“If the finger of evidence points at you, you are going to jail.” Police in Lilongwe this week arrested yet another top official at Ministry of Information suspected to be involved in abuse and mismanagement of K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds. Deputy Director for Publications, Edson Mwamvani was apprehended on Wednesday in the capital for […]
“If the finger of evidence points at you, you are going to jail.”
Police in Lilongwe this week arrested yet another top official at Ministry of Information suspected to be involved in abuse and mismanagement of K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds.
Deputy Director for Publications, Edson Mwamvani was apprehended on Wednesday in the capital for his alleged complicity in abuse of the money set aside by the government to help in the fight against the ravaging coronavirus global pandemic.
The Police have confirmed the arrest saying the officer was picked this week but they were coy to divulge more information on the matter saying “investigations are still underway” and that more arrests are likely to follow.
“…on consideration for a top State House job” President Lazarus Chakwera is allegedly shielding Director of Information Chikumbutso Mtumodzi’s arrest for his role in the plunder of K6.2 billion Covidgate scandal. Soundings by Mtumodzi to his peers also corroborated by a close Advisor to the President said the protection “no arrest” is because of an […]
“If you keep turning around to see how much you can carry away with you, … you will never progress. No man can swim ashore and take his baggage with him.” Epistula XXII: On the Futility of Halfway Measures, Seneca.
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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium” translated as “Moral Letters to Lucilius”, referred to by some scholars as “Letters from a Stoic” by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger), is a gold mine of a book.
It does not only ooze with inspirational wisdom; it also asks questions that can help a person become a better woman, man, professional or leader when honestly considered. I have extracted a few bits and bytes for our discourse today.
After last week’s discourse re: “Indecisiveness as the hallmark of President Lazarus Chakwera’s leadership this far”, it was a pleasant surprise for many to see Chakwera in action.
Whether the action was just or unjust, legally tenable or untenable or whatever, Chakwera took action.
As I had argued last week, it is only by trying and /or doing – let’s call it experimenting, that lessons are learnt. Remember that had Thomas Edison not tried and at first, failed, he would never have invented the light bulb.
I, therefore, won’t scapegoat Chakwera for the controversy that has followed his rescinding Linda Kunje’s and Jean Mathanga’s appointments as commissioners of the Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec).