The country’s two main opposition parties have questioned President Peter Mutharika’s move to have Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda reinstated as Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly amid corruption allegations as stated by instituted commission of inquiry. Mutharika’s instituted commission of inquiry on Zambia maize procurement saga led by retired […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda is suing Times Group for defamation on a series of stories it has been publishing highlighting his alleged wrongdoing in his role in the involvement of a local firm, Transglobe, in Malawi’s questionable procurement of relief maize from Zambia. In a Civil Cause number 55 of […]
President Peter Mutharika wants the embattled Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda to be reinstated as Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly despite recommendations by commission of inquiry on Zambia maize procurement saga that he should be investigated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Chaponda who was this week reinstated as […]
Some sections of society have taken up on social media to mount pressure on President Peter Muthrika to fire his Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda followinng the release of the commission of inquiry on maizegate which has found him with a case to answer on corruption element. The Mutharika appointed commission […]
Procurement procedures were not followed No money exchanged hands ACB to probe Chaponda’s conduct with Transglobe Admarc officials should be subjected to dispclinary President Peter Mutharika has said he would take action on Minister of Agricultute, Irrigation and Water Development, Geogre Chaponda and Transglobe who have been recommended in the presidential commission of inquiry on […]
The four-member commission of inquiry instituted by President Peter Mutharika to probe matters surrounding the procurement of maize from Zambia has cleared Minister of Agricultute, Irrigation and Water Development, Geogre Chaponda of any wrongdoing, Nyasa Times has learnt from a source close to Solicitor General Janet Chikaya Banda. The source said the Solicitor General has […]
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on President Peter Mutharika to come out and spell out his role in the Zambia maize saga. A representative of CSOs Robert Mkwezalamba said the embattled Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has constantly mentioned Mutharika in the whole maize saga. Chaponda told the parliamentary inquiry […]
Labour, Youth and Man Development minister Henry Mussa on Thursday continued to answer all agriculture related questions in parliament as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda awaits his fate with fingers crossed as the Supreme Court of Appeal and two inquiries on maize gate have just hours to make their ruling and […]
Justice Dunstan Mwaungulu of the Supreme Court of Appeal say he requires more time to study further the arguments raised by the State’s appeal Justice John Chirwa’s ruling on the maizegate case in which he ruled that leave for judicial review of President Peter Mutharika’s decision not to suspend George Chaponda amid a probe into […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has torn apart the the Parliamentary inquiries into the controversial maize procurement from Zambia, describing it as waste of time, waste of tax payers money and lacks objectivity and credibility. The chairperson of the joint committee presiding over the inquiry, Joseph Chidanti Malunga, said parliamentary committee, under Section […]
Embatted Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda was on Wednesday pinned down by the joint inquiry of the committees of agriculture and public accounts of parliamentary inquiry on Maizegate, equating his role in the maize saga to a burning house which had to be broken into to save lives. Chaponda is alleged to […]
Malawi Parliament was thrown in stitches on Tuesday when Minister of Labour, Youth and Manpower Development, Henry Mussa took over the responding of questions meant for the embattled Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda . Chaponda, who is serving a High Court ordered suspension, was not in the House. The minister who is […]
The Supreme Court of Appeal is on Wednesday set to hear and make determination an appeal case on whether embattled Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda should continue serving a High Court ordered suspension or not. Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula said Judge Dunstain Mwaungulu will hear the appeal case in the Supreme […]
Civil society organisations on Tuesday served Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya with High Court documents in relation to the suspension of Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda. This follows the reluctance by Msowoya on Monday to announce in the House that Chaponda was on suspension in the absence of the […]
Political vultures in parliament are hovering over the head of Leader of the House George Chaponda who was on Monday absent from parliament, heightening speculation that he is honouring a High Court order which suspended him as Agriculture minister. Several opposition parliamentarians, including Peoples Party (PP) leader Uladi Mussa and Salima north west Jessie Kabwila […]
As parliament will be meeting for the mid-year budget review, some opposition MPs want suspended Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda, from sitting in the front benches in parliament and taking up his formal role as Leader of the House. Chaponda is suspended by High Court from executing his duties as minister until […]
Malawi government is putting forward Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa as caretaker Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly as Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda is suspended by High Court from executing his duties until a probe into the Zambia maize saga is concluded. The Commission, led […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has commented on latest information implicating TransGlobe, a Malawian company in the dubious maize deal, rejecting claims that he used his ministerial powers to bulldoze the compnay to supply maize to the state prodce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC). Malawi parliament inquiry committee which […]