In a communication to Vice-President Saulos Chilima, Secretary to the President and Cabinet (SPC) Zangazanga Chikhosi and heads of public institutions Attorney General Chikosa Silungwe says between 2018 and 2020 poorly-drafted contracts and unlawful dismissals cost government K29 billion. Silungwe, Malawi’s principal law officer, painted that grim picture of how the government coffers are depleted […]
The letter Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe wrote to Vice-President Saulos Chilima, Secretary to the President and Cabinet (SPC) Zangazanga Chikhosi and all heads of public institutions may, as they love to call it, an internal one, not meant for the public. In the letter, dated August 20 2020, Silungwe warned those he was writing […]
National Advocacy Platform (NAP)—an umbrella body of some 60 civil society organisations, has welcomed communication from the Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe cautioning the new Tonse Alliance led administration against poorly-drafted contracts, unlawful dismissals and redeployment of heads of government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). Silungwe, who is government’s chief legal advisor, has urged the […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has written the Attorney General (AG), Dr Chikosa Silungwe, expressing its shock with the way the State apparatus is handling suspects believed to have committed multiple offences during the immediate former governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration. While congratulating the government chief legal advisor for demonstrating […]
Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe has said government will comply with the High Court determination that 18 Msudwe women who were victims of sexual violence and rape in Lilongwe should be compensated for the heinous acts allegedly suffered at the hands of Malawi Police officers. Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda in a ruling championed by Women Lawyers […]
Attorney General Chikosa Silungwe has advised the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 to reverse its decision to implement public health coronavirus containment, prevention and management rules as the matter is still in court where lockdown was challenged. On July 10, 2020, the Taskforce through Co-Chairperson John Phuka issued new restrictions to contain the spread of the […]
Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe on Friday took the oath of office and allegiance before President Lazarus Chakwera in Lilongwe but it was non-religious. Silungwe, who was vice-president Saulos Chilima’s lead counsel in the presidential election case, didn’t include the phrase “so help me God” at the end of the either oath. Nor did he […]
The Judiciary has played down fears that the appointment of Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s ally and his lead lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe —who was his lead lawyer in the presidential election nullification case that gifted Tonse Alliance the presidencyas the new Attorney General (AG), will influence the K9 billion legal fees claim case, in which he […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has announced a partial Cabinet that, give it a second look, stirs a mixed feeling of hope and anxiety. You have to be hopeful to see the energetic and workaholic Vice president Saulos Chilima back to head Public Sector Reforms where, after making great strides, he left a gap his contemporaries failed […]
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday started releasing names of Cabinet minister in dribs and drabs in which he has appointed private practice lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe as the new Attorney General replacing Kalekeni Kaphale. According to a statement from Office of President and Cabinet, Chakwera has made his vice president, Saulos Chilima, minister responsible […]
A prominent lawyer says President Peter Mutharika will have no option but to sign the electoral reform bills which sets date for the fresh election on July 2 and says the presidential election winner will have to get 50%+1 votes as interpreted by both the Constitutional Court and upheld by the Malawi Supreme Court of […]
Lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe representing the country’s estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima—who contested the May 21 2019 presidential race on a UTM Party ticket— has told the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal that an appeal by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) against a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judgement that overturned the presidential election must […]
UTM Party president Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima, the first petitioner in the presidential election nullification petition case, through his lead attorney Dr Chikosa Silungwe on Thursday oultined before the Constitutional Court that irregularities that occured during the May 21 presidential polls directly affected millions of valid votes, thus affecting the result of the election. Sulungwe […]
UTM Party lead lawyer in the ongoing landmark in the presidential elections nullification petition case has raised questions over the absence of the Malawi Electoral Commissioner (MEC) and other commissioners as witnesses in the case when first petitioner Saulos Chilima on Thursday outlined his final oral submission to the court through his legal team. Lawyer […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Malunga Phiri has been quizzed of his qualifications in the Constitutional Court where he is the first witness of President Peter Mutharika, the first respondent in the presidential election results nullification petition. Phiri, a long-time top aide of Mutharika, who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) director […]
Lead lawyer for immediate past vice-president Saulos Chilima in the historic elections petition case at the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe , Dr Chikosa Silungwe, explained the absence of two lawyers Marshal Chilenga and Khumbo Soko to allay fears they have abandoned the first petitioner in the matter. Social media has been awash with “propaganda” that Soko and […]
The UTM Party legal team has said the withdraw of 34 witnesses in the on-going presidential elections case is tactical and insisted that it is satisfied with the strength of the evidence tendered so far by four witnesses including for first petitioner in the case, immediate Vice President Saulos Chilima. Lawyer Dr Chikosa Silungwe, who […]
UTM Party presidential candidate Saulos Chilima’s lead lawyer in the historic presidential elections case, Dr Chikosa Silungwe has said they have so far proved their case in the May 21 elections and that respondents, President Peter Mutharika and Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) lawyers have agreed the irregularties had been established. Silungwe told reporters in an […]