Chisala Maxwell L, Author at Malawi 24

There Are No Half Measures in Fighting Corruption

Feb 08, 2024 0

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) recently celebrated twenty-five years of its existence. Coincidentally, this is the time it took the former British Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency (ACA) to successfully turn its country from ‘the most corrupt… ...

Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima arrested on corruption charges

Fighting Public Sector Culture of Corruption in Malawi Enablement Requires a Punishing Watchdog

Aug 10, 2023 0

Recent revelations that Malawi lost MK6 trillion between 2012 and 2021 in public funds mismanagement is a testament to the scale of the public sector corruption problem. The Auditor General's report that MDAs collectively failed… ...

Unbonded Contracts: A Tax-Payer High-Wire Walk Without Safety-Net

Aug 02, 2023 0

Malawi is one of the few countries in the world that does not require contractors to post performance guarantee bonds on government contracts. I once asked the Chief Contracts Officer in Malawi why there is… ...

Scapegoating nature unhelpful, begging bowls demeaning

Apr 05, 2023 0

Granted, nature does throw her weight around way too easily these days, leaving us orphaned, destitute, our food bowls wiped out, robbing us of our hard-earned national development gains, and, yes, in a fiscal chokehold… ...

Contractor selection challenges could ‘tank’ Chakwera’s flagship initiatives

Feb 07, 2023 0

So much is riding on President Lazarus Chakwera’s flagship road infrastructure projects set to transform the infrastructure footprint of the country. It is part of the long- and medium-term national multi-sectoral vision of interventions in… ...