Month: June 2021 Posts

33 employees fired at Tobacco Commission over illegal recruitment

Jun 01, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Tobacco Commission (TC) has fired 33 employees, including several workers named in an Ombudsman report as having joined the commission without any interviews. The firing of the 33 follows a personnel audit conducted by the… ...

Chizuma ends tenure as Ombudsman

May 31, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Ombudsman Martha Chizuma has left the role today to take up the position of Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Chizuma who is widely praised for fighting office abuse and maladministration in the public… ...

Development partners welcome Chizuma appointment

May 20, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Development partners have welcomed the hiring of new Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Martha Chizuma and have said they are committed to continue engaging the bureau in the fight against serious and organized corruption. Ambassadors… ...

Chizuma’s confirmation is due to public pressure – analyst

May 18, 2021 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

A social commentator says Martha Chizuma's confirmation as Director General for the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is due to public pressure and this could affect the way discharges her duties. On Monday, May 17, Public Appointments… ...

PAC confirms Chizuma as ACB Director General

May 17, 2021 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

President Lazarus Chakwera’s appointee Martha Chizuma has been confirmed as the new Anti-Corruption Bureau ( ACB) Director General. The Public Appointments Committee (PAC) has confirmed Chizuma today,  about a week after the committee rejected her.… ...

Anti-Govt and pro-Chizuma protesters to storm Lilongwe on Tuesday

May 17, 2021 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Anti-Government protests and demonstrations in support of President Lazarus Chakwera’s appointee Martha Chizuma will be held in Lilongwe tomorrow. Organizers for the two protests have both claimed to have already notified the Lilongwe City Council.… ...

Chitsulo defends PAC: ‘We followed necessary procedures’

May 16, 2021 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Public Appointments Committee (PAC) chairperson Joyce Chitsulo has defended her committee saying it followed necessary procedures during the hearing last week where the committee rejected the appointment of Martha Chizuma as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director… ...