Yeremia Chihana says the board’s decision was unjustified and procedurally flawed; the board says it followed due process The former chief executive of Blantyre Water Board (BWB), Yeremia Chihana, is demanding K193 billion in compensation from the utility, claiming he was unfairly dismissed. In a demand dated 8 October 2026, his lawyers, Gobz & Rechtswissenschaft, […]
Blantyre Water Board has stunned residents by hiring a brand new chief executive just hours after sensationally firing embattled former CEO Yeremiah Chihana — only for it to emerge the utility’s dramatic new boss comes with his own murky past. New CEO Henry Bakuwa, from Mangunda in Thyolo, is far from a stranger to controversy […]
It truly never rains but pours for Yeremiah Chihana. In an astonishing twist of fate, the embattled former water board chief was dealt a brutal one-two punch on Tuesday — losing his Supreme Court battle and his job in the space of a single, catastrophic day. The former legislator had rushed to the Supreme Court […]
The beleaguered chief executive of Blantyre Water Board has been sacked for the third time in just six months, in an astonishing saga that has seen him bounce between the courtroom and the boardroom since the day he took the job. Yeremia Chihana was summarily dismissed by BWB on Monday, just as he was simultaneously […]
The suspended chief executive of Blantyre Water Board has suffered a fresh legal blow after the High Court stripped him of the injunction that had been keeping him in his job. Judge Allan Muhome ruled against Yeremia Chihana this morning, granting an urgent application by Attorney General Frank Mbeta to discharge the stay and injunction […]
Blantyre Water Board paid Mlauzi Legal Solutions a staggering MK62,034,168.75 Firm was allegedly introduced to BWB by board chairman Stain Chirwa A Malawian water utility handed over more than K62 million to a private law firm that appears to have done absolutely nothing to earn it — and the payment was mysteriously logged as a […]
Employees at Blantyre Water Board have asked President Peter Mutharika to sack both the utility’s chief executive, Yeremiah Chihana, and its board chairman, Stanley Chirwa, in a bid to end a leadership standoff that staff say is crippling operations. Under the banner of the BWB Employees Trade Union, workers passed the resolution at a meeting […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has been plunged into extraordinary chaos after workers reportedly declared that both the Chief Executive Officer, Yeremia Chihana, and Board Chairperson, Stanley Chirwa, should be removed from office — a dramatic escalation that could trigger a major legal and governance battle. In what would mark an unprecedented development in Malawi’s parastatal […]
Blantyre Water Board Chief Executive Officer Yeremia Chihana has been reinstated to his post, just days after being suspended on Friday, following a High Court of Malawi ruling delivered on August 30, 2026. The reinstatement was confirmed in an internal memorandum dated August 31, 2026, issued by BWB Acting Director of Human Resource and Administration […]
Suspended Blantyre Water Board boss Yeremia Chihana has blasted the Board’s decision to send him home for the second time in five months, claiming he is being targeted for refusing to “dance to the tune” of powerful interests and for insisting on proper procedures in a multimillion‑dollar World Bank project. Chihana says the latest suspension, […]
Blantyre Water Board (BWB) Chief Executive Officer Yeremia Chihana has been suspended with immediate effect, pending an inquiry into allegations of misconduct, in a dramatic shake-up at the top of the utility. The suspension follows a resolution passed by the BWB Board on Thursday, 28 August 2026, according to a memorandum issued to all staff […]
Mzimba North legislator Yeremia Chihana (Alliance for Democracy-Aford) says he is facing huddles to retable a a federalism motion in parliament. The re-tabling motion appears uncertain as it remains unclear when the matter would be revisited. Chihana, the lone Aford legislator, said he wrote the Business Committee of Parliament of his intention to re-table the motion which […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) member of parliament for Mzimba North Yeremiah Chihana has been sent out of parliament for generating the House into chaos after insisting that President Lazarus Chakwera must fire Secretary to the President (SPC) alleging that the SPC’s incompetence is making Vice President Saulos Chilima under perform as head of reforms. Chilima […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana has formally withdrawn his allegations he made that some Tonse Alliance government Cabinet members – particulary from Malawi Congress Party (MCP) – were soliciting bribes from some Malawian businesspersons of Asian descent following political pressure as he is part of the Tonse Alliance. Spokesperson for Parliament […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana has insisted on his allegations he made that some Tonse Alliance government Cabinet members were soliciting bribes from some Malawian businesspersons of Asian descent. Chihana made the claims in the House that Tonse Alliance government is siphoning money through corruption. He alleged that some powerful ministers were getting […]
Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana who is the lone legislator of Alliance for Democracy (Aford) in Parliament has said he has submitted evidence of corruption to the Office of the Speaker of Parliament as requested. Chihana in his response to the State of the Nation Address (Sona) as leader of Aford in Parliament claimed that […]
The Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) has expressed dismay on the way its sole legislature, Yeremia Chihana reacted to President Lazarus Chakwera’s maiden State of National Address (SONA) in the House, saying his criticism were unwarranted. Outposken Chihana, who is the legislature for Mzimba north constituency and relation to AFORD president, Enock Chihana, took a bold […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) sole legislator in Parliament, Yeremiah Chihana has faulted President Lazarus Chakwera for removing General Andrew Namathanga as the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander. Chihana said this on Monday when he was contributing to the State of the Nation Address (Sona) delivered by Chakwera last Friday. He said Namathanga played his role […]