Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda continue to make headlines for wrong reasons. He is the only minister yet to update his declared assets and liabilities to the Office of the Director of Public Officers Declarations. Under the law, public officers are supposed to update records of their assets and liabilities each financial year. […]
Officials from director of Public Officers Declaration say they will now be asking envoys in Malawi foreign missions to start declaring their assets following alarming reports that they are involved in rampant plunder of public money. The director, Chris Tukula said this on Tuesday in Lilongwe. “The focus will now be in foreign missions because […]
The request of files by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has requested files from the Office of the Director of Public Assets Declarations for public officers suspected of indulging in corruption has dominated the Malawi daily newspapers on Monday. “ACB probing public officers through assets files,” was the headline in the Nation, which quoted Assets Director Chris […]
Office of the Director of Public Officers Declarations will on December 14th commence physical verification exercise of initial declarations submitted by public officers. Briefing the media in Lilongwe on Thursday Director of Asset Declarations Christopher Tukula said the physical verification methodology involves comparing the data in the forms with data in various public agencies and […]
President Peter Mutharika is yet to give letters of consent to local journalists to examine details of his US bank accounts, five days after he challenged them to do so to prove he was already super rich before he ascended to the presideny. His press office on Monday tossed Nyasa Times from one office to […]
The way Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika goes back and forth on almost every issue is legendary, in fact award-winning. Malawians have in mind the issue of presidential salary hikes; appointments of parastatal board members; the issue of diplomatic appointments; and now the issue of his assets declaration. Not long ago, the office of the Director […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika was forced to correct an amount which was indicated that he holds in a bank in the United States of America (USA) after hearing that a verification exercise would follow and realised that the figures might not tally with what he had declared, Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament chairperson Lingson Belekanyama […]
“It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s what you see” -Henry David Thoreau So how much is Peter Mutharika worth? Is it US $8.2 million or US $2 million? Christopher Tukula, the Assets Director, came back to correct the figures his own office released and told us our president is actually not yet […]
After receiving a barrage of criticism on President Peter Mutharika’s his wealth, the Office of the Director of public Officers Declaration has corrected an amount which was indicated that Mutharika holds in a bank in the United States of America (USA) from $8 million (around K3.4 billion) to now $2 million (around K840 million) and […]
Head of State Peter Mutharika is being accused of lying in his presidential declaration of assets, overestimating the value of his house which is located in Missouri in the United States of America. A house Mutharika said he bought at the price US$750 000 in 1982 – according to his assets declaration made public mid this […]
Malawi former president Bakili Muluzi is not a listed officer under a new declaration of assets law to make public what he owns, Director of Public Officers’ Declarations (DPOD) Christopher Tukula has explained. President Peter Mutharika, his deputy Saulos Chilima, former president Joyce Banda, Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya and leader of opposition Lazarous Chakwera […]
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself” -W. Somerset Maugham Does anyone out there really believe Prof. Peter Arthur Mutharika was a billionaire in any currency before he became His Excellency the President of the Republic of Malawi? Unless, of course, he or his aides […]
The country’s consumer and human rights activist, John Kapito, has called on the Malawian public to carefully scrutinize the assets declarations by public officers including President Peter Mutharika. Mutharika, his deputy Saulos Chilima, former president Joyce Banda, Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya and leader of opposition Lazarous Chakwera have made their assets public in accordance with the […]
The Office of the Director of Public Officers’ Declarations (DPOD) has warned that those that might have doctored assets in their declarations will have to face the long arm of the law as physical verifications are expected to be done soon. DPOD Christopher Tukula unleashed the warning Friday amid speculations from some commentators that some public officers’ […]
Malawi Vice-President Saulos Chilima has declared ownership of five farms, several plots and houses and insurance policies valued at about K7 million in the details of his wealth declared to the Office of the Director of Public Officers Declarations. Chilima also declared registered jointly with his wife Mary, several bank accounts holding about K8 million. […]
The assets President Peter Mutharika declared to the Office of Director of Public Officers’ Declarations in as part of efforts to promote transparency and curb corruption in the country has been made public after private Zodiak Broadcasting Service revealed the contents. After obtaining the declaration document, Zodiak publicised that Mutharika has over US $8 millions […]
Former president Joyce Banda is yet to finish paying duty for 33 of the 63 vehicles she donated to her People’s Party (PP), a declaration on her assets made available to local press on Thursday reveals. Banda trailed third in the May 20 tripartite elections that saw Peter Mutharika ascend to the presidency. Since she left office, […]
Law expert and Executive Director of Justice Link , Justin Dzonzi says the Public Officers Declaration of Assets,Liabilities and Business Interest is just as a legitimate fraud that pretends to provide information on declared assets on one hand while concealing it on the other. Dzonzi trashed the procedure for applying to access the assets information, saying […]