Whatever the outcome of these unprecedented arrests and the subsequent trials – assuming trial wills materialise; democracy consolidation and the rule of law will emerge the victors. Scenario No. 1: If DPP continues to languish in the opposition wilderness for the foreseeable future (i.e. after 2014), it will genuinely see to it that the constitution […]
Perhaps you are in my corner Counting the mosquitos as they come in for more blood Perhaps you cant believe that in Malawi There is another world Most people dont know Will never know Of depravity Of evil Perhaps you are thinking “I never thought I would ever come to this place” “I, the Peter, […]
Government has hired private lawyers, Ralph Mhone and Fahad Assani to prosecute 11 Malawian politicians accused of plotting to hijack the nomination of President Joyce Banda. The 11 are DPP acting president Professor Peter Mutharika, DPP officials Patricia Kaliati, Kondwani Nankhumwa, Nicholas Dausi, Henry Mussa, Symon Vuwa Kaunda and Jean Kalilani. The others are Economic […]
Former ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) followers in Zomba on Tuesday staged a protest march against the arrest of their interim president Peter Mutharika and other party gurus. In what was a peaceful march which started from their district office in the old capital in the afternoon, the protesters chanted songs demanding unconditional release of […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting President Peter Mutharika and other top officials arrested in connection of the alleged coup plot following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika will spend another night in the cooler as they have failed to appear before the Lilongwe Magistrate Court for bail application. Mutharika, fired Chief Secretary Bright […]
Hundreds of opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the ‘Lhomwe belt’ districts of Thyolo, Phalombe and Mulanje on Tuesday morning mobilized themselves to demonstrate against the arrest of party officials including its acting president Professor Peter Mutharika on Monday. The supporters accompanied by chiefs include some party officials, clad in party colours marched peacefully to […]
Malawi’s Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe, who was also arrested on Monday, in the aftermath of a Commission of Inquiry Report that exposes a plot to circumvent constitutional order in succession was Monday night admitted at Mars Clinic in Lilongwe’s Area 3 for hypetension. Gondwe collapsed while in police custody but was feeling […]
Events keep on unfolding following the arrest of opposition DPP acting president, Professor Peter Mutharika as party supporters on Monday night reportedly beat up government doctor and two police officers who wanted to check on the presidential aspirant. As Mutharika, the younger brother to Late Bingu wa Mutharika, was being held at Lumbazi Police station, […]
One of the lawyers for opposition DPP acting president Peter Mutharika and other arrested party officials , Chancy Gondwe , has said Police has not pressed misdemeanor charges for an alleged coup plot. Malawi Police on Monday arrested several top officials, including Peter Mutharika, following their implication in the just released Commission of Inquiry report […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has claimed that the arrest of its acting president Peter Mutharika and other top officials for an alleged coup plot after the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika in April last year is a “blatant political try on”. But government has denied the accusations, saying the arrests were the natural […]
Former presidential legal counsel, Allan Ntata, has alleged that Foreign Affairs Minister Ephraim Mganda Chiume was “an instigator” of the alleged coup d’état to deny President Joyce Banda from ascending to power when president Bingu wa Mutharika died in April. Chiume served as Justice Minister in the Mutharika administration. Speaking on Capital FM Straight Talk […]
One of Malawi’s most popular freedom fighters Kamlepo Kalua has asked the Attorney General Ralph Kasambara to drop any interest in pursuing treason case against some former cabinet ministers dubbed ‘the midnight six’. Government is set to press charges to former cabinet minister over their controversial news conference addressed at night on April 5 2012 […]
Malawi’s Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo has categorically denied any involvement in an alleged plot to thwart President Mrs. Joyce Banda’s ascendancy to the throne following the death of Bingu wa Mutharika in April. The accusations of Munlo’s involvement took a new twist a few weeks ago when President Banda was quoted by a UK based […]
President Mrs. Joyce Banda may not have explicitly mentioned the alleged ‘Midnight Six’ who were involved in a scheme to subvert the constitutional order on the filling of the vacancy created after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, but she has assured Malawians through parliament that government has set up an inquiry to investigate the […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) top brass who were involved in a scheme to subvert the constitutional order on the filling of the vacancy created after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika, have exonerated Chief Justice Lovemore Munlo that he was not part of their plotting meeting. The DPP gurus plotted to install Mutharika’s brother, Peter, […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Ephraim Mganda Chiume, has for the first time, come out in the open and revealed how as Minister of Justice he stopped a ‘Constitutional Coup Plot’ that the DPP top brass wanted following former President Bingu wa Mutharika’s death on 5th April 2012. Chiume told a jam packed Usisya […]
Why are we hearing more apologies for what happened in the late hours following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, and not on what happened on 11th December 2010? The attempt to subvert the Malawi constitution and prevent Madam Joyce Banda from becoming president after the death of President Mutharika was a frightening prospect alright, […]
Top notch criminal investigations experts have demanded that the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General Ralph Kasambara should include former MBC TV boss Bright Malopa and Chimwemwe Banda in the case where the infamous ‘Midnight Six’ orchestrated a failed “constitutional coup d’état” following the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika. The law experts say […]