The game is over for President Joyce Banda now that the country’s main bilateral aid giver has spoken. Britain will not resume aid to Malawi until those involved in the stealing of public money amounting to millions of dollars are held accountable. Just how the Banda administration will respond remains to be seen but expecting […]
The opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) Presidential torchbearer for the May 20 tripartite elections, Atupele Muluzi has urged voters in the Lower Shire to vote for him if they want government coffers to be protected from public looters at Capital Hill. UDF President said this during the just ended weekend when he conducted whistle stop tours in […]
Malawi government has reacted to media reports that quoted state-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) chairperson Sophie Kalinde linking the need for Malawians to know what President Joyce Banda declared as her assets to efforts towards getting to the roots of cashgate. In a statement issued on Saturday by Director of Information, Chikumbutso Mtumodzi, government […]
The State-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) are pushing Speaker of Parliament, Henry Chimunthu Banda, to publicise the assets declarations which President Joyce Banda deposited to his office amidst fears some of her assets are linked to cashgate scandal. Malawi government said Banda re-declared her assets in 2013 and that the information was deposited with Office of the Speaker […]
The British Government has warned the Malawi Government against making public names of people and organisations mentioned in the forensic audit report saying doing so may prejudice any current or future legal action. The British Government funded the forensic audit report into the looting of public funds at the Capital Hill, the government’s seat. The […]
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) has rejected the forensic audit report into the fraud and theft of money from the Malawi government which found that over K13 billion was siphoned between April and September, 2013 describing it as “ a cover up scheme’. The audit, which was conducted by Baker Tilly International, a […]
Malawi’s biggest donor, Britain has said will not be able to resume aid support until the government clamped “firmly down on corruption”. Malawi has been rocked by the plunder of public resources, known as Capital Hill Cashgate scandal. A forensic audit report by British auditors showed this week that K13 billion ($30 million) was stolen in six […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has added his voice in demanding the Joyce Banda government to name all suspects involved in the Cashgate scandal after an audit revealed K13 billion was embezzled from state coffers. A much-awaited report by British auditors — commissioned by President Joyce Banda — showed this week that K13 billion […]
High Court Judge Fiona Mwale in Lilongwe on Thursday upheld contention of defence lawyers in which businesswoman Caroline Savala is accused of theft and money laundering an amount totalling K49 million. Lawyer Wapona Kita representing Savala, Maxwell Namata and Luke Kasamba raised various preliminary objections last week. Kita argued on Savala that there are duplicity […]
Malawi rights campaigners on Thursday held peaceful anti-government protest in the commercial hub Blantyre to press for quick action after an audit revealed officials had stolen at least K13 billion ( $30 million) from the state the corruption scandal which has been christened as cashgate. Hundreds braved the chilling weather to join leaders of Grand […]
Heated debate ensued during two-day Public Affairs Committee (Pac) all-inclusive stakeholders meeting in Blantyre with delegates calling for Parliament to convene by March 10 to deliberate on infamous Capitol Hill looting of public funds christened as Cashgate. Delegates to the meeting held at Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre highlighted several issues of national importance which […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has asked the ruling Peoples Party (PP) to publicly acknowledge that it is killing people through plundering of public resources for self-enrichment causing lack of medication in public health facilities country wide. An audit British firm showed this week that k13 billion (about $30 million) was stolen in six months from […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs), under the Grand Coalition for the Defence of Democracy and Good Governance, have announced that they will stage protests Thursday February 27 in the commercial capital Blantyre only to mark the start of a civil disobedience campaign against the Joyce Banda government. The activist want to pressurize government to among others disclose the […]
Parliament is scheduled to meet and deliberate on recent released forensic audit report on Cashgate corruption scandal in the first week of April, days after being dissolved, the Speaker has disclosed. Speaker Henry Chimunthu Banda disclosed in an interview, the august House would meet in an extraordinary or emergency capacity to discuss two monitory bills […]
The Forum for National Development ( FND) which is a group believed to be bankrolled by the ruling People’s Party and operates under instructions from State House has spoken against planned anti-government demonstrations. Forum leaders told journalists in Lilongwe on Wednesday that organising street demonstration this time would create unnecessary tension ahead of the May 20elections. ”We know […]
Whether foreign interests or unnamed diplomats are behind the protests that some civil society organizations are planning to protest against the PP handling of the Cashgate and the proceeds from the sale of the presidential jet as alleged by Information Minister Brown Mpinganjira, is neither here or there. What should be of concern to the […]
One of the country’s human rights activists and law expert, Justin Dzonzi has trashed the recently released forensic audit report on Capitol Hill looting-Cashgate-describing it as government’s ploy to hoodwink the nation from knowing the truth of the whole scandal. Dzonzi in an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times argued that by not mentioning names and […]
Two leading human rights non-governmental institutions in Malawi Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) say Malawians have been taken for a ride on the recently released Cash gate Forensic Audit Report. In a statement issued on 25th February 2014 and made available to Nyasa Times, the human […]