The State prosecution team has finished it’s cross examination with the second accused person Pika Manondo who is answering two charges of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder in the ongoing shooting case of former budget director, Paul Montfort Mphwiyo. The case which resumed on Monday saw the state top prosecutor Mary Kachale continuing […]
Second accused person in the ongoing shooting case of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Pika Manondo has told the court that he did not tell cashgate prisoner Oswald Lutepo that he was prepared to die for third accused person former justice minister Ralph Kasambara. Manondo, who was responding to a question from Director of Public […]
Former minister of information Brown Mpinganjira, popularly known as BJ, has denied that he was threatening gun-short survivor former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo to make payments to companies and individuals in ‘cashgate’ affair. Mpinganjira was subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing case of attempted murder of Mphwiyo. The case is on a stage […]
Former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’, will start answering his charges of theft and money laundering K2.4 billion ($3.3 million from March 1, 2016 related to the biggest financial scandal in the country. Director […]
Observing the legal sparring in court in the on-going Paul Morntfort Mphwiyo shooting case, one cannot help noticing that at times one side is simply going through the motions; the state. Judging from some of the questions asked by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mary Kachale, one gets convinced that the state hasn’t done its […]
The plot of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo’s shooting case continues to thicken with witnesses letting out more damaging information in the Mphwiyo shooting case, with second accused Pika Manondo challenging that the former’s statement submitted to court on Friday is doctored. Mphwiyo was shot on the night of September […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday told Pika Manondo to focus his defence testimony on the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo as the major issue in the case other than dwelling on the cashgate money which was used for political campaigns. Manondo was entering his defence on the offence of […]
Businessman Pika Manondo, second accused person in the ongoing shooting case of former budget director, Paul Montfort Mphwiyo,whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed ‘cashgate’ has entered his defence of his two charges of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder charges. Manondo, […]
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 […]
Cashgate prisoner Oswald Lutepo has testified in the trial of attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, saying former deputy Inspector General of Malawi Police, Nelson Bophani forced him to implicate former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambala in the attempted murder. Kasambala, businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are answering attempted murder and conspiracy […]
This article seeks to examine how Malawi’s former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo is represented in the media, specifically the Nation newspaper, as well as ideologies attached to such representations with relevant examples. Representation is referred to as the process through which words and images stand in for ideas, individuals, social groups and other categories. Representations […]
Malawi government Chief Secretary George Mkondiwa on Thursday morning contradicted former maid to lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Jessie Mussa, during his testimony in court in the ongoing attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. The former housemaid was also on record in her last year testimony that she saw on 13th September 2013 the man who was later […]
Lilongwe High Court Judge Michael Ntambo said on Thursday that he expects the trial of the on going attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo to be concluded during the next court session, which will be from January 27-29 2016. Lawyer and former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambala , businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are […]
An economist who was working in the ministry of finance , treasury department and economic affairs division between the period of April and September 2013, Daniel Jenya has told the court that f Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of […]
Lawyer and former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara SC on Wednesday lost his cool in court and his emotions unfolded after Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale objected to his questioning line to fifth witness, Keaton Gani. Kasambala , businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are answering attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murders on […]
Former bodyguard to Ralph Kasambara when he was Minister of Justice, Sergeant Keaton Gani on Tuesday told the High Court that the officers who interrogated him when he was arrested disclosed that they had orders from then Deputy Inspector General Nelson Bophani to see into it that Kasambara is pinned down in the case of […]
Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Raphael Kasambara on Tuesday accused the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) of blocking some of the witnesses called to appear before Lilongwe High Court Judge Michael Mtambo in the ongoing case of attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. […]
Third defence witness for MacDonald Kumwembe in the ongoing case of attempted murder of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, Dauka Manondo told the High Court in Lilongwe that Mphwiyo and accused Pika Manondo were in South Africa to strike a deal worth $145 million (about K58 billion) with Paramount Group, Africa’s largest private defence and […]