Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in her submission opposing the bail application filed by former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and his two co-convicts tackled the issue of call-logs, saying it was part of the totality evidence. Kasambara and his co-convicts—Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe—applied for bail pending an appeal […]
Officials at Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development got the members of the Parliamentary Public Accounts (PAC) angry after they failed to explain how they could not account for a whooping K7 billion expenditure with the members fearing that the money could have gone into people’s pockets rather than used for government activities. […]
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe says people in the country need to safeguard public resources if the economy is to grow. Speaking in Lilongwe at the Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) on Wednesday, Gondwe said it is high time people in the country started generating integrity and respect for public resources […]
Attorney General Charles Mhango has submitted to the High Court of Malawi to dismiss the application by Malawi’s immediate-past president Joyce Banda asking the court to nullify the warrant of arrest issued by Police in connection with the country’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, which involved large-scale looting of government coffers. Banda has been living in self-imposed […]
High Court Judge Esmie Chombo has expressed dissatisfaction with what she calls “professional indiscipline” by some defense lawyers who are continuously coming late for the court proceedings in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others. Chombo observed that some lawyers are fond of absconding from the proceedings leaving their client helpless in the […]
Seventh prosecution witness in the on-going K2.4 billion cashgate case, Peter George Makanga, chief professional development officer from the Office of Director of Public Procurement (ODPP) has told the court that his office never knew Cashgate tainted contractors in case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others. He said on 6 November, 2013 he […]
Sixth state witness in the on-going K2.4 billion Cashgate related case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others, Philip Thoko Majiga, has finished giving his testimony before the Lilongwe High Court and said he has no incriminating evidences against Mphwiyo . Majiga, Budget officer in the ministry of finance and economic planning, however […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale told the High Court in Lilongwe on Tuesday that he was not pleased with the report of the on-going K2.4billion Capital Hill Cashgate trials that involves gunshot survivor, former budget director Paul Montfort Mphwiyo and 18 others which appeared on Nyasa Times indicating that fifth witness Kondwani Munthali […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has reserved its ruling of the application by lawyer Powell Mkhutabasa representing Cashgate suspect Auzius Kazombo-Mwale, in the on-going K2.4 billion cashgate cases, who asked the court to recommend for independent doctor to certify his client if he is fit to stand the trial or not. Kazombo-Mwale on Monday collapsed in the […]
An investigative audit report has revealed that Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has been spending millions of public funds illegally with Malawi Police put on spotlight of using money without the authority of Treasury. Chairperson of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Alekeni Menyani, said they Auditor General’s report on the accounts of government for […]
Businessman Limumba Karima, his co-accused Sympathy Chisale were again no show at Lilongwe City Council Civic Centre where the High Court is hearing the K2.4 billion money laundering case in which former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo is among the accused. Lumumba and Chisale have not been appearing in court to face prosecution to […]
High Court Judge Esme Chombo during a sitting at Lilongwe City Council Civic Centre on Monday had to temporarily suspend hearing of the K2.4 billion cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others for about 40 minutes from 10am after third accused person Kazombo Mwale collapsed during the trial. Kazombo and Mphwiyo are among […]
Confusion and comedy linger over the warrant of arrest for the former Malawi President Joyce Banda following revelation that the lawyers for the country’s first female president are still struggling to establish the court which issued the warrant a situation that has left them using guess work in their efforts to challenge the warrant. The […]
Malawi’s immediate-past president Joyce Banda is asking the High Court to nullify the warrant of arrest issued by Malawi Police in connection with the country’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, which involved large-scale looting of government coffers. Banda has been living in self-imposed exile since she lost to President Peter Mutharika in the 2014 election. And last […]
“The only plausible inference, therefore, is that the President gave her blessing and was fully aware of what was going on and had acquiesced in it. Ironically, she even made the comment that ‘you are not guilty of any crime if someone shares you stolen money…” Is it all a game of smoke and mirrors? […]
Casghate suspect Ex Malawi Army Colonel Kauwa has died at Kamuzu Central Hospital. Finer details regarding his illness are not known however KCH Hospital Director, Jonathan Ngoma in an interview confirmed about the death . “Yes its true Kauwa is dead” said Dr Ngoma. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested retired Colonel Nelson Kauwa in 2015, […]
A local socio-political commentator Makhumbo Munthali has warned that posterity will judge the current generation badly if it decides to pay a blind eye to the former President Joyce Banda’s cashgate allegations under the guise of the issue merely being government’s attempt to divert public attention from real issues. Malawi Police announced that it had […]
When considering obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Africa, we tend to focus on the obvious – the legacy leaders who refuse to relinquish power, some holding on for 20 or 30 years. We look at politically orchestrated violence, the buying of votes, state manipulation of the electoral machinery, and the weakness of democratic […]