Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara on Monday forced the Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Ruth Chinangwa to defy court tradition of recording the particulars of the suspect which include home district and Traditional Authority (TA) when he told the court that he doesn’t know his home district let alone the TA. Although Chinangwa insisted she gets the details as per […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara in connection to the failed assassination attempt of a corruption-busting treasury official Paul Mphwiyo in September told Lilongwe Magistrate Court that he would want President Joyce Banda to testify in court as witness in the matter. Kasambara made the plea when he appeared before the court on Monday. He was formally […]
Pika Manondo, who handed himself to police last Thursday in connection with the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo and the ensuing Capital Hill cash-gate, on Monday appeared before Lilongwe Magistrate Court without a lawyer where he was formally charged with attempted murder charge. Manondo was formally charged when he went for a bail application. […]
Malawi’s Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, who narrowly escaped death after being shot three times in the face by merciless assailants at the gate of his Area 43 house on September 13 in the capital Lilongwe, has rubbished reports that he is part of the looting of public funds. Investigations by Nyasa Times undercover reporters assigned to […]
Malawi Police Officer Makwinja on Saturday took Pika Manondo, a key suspect in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, to Zomba from Lilongwe to have a face-to-face meeting with Osward Lutepo who has been charged with theft and money laundering to discuss the shooting of the treasury official, Nyasa Times understands. At the […]
Key suspect in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Pika Manondo is said to have turned down offers from Deputy Police Inspector General Bophani to become state witness in the matter. Manondo’s lawyer Gift Mwakhwawa has been to see his client and the police have not interrogated him. His lawyer said Manondo has […]
Malawi police said Friday they arrested former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara in connection to the failed assassination attempt of a corruption-busting treasury official Paul Mphwiyo in September. The arrest of one of Malawi’s most influential and controversial lawyers comes barely a week after police stormed his residence at Area 10 in the Capital Lilongwe. Kasambara, […]
Fugitive suspect in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was listed in International Police (Interpol) as a wanted person for attempted murder, Pika Manondo, has handed himself to law enforcers at Songwe border in northern border district of Karonga. Manondo was travelling from Tanzania . He spoke to Nyasa Times minutes before […]
Public Accounts Committee (Pac) has demanded that Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo should appear before its committee to be quizzed on issues surrounding his shooting on September 13 at the gate of his Area 43 residence in Lilongwe, whether it was related to the cashgate scandal. Presenting its report in Parliament on Wednesday, the Committee’s […]
Pika Manondo, one of the suspects in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, has implicated President Joyce Banda in the cashgate scandal that has seen billions of kwacha looted at Capital Hill at the expense of the general populace. Manondo, wanted by International Police (Interpol) for attempted murder of Mphwiyo, told Nyasa Times […]
With over a month and a half now since the government financial scandal hashtagged #cashgate erupted, are we closer to understanding the underlying causes why it happened? We can classify the reasons why this happened from simplest to most complex. Going by the earliest statements that were offered in September, the simplest explanation can be […]
As investigations into the cash gate scandal progress, Malawi Police have confiscated US$ 184 000 (about K73.6 million) cash which was being kept by Pika Manondo, the prime suspect in the shooting of Paul Mphwiyo, the Budget Director. National Police Deputy Spokesperson, Kelvin Maigwa, said Manondo was keeping the money in a self-deposit box at […]
Pika Manondo, the key suspect in the shooting of the Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo who has been placed on international police organisation Interpol’s wanted list, is hiding in the eastern country of Kenya. Manondo, who is reported to have been hosted in Kenya by a man identified as Mr Ferdinard , has been communicating with […]
Some People’s Party (PP) gurus are panicking over the coming to Malawi of businessman Osward Lutepo by implicating him in the attempted murder of Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on September 13, 2013. An insider who is privy to the Mphwiyo shooting investigation was reacting to Nyasa Times story which said Lutepo had a hand in […]
The arrest of former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara is imminent, sources close to the investigations have told Nyasa Times. Kasambara, whose house was searched in the early hours of Friday, was dropped in October from cabinet by President Joyce Banda in what sources say was to pave way for investigations following the attempted murder of budget director […]
Businessperson Osward Lutepo, who was allegedly used as a conduit of stolen public funds, has been implicated to have had a hand in the plot to shoot budget director Paul Mphwiyo, according to a sworn affidavit in court of one suspect. According to court documents, an affidavit sworn in by one suspect Charles Chalonda of […]
Malawi police in the capital Lilongwe on Friday stormed ex-Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara’s house in Area 10 where they searched the house in connection to the shooting of budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo. Nyasa Times has learnt that the police checked cars, generators and other property in the house. Police arrested Kasambara’s houseboy […]
Newly appointed Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister, Fahad Assani, has told parliament that government did not sit by and wait for Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo’s shooting to start to address corruption and theft at Capital Hill. Assani was giving his comment on the report submitted by Vice President Khumbo Kachali on massive looting at the […]