Government has employed a cyber security officer who will now be in-charge of integrated financial management system (Ifmis) blamed for the K84 billion plunder of public money at Capital Hill in Lilongwe. Nations Msowoya, spokesperson for the ministry of finance was upbeat that the hiring of the cyber security officer would enhance the security of […]
Malawi government with funding from the World Bank has bought a K2 billion software for integrated financial management system (Ifmis), a system used to pay out government money. Ministry of Finance spokesman Nations Msowoya said the government has bought the advanced software with the help of the US government as a means of stepping up […]
Malawi government has closed 139 dormant bank accounts belonging to various ministries and departments at the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) and 265 dormant accounts have been submitted to the Accountant General for review. Treasury spokesperson Nations Msowoya has confirmed the development, saying it is part of the Public Finance Management (PFM) reforms. He said […]
The country’s well known political activist Dan Msowoya has attributed the worsening socio-economic challenges haunting Malawi to the electorates’ tendency of electing and celebrating leaders he describes as ‘thieves’ while undermining contribution of genuine patriots saying voting in the country is based on handouts. Msowoya made the remarks in Lilongwe on Monday during the opening […]
Outspoken Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua says parliament would seek donor money assistance to enable the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)of the National Assembly meet to scrutinise the K577 billion cashgate report. Kalua, who is also the vice chairman of PAC, said the government has shown no interest to fund the meeting of the committee to […]
Government says it is yet to make a decision on how to use over K1 billion in cash and property realised from criminal proceeds of the infamous ‘cashgate’ scandal, the plunder of billions of money at Capital Hill in Lilongwe. Reyneck Matemba, deputy director of graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) said the […]
High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned a case involving convicted former tourism assistant Leonard Kalonga to February 29. On August 26, 2015 the court convicted Kalonga on his own plea of guilty for stealing K3.7 billion ($6.3 million) in the ongoing Cashgate trials. He was set to hear his sentence on Thursday but has to […]
Former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’, will start answering his charges of theft and money laundering K2.4 billion ($3.3 million from March 1, 2016 related to the biggest financial scandal in the country. Director […]
The Lilongwe Magistrates Court on Wednesday convicted businessman Allan Harrison Magombo in connection with the plunder of public resources known as Cashgate in a case he is accused of siphoning and pocketing about K32.4 million of public funds. Magombo who owns a company named Down Stairs is said to have received K16,555,126.08 and K15, 920,000.00 respectively from […]
Observing the legal sparring in court in the on-going Paul Morntfort Mphwiyo shooting case, one cannot help noticing that at times one side is simply going through the motions; the state. Judging from some of the questions asked by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mary Kachale, one gets convinced that the state hasn’t done its […]
The plot of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo’s shooting case continues to thicken with witnesses letting out more damaging information in the Mphwiyo shooting case, with second accused Pika Manondo challenging that the former’s statement submitted to court on Friday is doctored. Mphwiyo was shot on the night of September […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday told Pika Manondo to focus his defence testimony on the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo as the major issue in the case other than dwelling on the cashgate money which was used for political campaigns. Manondo was entering his defence on the offence of […]
Businessman Pika Manondo, second accused person in the ongoing shooting case of former budget director, Paul Montfort Mphwiyo,whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’ has entered his defence of his two charges of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder charges. Manondo, […]
Cashgate prisoner Oswald Lutepo has testified in the trial of attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, saying former deputy Inspector General of Malawi Police, Nelson Bophani forced him to implicate former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambala in the attempted murder. Kasambala, businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are answering attempted murder and conspiracy […]
Officials from Thyolo district council have been accused of putting ghost workers on a public works programme that has drained government coffers up to K5 million. Council chairman John Orima confirmed there is a financial report that is detailing how council officials, councillors and some traditional leaders swindled the government of K5 million. He said […]
This article seeks to examine how Malawi’s former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo is represented in the media, specifically the Nation newspaper, as well as ideologies attached to such representations with relevant examples. Representation is referred to as the process through which words and images stand in for ideas, individuals, social groups and other categories. Representations […]
Malawi government Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa on Thursday morning contradicted former maid to lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Jessie Mussa, during his testimony in court in the ongoing attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. The former housemaid was also on record in her last year testimony that she saw on 13th September 2013 the man who was later […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Michael Ntambo said on Thursday that he expects the trial of the on going attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo to be concluded during the next court session, which will be from January 27-29 2016. Lawyer and former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambala , businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are […]