Government officials from the ministries of Lands and Education as well as Lilongwe city council officials have snubbed a meeting called for by parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee to probe the illegal sale of Livimbo primary school land. Only Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials turned up, prompting the committee to cancel the meeting. Chairperson of the committee […]
Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee is currently meeting officials from the graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) over the Livumbo school saga. The meeting comes at a time when the new developer of the school land Nurmahommed Ahmed remains defiant and arrogant that the land belongs to him. The meeting today is aimed at finding […]
State vice president Everton Chimulirenji has moved swiftly to clear his name in illegal land grabbing and selling by firing his private guard who is suspected to be in the land grabbing syndicate. Chimulirenji has fired Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadet Austin Nsopera who worked as private guard but has been named in land syndicate […]
There seems to be more than meets the eye on the Livimbo Community Day Secondary School saga where reports allege that the school land has been sold to Malawians of Asian origin. Reports have been awash on both social and traditional media that authorities at the school have been ordered to vacate the place as […]
Government has ordered the demolition of multi-million kwacha warehouse illegally constructed on encroached land for state owned Livimbo Primary and Community Day Secondary Schools in Area 2, Lilongwe. Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Vuwa Kaunda issued the order Saturday after briefing Livimbo Parent Teacher Association (PTA) and School Management Team on the developments. […]
As the Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) is currently probing the alleged sale of Livimbo Community Day Secondary School the graft-busting body has also been furnished by the whistle-blower of another land scandal involving two Malawian businesspersons of Asian origin in Area 3 in Lilongwe. The two controversial businesspersons Mustak Chothia and Suleman Ismail afre said […]
Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, better known as Natwarlal, is considered the greatest con man in India. And for good reason—he sold the Taj Mahal three times, among other scams and several prison escapes. Natwarlal was a lawyer before he scammed people. His arsenal consisted of more than 50 aliases and masterful signature forging skills. Simply watching […]
President Peter Mutharika has ordered Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, to probe reports that Livimbo Secondary and Primary Schools’ land has been sold by parallel ‘Lands Office’ as minister responsible Symon Vuwa Kaunda on Saturday insisted that government did not sell the school. “The President is concerned and has directed the ministry to […]
Many missed it. Amidst the euphoria and confusion that have come with the elections case, it is understandable. That is how many Malawians also missed Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s address to the nation this week in which he tackled some pertinent issues of national importance. One of them is that he would intervene in the food […]
Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has told the government to show land documents for Livimbo Community Day Secondary School in Lilongwe after reports it had been sold to two Malawians of Asian origin. The Education and Legal Affairs committees members on Friday visited the school to make its assessment. Kezzie Msukwa said the committee would seek legal […]
Allegations of corruption has surfaced against Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Symon Vuwa Kaunda that he has been palm oiled by two Malawians of Asian origin to shield them from the purchase of Livimbo School land in Lilongwe. Kaunda said on Wednesday that the land still belongs to government and that authorities are […]
Minister of Lands Symon Vuwa Kaunda says the government is looking for the undisclosed person who purportedly bought Livimbo government school in Lilongwe in order to trace the fake sellers of the land. Kaunda was reacting to reports that government has sold the public school to an Asian who has told school management to move […]
Money is reported to have exchanged hands in the top brass of the Malawi Police Services and suspects implicated in the landgate scandal where a syndicate has been busted for illegal acquiring of land are now being shielded by the cops. Police in Lilongwe arrested three senior officers from the Ministry of Lands Housing and […]
One man has been hacked to death and two others are battling for their lives in hospital during a fight of two villagers in chief Chitukula’s area in Lilongwe. Kanengo police station spokesperson Esther Mkwanda said the two villages were fighting over a farm. She said 36-year-old Adam Mtengambiri, who died during the violence, earlier […]
The arrest of Malawian of Asian origin Ahmed Abubooker Istiaq of Riverside Hotel in Salima in relation to landgate scandal where a syndicate has been busted for illegal acquiring of land has opened a Pandora’s box. Abubooker Istiaq was arrested together with three senior officers from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development on […]
Government is now helpless to resolve a land dispute in Nkhata Bay after villagers of Chamawoya in chief Kabunduli’s area have threatened to deal with employees of Kawaladzi estate. The Nkhata Bay district commissioner and his team convened the meeting between the two warring sides on the issue which ended in deadlock. The villagers are […]
After Malawi Police Service arrested three people for allegedly establishing a parallel Lands office and selling plots to unsuspecting buyers using dubious documentation, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) is interested to interrogate two Asians businesspersons involving the deal. Police arrested Mustag Mahomed, Chifuniro Simumbe and lawyer Umahu Mataka. They were also looking for aA fourth […]
Malawi Police in Lilongwe have bust a syndicate which run a parallel government lands office in the Capital City by selling land to unsuspecting buyers using fake documents. The four-man ring include lawyer Uman Mataka. Principal secretary in the ministry of Lands and Urban Development Joseph Mwandidya said police have arrested three people and one […]