Malawi’s Justice Minister Fahad Assani has said government will submit to courts that all those answering charges involving the plunder of public funds at Capital Hill – known as cashgate – should face the sentence of life imprisonment when convicted. Assani disclosed this during his speech in commemorating the Anti-Corruption Day in Lilongwe on Wednesday […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has said corruption has become global phenomenon, saying that there is no country in the world without a quantum of the menace but vowed she will spare no effort in fighting corruption in the country. Banda was speaking on Wednesday when she led Malawians in commemorating the Anti-Corruption Day in Lilongwe. […]
Gun-shot survivor former budget director Paul Mphwiyo will be the first prosecution witness against former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara who face charges of attempting to murder in the trial which begins Wednesday. The shooting of Mphwiyo in September opened a Pandora box of the massive looting of public resources dubbed “cashgate.” According to court documents […]
Although in the past week Malawian media has been replete with headlines that the US$100 million Cashgate scandal trials have started, the truth behind the headlines is that the so-called cashgate trials are simply publicity stunts, and to those with any legal understanding, a mockery of the Malawian criminal justice System. The Malawian Director of […]
President Joyce Banda and her People’s Party (PP) led government are running Malawi in a “mafia way of governing” according to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera. Chakwera made the accusations during a Tambala Night at Sunbird Mzuzu on Friday, Chakwera said people have suffered under the PP administration. He promised to end the […]
The vice-President of Malawi, Khumbo Kachali has said the European Union (EU) is pleased with the progress being made by the government in its effort to manage the challenges brought about by the looting of government resources at Capital Hill in Lilongwe. Kachali made the remarks Thursday after the bilateral cooperation meeting he had with […]
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich” –Napoleon Bonaparte Imagine we have locked up all the ‘bad’ guys and dolls and we have tossed their cell keys into the deepest points in Lake Malawi. Imagine we have seized all those ‘paradise-on-earth’ cashgate mansions and limousines. Imagine Joyce Banda has fallen on her […]
Former minister of Justice Raphael Kasambara, who is currently facing money laundering charges and attempted murder charge of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, is a victim of witch-hunting by People’s Party (PP), according to his supporters in his Nkhata Bay North-West constituency. The supporters voiced this when they held demonstrations against his re-arrests on money […]
The Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) has said government must handle the issue of ‘Cash gate’ with transparency and also present a forensic report publicly, among many issues affecting Malawi. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, EAM demands that in a spirit of transparency, the forensic report which, government has said it will […]
If an election had been held soon after the demise of President Bingu wa Mutharika, incumbent Joyce Banda would have won with a landslide. And when she was taking over, it seemed a done deal that President Joyce Banda would, hands down, ride to victory in May 2014. Two years seemed to short a period […]
A wide section of the Malawian punditry has been arguing that there has not been enough anger expressed over cashgate. Some are going as far as suggesting that there has not been any anger at all. I sympathise with the argument. However I wish these pundits could take the lead and demonstrate exactly how they […]
United Independence Party (UIP) president Pastor Helen Singh has called on the electorate to shrug off politicians who have looted the public coffers and are seeking votes to continue their plunder. “Unscrupulous and greedy politicians have swept the coffers and yet they are looming around to seek your sympathy to vote for them again,” observed […]
Former Malawi Justice Minister Raphael Kasambara, who is currently in custody for money laundering charges, has again laughed off the charge, saying its “vague”. On his arrest, Kasambara, who was on bail on alleged attempted murder of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, downplayed the allegations of his offence, saying “It’s a joke of a charge.” And […]
Malawi government has indicated that a report of the preliminary forensic audit into the loss of billions of taxpayers’ money at Capital Hill will be ready by February 14 and will be publicised. Minister of Information Brown Mpinganjira alongside Auditor General Stephenson Kamphasa and team leader of international forensic auditors Mark Sullivan told journalists in […]
Trials of suspects arrested in connection to the stealing of over $250 millions of public funds from government coffers in what is known as Cashgate scandal formally commenced on Wednesday at Lilongwe High court but didn’t take time raising fears among Malawians that this would drag the progress of cases beyond elections time. Among suspects appeared at Lilongwe High […]
Malawi government has been asked to publish the entire preliminary forensic audit report and the executive summary on the ‘Cashgate’ corruption scandal which was submitted to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for Development of People (Cedep) said in a statement that Malawians have a right […]
Gospel musician Evance ‘Watsopano’ Meleka has added his voice to the infamous plunder of public resources at Capitol hill and has released a new 12 track album titled ‘Cashgate’ whose take home message centres on the evils of the act and aims at comforting the afflicted. Speaking in an interview on Saturday in Blantyre on […]
In its ongoing sweeping exercise, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested two more people suspected to have been involved in the now famous Malawi cash-gate scandal. The two are Mkhuzo James Bandula Chirwa, a Senior Quantity Surveyor with Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development in Lilongwe and business guru, Stafford Mpoola. ACB Senior Public […]