Month: December 2015 Posts

JB cornered! Started cashgate to raise campaign funds

Dec 21, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 88 &

Court documents have pinned down former Malawi President Joyce Banda as the brains behind cashgate. With chilling evidence showing that over K553 billion was not accounted for during the two years she was president, latest… ...

The man who started Cashgate arrested

Dec 18, 2015 Richard Jimu 132 &

Most Malawians may never have heard about Steve Likhunya Phiri but he is the person who ignited the public theft of resources whose consequences have hit every citizen now. According to Director of Public Prosecutions… ...

Mphwiyo ‘shooter’ implicates Joyce Banda

Dec 11, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 210 &

Macdonald Kumwembe, one of the accused in the attempted murder of National Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo, has named former Malawi president Joyce Banda in the case, saying he was working with Peoples Party as a hired… ...

Peter Mutharika slammed for ‘false’ BBC confessions

Dec 08, 2015 Joseph Dumbula 121 &

The Malawi leader has been criticized by former ruling People’s Party (PP) for branding ex President Joyce Banda as the master minder of the infamous Cashgate scandal. President Peter Mutharika has asked donors that they… ...

Mutharika: Malawi on the verge of collapse, Joyce Banda’s cashgate left nothing at treasury 

Dec 08, 2015 Aubrey Makina 267 &

  Malawi President Peter Mutharika has declared Malawi a country that is on the edge of collapse while naming Joyce Banda as the engineer of the current economic crisis. In an interview with BBC Hard… ...

Queens Central Hospital for sale! Government to privatise public hospitals

Dec 08, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 1,909 &

...Kamuzu Central Hospital put on auction Malawi government has set up plans to privatise all public hospitals, Malawi24 can reveal. President Peter Mutharika made the revelation that his administration will soon start auctioning public hospitals into private… ...

Dont punish me for Joyce Banda’s sins – Mutharika

Dec 08, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 339 &

...says Malawi cannot survive without aid ...‘we need assistance to address this crisis’ President Peter Mutharika has contradicted his earlier proclamation that the age of donor aid was over for Malawi by issuing a strong… ...

Mutharika slams donors

Dec 03, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 42 &

Malawi President Peter Mutharika has slammed the country’s donors under the Common Approach to Budget Support (CABS) for employing tactics that has alienated government to monitor their programmes. Speaking in London while courting investors, Mutharika… ...

ACB faces stumbling block in finalizing five cashgate cases

Nov 27, 2015 Lyonike Mughogho 22 &

The Malawi Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has given a reason for their delay in concluding investigations of corruption cases involving five local companies. The body has, since the revelations about massive looting and plundering of public… ...

Oswald Lutepo’s health deteriorates

Nov 20, 2015 Happy Arnold Soko 214 &

The health of former People’s Party top guru and Malawi's chief cashgate convict, Oswald Lutepo, continues to deteriorate a development that has forced Mikuyu Prison officials to transfer him to Chichiri Prison in Blantyre. According… ...

Paul Mphwiyo appears before court today in MK2 Bn corruption case

Nov 11, 2015 Mwayi Mkandawire 42 &

Malawi's ailing former budget director, Paul Mphwiyo is expected to appear in court together with three others in a case they are answering charges of defrauding about K2.4 billion in 2013 through various businesspersons without… ...

No Mr President, this country is chaotic, collapsing and failing!

Nov 10, 2015 William Simango 168 &

It might be because Peter Mutharika lives under the sea that he does not see that the Malawi is falling. Or it might be that he is so drunk with power that the signs of a… ...

Mphwiyo arrested for ‘stealing’ K3 billion

Nov 07, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 243 &

Former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo who Joyce Banda said was shot for fighting corruption has been arrested allegedly for stealing over K3 billion of public funds. The arrest is connected to the cashgate scandal… ...

‘The age of donor aid is over’ – Mutharika

Nov 07, 2015 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 77 &

…'Aid deepened neocolonialism and Malawi's mental slavery' says APM President Peter Mutharika has said it is time for Malawi to divorce donors  to ensure political and economic sovereignty much as "the country is currently passing through… ...

Cashgate suspect accepts stealing K12 Million

Nov 03, 2015 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 37 &

In the continued crackdown of Malawi's largest financial scandal, suspect Esnart Ndovi has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering of funds amounting to K12.9m from the government in August 2013. With the move, Ndovi… ...