The High Court in the capital Lilongwe has found Luke Kasamba and Maxwell Namata guilty on the charge of theft and money laundering in a syndicate stripping finances from government through illegal encashment of cheques using companies that did not supply any goods or services as authorities which was christened as cashgate. Justice Anabel Mtalimanja […]
The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) has queried government to formally submit the CCTV footage of former president Joyce Banda’s 23 meetings with chief Cashgate suspect, Oswald Lutepo, and other senior People’s Party (PP) members at four different state residences in the country as government claimed. Government though its spokesman Kondwani Nankhumwa said last year that they […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) has been embroiled in a fresh procurement scandal suspected to be a cashgate scheme by placing an order of K4 billion with a company based in Blantyre, Oil & Protein Limited of a Karim, for food stuff ( tins of Sardines ) without any tender . The army and police can […]
Businessperson and chief cashgate suspect Osward Lutepo was on Thurdday hospitalised at Mzuzu MASM Hospital after he collapsed and is currently receiving treatment with hospital sources saying he may be found to be incompetent “at this moment” to stand trial. Lutepo is regarded as chief suspect in cashgate cases and charged in a K5.7 billion […]
Malawi civil-society groups who are organising anti-government streets protests over governance concerns scheduled for January 13, 2015 have demanded to see justice on accused persons’ role to plunder of public money both in the DPP and the PP era. The groups want action K92 billion DPP-era cashgate and about K20 billion grew wings from public […]
The South African Times newspaper which published an article about Malawi’s former president, Joyce Banda facing arrest in connection to Cashgate scandal has published an apology, a full retraction, and an acknowledgement that the story was baseless. Banda had demanded an apology and retraction from the newspaper for publishing a story on December 9, 2014 that there […]
While financial forensic experts, anti-corruption officers and the police are busy hunting down Cashgate suspects, leaving most of us observing from a distance and going about our daily routines as innocent souls, the philosophical verdict condemns us all to many years behind bars for letting Cashgate happen before our eyes. Albert Einstein, a well-known sage […]
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right” Oprah Winfrey Our friends from the Orient have their own unique way of naming years. They have the Year of the Dragon, the Year of the Tiger…they even have the Year of the Rat, Rabbit and Snake and the good old […]
Economists in Malawi say the country is likely to continue facing financial challenges in 2015 unless the government can regain the confidence of donors, who are still withholding 40 percent of budgetary support due to the corruption scandal known as Cashgate. More than K20 billion ($30 million) were looted from government coffers in the scandal, […]
It is generally accepted that, in Malawi, the arrival of Christianity and colonialism altered the gender relations and sociocultural makeup of its people. These changes are most evident in the way the male gender (or ideas governing what it means to be a man), in both matrilineal and patrilineal societies, came to be understood. Masculinity […]
Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika has said he will not be distracted as he focus on improving people’s lives by hitting the reset button of governance to improve the economic situation. The country has been on economic downward spiral which the President conceded in his year-end State-of-the-Nation feed from Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe that was beamed on […]
Malawi’s Information Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has maintained that government handed over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) footage of meetings between former president Joyce Banda and Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo that implied the two were discussing something sinister bordering on corruption or fraud. The minister has been facing demand to tell Malawians who he gave the […]
Fellow Malawians, Ladies and Gentlemen, Our country, Malawi, remains one of the world’s poorest, ranking 170th out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index (HDI 2013), a position it has been stuck on since 2010. As you all know, the HDI measures long-term progress in three basic dimensions of human development, namely: a long […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mary Kachale, has explained that at law, a criminal offence confession by a person is only evidence against him and no other person can be convicted on the basis of a confession made by another. In a statement, Kachale said the mentioned person might only be liable if they […]
The International Monetray Fund (IMF) says it will consider to resume extended credit facility (ECF) to Malawi in the 6th scheme after the end of mission to Malawi. Addressing a news conference in Lilongwe on Thursday, 18 December, 2014, the IMF representative in the country ,Oral Williams who was accompanied by the Minister of Finance, […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court has granted an order to Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on request from Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to temporarily freeze bank accounts of businessperson Pika Manondo, who is one of a suspect in the shooting of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Manondo wanted to withdraw cash at First Merchant Bank […]
It appears the Democratic Progressive Party (DDP) administration’s self-made calamities will continue to happen, at least for the foreseeable future. President Peter Mutharika and his vice, Saulos Chilima have just announced that they have suspended an increment of 80 percent to their salaries. The announcement by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) to […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it still has not received the CCTV footage of former president Joyce Banda’s 23 meetings with chief Cashgate suspect, Oswald Lutepo, and other senior People’s Party (PP) members at four different state residences in the country as government claimed. Government though its spokesman Kondwani Nankhumwa said last week that […]