“We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will,”- Koffi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations. The last 35 days or so have been superb in as much as they have been weepy. It is a period the country has experienced certain events […]
Malawi’s shot Treasury Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo, has been placed under protective custody by Malawi security agents and their South African counterparts pending the ongoing investigations on his shooting and the cash gate saga. President Joyce Banda told the nation recently once Mphwiyo recovers he would help to give answers on the clandestine dealings that […]
Malawi Police on Wednesday dismissed fevered speculation that they obtained an arrest warrant from a Magistrate’s Court in Lilongwe for sacked Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara in relation to the shooting of Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. Kasambara was not named in the new cabinet line-up announced by President Joyce Banda on Tuesday after dissolution of the […]
On the night of Friday September 13, 2013, Paul Mphwiyo, Budget Director in Malawi’s Ministry ofFinance, was shot. Armed men were lying in ambush just outside the gate to his home, and fired at the 37-year-old as he drove in. Mphwiyo’s family rushed him to the Area 43 MASM Clinic. It was 11:30 p.m. I […]
I am not dumb to institute any investigations, and I cannot make a decision over media reports, after briefing, expect action, President Joyce Banda dared her critics, revealing that she already asked for help in investigations from foreign nations. “Those arrested are those found with cash or documentation. For the big fish wait until the […]
I have been receiving briefs on the developments in the country after the shooting of Mr. Paul Mphwiyo, the Budget Director. As much as these developments are disturbing and regardless of the smear campaign against innocent people, they will not deter me from fighting corruption, fraud and embezzlement wherever it is. I have noted the […]
President Joyce Banda has said she has no clue who shot Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on the night of September 13, 2013 after being widely quoted in the press that she knows the people behind the shooting. “I said I don’t know who shot Mr. Phwiyo,” said President Banda at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre during […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has appointed Chauncy Simwaka as Ministry of Finance budget director in acting capacity while the holder of the office Paul Mphwiyo recovers following his shooting last month. Simwaka’s appointment has been confirmed by spokesman in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) Arthur Chipenda Mphwiyo is at Milpark Hospital in […]
Malawi’s Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was shot recently is out of Intestive Care Unit (ICU) where he is receiving treatment at Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg. Nyasa Times sources at the hospital said Mphwiyo is now in a ward and is “recovering well”. Mphwiyo, the source assured that he is “ feeling […]
Malawi Police on Tuesday said it arrested a fourth suspect in connection with the shooting of the Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. “Police have arrested the fourth suspect with Mphwiyo case, “said National Police publicist Rhoda Manjolo. Manjolo said the Police arrested Chikond Majawa, 28 in Blantyre following a tip-off from the public. […]
In an article entitled Smoke and Mirrors – Unpacking the Paul Mphwiyo Saga which was published in this publication last week, I posited that my strongest feeling was that Mphwiyo’s shooting was a consequence of his own life style, namely his socializing with other people’s wives or an underhand deal gone bad. Since that article […]
A political analyst at the University of Malawi, Mustapha Hussein, has said the call by opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) president Peter Mutharika for Malawi President Joyce Banda to cut short her official visit to the United States to come home and deal with pertinent domestic issuess following the shooting of Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. Mutharika said Banda […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda, currently in United States, has assured the nation that her government will get to the bottom of the shooting of Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo and that all corrupt barons will be rounded up within the law. Mphwiyo was shot three times by unknown assailants a recently […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Vice President and former presidential spokesperson in late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime Dr. Heatherwick Ntaba, has described the survival and events surrounding the life of Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo as divine interventio. Mphwiyo was shot three times by unknown assailants as he was entering his […]
It must be emphasized that the shooting of Mr. Paul Mphwiyo, Malawi’s Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance, was an act of callousness and evil. This wickedness represents the kind of character that must not be accepted, tolerated and encouraged. It is a matter that must cause great concern in all well-meaning Malawians, and […]
Pika Manondo, one of the suspects in the shooting of the Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo have been placed on international police organisation Interpol’s wanted list. Interpol has posted on its website Pika Pascal Manondo as being “wanted by the judicial authorities of Malawi for prosecution/to serve a sentence.” The notice says the 38-year-old Manondo is […]
Malawi cooperating partners have expressed worry with the shooting of Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo and have called for the spirited fight against corruption and public funds embezzlement. Mphwiyo was shot three times by unknown assailants a recently as he was entering his residence which is located in Area 43, Lilongwe. […]
Malawi’s Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has directed the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to institute investigations on the Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo and the Accountant General David Kandoje over reports of massive fraud that is believed to have seen millions of kwachas being illegally drawn from government accounts. Reports have been making rounds […]