Former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara is calling for an investigations on claims made by Vice President Saulos Chilima on how a contractor who bid US$105 for the construction of a military hospital has been left out by the government in favour of a bidder of US$206 million. Chilima, who is also UTM Party […]
Government has acquired 17 hectares of land along Lake Malawi for development of public beaches where “Malawians can enjoy freely” which will act as a model for tourism development along the lake, Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara. Muhara said this when he officially opened the 2019 Takulandirani Malawi International Tourism Expo (MITE) in […]
Last week, the Office of the President and Cabinet launched what it touted as two “ground-breaking” policies—the Malawi Public Sector Reforms Policy and the Malawi Public Service Management Policy. The launch followed approval by the Peter Mutharika Cabinet in February this year. The policies will run for five years from 2018 during which they are […]
Malawi is losing 1.7% of its Growth Development Product (GDP) to disaster, says Chief Secretary to Office of President and Cabinet Lloyd Muhara. Speaking in Lilongwe when he presided over the 2018 National Disaster Risk Management Platform Symposium which run from 17 to 18 October, Muhara said there is need for the country to reverse the […]
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 […]
Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Lloyd Muhara has dismissed accusations by a group of civil society organisations (CSOs) on President Peter Mutharika’s administration of favouring his Lhomwe tribe. The accusations were contained in the 10-point petition CSOs presented on April 27 this year after holding nationwide protests. CSOs expressed […]
Chief Secretary to Government LloydMuhara has bemeoaned the missing of different equipment in various government departments, a development he described as unfortunate, disclosing that Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) is employing tight security measures to ensure that State equipment is secure and well protected. Muhara, said this in Lilongwe on Tuesday when he […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government of influencing the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) to award a contract of purchasing generators to a company with links to the party’s members, saying leaders are busy enriching themselves through corrupt means and are failing to fight corruption because “they […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been accused of being so obsessed in gagging former president Joyce Banda, who is on a self-imposed exile abroad, after Secretary to the President and Cabinet Lyold Muhara has written her withing three months on the same subject , warning and reminding Banda about the oath of secrecy […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara has described the Public Service Reforms Agenda as key to the country’s transformation into economic soundness and independence. Muhara made the assertion in Lilongwe on Monday when he presided over the opening of a five-day sectoral conference on the implementation of the public sector reforms. The conference has […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara has written former president Joyce Banda, who is facing arrest in relation to multimillion-pound “Cashgate” corruption scandal, against disclosing any information she was privileged to access while serving as President of Malawi between April 2012 and May 2014. In a letter dated June 21 2007 which has been […]
Chief Secretary to Government Lloyd Muhara has revealed he is having sleepless nights to deliver to judgements to cases he was handling when he was still a judge at the High Court in Lilongwe. Recently, Nyasa Times reported that people whose cases he was handling have been complaining, with some visiting the High Court in Lilongwe […]
Malawi Police say they investigating a car accident involving chief secretary to government Lloyd Muhara which some people suspect was suspicious and targetted. The accident happened on Friday after he knocked off from work when his official Mercedenz Benz rammed into a prado vehicle. Soon after that, sketchy information available show the prado car driver […]
Former High Court judge, Lloyd Muhara, did not hand over a stack of case files when he was hired to assume a new position as government chief secretary and now concerned citizens are venting anger on Malawi’s most senior civil servant for obstruction of justice, Nyasa Times can reveal. About 30 people who claim to have been […]
The Chief Secretary to government, Lloyd Muhara has moved to prevent all government offices from sharing what he calls “sensitive information” without his approval, a way of making this government even less accountable than it currently is. Muhara’s directive is contained in a memo seen by Nyasa Times to all ministries and departments. His directive […]
President Peter Mutharika has fired Malison Ndau from cabinet and relieved him of his duties as Minister of Information, Communication and Technology, State House has announced. The President has replaced Ndau with state spy chief Nicholous Dausi who has moved as Director of notorious National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to become official government spokeman. Although the statement […]