Nkhoma Synod CCAP Church Reverend Adiel Sasu on Sunday likened the Joyce Banda leadership with the Biblical reign of Manaseh King of Judah. Quoting the Bible books of 2 Kings 22 verses 1-13 and 2 John 13, Sasu said just like the problems Malawi is going through, Manaseh imitated on the very worst kings of Israel. He […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has overruled preliminarily objections filled by two defendants Maxwell Namata and Luke Kasamba who have been charged with theft and money laundering in the ongoing Capital Hill Cashgate trials. The two businessmen pleaded not guilty to the two counts that they stole K24 million from government and proceeded to use […]
The publication of the much-awaited forensic report into what has come to be called cashgate, the worst financial scandal to rock the Malawi government since independence in 1964 has been described as an anti-climax for its omission of names. British High Commissioner Micheal Nevin, whose government funded the audit, has come under fire for advising the […]
Uncertainty reigns supreme over whether British forensic auditors will agree to meet Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) upon their return to Malawi to explain why they are refusing to disclose the names of the suspect in their full report. Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa said on Tuesday that although the Baker Tilly team has confirmed […]
We are yet to get a straight story on how the proceeds from jet “sale” were used. The president maintains maize was realised from the sale while the finance minister tells a different story. Some cabinet members acknowledge the fact that nothing was discussed other than the sale. Hanna Ndilowe, the top civil servant in […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Hawa Ndilowe has called on Principal Secretaries (PSs) for the improvement of behavior and accountability in all public servants in their day to day work which will lead to improved quality of services delivery. Ndilowe made the call Monday during the opening of a-two-day workshop for High Level Consultation on Strengthening Integrity and […]
An economic expert say Malawians should brace for tough times following the donors postponement of a review meeting with the government over the suspended financial aid. Donors under the Common Approach to Budgetary Support (CABS) has announced the postponement “to a later date” of the scheduled series of meetings this month to monitor the country’s […]
President Joyce Banda’s want-away deputy Khumbo Kachali has been shunning presidential functions of late with the latest being rallies the Malawi leader has been addressing unlike the past when he was accompanying his boss everywhere. On Sunday, President Banda addressed a political rally at Mazengera Primary School in Lilongwe where she gave out 15 cows to 15 […]
Baker Tilly’s Report on fraud and mismanagement of public funds at Malawi’s Capitol Hill and the role the British High Commission has hitherto played in the whole process could be one of the most recent controversial cases of violation of people’s right to development? Considering the main principle underlying the international dimension of the RTD […]
One of the country’s civil society groupings, Malawi Watch has accused President Joyce Banda of playing double standards on Capitol Hill looting of public funds christened as Cashgate through which over K13 billions of tax-payers was stolen. Malawi Watch has since asked President Banda to stop blaming past regimes over the infamous corruption scandal and […]
Recently, at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe, the Malawi Police prevented gun-shot survivor Paul Mphwiyo, formerly a budget director in the Ministry of Finance from leaving Malawi for South Africa. His shooting and near murder by unknown assailants in September opened a can of worms that has exposed how Malawi’s president Joyce Banda and her […]
Forum for National Development (FND) on Thursday petitioned parliament demanding the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament to act responsibly and objectively in dealing with the issues of cashgate corruption scandal starting with audits from 2005 and the 2010 audit which revealed K92 billion was abused. Reading the petition to the concerned citizens at Parliament Buildings in Lilongwe, FND […]
President of the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Dr Lazarus Chakwera has emphasised the need for President Joyce Banda to make public her assets before May 20 Tripartite Elections if her name is to be cleared in the cashgate scandal. Addressing journalists Tuesday in the capital Lilongwe, Chakwera said declaring her assets was the only way Banda could clear […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has said an audit has revealed that in 2010 at least 92 billion Malawi Kwacha (about US $204m) was abused from the government finance management system. This was in reaction to a British-funded forensic audit report which revealed that 13 billion Malawi Kwacha (about US $30m) disappeared from government coffers since […]
Officials of the British accountancy firm, Baker Tilly, which released an independent audit report into a systematic looting of public money- the cashgate scandal – will appear before he parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to be asked on their forensic auditing. PAC deputy chairperson Daveson Nyadani said they have requested to meet the British auditors to quiz them on their work. […]
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malawi (ELCM) Bishop, the Right Reverend Dr Joseph Bvumwe has said the plundered public resources in the Capital Hill cashgate scandal has affected development which could have assisted in eradicating poverty among the rural communities in the country. The Bishop said this at Namasalima Primary School in Zomba over the weekend […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Fahad Assani, has advised the country’s lawyers against rushing to condemn civil servants as thieves when they are also involved in their own cashgate brand. The minister gave the advice Friday in his keynote address, in view of the Capital Hill looting, during the Malawi Law Society (MLS) 2014 conference and […]
Chairperson for the Council for Non-Governmental Organizations in Malawi CONGOMA Voice Mhone has told the British government authorities in Malawi to stop dictating on how Malawi government should handle the issue Cashgate audit report saying it is none of their concern. Mhone, who is also a leader of a group of CSOs under Grand Coalition […]