Prosecution on businessman Pika Manondo, who is charged with attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, is fundamentally flawed, the defendant has claimed in court. Manondo is answering charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder together with former Malawi Defence Force solider Macdonald Kumwembe while private practice lawyer Ralph […]
High Court judge Micheal Mtambo has given a restoration of bail to former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Raphael Kasambara and former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe after being remanded in prison for five and four months, respectively. Kasambara, Kumwembe and businessperson Pika Manondo are defending themselves in case of the near fatal […]
Cashgate prisoner Osward Lutepo on Wednesday testified in in the ongoing case of attempted murder of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo at the High Court in Lilongwe that in December 2012 he went with one of the accused Pika Manondo to South Africa to to procure Malawi Defence Force (MDF) equipments which he had a […]
The first accused in the Paul Mphwiyo shooting case, MacDonald Kumwembe, has asked three top government officials including deputy director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Reyneck Matemba to testfy as his witnesses. Kumwembe also wants as witnesses former Secretary to Treasury during the time Mphwiyo was Budget Director, Newby Kumwembe. He has also lined up former […]
Sampling the 10th and 11th December 2015 court session. It was on Thursday around nine o’clock in the morning or just after, when court resumed and the three accused; MacDonald Kumwembe and Pika Manondo, and Raphael Kasambara SC were to enter their defence in the case they are accused of attempted murder and conspiracy to […]
One of the accused person in the shooting of former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo, Mcdonald Kumwembe has mentioned former minister of finance in the United Democratic Front (UDF) government, Friday Jumbe and former Peoples Party official Hophmally Makande as some of his witnesses to testify in court as he enters […]
Case of Shooting of former budget director in the ministry of Finance, Paul Mphwiyo has now entered defence where first accused Mcdonald Kumwembe ex Malawi Defence Force soldier, second accused businessman Pika Manondo and former justice minister Raphael Kasambara are now defending themselves on charge of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The matter which […]
Lilongwe High Court judge Micheal Mtambo has dismissed an application from accused Macdonald Kumwembe, to recuse himself from the conspiracy to commit murder case of the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo at the gate of his Area 43 residence in Lilongwe on September 13 2013. Kumwembe – a former Malawi […]
In a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder ‘cashgate’ case, former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe and Pika Manondo have advised the High Court that they no longer need former president Joyce Banda as their ‘witnesses’ as suggested earlier, Nyasa Times understands. The two are […]
Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has granted a stay order against conviction and the sentencing of four months imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) to Macdonald Kumwembe on contempt of court charges. Kumwembe, a former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier, sought a stay of proceedings of the lower court’s criminal case before High Court judge Michael […]
Suspected shooter of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Macdonald Kumwembe, on Wednesday entered his defence in the case, denying shooting the former budget director, saying as a trained solider he could not have missed Mphwiyo at the range he was during the shooting. Kumwembe, a former Malawi Defence Force soldier, was found with a […]
High Court in Lilongwe will summon Malawi’s immediate past president Joyce Banda to testify in the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo case including others who have been mentioned during the trial. The case is on a stage where former Justice Minister Raphael Kasambara, Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe are defending themselves after the court […]
Th doctrine of judicial recusal states that a judge may recuse himself from proceedings if he decides that it is not appropriate for him to hear a case before him. A judge must therefore step down in circumstances where there appears to be bias or ‘apparent bias’. The test for determining apparent bias was set […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo has rejected an application by suspected shooter of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Macdonald Kumwembe, to remove himself from the case. Kumwembe, a former soldier of Malawi Defence Force, asked the judge recuse himself claiming his decisions in the high-profile case could be seen as biased. The suspect, who […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale has maintained her stand that the State is dealing with mafia-like operations in the case of the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and has asked the High Court to revoke the bail of former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe , claiming […]
Former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe defending himself on all charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder on former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has named his list of witnesses to take stand including former president Joyce Banda. Other witnesses are politicians Hophmally Makande and Friday Jumbe, Chifundo Chikaphupha, Eric Mambucha, Robert […]
Former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe and businessman Pika Manondo have both been found with a case to answer on all charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder on former budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Making his determination at the Lilongwe, High court Judge Michael Mtambo said prosecution has successfully established a […]