Malawi, University of Malawi’s professor Wiseman Chijere Chirwa has pointed out that Malawi which is about to celebrate 50 years of independence this July, is till at crossroads with recycled politicians busy in wrongful self-enrichment at the expense of the ordinary impoverished people. Chijere-Chirwa was speaking during an all-inclusive stakeholders conference organised by the Public Affairs […]
Malawi Government spokesman Brown Mpinganjira has accused activists of working with the West to promote instability and an agenda of regime change. Mpinganjira, who is Minister of Information and Civic Education, accused the West of bankrolling civil society activists to hold mass protests over the cashgate corruption scandal and reports that proceeds of jet vanished. […]
Outgoing Leader of Opposition John Tembo said the amount plundered from the public purse could be on the higher side up to K50 billion and not K6.1 billion (about $15.2m) or K13.6 billion (about $34m). Malawi’s Finance Minister Maxwell Mkwezalamba told reporters in Lilongwe on Monday that the amount looted it K6.1 billion (about $15.2m) […]
The ruling Peoples Party (PP) presidential running mate for the May tripartite elections Sosten Gwengwe has condemned politics of appeasement and self-enrichment as detrimental to development. Speaking this weekend to traditional leaders and civil servants at St. Denis hall in Rumphi, Gwengwe said politics is a vehicle to development and must not be abused by […]
Malawian activists are planning a mass protests against the Joyce Banda government in what they call “casual approach” in dealing with the cashgate corruption scandal and also demanding answers on the proceeds of the sale of presidential jet Civil rights groups want President Joyce Banda to explain the whole transaction of the presidential jet sale. […]
Two Malawi’s daily newspapers on Monday said in their editorial comments that a forensic audit report produced by British forensic auditors have not produced “anything substantively new.” The report by British auditing firm Baker Tilly Fraud indicated that theft have cost the Malawi Government about K13 billion (about $32.5m) in public funds, including K3.7 billion […]
A circulating story suggests that money acquired from the sale of Malawi‘s presidential jet cannot be traced. I’m talking a whole U$D15, 000, 000. Okay, so let me get this straight: President Bingu wa Mutharika, DPP, diverted DFID funds to procure a presidential jet without authorisation. In its turn, the PP government of President Joyce […]
The audit report was conducted by a British accounting firm, Baker Tilly Business Services Limited, which was contracted by the Department of International Development (DfID) following revelations of massive fraud in the Malawi government in what has become to be known as cashgate. The report is dated February 21, 2014 and covers financial transactions of […]
A preliminary forensic audit outlining how public resources were plundered between April and September 2013 is expected to be presented to Parliament on Monday February 24, Nyasa Times understands. The London-based accountancy firm Baker Tilly International said the draft report was issued to the Auditor General on 14 February 2014, but were now working on additional comments […]
Forum for National Development (FND) on Thursday called upon Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and its leader Professor Peter Mutharika to be the first ones to provide answers on massive plunder and looting of government resources at Capital Hill. Recently, Mutharika was quoted in the media that Malawians urgently need answers to massive looting of government resources in what have been known […]
The Malawi National Assembly will not convene unless the Forensic Audit Report, expected to lay bare the mishaps that led to the looting of millions of US dollars by some civil servants at Capital Hill, is released. Henry Phoya, Leader of the House, said government does not have enough money to enable parliament meet twice before its […]
Global accounting firm network Baker Tilly International says the forensic audit report outlining how public resources were plundered between April and September 2013 has said draft report was issued to the Auditor General on 14 February 2014. The London-based accountancy firm said they were now working on additional comments and evidence which the Auditor General had previously requested. […]
The Malawi Defence Force (MDF) is reportedly being investigated by the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for some of the payments it made amounting to about K3 billion following revelations by Nyasa Times. The amount was paid through five cheques of K499 million each and another of K456 million for supply military items. The six […]
A British forensic audit report on Malawi’s “Cashgate” scandal involving the looting of about $20 million (K8.9 billion), will be released this week, Minister of Information and Civic Education, Brown Mpinganjira. Mpinganjira told a news conference in Lilongwe on Wednesday to contradict Stevenson Kamphasa, Malawi’s auditor general, who said the report will delay further. February 18, […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has set Thursday next week as the day it deliver a ruling on the prelimenary objections raised on Wednesday by lawyer Wapona Kita representing three people who are charged with various counts of theft and money laundering in the ongoing cashgate trials. Appearing before Justice Annabel Mtalimanja, lawyer Kita representing Caroline […]
Just a few days after Civil Society Organisations under the umbrella of Grand Coalition expressed concern over government’s continued failure to call for Parliament meeting, two leading non-governmental human rights institutions in Malawi, the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) have added their voice to the call […]
A lot of Malawian pundits and commentators have pointed out that cashgate symbolises a larger malaise affecting Malawian society. To these commentators, cashgate happened because we are a “rotten” society ruled by corrupt leaders; because we have lost our moral compass as a nation. If this is true, does it not then follow that many […]
A report of the preliminary forensic audit into the loss of billions of taxpayers’ money at Capital Hill – the cashgate – which was scheduled for release and publication on Tuesday February 18 has again be delayed, the Office of the Auditor General has said. The delay has been attributed to the need to ensure […]