The High Court sitting in Blantyre has ordered an immediate release of Clifford Khomba, a man who is suspected of hitting four traffic officers in Blantyre after a misunderstanding over an alleged road traffic offence.
In a court document 247 Malawi News has seen, the High Court through Justice Chima is requesting Blantyre Police station where Khomba is being held to release him immediately.
Clifford Khomba
” You are required to release the said Clifford Khomba from your custody unless he is being held for any other lawful reason,” reads the documents in part.
Khomba suffered a swollen jaw which his wife, relatives and lawyer claim affected his ability to eat.
He hails from Zangwangwa Village Traditional Authority( TA) Kapeni in Blantyre.
The Japanese Government on Thursday handed over MK2.5 billion worth of airport Ground Support Equipment (GSE) to Malawi Government through the Lilongwe Handling Company (LIHACO) meant to improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA).
Minister of Transport, Jacob Hara, described the support as timely saying the airport was lacking essential equipment for it’s day-to-day operations.
He said Malawi Malawi is looking at the MW2063 as such this kind of development is in line with the country’s plans to boost tourism through provision of a good transport platform that will be able to handle visitors well hence the equipment will put Malawi on international standards.
Ambassador Iwakiri handing over to Hon Jacob Hara
Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Satoshi Iwakiri, said the procurement of the equipment was part of a project meant to expand the terminal building at KIA.
He noted that the handover of the equipment was significant as it would improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations such as management of airplanes, cargo and passengers, especially those with special needs.
The Ambassador has since asked LIHACO to provide necessary care and maintenance of the equipment in order to sustain effective and efficient operations.
The equipment handed over includes Ambulift, Air start unit, Towing Tractor, Tow Bar, Boom Lift and Cargo High Loader which shall be used for loading and offloading aviation containers for cargo airplane.
National Bank shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank after the bank announced a healthy profit made despite the challenging business environment.
The bank has declared a profit after tax of K34.2 billion for the year ended December 2021 representing a 52 percent increase from the 22.4 billion registered in 2020.
The Bank’s Acting Board Chairman, Jimmy Lipunga, made the remarks at the 50th Annual General Meeting at the bank’s resource centre in Blantyre.
Among others, shareholders are expected to ratify a new board of directors for the bank.
National Bank remains one of the top banks in Malawi
We break and reveal with pictures and video clips that the Finergy Petroleum for which Mr Chris Chaima Banda, Former Adviser to President Chakwera was illegally recorded and the three (Newton Kambala, Enoch Chihana and Chaima)were charged and are in court in a case where they are being accused of trying to influence Miss Helen Buluma to give it a contract, is now in Malawi for real, supplying NOCMA thousands upon thousands of tonnes of the black Gold, without a contract or a tendering process.
Their 6 tankers were at NOCMA’s Kanengo depot since last week to offload fuel to NOCMA.
According to the pictures seen, Malawians need to admire the evil of hypocrisy and how real thieves create a smoke screen behind which they hide is holy robs while putting individuals and their families in distress and finacial quandary, while they wine and dine from their illgotten harvests. Squandering those who just wanted to serve the nation with every passion and love for our beloved country.
In her testimony in court, Miss Buluma lied to the court that they blacklisted Finergy. That it is not allowed to do any business with Malawi. Malawians, we are witnessing the Jesebel shredding the Tonse government to pieces.
The Cross examination of Miss Buluma will be an interesting episode, as the liar and her handlers and paymasters will be exposed and be put to shame.
When Finergy went to see the President in courtesy call. They made it clear that they had come to Malawi to buy a bidding document. Chaima Banda is heard in the clip reading this section of their presentation to the President. It is clear, ftom the recording that Finergy never came to Malawi to bribe anybody. They came to buy a bidding document. Finergy had indicated that as they do in other countries where they do business’s, they wanted to start investing in social corporate responsibility programmes in Malawi, conditional to them successfully winming a contract in a competitive tendering process. They had indicated to the President that they wanted to upscale their quantities from the 20,000 metric tones they had won by tender in 2019/ 2020 contracting year to 40,000 metric tones in the following year 2020/2021.
But Malawians here we are, without a new round of tendering for 2022/2023, Miss Buluma and her compatriots in this evil scheme against the three innocent people above, have entered a supply contract with Finergy while the case is in courts in which the three are being accused of attempting to influence her to award a contract to the same company.
Many see Miss Buluma as an agent who will surely bring the Tonse government down. For all the efforts and sacrifices that Malawians made to bring MCP and its partners to power, can you really afford to throw all that away at the hands of a DPP serving National Governing Council Member, in exchange for the “THING?”
In a meeting that took place at the office of Mr Chaima Banda, the former Chief Advisor to President Dr Lazarus Chakwera, which Miss Helen Buluma recorded illegally has been played this afternoon in the Chief Resident Magistrate’s Court in Lilongwe. In the recording , Chris Chaima Banda is heard emphasizing that the President does not want fuel suppliers to be handing money to individuals, but instead they should focus on supporting rural communities through social corporate responsibilty projects.
In the recording Chaima Banda is heard making a reference to a courtesy meeting that President Lazarus Chakwera had with Finergy, one of the suppliers of fuel to Nocma.
In the 52 minutes recording, Chakwera is being referred to as the “Principal” , “HE” and “His Excellency”.
NOCMA Acting Director Helen Buluma
According to the clip , a voice purportedly of Chaima Banda claims that the Principal had vested interests in the fuel contracts as far as he wanted Malawians to benefit from all contracts that would be awarded through a merit based competitive bidding by ensuring that these companies supported his vision through community investments in social corporate responsibility projects.
Chaima Banda is heard telling Buluma that the President wanted Finergy and all other suppliers upon winning awards to commit that they would undertake some corporate social responsibilities such as rehabilitating health centres, as part of the deal. No where in the conversation is Chaima making reference to bribes. In principle Chaima Banda makes it categorically clear that the,suppliers,should not indulge in habits of bribing officials at the expense of Malawians. Miss Buluma is heard in the recording asking trapping questions to Mr Chaima Banda without much success. From the recording it is now becoming clear that she was working for and,with some people who sent her to get all the three suspects on the wrong footing.
It is alleged that Miss Buluma,has recorded a lot top officials in the Tonse government and,she is using such recording to blackmail them to keep her in the job at NOCMA, despite evidence that she is giving information to DPP top brass on exchanges of money currently going through the currently awarded NOCMA deals of which Finergy and Orexy are not part of. The Cross Examination of Miss Buluma starts tomorrow when her story can be tested. to stretching limits.
