Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara has accused Peoples Party (PP) legislators of treachery after they bitterly condemned the Customery Land bill. ”The bill was first introduced in parliament by the PP led government. I supported it then and I am supporting it now. “ It is sad that those who were with me in PP […]
Private practicing lawyer, Ralph Kasambara has been played by unknown goons who have since hacked into his mobile phone and using his number. The hackers have been masquerading as Kasambara and have been contacting people on his phone contact list, demanding money. Kasambara, former Justice minister, revealed the on social media on Tuesday, warning people of […]
The Lilongwe High Court Judge Dr Michael Mtambo has disclosed that judgement in the case in which former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara SC and McDonald Kumwembe who are being co accused of conspiring to murder former Malawi budget director Paul Mphwiyo, will be delivered July 21. Judge Mtambo has set the date to deliver his […]
The Lilongwe High Court has set the last week of the month of June as the tentative day presiding judge Blantyre-based Michael Mtambo will deliver the ruling in the case where former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and four others are accused of attempting to murder former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul […]
Private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara – Senior Counsel – one of the accused in the Paul Mphwiyo shooting case on Tuesday quizzed rebuttal witnesses paraded by State prosecutors. Kasambara is accused of conspiring to murder former budget director Mphwiyo alongside former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe and businessperson Pika Manondo who also face […]
Former justice minister and attorney general Ralph Kasambara, Senior Counsel, is conspicuously missing from the list of lawyers that can present clients in courts of law this year. No reason has been given on his name being omitted. Kasambara, a prominent private practise lawyer. has always represented himself or others in a case in which […]
In a rare circumstance, the High Court has granted the State another chance to parade new four witnesses in the Paul Mphwiyo shooting case much to the annoyance of former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara, one of the accused. Kasambara is accused of conspiring to murder former budget director Mphwiyo alongside former […]
Prosecution on businessman Pika Manondo, who is charged with attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, is fundamentally flawed, the defendant has claimed in court. Manondo is answering charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder together with former Malawi Defence Force solider Macdonald Kumwembe while private practice lawyer Ralph […]
The High Court Judge Michael Mtambo has slapped a contempt of court charge to former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara SC after he uttered words that the judge said would bring into dispute the proceedings of the trial into the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. It all started when […]
South Africa-based Malawian, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Church International (ECG) is taking online publication Malawi Voice to court for allegedly reporting that the multi-billionaire prophet was involved in the death of Grace Chinga, among others. In a letter to Malawi Voice, lawyer Raphael Kasambara SC says he had been asked by […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has allowed former justice minister Ralph Kasambara – accused of conspiring to murder former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo – to travel to South Africa to undergo a medical treatment after reinstating his bail conditions. Justice Micheal Mtambo ordered that lawyer Kasambara should travel on February 23 and […]
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 […]
High Court judge Micheal Mtambo has given a restoration of bail to former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Raphael Kasambara and former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe after being remanded in prison for five and four months, respectively. Kasambara, Kumwembe and businessperson Pika Manondo are defending themselves in case of the near fatal […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tempered flared in the High Court Wednesday morning in the trial of attempted murder of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo between Director of Public Prosecution ( DPP ) Mary Kachale and third accused person in the conspiracy to commit murder, lawyer Ralph Kasambara a Senior counsel (SC). It all started when the first accused person, […]
Third accused person in the conspiracy to commit murder of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Ralph Kasambara has asked for the High Court to consider reinstating his bail after the court made a motion to have his bail revoked last year. Making the plea through a motion in court, Kasambara complained that since the revocation […]
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 […]