(This was sent via email on Monday evening 23 September 2013) Dear Sirs /Madams We will go straight to the point: according to the lead we are following and the information we are getting vis-à-vis the recent shooting of the Budget Director, Mr Paul Mphwiyo; you may have – directly or indirectly – played a […]
HTD Limited distributors of Kia motors in Malawi is among the companies that are being probed by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), with the help of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), as Treasury paid out a sum of money estimated at K600 million (about $1.5m), Nyasa Times understands. Some companies who benefited from the suspicious payouts […]
Third suspect in the shooting of Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, was on Tuesday remanded to Maula prison in the capital, Lilongwe following a court to have his detention extended. Dauka Manondo was arrested over the weekend after he reportedly deposited K300 000 into a bank account of one of the initial […]
A few recent developments as well as the status quo in the country give us the creeps when we think of the rule of law in our beautiful country, Malawi. Recently the State President, Joyce Banda, intervened in a row over the disappearance of a Maize mill in Nsanje. She went further to order the […]
Malawi’s Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and lawyer Wapona Kita have dismissed as lies and described as defamatory allegations that have gone viral in the social media on their alleged involvement in matters relating to the shooting of Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. Kasambara dismissed the allegations as work and machinations of people who do not […]
Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo who was recently shot is hospitalized under heavy security guard to Mill Park Hospital in South Africa and so far three bullets have been removed from this body. According to sources at Milpark , Mphwiyo arrived at the hospital in a critical condition on the Friday […]
As I see relentless updates on what is believed to have happened on 13th September and reasons why it happened, and the coverage of the same through press reportage both print, media and electronic media, all the teeming memories of my former life as a public officer come surging back re-affirming the Malawian psyche in […]
Malawi Police on Thursday paraded two people detained in connection to the shooting of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was poised to unveil a network of corruption. The state paraded the two suspects, identified as Robert Kadzuwa and Macdonald Kumwembe, before Magistrate Patrick Chirwa not to charge them of any offence but […]
Fresh allegations have gone viral on social media implicating a cabinet minister, ruling People’s Party top official and two others over the shooting of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was poised to unveil a network of corruption Mphwiyo, who was shot thrice by an unidentified gunman in Lilongwe’s low density suburb of […]
Ever since Paul Mphwiyo, the Budget Director at Treasury was shot last weekend, some sections of the media seem to have been peddling the notion that he was some hero on a mission to burst some high level syndicates that are alleged to be plundering government coffers. Indeed, for someone who knows nothing about this […]
This is what an eye witness (name withheld) posted on his wall explaining what he saw after the shooting of Paul Mphwiyo: I was in the Area 43 MASM clinic with three family members when Paul Mphwiyo staggered into the ward we were in. It was around 11.30pm on Friday, September 13th. He was walking […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS) has arrested three people in connection to the shooting of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was poised to unveil a network of corruption. Mphwiyo, who was shot thrice by an unidentified gunman in Lilongwe’s low density suburb of Area 43 on Friday night, is battling for his life […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday morning summoned chiefs of the country’s security agencies to discuss the Friday shooting of budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo at his Area 43 residence in the Malawi capital Lilongwe. Banda – heading to United States of America where he is expected to deliver the 15thAnnual Grosvenor Distinguished Lecture […]
Malawi Police are pursuing important leads which could lead to the arrests of the ‘mafia’ connected to the shooting of Malawi’s budget director Paul Mphwiyo last Friday. Mphwiyo – shot and severely wounded in an attack that was apparently related to his efforts to fight corruption – was being treated in a South African hospital and his condition was […]
A top government official is being suspected of plotting and financing the shooting of Budget director Paul Mphwiyo on Friday night as he drove into his Area 43 home in Lilongwe. “There is a mafia in government, powerful man who is behind this,” sources tipped Nyasa Times. “One of the issues is involving K120 million.” Names […]