“I personally like Martha Chizuma and I think she is both capable and qualified for the job” President Lazarus Chakwera’s fight against corruption is under threat as some of his own senior cabinet ministers are said to have been part of the plot to reject Ombudsman Martha Chizuma as the new director of Anti-Corruption Bureau […]
Public Appointments Committee (PAC) chairperson, Joyce Chitsulo, has said it is a tad baffling that people in the country—including the well-learned with impeccable records of social standing—have shifted the blame on the rejection of Martha Chizuma as Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general on her saying she was not the sole scorer. Speaking on behalf […]
The Parliamentary Public Appointments Committee (PAC) has courted controversy following its decision to reject the appointment of Ombudsman Martha Chizuma as the new Director General (DG) of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Chizuma appeared before the Committee earlier today where nine members voted for her while the other nine voted against her appointment. In a normal […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member of parliament for Mwanza Joy Chitsulo on Sunday mobilized her constituents to clear bush at a memorial pillar of three cabinet ministers and a legislator killed 37 years ago. It is 37 years today since three powerful Cabinet ministers Dick Matenje, Aaron Gadama, John Twaibu Sangala and David Chiwanga, a […]
A woman who came out strongly backing Minister of Agricuture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda in the infamous ‘maizegate’ saga has herself been named in the K2.4 billion ‘Tevetgate’ scandal. Joyce Chitsulo held a news conference a fortnight ago along with Chief Kaomba of Kasungu attacking other local civil society organisations and non governmental […]