April 20, 2021 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 1 Comment
Malawi Law Society has faulted President Lazarus Chakwera for ordering public officials suspecting of squandering the Covid-19 funds be suspended without pay and backs the legal advice given by Attorney General (AG) Chikosa Silungwe to the Department of Human Resource Management and Development and the Accountant General’s office that the withholding of pay for public officers on interdiction is illegal.
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In a national address on Sunday, Chakwera said he had directed the Secretary to the President and Cabinet Zanga-Zanga Chikhosi, to interdict without pay those public officers on whose direct watch the financial mismanagement occurred.
Supreme Court Judge Dunstain Mwaungulu is not giving in to a High Court order that he should not comment on live court cases on Facebook saying he has a right to do so.
In his order on the Norman Chisale’s Assets case to the Chief Justice for certification, High Court Judge Mike Tembo severely reprimanded Mwaungulu for taking live judicial matters to the social media, particularly on his Facebook page.
He said such court matters have the potential to end up in the Supreme Court of Appeal where Mwaungulu currently sits.
“The habit is untenable, objectionable and unbecoming to say the least,” said Tembo
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According to the ruling which has just been delivered, it says the case is a constitutional matter.
Judge Tembo has also ruled that Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) was within powers to institute assets recovery proceedings against Chisale.
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The High Court in Blantyre has this morning failed to convene to deliver a ruling on whether business mogul Thomson Mpinganjira has a case to answer in his alleged Constitutional Court judges bribery case.
Registrar of the High Court and Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, Gladys Gondwe, has told Nation Online that the court has failed to convene because Mpinganjira was unable to appear before the court.
However, Gondwe said parties to the case will virtually meet on March 22, 2021 for Mpinganjira’s lawyers to give an update on the status of their client regarding his appearance before the court.
Mpinganjira, who was arrested in January last year, is accused of attempting to bribe five Constitutional Court judges who presided over the historic presidential election case to rule in favour of former president Peter Mutharika.