The High Court in Lilongwe has on Wednesday found the wife of late Professor Peter Mumba, Annie with a case to answer on charges of killing her husband.
The suspect was arrested in 2020 after postmortem results had indicated that Mumba who was a professor of chemistry at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in Lilongwe had died of acute poisoning.
In his ruling, Justice Mzondi Mvula observed that the conduct displayed by the wife was suspicious saying she delayed to seek for medical help when her late husband fell ill.
Mvula further observed that she delayed in taking Mumba to the hospital when he started complaining of being unwell.
Again Annie is being accused of calling for an ambulance yet they had a fleet of cars in their compound.
Mvula also said that the wife immediately left after her husband’s burial.
The court had since directed that the defence stage of the case will resume in October this year.
In an interview with local media, defence lawyer Innocent Kubwalo said the defence team is ready for the next stage and will parade five witnesses.
The suspect hails from Chituka Village (T/A) Malengamzoma in Nkhata Bay district.
Chitipa United’s hopes of winning their first ever TNM Super league received a huge boost as they beat Bangwe All Stars 2-nil at Mpira Stadium in Blantyre.
The visitors broke the deadlock in the 80th minute with Ghedo Lorenzo’s clinical finish before Godfrey Kwiyokwa scored the other goal for Chitipa in the added time.
Chitipa’s victory saw them climb top on the log table with 39 points after playing 21 games followed by FCB Nyasa Big Bullets who have so far accumulated 37 points but have played few games less than than the northern region side.
Chitipa United celebrating
In another TNM Super league match played on Wednesday, Mafco FC beat Civil Service United 2-0 at Chitowe Stadium.
Stain Malata scored both goals for Mafco in the 31st and 34th minute to give the home side the much needed victory.
Following the win, the Salima-based soldiers are now two steps out of the relegation zone, level on points with Civil who are perched on position 11 in the standings but the Civil servants have a better goal difference.
The High Court in Lilongwe through Judge Justice Howard Pemba has on Wednesday nullified the disciplinary committee of the former rulling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) describing it as unconstitutional.
According to Pemba the disciplinary committee was composed of seven members instead of five as prescribed by the party’s constitution.
Again Pemba has made the nullification in his default judgment in a case where the DPP vice president for the South, Kondwani Nankhumwa, was challenging his summon to appear before the committee.
Nankhumwa was being accused of flouting the party’s laws by holding political rallies in Blantyre last month.
Parliamentarians from Euroupean countries who are in this country have expressed satisfaction with youth involvement on issues of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR).
Cosmih Poteras a Romanian Member of Parliament said it is very much impressing to see that youths in this country are making strides in issues of mindset change as they are trying to find solutions to creating more initiatives but there is need for more support to help them reach far.
“The young we meet today they are really smart, motivated as well as engaged and I believe they can do the difference.
“When we retain back home I think we should create events that increases awareness in our countries and this may read to some help provided of some organization that are really doing a great job. We discussed about funding and funding is essential in what they are doing they need the funds to provide training services and awareness to people, so that’s what we are going to do when we get back home,” Poteras said.
On his part, Executive Director at Family Planning Association of Malawi (FPAM), Donald Makwakwa said the engagement of the visiting team with the youths was very important as the country is looking for more youths to take lead in many aspects.
“As an organization we have been working with young people and we listen to them and this engagement has given as an opportunity to exprole more on how best we can engage young people to address there particular needs, like from the discussion we had this afternoon there are quite a number of things we can take and we will take it from there as an organization on how best we can be engaging with Youth Wave as well as other youth lead organizations to advance there rights as young people,” he higlihted.
Executive Director at Youth Wave, a youth lead organization, John Nyirenda feels honored by the deligates but he was quick to react that funding system in this country is not youth friendly and this is affecting most of youth lead organizations as they only operate through self initiative.
He pleaded for a delibarate move from those organizations working with youth to have intention funding that increase young people in there programming by channeling some of there funding percentages to youth lead organizations, that can increase equitable partnership for development.
The one week study tour has been organized and funded by FPAM and it expects to reach more areas.
One of the country’s good governance commentators Rick Dzida, has commended President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s administration for achieving 2 years of examination leak-free.
But Dzida stresses that despite that improvement, still illiteracy levels remain high and that no deliberate plans to address the issue.
Dzida has however, asked government to implement compulsory primary school education for children of a certain age, to consider helping deserving students who drop out of school due to high fees in universities and secondary schools.
Chakwera
He has also asked President Chakwera to explain to Malawians the progress which have been made in constructing secondary schools in each constituency with funding from the American government and providing solutions to the jobless university graduates.
In an open letter to President Chakwera dated 3rd September, 2023 Dzida has advised President Chakwera that he has the full responsibility to uphold, defend and respect the Malawi constitution as the supreme law of the land.
Dzida says President Chakwera is the driver of the country claiming that all the people he has appointed or appointing in government are there to assist him leading the country in the interest of all saying their failure is Chakwera’s failure and their success is Chakwera’s success.
He has lamented that under President Chakwera’s leadership, government seem to have taken control over the National Assembly where it appears that the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Catherine Gotani-Hara is participating in the election of the Leader of Opposition in Parliament.
The commentator says corruption under Chakwera’s administration has reached an alarming level in virtually Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with him seen as promoting corruption as recently evidenced with the pardoning of corruption suspects Dr. Bakili Muluzi and Uladi Mussa.
“You are being seen involved personally interfering with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to shield MCP loyalists, Eisenhower Mkaka’s Mercedes Benz bribery case with businessperson Zuneth Sattar,” reads the letter in part.
On the Public Sector Reforms Report which was submitted to him by the Vice President Dr. Saulosi Klaus Chilima, Dzida has reminded President Chakwera that Malawians have the right to access the Report wondering why he has chosen to remain silent as if the Report was not made available through taxpayer’s money.
Dzida has expressed fears that corruption in the Judiciary has reached an unprecedented level saying courts are shielding corruption suspects from being interrogated by an institution constitutionally mandated to investigate and prosecute corruption suspects.
