President Lazarus Chakwera says a decision on the Natural Resources Minister Eisenhower Mkaka will be made once the Anti-Corruption Bureau-ACB furnishes him with details about the investigations.
Presidential press secretary Anthony Kasunda has told the press on Tuesday that Chakwera has only learnt through the media that the ACB intends to investigate Mkaka on the matter.
Mkaka- controversy over his Mercedes Benz
The ACB has confirmed investigating Mkaka over his Mercedes Benz whose particulars are similar to vehicles which businessman Zuneth Sattar gifted some public officers.
Before the investigation, Mkaka explained on his Facebook Page that he bought the car, using money earned from his previous job at a certain bank.
The country is learning with shock of the death of Rev Father Thomas Mahosha, a catholic priest who was recently sent to Zomba maximum prison for ritually killing a person with albinism McDonald Masambuka in Machinga in 2018
According to a Statement from the Catholic Church, Mahosha has died while receiving treatment at Zomba Hospital for an undisclosed illiness
Together with others he was sentenced to 30 years in Prison . He is also known to have revealed that former president Peter Mutharika and his Advisor Dr Heatherwick Ntaba were also involved in the killing.
“Rev, Fr, Dr. was not in full communion with the Church,” says a statement signed by ECM Secretary General, Father Henry Saindi.
The country is learning with shock of the death of Rev Father Thomas Mahosha, a catholic priest who was recently sent to Zomba maximum prison for ritually killing a person with albinism McDonald Masambuka in Machinga in 2018
According to a Statement from the Catholic Church, Mahosha has died while receiving treatment at Zomba Hospital for an undisclosed illiness
Together with others he was sentenced to 30 years in Prison . He is also known to have revealed that former president Peter Mutharika and his Advisor Dr Heatherwick Ntaba were also involved in the killing.
“Rev, Fr, Dr. was not in full communion with the Church,” says a statement signed by ECM Secretary General, Father Henry Saindi.
Former Malawi President and DPP leader Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika has vowed that his Party will bounce back and win big in 2025. He made the remarks at the press briefing which his party called at his Page House Residence in Mangochi
Mutharika said the DPP will bounce back in power and rescue the country from what he calls ‘bad government’. He has since accused the current Tonse Alliance administration of failing to govern the country and failing to fulfil the promises they made to Malawians during Campaign time
On the current stage of Affairs in his Party, Mutharika admitted that there were ongoing issues which will soon be sorted out. He has however distanced wrangles in his party from what he has described as a bad economic situation.
Mutharika said the Democratic Progressive Party is sailing through troubled waters because it is not used to being in opposition. He maintains that everything will be okay when the party is revamped.
Mutharika says DPP will bounce back
On the Strong rumours that he will stand again for the country’s Presidency,Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika says he has not made up his mind on numerous calls from various quarters that he should run again in the forthcoming 2025 presidential polls.
Mutharika said he called for the news conference to talk to Malawians on various issues affecting the nation, and .
Former president Peter Mutharika who is also leader of the Democeatic Progressive Parry has hit hard on Tonse Alliance administration. He says government has failed to deliver on its promises to the disappointment of many Malawians
Mutharika was saying this at a Press Conference which took place at his Page House in Mangochi to discuss several issues of National interest. Flanked by top DPP officials that included George Chaponda, Chimwemwe Chipungu ,Shadreck Namalomba and others Mutharika says most of the development ventures the Tonse administration is bragging about are projects initiated by the DPP administration under his rule. He says this administration has ignored the malata-cement nitiative and community technical colleges which could turn fortunes around for Malawi.
Mutharika at the Press Conference
Mutharika says it is hypocrisy for government to claim they are pro-poor when the underprivileged continue to have no shelter at a time the malata-cement initiative has been abandoned.
He says he is aware he is being ridiculed for having pledged to turn Malawi into a Singapore but “I was serious” and had plans to transform the country through infrastructure, roads and other things.
He says the DPP is ready to come back. He says government should be interested in running affairs of the people and not persecute them. Mutharika says government is persecuting people with arrests without thorough investigations.
“This has got to stop. This country belongs to all of us,” he said.
Mutharika further says when he was state president, he appointed people without regard to regional or tribal affiliations “unlike what we are seeing now. Treat people fairly”.
Mutharika claims Tonse Alliance is not fulfilling it’s campaigning promises, including three meals a day and ensuring that no student is sent back from school due to shortage of financial hiccups.
He says Chakwera is hijacking projects which were started by his administration without acknowledging, citing the M1 road rehabilitation project as an example.
He also says the Tonse Alliance government has abandoned key programmes like the Malata and cement subsidy programme.
Mutharika says the DPP will bounce back in power and rescue the country from what he calls ‘bad government’.
He has however distanced wrangles in his party from what he has described as a bad economic situation.
Mutharika says the Democratic Progressive Party is sailing through troubled waters because it is not used to being in opposition.
He maintains that everything will be okay when the party is revamped.
