Month: January 2017 Posts

Admarc boss admits Malawi borrowed from PTA Bank for maize purchase

Jan 19, 2017 Joseph Dumbula 12 &

…Finance Ministry clears it name As the separate probe into the ‘unscrupulous’ purchase of maize from Zambia continues, Admarc has admitted borrowing from the Eastern and Southern African Development Bank (PTA Bank) with the controversy… ...

AG fails to save Chaponda

Jan 17, 2017 Luke Bisani 115 &

The Mzuzu High Court has stood firm to its earlier ruling that Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda remains suspended despite the Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale faulting the ruling. On Thursday… ...

Malawi is black: CSOs declare January 17 as ‘Black Tuesday’

Jan 16, 2017 Bright Malenga 46 &

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country have declared tomorrow, January 17, as Black Tuesday. January 17 is the day when an inter-partes hearing on the maize scandal will commence at Mzuzu High Court. The… ...

Janet Banda’s impartiality in investigating Chaponda under microscope

Jan 14, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 73 &

Janet Banda who is a member of the commission of inquiry investigating minister of agriculture George Chaponda has had her impartiality questioned after she attacked the courts for suspending the minister. Soon after the Mzuzu… ...

Mutharika sticks with Chaponda: I have powers to fire or suspend Ministers, not the courts

Jan 13, 2017 Luke Bisani 275 &

Malawi leader Peter Mutharika has faulted the courts’ decision to suspend George Chaponda saying only the president has powers of firing and hiring cabinet ministers. On Thursday, the Mzuzu high court ordered for the suspension… ...

Court has no power to suspend Chaponda – law expert

Jan 12, 2017 Victoria Milanzi 270 &

The Mzuzu High Court’s decision to grant an injunction stopping George Chaponda from exercising his duties could collide with the laws, a legal expert has told Malawi24. According to the lawyer Ritchie Katsichi of Kalua… ...

The Courts have overstepped mandate on Chaponda

Jan 12, 2017 Pearson Nkhoma 73 &

The news that Malawi High Court sitting in Mzuzu has ruled that Minister of Agriculture, Mr. George Chaponda, should be suspended pending outcome of the investigation into the maizegate scandal has been welcomed with jubilation.… ...