laundering case in which he is among the accused. Mphwiyo, alongside other civil servants including former accountant general, David Kandoje, is answering several charges such as money laundering, theft by public servant and conspiring to defraud […]
The Lilongwe High Court has adjourned to Wednesday 2 November 2016, a case involving former budget director in the ministry of finance, Paul Montfort Mphwiyo and 18 others who are answering charges in the K2.4billion Cashgate trial, when they shall be expected to take plea. The High Court operated from an improvised courtroom in the Lilongwe […]
First convicted cashgate Triza Namathanga Senzani has been freed from prison on Thursday morning. The former principal secretary for the ministry of Tourism has been freedom after spending one and half years of the three year jail term handed down to her following her plunder of the public resources of the K30 billion at Capital […]
Former army commander General Henry Odillo and three others on Thursday appeared before the High Court of Malawi in Lilongwe where they took plea in a case related to dubious purchase of assorted military equipment but were never delivered in cashgate style scam. Odillo and the other two; Leuitenant general Clement Kafuwa and businessman Ganiza […]
Former Malawi Army general Henry Odillo is expected to appear in the High Court in Lilongwe on Thursday for plea on allegations that he abused huge amounts of money on dubious military purchases. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) deputy director Reyneck Matemba confirmed Odillo and two other former senior army officers are appearing in court on […]
Graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials say investigations on the 17 files connected to the K236 billion is on course. However, spokesperson for ACB , Egritta Ndala said the 17 company files handed over to ACB from the office of the Auditor General amounts to K17 billion only out of the suspected […]
The Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has against justified that he stopped the names of companies and businesspersons implicated in the K230 billion Cashgate report to avoid a scenario like the one which former president Joyce Banda’s son, Roy Kachale, is suing government for defamation after he was named in a 2013 audit report as having […]
Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua has told President Peter Mutharika to step down, and give the country an opportunity to revive its fortunes, saying “nothing is working in Malawi” now. Kamlepo said for Malawi to get its economic revival it needs leadership renewal, saying there is deteriorating economic conditions, characterised by a biting cash shortage, […]
First cashgate convict Trizza Namathanga Senzani is expected to walk to freedom next week after prison authorities slashed a third of her three year nine months sentence due to good conduct while in jail. Commissioner for prisons responsible for operations Masauko Wisikoti confirmed Namathanga, former principal secretary for ministry of Tourism will leave the Maula […]
Member of Parliament for Zomba-Malosa, Roy Akajuwe Kachale, has filed a lawsuit for defamation against government over Cashgate forensic audit report on 2013 which implicated him as having been involved in the infamous plunder of public resources at Capital Hill. Kachale, who is a son to former president Joyce Banda, confirmed that he has filed for defamation, saying he […]
The Forum for National Development (FND) and a group social and political activists calling themselves ‘Concerned Citizens’ have “demanded” that the president of the Republic must cease to be the appointing authority of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director and that instead the director should be recruited on merit through Parliament if the fight against graft […]