As the fallout from the recent stinky and fraudulent K2.7 billion food rations deal for Pioneer Investments at the Malawi Police Service continues to make headlines, we all must come face to face with the disturbing truth that indeed “the entire Malawi Government is a criminal enterprise.” Criminal enterprises tend to defend their turf using […]
“I joined the revolutionary ranks at 18, and all I wanted was to make the revolution succeed,” once said Deng Xiapong, the man widely accredited as architect of modern China. Today, China is challenging the US as the world’s biggest economy. “Yet”, to quote Dambisa Moyo’s widely-acclaimed book, Dead Aid, “it is worth remembering that […]
Cashgate convict OswardLutepo is still incarcerated and still serving time at Chichiri Prison in Blantyre, the Malawi Prison Service has said, putting to ice rumours making rounds that the main felon in the Cashgate saga has been pardoned by President Peter Mutharika. Last week, Mutharika pardoned 143 prisoners as part of Malawi’s 54th Independence celebrations. […]
Convicted former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara will have to wait longer for his appeal bid as the State has asked failed to meet the deadline to to submit skeletal arguments at the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal by June 27 2018, asking for about three months (90 more days). The former […]
Businessperson-cum-politician Osward Lutepo who is serving a prison sentence after being convicted as a major figure in the “Cashgate” scandal, which led to several donor countries cutting their contributions to the government, is seeking pardon from President Peter Mutharika to release him from jail after serving three years of his 11-year sentence, according to an interview he game Malawi […]
Parliament’s powerful and influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says civil servants continue to plunder public money through dubious sourcing of goods and services. The chairperson of PAC Alekeni Menyani told parliament on Wednesday that for instance, the Immigration department paid out a staggering K2.7 billion for what he described as bogus substandard goods. “They (controlling […]
Audit General’s Office has observed that the current Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS)- a technical solution to deter corruption in public finance management – being used in the country has a lot of shortfalls which need to be looked into. Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa made the observation during the interface meeting between Oxfam and Public […]
Parliament’s influential public money tracker, the Budget and Public Accounts cluster committee has cast doubt that the K5 billion new version of Ifmis software would stop the continued loot of public money at Capital Hill. The cluster vice chairman John Chikalimba said even after the alarming loot of K30 billion, theft of the public money […]
Is it really illegal to steal in Malawi? I mean, is it illegal to steal when say, one is a senior member of the so-called ruling party or a cabinet minister or a president, and when one uses the money to advance the party agenda, or to buy beer for college students, or to promote […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Thursday turned into a laughing arena like a comedy show when State witness tendered charms (Zithumwa) which were seized during the search in one of the suspects houses during the investigations of Cashgate Standing in the witness box in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former Ministry of Finance […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigator Clemence Tembo on Tuesday testified at the High Court in Lilongwe that law enforcing bodies were compromised in investigating the infamous Cashgate—the plunder of public resources at Capital Hill. Cashgate was exposed through the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo outside the gate of his Area 43 residence […]
Two district officials and a business tycoon in Mchinji are spending a third night in a police cell for fleecing the council of over K640000 in a procurement which saw the goods never delivered. Police say acting procurement officer Allan Mwaluba made a suspicious procurement payment of the K640000 for the purchase of tree seedlings […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has not cleared former president Joyce Banda on corruption allegations in the biggest financial scandal in the country’s history called Cashgate, dismissing her claims that the graft-busting body said it had no solid evidence against the former president, partially clearing her name. The “Cashgate” scandal prompted foreign donors – who provide around […]
Former president Joyce Banda has said she had evidence that corruption allegations against her were politically motivated as she insisted of her innocence and claimed that there were regime attempts to tarnish her name and legacy. Banda, 68, flew home on Saturday after four years absence during which she faced the threat of arrest over corruption […]
Former president Joyce Banda, who returned in the country last Saturday after four-years absecce, has reiterated her stand that she does not know anything to do with Cashgate, the plunder of public resources at Capital Hill, exposed under her watch in 2013 and challenged law enforcers to arrest her. Addressing a political rally for her […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)director Reyneck Matemba has updated the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee on the unaccounted for K236 billion in public funds, saying according to his investigations, no cabinet member was involved in the 13 files of the suspected Cashgate, the country’s largest financial scandal suspected to have occurred between January 2009 and December 2014. Matemba was speaking in Lilongwe […]
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has told the graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to speed up all cashgate related cases, saying the successful prosecution of the convicts can lead to the recovery of the money. Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Maxwell Thyolera said the K30 billion looting of money at Capital […]
Malawi police which issued an arrest warrant for former president Joyce Banda in connection with the country’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, which involved large-scale looting of government coffers, say it remains valid and can be executed once Banda return home on Saturday. Last July, police issued an arrest warrant against Banda, saying her alleged offences were part of […]