President Peter Mutharika has hired Law Commissioner Gertrude Hiwa to the new post of Solicitor General and Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Nyasa Times understands. She replaces Jane Chikaya Banda who has served as Solicitor General since 2012 Banda confirmed on Friday that saying government had redeployed her to scandle riddled […]
Civil society organisations under the banner Human Rights Defenders have given president Peter Mutharika up to seven days to fire Law Commissioner Gertrude Hiwa or face an unspecified action. The CSOs say Hiwa is illegally clinging to her job after her two term mandate expired in June and faulted Mutharika for his failure to appoint […]
Malawi’s leading daily newspaper The Nation has urged President Peter Mutharika through its editorial comment to rectify the mess by Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Lloyd Muhara who has come under fire for illegally extending the contract of Law Commissioner Gertrude Hiwa contrary to what the Constitution stipulates. Nyasa Times […]
In what can be described as a “Constitutional malady”, the Chief Secretary to the Government, Justice Lloyd Muhara has perpetuated impunity by authorising Gertrude Lynn Hiwa SC to continue serving as a Law Commissioner despite the expiry of her maximum term of office on 23rd June 2018. Hiwa was appointed as Law Commissioner on 24 […]
A renowned governance expert and human rights campaigner Makhumbo Munthali has observed that the Malawi Law Commissioner Gertrude Hiwa is operating illegally following the expiry of her term. The remarks follows the recent “public advertisement for nominations of members of the Malawi Human Rights Commission” which was dated 13th July 2018 and published in the […]