Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has adjourned a case involving Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and wife, Mary, to June 4, 2021 to pave way for the Bushiris to seek judicial review of the case before the High Court. In his earlier ruling, Magistrate Chirwa dismissed Bushiri’s request to have his case dismissed and, also, to have the matter […]
Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has adjourned the extradition case involving Prophet Shephered Bushiri and wife, Mary, to Friday, 23rd April, for a ruling if the matter should be referred to Constitutional Court for ruling. Bushiri lawyer, Wapona Kita, started the day by telling the court they are applying to have the entire extradition request thrown out […]
Lawyer for prophet Shepherd Bushiri says government has finally cleared the prophet’s daughter to travel to Kenya to seek medical treatment. Government blocked the 8-year-old daughter this week from travelling to Kenya after an air ambulance had arrived to pick her at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe. Bushiri’s lawyer Wapona Kita said the daughter would […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has adjourned a case the State is appealing against Magistrate court ruling for unconditional release of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary to the 14th of December 2020 to hear the preliminary objections raised by their lawyers, Wapona Kita and Gift Katundu. The lawyers are challenging the jurisdiction of […]
Four private practice lawyers have withdrawn from representing embattled charismatic Prophet Shepherd Bushiri in the ongoing bail application scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Lilongwe, shaking up the preacher’s legal team after they agreed that Wapona Kita will be their attorney. Bushiri initially hired private practice lawyers Lusungu Gondwe, Noel Chalamanda, Bright Theu and Khumbo Soko. The […]
Private practise lawyer Wapona Kita has openely declared that Malawi is not taking any strides in as far as empowering and improving women human rights activism is concerned. Kita made the remarls as male human rights activists continue to dominate the battlefield in the fight against various human rights abuses to Malawians. “We are fairing […]
Human rights defenders have sought a court order stopping Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has said it will shut down filling stations which do not comply with regulations for operating such business that are under contention. The petitioners to court sought fo judicial review regulations which were approved by Parliament in 2004 and became effective in […]
Private practice lawyer Wapona Kita has said a real separation of power between Parliament and Executive Branches of government can be achieved only if Parliament can have its own Legislation Department. The call comes amid heated debate on the famous Electoral Reforms Bill which the government fuelled by the rulling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is […]
Lawyer representing genocide convict Vincent Murekezi in the extradition case has faulted two Malawi Ministers in their involvement in the matter as he successfully applied for a judicial review at the High Court in Lilongwe. The Principal Resident Magistrate’s Court dismissed the extradition case against Murekezi, citing inexistence – at that time – of the bilateral […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Monday issued an arrest warrant for businessman Limumba Karim who failed again to turn up for the hearing of the K2.4 billion money laundering case and is suspected to have escaped from the country hiding in South Africa. Lumumba was expected in court to plead to counts of money […]
The defence lawyer for Vincent Murekezi, a Rwandan genocide suspect in Malawi custody amid an on-going court battle for his extradition, has complained that the State has not furnished evidence of alleged crimes committed by his client. Lilongwe Magistrate Court gave the State 21 days to present eveidence against Murekezi, who is contesting an extradition […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has dismissed an interlocutory injuction filed by lawyer of some disgruntled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members seeking the court to issue an order stopping all district election that the party is currently holding. MCP, the second biggest political party by representation in Parliament, has started conducting district elections to rebuild the […]
The Lilongwe High Court is Friday expected to hear an ex parte injuction application which disgruntled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) fired District Chairmen through their lawyer Wesley Namasala is asking the court to issue an order restraining the party from continuing conducting district committee elections which the party is currently holding countrywide. The matter which […]
High Court Judge Micheal Mtambo has ruled against application which lawyer for businessperson Oswald Lutepo made for the state to bear the costs of his case after he was formally discharged in the attempted murder former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. The court determined that the prosecution had failed to provide sufficient evidence […]
Defence counsel in the shooting of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo on Friday took turns to poke holes in a call log testimony of three Airtel Malawi officials . The three Airtel Officials, Revenue insurance and fraud management section employee Khumbo Mfune, Senior Radio and Transmission Manager Loyd Gowela and Blandina Noniwa […]
Airtel Malawi officials will likely be subpoenaed to High Court to clarify the call logs presented in court ina case involving former minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and others who are accused of the attempted assassination of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo . Lead investigator Superintendent Kankhwala Chilimba presented the call logs on Tuesday but […]
A case involving former minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara and others who are accused of the attempted assassination of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo took a new twist on Tuesday when lead investigator Superintendent Kankhwala Chilimba accepted that he lied to the court. In his testimony, Chilinda who had put across damning evidence linking several of the […]
One of the private practice lawyers in Malawi, Wapona Kita has asked parliament not to interfere in the plans by the executive arm of government to sell the state-owned Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) saying government erred by consulting the parliament on the matter. Kita told a local radio that government was not supposed to consult […]