Graft-busting Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba, under intense pressure and fire from journalists to disclose names of the suspects who allegedly wanted to bribe the Constitutional Court judges over the election case, has flatly refused to do so. Addressing a news conference on Tuesday in Lilongwe, Matemba said it would be illegal to […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has conceded that it does not have the public trust in the fight against graft as Malawians feel the body is failing to effectively stem out corruption in the country thereby not attracting whistle-blowers. ACB director Reyneck Matemba said at the International Anti-Corruption Day in Mangochi that apart from funding challenges, the […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba has acknowledged the results of the perception survey of the Nation Publications Limited (NPL) which shows that people still have little trust in the graft busting body. The survey reported in the country’s leading and influential daily newspaper, The Nation, indicate how ACB’s ability to act independently and […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has described the upcoming review of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) as a pivotal process for strengthening and reinforcing citizens’ participation in the fight against corruption in the country. ACB Director General, Reyneck Matemba disclosed this Tuesday during a news conference in Lilongwe a head of the 2008 NACS Review process. He […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) boss Reyneck Matemba has said it was prepared to investigate that an unscrupulous Indian businessman Zameer Karim of Pioneer Investments made a dubious donation of five vehicles worth K85 million to President Peter Mutharika for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Karim, whose Pioneer Investments also donated K145 million to the DPP […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba has said he is impressed with the work Youth and Society (YAS) director Charles Kajoloweka is doing in his fight to contain graft in Malawi. Matemba said the remarks during a debate which the Malawi Law Society (MLS) organised in Mzuzu on Friday under the theme ‘Fraud and […]
Civil society organisations have come hard on graft busting body Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general, asking him to resign following the bureau’s decision to clear President Peter Mutharika over the K145 million dubious donation from an Indian businessman that went in a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) bank account. Pioneer Investment deposited the K145 million into the […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), the country’s graft busting body, said on Friday that they are equally concerned with the delay in its former corporate affairs director Issa Njauju murder case which has not yet seen the light of justice. Njauju was killed on July 4 2015 and his body was found half-buried behind the presidential villas in […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)director Reyneck Matemba has updated the Parliamentary Legal Affairs Committee on the unaccounted for K236 billion in public funds, saying according to his investigations, no cabinet member was involved in the 13 files of the suspected Cashgate, the country’s largest financial scandal suspected to have occurred between January 2009 and December 2014. Matemba was speaking in Lilongwe […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Reyneck Matemba has disclosed that the anti-graft busting body is yet to start investigations into the fresh 54 files it has received from the Auditor General on the audit query in the K236 billion Cashgate scandal but hinted that there are no seven cabinet ministers involved as it had been claimed. […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Reyneck Matemba, on Saturday night survived a road accident with minor injuries when a personal vehicle he was travelling from direction of Salima hit a pothole and overturned, the police said. The accident happened close to Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi warehouse when Matemba’s Nissan Dualis hit a pothole […]
Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Raineck Matemba has called upon District Councils in the country to put in place measures to prevent corruption in order to save public resources from “going down the drain”. He was speaking Thursday in Mulanje during the launch of integrated programme for corruption prevention for Blantyre, Mulanje, Luchenza and […]
The Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament has confirmed the appointment of Reyneck Matemba who is set to become Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director and Reverend Alex Maulana as new board chairperson of Malawi Communications Authority (Macra), Nyasa Times understands. Committee chairperson Lingson Belekanyama that his committee is assessed and confirmed the two names that were […]
Malawi Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee on Monday interviewed Rev. Alex Maulana as new board chair for Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra), in a move to replace Mervis Mangulenje, who has been at the centre of top level corruption at the regulatory body. Rev. Maulana was the first person to be interviewed by the Committee as […]
Social-political commentators have applauded President Peter Mutharika’s appointment of Reyneck Matemba as director of Anti-Corruption Bureau pending Parliament approval, describing Matemba as fit for the job. Writing on her newspaper column in Weekend Nation, seasoned journalist Suzgo Khunga described the news of Matemba’s appointment as refreshing but warned that the nation would be watching closely […]
As earlier reported by Nyasa Times that Reyneck Matemba, the deputy director of the Anti Corurption Bureau (ACB) and its lead prosecutor, was tipped to become the next boss of the graft-busting body to replace Lucas Kondowe, President Peter Mutharika has appointed himas the new Director General with a hope to bring down graft to negligible […]
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) deputy director and its prosecutor Reyneck Matemba has said the bureau will apply to court to consolidate the charge sheet of former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Geogre Chaponda, CEO of Grain Traders Association, Ms Grace Mijiga Mhango and Transglobe boss Rashid Tayub inconnection with the Zambia maize […]
Graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), has come out rejecting accusations that it is shielding George Thapatula Chaponda—the erstwhile Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development and Leader of the House—three months after two state sponsored public inquiries recommended the vice president of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) be investigated. Reyneck Matemba, the deputy […]