By Linda Kwanjana
On Saturday September 21st, 2024 former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika deepened in town sending a hurricane attack on President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera’s leadership characterising it ” _failed_ “.
Funny but true though! Let a minute pass and reason together! Is it justifiable that Mutharika must be attacking the current regime at a time our economy is passing through a thorny path?
To begin with Mutharika is infertile of moral grounds to spit fire on Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and his government. Why? Mutharika is prince of thieves himself.
Sad memories are still fresh of how Mutharika and his benchmen successfully turned Malawi Police as their cash cows.
In 2018, the High Court of Malawi froze Mutharika Account Number 0140031992200 at Standard Bank, whose sole signatory stood Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Peter Mutharika, for an unlawful receipt of MWK145 million donation from a Malawi Police Service (MPS) supplier Zameer Karim.
Then, Youth and Society (YAS) took Mutharika to task wheeling on accusation of daylight thievery.
The case was a direct inference of a leaked Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) dossier showing that Pioneer Investments (PI) made an abortive interest claim of MWK466 million in the Police Food Ration (PFR) deal, and deposited MWK145 million into the the said DPP bank account No. 0140031992200.
The Democratic Progressive Party through spokesperson Shadric Namalomba, issued an apology, saying it regretted accepting the donation from Pioneer Foods and the subsequent error of judgement was a swift refund of the money to Pioneer Foods.
“The DPP is also committed to exercise more due diligence in receiving donations in the future,” wrote Namalomba.
The November 2017 ACB report indicated that the contract price to Pioneer Investments Limited of Karim was inflated within days of signing, by MWK466 million from MWK2.327 billion to MWK2.793 billion.
In the principle of rule of law, if one breaks the law , only competent courts make final judgement.
