The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has issued a restriction notice to the Ministry of Agriculture restraining it from awarding a contract to a South African company, Spatial Dimension. The Ministry is in the process of awarding the contract to the South African for the Design, Supply, installation and Commissioning of the Land Information Management under the […]
United Kingdom (UK) has committed an extra £10.8m (about K11 billion) to support Malawi in tackling serious and organised corruption. The UK’s Minister for Africa, James Duddridge, made the announcement after he had an audience with President Lazarus Chakwera at his official Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Tuesday evening. Since 2016, the UK has been […]
Minister of Information, Gospel Kazako has urged the media in the country to avoid indulging in corrupt practices as they are custodians of sanity. Kazako gave the advice on Tuesday in Blantyre during a National Anti-Corruption Strategy II (NACS) dissemination workshop for the media aimed at updating the practitioners with anti-corruption knowledge. He said people […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba who is on recording saying he strongly believes the corruption case against former president Bakili Muluzi which now enters its 14th year needs a political solution because it is not prosecutable, has told parliament that all parties are to blame for the delay in concluding the perceived politically motivated […]
President Lazarus Chakwera met London-based law expert Allan Z. Ntata who launched a citizen-led initiative to help build and ensure public accountability. State House Director of Communication Sean Kampondeni told the Weekly Press Conference in Lilongwe that Chakwera maet Ntata a law barrister who had previously worked at Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and also served as […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana has insisted on his allegations he made that some Tonse Alliance government Cabinet members were soliciting bribes from some Malawian businesspersons of Asian descent. Chihana made the claims in the House that Tonse Alliance government is siphoning money through corruption. He alleged that some powerful ministers were getting […]
Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana who is the lone legislator of Alliance for Democracy (Aford) in Parliament has said he has submitted evidence of corruption to the Office of the Speaker of Parliament as requested. Chihana in his response to the State of the Nation Address (Sona) as leader of Aford in Parliament claimed that […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top politicians Uladi Mussa and Christopher Mzomera Ngwira will this month end know their fate in separate corruption cases as courts will deliver their judgement. A judgement for Mussa at High Court has been set on September 29 2020 in a corruption case in which he and four others were prosecuted […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has told internationa investors that Malawi has begun a great journey from poverty to prosperity, saying the southern African nation is not a poor country but its endowed resources have been poorly managed and that he has a vision to change the fortunes for the better. Speaking to investors through a live discussion […]
There was drama at Blantyre Magistrate Court as Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Jean Mathanga lashed at a newspaper photojournalist for taking pictures of her and demanded that they be deleted. Mathanga was appearing at the court as former Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) board chairperson who was arrested by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) together […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has reported Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA) executive director Elias Hausi and son to former first lady Tadikila Mabfuza to the office of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) following the role the two played over the Kammwamba power plant producing company. In their later dated 17th August 2020, signed […]
Mbakuwaku Movement for Development (MMD)national president Peter Dominico Sinosi Driver Kuwani has described as a sarcasm calls by some people are making that the wealth public and civil servants amass should be scrutinized in an effort to seal corruption loopholes in government systems. Some sections of the society believes that some of the wealth civil […]
Yes, coronavirus (Covid-19) is real: its hitting the economy and our society so bad and we are all anxious. None is certain as to when this pandemic will ease its grip on us. However, taking a leaf from history, pandemics have never been a permanent scourge on humans. The reason they haven’t been a permanent […]
Youthful politician and businessperson Noel Lipipa, owner of multi-million Lab Enterprises investment, says Malawi is being destroyed by ‘get-rich’ quickly politicians—who amass millions of money without even a single known previous investment to their name. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Blantyre City South legislator made the comment during the exclusive interview he had with Times […]
A high-level delegation from the quasi-religious organization, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has told President Lazarus Chakwera to desist from selective justice in his crusade against corruption. PAC spokesperson Gilford MatoNga said in an interview that the quasi-religious body encouraged the President for his relentless war against graft but told him the war should not […]
The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has challenged government to go beyond arresting people suspected to have taken part in K1 trillion (over $1 billion) looting from public coffers through corruption during former president Peter Mutharika’s administration, saying there should be efforts to recover the money from the culprits. Money Laundering Act states that […]
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has given President Lazarus Chakwera five points that the Tonse Alliance government led by his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) should resolve within its first 100 days in office. Among the issues the coalition seeks government to implement, is the need to tackle corruption. According to a statement made available […]
Let me begin by narrating a story of two college friends: Ernest Banda and Joab Chalima. They both graduated from Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 2013 as economics majors. Just after graduating, both guys joined government: Ernest with the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development while Joab joined Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA). From the […]