Month: March 2022 Posts

Former Attorney General Kaphale arrested

Mar 31, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Police in Lilongwe have arrested former Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale for insulting a traffic police officer and violating traffic regulations. Kaphale was arrested yesterday and he spent the night in police custody. Lilongwe Police Station… ...

Ansah, Kaphale ordered to pay K3.1 million over SA lawyers hiring debacle

Mar 04, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

Former Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and former Attorney Kalekeni Kaphale have been ordered to pay back K3.1 million which was spent on South African lawyers MEC hired last year. Ombudsman Martha Chizuma… ...

AG Kaphale under probe over hiring of South African lawyers

May 21, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

The Office of the Ombudsman in Malawi has launched investigations into Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale’s alleged maladministration and abuse of power in the procurement of two South African lawyers for the elections case. Ombudsman… ...

AG Kaphale goofed by not challenging anti-lockdown injunction – Judge Kenyatta

Apr 29, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

High Court Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda has described failure by Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale to challenge the anti-lockdown injunction as a dereliction of duty. Nyirenda said this in a ruling delivered on Tuesday on the… ...

Kaphale U-turns on challenge against lockdown injunction

Apr 23, 2020 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

Attorney General has today withdrawn an application challenging  the anti-lockdown injunction. Kaphale filed the injunction on Tuesday but has withdrawn it today. “Take notice that the Defendants, having carefully considered their position, and no longer… ...

Ansah caught pants down: MEC was paying Attorney General extra salary for doing his job

Mar 13, 2020 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has revealed that the commission was paying Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale extra salary for representing the commission in the presidential elections case. Ansah revealed this at the National… ...

 Kaphale fired from MEC’s legal team

Feb 17, 2020 Mike Kalumbi 1 &

The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has disclosed that Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale will no longer represent the Commission in the elections case. MEC director of Legal affairs David Matumuka Banda has confirmed the development saying… ...