Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara on Monday forced the Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate Ruth Chinangwa to defy court tradition of recording the particulars of the suspect which include home district and Traditional Authority (TA) when he told the court that he doesn’t know his home district let alone the TA. Although Chinangwa insisted she gets the details as per […]
Former Malawi Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara who was arrested on Friday in connection with the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo said Monday government has no case against him and told journalists who were taking his pictures to tag him on Facebook. Speaking to Nyasa Times outside the court soon after his case was committed to […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara in connection to the failed assassination attempt of a corruption-busting treasury official Paul Mphwiyo in September told Lilongwe Magistrate Court that he would want President Joyce Banda to testify in court as witness in the matter. Kasambara made the plea when he appeared before the court on Monday. He was formally […]
Malawi Police Officer Makwinja on Saturday took Pika Manondo, a key suspect in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, to Zomba from Lilongwe to have a face-to-face meeting with Osward Lutepo who has been charged with theft and money laundering to discuss the shooting of the treasury official, Nyasa Times understands. At the […]
Key suspect in the shooting of Treasury budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Pika Manondo is said to have turned down offers from Deputy Police Inspector General Bophani to become state witness in the matter. Manondo’s lawyer Gift Mwakhwawa has been to see his client and the police have not interrogated him. His lawyer said Manondo has […]
Malawi police said Friday they arrested former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara in connection to the failed assassination attempt of a corruption-busting treasury official Paul Mphwiyo in September. The arrest of one of Malawi’s most influential and controversial lawyers comes barely a week after police stormed his residence at Area 10 in the Capital Lilongwe. Kasambara, […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambala has been arrested Friday morning after Pika Manondo, who handed himself over to the police at Songwe Border in Karonga on Thursday, disclosed Kasambara has been “pestering” him to implicate President Joyce Banda in the infamous ‘Cash-gate’ scandal. Malawi Police Service (MPS) deputy national spokesperson Kelvin Maigwa confirmed Kasambara is under arrest […]
Some People’s Party (PP) gurus are panicking over the coming to Malawi of businessman Osward Lutepo by implicating him in the attempted murder of Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on September 13, 2013. An insider who is privy to the Mphwiyo shooting investigation was reacting to Nyasa Times story which said Lutepo had a hand in […]
The arrest of former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara is imminent, sources close to the investigations have told Nyasa Times. Kasambara, whose house was searched in the early hours of Friday, was dropped in October from cabinet by President Joyce Banda in what sources say was to pave way for investigations following the attempted murder of budget director […]
Malawi police in the capital Lilongwe on Friday stormed ex-Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara’s house in Area 10 where they searched the house in connection to the shooting of budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo. Nyasa Times has learnt that the police checked cars, generators and other property in the house. Police arrested Kasambara’s houseboy […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda announced a new cabinet on Wednesday dropping finance minister Ken Lipenga and senior lawyer Ralph Kasambara as Justice Minister. She didn’t give any reasons but new information has emerged that she blames Lipenga for failing to deal with the malfeasance at treasury and Kasambara is being linked to the shooting of last […]
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 […]
Commentators have lauded President Joyce Banda for not retaining Ken Lipenga as finance minister, replacing him with Dr Maxwell Mkwezalamba a former World Bank economist as the new finance minister on Tuesday. President Banda appointed a new cabinet Tuesday after staying without one since last Thursday when she fired all the ministers to save her face from […]
Chairperson of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) Bishop James Tengatenga has said the financial mess at Capital Hill is not reason enough for President Joyce Banda to resign or ousted as suggested by some civil society organizations including the Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama). Civil Society leaders have been calling the Malawi leader to return […]
New information emerging from the seat of Malawi Government, Capital Hill on the financial plunder has implicated Vice President Khumbo Kachali, Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and former Budget Director Dalitso Kabambe among other top government officials. An insider at Capital Hill, privy to the on-going investigation of the looting by public servants confided to […]
Documents in Nyasa Times’ possession prove that in the course of Yeremia Chihana’s assessment of late President Bingu wa Mutharika’s estate, Ralph and Arnold Associates – a firm connected to the Minister of Justice, Ralph Kasambara S.C., and Yeremia Chihana’s YMW Property Investment Company Limited, the valuer, pocketed a cool K26 million from the whole fiasco – with […]
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 […]
With exactly eight months before Malawi goes for the 2014 tripartite elections the ruling People’s Party has upped its stakes by asking cabinet ministers to support it financially and materially, reminding them that their continued stay at the job will depend on their support for the party. The party’s acting Secretary General Paul Maulidi said […]