Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chief elections officer Willie Kalonga has been fired over allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body. Kalonga was serving a suspension together with deputy chief elections officer (operations) Harris Potani, director of administration and human resources George Khaki, director of finance Khumbo Phiri, procurement manager Edington Chilapondwa, procurement officer […]
Senior managers of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga, have been forced to go on leave to pave the way for investigations into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body. Commissioner Linda Kunje,who is MEC chairperson of the Finance and Administration Committee, disclosed this in a statement made avaibale […]
Senior managers of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), including chief elections officer Willie Kalonga, remain in officie despite being sent on one –month forced leave to pave the way for investigations into allegations of financial abuse at the electoral body. A resolution was passed in May by the Malawi Electoral Cycle Support (Mecs) Project Steering […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chief executive officer Willie Kalonga operated a secret account at Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) which was used for suspected cashgate activities, according to a special investigative audit conducted following allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud. The fraud allegations in the report before the Secretary to the Treasury and donor community, shows […]
A final investigative audit report that covers July 2012 to December 2014 now obtained by Nyasa Times issued on 4th August 2015 to the recipient of Dr Ronald Mangani, Secretary to the Treasury, has exposed fraud and expenses scandal at the Malawi Electoral Commission. According to the report, MEC were heard and responded to the […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission says it has started cash payments to all poll workers whose dues were outstanding for the services rendered during polling for the May 2014 elections. But some names are still missing on list to be paid. The Commission engaged 89,000 poll workers and claims that close to 90 percent of them […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) has warned political parties against inducing or influencing a candidate to withdraw from the by-elections slated for October 7.The Commission says those found guilty risk a fine of up to K500,000 and two years imprisonment. Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga stressed that a duly nominated candidate can only be withdrawn once […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is disputing media reports alleging that the electoral body will no longer hire teachers as Supervisors and Presiding Officers during elections. The Commission says in a statement that it has not made a blanket decision to stop engaging teachers as Presiding Officers or Supervisors because they proved to be a […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec), which is currently conducting post-election review meeting across the country, has suspended electronic bank transfer of honorarium to polling staff for May 20 tripartite elections. The Commission, according to Chief Elections officer Willie Kalonga, will now “adopt a revised approach” for the remaining payments. Kalonga most polling staff gave the Commission wrong […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission is requesting all political parties, aspiring candidates and civil society organizations wishing to monitor the for the October 7bye-elections to submit names of their monitors by August 28, 2014 to the Constituency Returning Officer or the District Commissioner’s office or accreditation. The Commissions says all monitors without accreditation shall not be granted access […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) temporary staff for the May 20 Tripartite Elections should brace for hard times with the payment for June salaries to delay further. MEC said in a statement that the delay was caused by the Treasury which is yet to release funding for salaries of the temporary staff. “The Commission processed in early June, […]
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau What was Willie Kalonga high on when he rushed to make that thoughtless, if not senseless, statement that the Tuesday mysterious fire that gutted the Mec warehouse in Lilongwe was being treated as ‘a normal fire accident’ by the good people at […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it is now suspecting that some people deliberately set on fire its warehouse in the capital Lilongwe in which all electoral materials that were in the Warehouse including 2,400 ballot boxes which contained ballot papers, 81 gas cylinders, 168 gas lamps, were destroyed. This was said at its emergency […]
The blame game has started. Malawi Electoral Commission is distancing itself from the delayed payment to polling workers who are yet to receive their honoraria for work done during the May 2014 Tripartite Elections saying the responsibility of paying the workers relies on Development Partners. The Commissions’ Chief Elections Officer Willie Kalonga says in a […]
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is asking all unpaid polling staff who worked during the May 2014 Tripartite Elections to remain calm and patient, saying the commission is doing everything possible to process their payment. The appeal comes few days after a group of teachers who were among the polling staff clashed with police in […]
Chief Elections Officer for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Willie Kalonga has described as misleading and misrepresentation of fact the local daily article he was quoted having partly blaming the Malawi donor partners for the challenges that were faced during the polling period. Under a headline “Donors exposed” that appeared in the Nation on Sunday […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has attributed the numerous irregularities registered in the last week’s Tripartite Elections to Clerks and Returning Officers who are suspected to have deliberately flouted the procedures. MEC said it will prosecute every one of them who had a hand in creating the irregularities such as bloated numbers of casted votes or […]
Ballot papers for Malawi’s Tripartite Elections on 20th May elections arrive into the country on Saturday and Sunday at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe. Chief Elections Officer for the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Willie Kalonga said the ballot papers were produced in South Africa at a secure printing facility monitored and overseen by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) as […]