20 Apr 2021
Malawi’s government has fired its labor minister and ordered police to arrest several other government officials for misusing Chinese coronavirus funds, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera announced Sunday.
President Chakwera said he had commissioned an audit to determine how a sum of $7.95 million intended for Malawi’s official coronavirus government response had been spent. The audit found that some of the aid package “had vanished, been misused, and left idle,” Chakwera said, according to Reuters.
“As I speak, over a dozen individuals suspected of committing the crimes exposed by this audit report have been arrested,” Chakwera said during a nationally televised speech on April 18. He added that members of Malawi’s office of the president and cabinet were among those arrested.
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Police Arrest 14 Over Covid-19 Funds Scandal
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Malawi Police in Blantyre have arrested former director of information Mzati Nkolokosa, Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services deputy director-general, Pedusiane Makalamba, principal accountant Keith Chikonda, and Blantyre City Council chief fire officer, Prescott Sailesi for their implication in the K6.2 billion investigative audit report on Covid-19 Response Funds.
Nkolokosa arrested
However, Malawi Police Service national spokesperson James Kadadzera has said that they are releasing a media statement on the arrests soon.
The arrest comes hours after police in Lilongwe arrested Mainja of Pest Chem B1.
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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).