March 5, 2021 Wanangwa Mtawali-Nyasa Times 2 Comments
Foundation for Irrigation and Sustainable Development (Fisd) Limited lawyer, Gift Nankhuni, on Friday, March 5, asked the Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court to discharge a case involving four Fisd directors, arguing the State “is not serious and ready to prosecute the case”.
The four Fisd directors conferring with their lawyer outside the magistrate court in Lilongwe
However, prosecutor Levi Mangani, asked the court to give the State 30 more days so it would “wind up” its investigations on the matter.
Senior Resident Magistrate Shyreen Chirwa has since accepted the State’s plea and adjourned hearing of the case to 6 April, 2021.
January 20, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 6 Comments
Malawi government is at fault for failing to commerce the fraud charges levelled again four Foundation for Irrigation and Sustainable Development (FISD) Limited directors two months after their releases on bail.
FISD directors ( from left in mask, Frank Mwenechanya and Kondwani Nanchukwa)
Nankhuni: This is very unfair for just arresting individuals for malice to tarnish their company’s image that it loses business
Since FISD directors namely Frank Mwenechanya, Arthur Mpama, Moses Chirambo and Kondwani Nanchukwa were released on bail on November 13,2020, the State prosecutors have failed to show up at court with formal charges as expected on the way the four were arrested