The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it will open a probe into a $500 million (K400 billion) Lilongwe-Salima water project to improve water supply in the capital city, after receiving a complaint on the contract. Khato Civils, a construction and engineering company headquartered in South Africa and owned by a Malawian billionaire Simbi Phiri, is appearing […]
The Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Lucas Kondowe who is leaving the bureau this Thursday at the end of his three-year contract has revealed that there is external pressure frustrating the fight against corruption. Kondowe admitted that amid mounting criticism of the government’s failure to take a firm line against high-level corruption, there are […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) offices in Lilongwe on Saturday morning was gutted by “strange” fire barely after Africa Confidential published a report that infighting in ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has resulted in senior party figures reporting each other to the graft-busting body on wrongful enrighment and graft. ACB director general Lucas Kondowe confirmed that […]
Malawi’s top anti-corruption official has said fighting corruption in the country is becoming “complex” every other day. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe said that corruption was a challenge to the world over as such, it is important for all citizens to devise ways to ensure corrupt tactics were effectively rooted out. “With advanced […]
Malawi’s daily newspaper The Nation on Thursday published a scathing analysis on the explanation Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Lucas Kondowe made to the Legal Affairs Committe of parliament on Wednesday during the on going National Budget Cluster Meetings suggesting he is diverting attention on worsening corruption. Kondowe accused politicians of politicising the fight against […]
Spurred by blatant high levels of endemic corruption in Commonwealth Africa, the continent’s graft busting agencies will next week once again converge in Malawi for a common purpose to discuss and find lasting solutions to the on-going fight against corruption. The annual conference and meeting for heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa which is being […]
A group of civil society organisations (CSOs) has demanded the immediate resignations of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe, for what they called gross incompetence. Gift Trapence of Centre for Development of People (CEDEP) told a news conference at Lilongwe Hotel on Saturday that Kondowe has proved to be not an effective leader at ACB […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has confirmed that it is sending three of its investigators to Zambia to probe the procurement of 100 000 metric tonnes (MT) of maize from Malawi’s western neighbour. However, ACB director Lucas Kondowe could not say when the investigators will leave for Zambia. Kondowe said the bureau has since taken up the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Dedza East member of Parliament (MP) Juliana Lunguzi took to Twitter to back suggestions that operations of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) be closed down in the country because they are no longer relevant. First to raise the point was Malawian economist and motivational speaker Henry Kachaje when he made a presentation on governance at the […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe has been summoned to appear before Public Accounts Committee of parliament over inaction of the ‘grand corruption’ also known as the K577 billion cashgate scandal which reportedly has members of the current government implicated. PAC wants names of those suspected to have taken part in the plunder of […]
Malawi’s ruling Democrtaic Progressive Party (DPP) national organising secretary Richard Makondi has filed a libel lawsuit against Times Group over a report published in Malawi News on his suspected roles in Cashgate—the plunder of public resources at Capital Hill exposed in September 2013 alongside businessperson Mohammad Kassam. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigated Kossam, Makondi—a former Toyota Malawi national […]
As corruption in the country has significantly worsened , several stakeholders bemoaning the slowdown in Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) prosecutions since President Peter Mutharika appointed Lucas Kondowe as Director General of ACB in October 2014. Kondowe has also been hit with series of controversies including being fingered in corruption allegations. There are allegations by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority […]
Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) board has said the siging of a K6.8 billion contract to Terrastone Limited to construct a Mera office complex will only be done once all issues regarding payment of management fees are resolved with the project managers. The statement has been made by Mera board chairperson Bishop Joseph Bvumbe following […]
Graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) top two bosses are clearly divided in what commentators say is as a result of high level political interference. Deputy director of ACB, Reyneck Matemba recently refuted remarks by his boss, Lucas Kondowe, that the deputy director gave a legal advice to Malawi Regulatory Authority (MRA) contract. […]
Geneva-based social-economic commentator Stanley Kenani has let loose on Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe in a rant on social media, calling him “idiot.” Kenani, a writer of high repute, wrote on Facebook: “The idiot at the Anti-Corruption Bureau has been left with egg all over his face. The court has rejected ACB’s application to […]
Dear Lucas Kondowe, I’m writing this letter with pangs of anger flashing through my chest. Why? Well, because of the way the public institution that you head, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has been handling the trial involving the former president Bakili Muluzi in which he and his co-accused former personal assistant Lyness Violet Whisky are asked […]
The week has ended with Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Lucas Kondowe is dominating headlines in the Malawi weekend newspapers. ” ACB boss in Mera’s contract scandal,” screamed a banner headline in the influential Malawi News of Saturday, reporting about Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) Chief Executive Officer Ralph Kamoto accusing Kondowe of forcing him to […]
Officials from graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) say they are awaiting more files from the Auditor General before they start prosecution of the so called K577 billion cashgate case. ACB director Kondowe said the remaining files include those that have the names of the seven cabinet ministers suspected to have been involved […]