Former Sports and Culture minister Phillip Bwanali has said he is behind the Tonse Alliance, a grouping of opposition parties ahead of the court-ordered fresh presidential election tentatively set for June 23. Tonse Alliance is headed by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera whose running mate is the country’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima, the […]
Former ministers Friday Jumbe and Phillip Bwanali will be back at First Grade Magistrate’s Court in Lilongwe on Wednesday Septmber 19 2018 for the stalled case in which they are alleged to have abused K11 million from government in 2004. The funds allegedly disappeared from the Sports and Culture Trust Fund when Bwanali was minister […]
Malawi government has asked to free former Vice President Cassim Chilumpha, who is facing the treason charges together with politician Yusuf Matumula, for allegedly plotting to assassinate late president Bingu wa Mutharika, after the case has stalled. The government has also been asked to speed the wheels of justice in the the trial of former […]
High Court Judge Chifundo Kachale says the theft case involving former minister of Finance Friday Jumbe and two others is not politically motivated saying their innocence or guilt would be determined by the law based on relevant facts. Jumbe, former minister of Sports Phillip Bwanali and Vincent Mpaluko are accused of theft of K11 million […]
Judge Chifundo Kachale will continue to preside the case in the Lilongwe Magistrate Court the trial of former ministers of Friday Jumbe (Finance) and Phillip Bwanali (Sports Culture), who were implicated in the theft of K11 million from the Ministry of Sports in 2004 after the High Court dismissed an application by two former ministers […]
After years of case stalling, former minister of Finance Friday Jumbe and former minister of Sports Phillip Bwanali will be back in the dock to continue answering charges of theft of K11 million from government through the Sports and Culture Trust Fund. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mrs Mary Kachale has reaffirmed the accusations, […]