Malawi President’s Peter Mutharika appetite in spending tax payer’s money in time of social economic and political doldrums, continue to surface as recent investigations which Nyasa Times has made has revealed that Malawians will have to cough out more than K300 million in hiring of Global Express Bombardier BD-700-1A10 modern Jet from Ocean Sky Private […]
Malawi government set to renegotiate a deal worth $145 million (about K58 billion) with Paramount Group, Africa’s largest private defence and aerospace firm, which signed deals with the Malawian government for agriculture, fuel and military contracts through a network of investment firms. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe said earlier it had cancelled the deal with Paramount […]
I, for one, do not think Kondwani Nankhumwa just woke up one day and started yapping, “Every country deserves a presidential jet! Malawi needs one!” No! I do not think the Information Minister is that daft. Government was testing the waters, as it were. Somebody thought it was high time Peter bought his own toy. […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has agreed to an embarrassing U-turn on the proposal for government to purchase a presidential jet in order for the Head of State to avoid airport queues or the “inconvenience” of waiting for flights. Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa said government has decided to reverse a decision on the proposal to […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has been subjected to criticism in the UK media after a report by Nyasa Times quoting Information Minister Kondwani Nankhuwa that hinted plans for government to purchase a presidential jet in order for the Head of State to avoid airport queues or the “inconvenience” of waiting for flights. The Express picked […]
Malawi government has hinted that it will consider purchasing another president tial plane State House confirmed that President Peter Mutharika chartered the Jet from Malawi to Dubai where he connected on a commercial flight to the United States. The State House has since justified the hiring of the jet to Dubai, saying it t was […]
Malawi Government has claimed “making progress” with the investigations on whether the sale of the presidential jet during the PP administration were fuelled by kickbacks and corruption. Government said it wants to establish the truth about the disposal of the French-made jet to Bohnox Enterprises Limited, a subsidiary of Paramount Group, a South Africa-based defence […]
Malawi has cancelled a deal worth $145 million (about K58 billion) with Paramount Group, Africa’s largest private defence and aerospace firm, which signed deals with the Malawian government for agriculture, fuel and military contracts through a network of investment firms. According to published report, government has cancelled the deal with Paramount Group, which was engaged, […]
“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself” –Earl Nightingale From the onset, let me declare that I find nothing fundamentally wrong with the acerbic MCP Publicity Secretary Jessie Kabwila hitching a ride on Peter Mutharika’s chartered presidential jet. After all she is abona fide Malawian and, as she so eloquently stated, the jet […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) outspoken spokesperson Jessie Kabwila on Sunday addressed her constituents in Salima North west how she found herself in the delegation to the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Summit in Zimbabwe, arriving back in the country on the President Peter Mutharika’s chartered jet. Speaking during the special meeting with her constituency, Kabwila said she […]
President Peter Mutharika has come under fierce criticism again from Malawi Congress Party (MCP) over continuous use of private chartered jet as “senseless extravagance”. In an exclusive interview with Nyasa Times, MCP parliamentary finance spokesperson Joseph Jobvuyalema disclosed that his party will keep checks to financial recklessness and wants Minister of Finance to explain in […]
President Peter Mutharika is swiftly implementing bold foreign and domestic policies which represent a considerable paradigm shift in Malawi’s politics which I can hardly resist to comment on. Right from his first rally, after his brother’s death, which I curiously attended in Thyolo and subsequent series of political rallies and interviews on the media, Mutharika […]
Malawi government, which is struggling to convince donors to support its proposed K743 Billion (US$1 790 361 446) 2014/2015 budget, is currently spending almost US$5,000 (almost K4.2 milion) a day to service a chartered executive jet which is just lying idle at the country’s Kamuzu International Airport (KIA). The Embraer ERJ 145 Jet owned by […]
President Peter Mutharika on his maiden foreign trip on Friday has been on the wing of a private jet which government could not come clear on whether Malawian taxpayers are paying for the jet or is from “well-wishers.” Mutharika left the country Friday on private jet to South Africa to board commercial flight enroute London-Heathrow to attend the […]
Malawi government is set to launch a probe into the controversial sale of the country’s presidential jet by the former government of Joyce Banda, Minister of information, civic education and tourism Kondwani Nankhumwa, has said. Nankhumwa, who doubles as government spokesman, said the Peter Mutharika administration would like to establish the truth about the disposal […]
Malawi Government has said that it plans to launch a probe into the controversial sale of the country’s presidential jet by the former government of Joyce Banda. The announcement comes barely days after the current government of Arthur Peter Mutharika launched fresh forensic audit in the Capital Hill Cashgate in which billions of kwachas were […]
The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)’s vice-president (Central Region) Hetherwick Ntaba, has said the Peter Mutharika administration will pursue the corruption Cashgate and Jetgate scandals to their logical conclusion and should be construed as political vendetta. Speaking to national broadcaster MBC, Ntaba said President Mutharika offered a political olive branch to his opponents, including his […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera has confirmed holding talks with Head of State Joyce Banda at Sanjika Palace on Tuesday which he said centred on matter of national interest. Speaking to journalists in Lilongwe Tuesday, Chakwera said their discussion was centred on the political violence which is rearing its ugly head on the […]