An exclusive interview with the Anti Corruption Bureau spokesperson Egritta Mdala suggests President Lazarus Chakwera doctored a report that was sent to him in an attempt to politically hang his Vice President Saulos Chilima.
In the interview aired on Zodiak’s Tiuzeni Zoona programme, the graft busting body has squarely put the blame on President Lazarus Chakwera for telling the public that investigations on Vice President Saulos Chilima were completed and what remained were formal charges.
Two months ago the President, quoting an ACB report, told the nation that Chilima and three other had there investigations on corruption complete and had cases to answer.
The President went ahead to withhold his delegation powers from his Vice while suspending State House Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga, dismissing Police IG as well as suspending the PPDA Chairperson.
But in the interview, Mdala – the ACB spokesperson – denied giving the President a report that had found anyone in the wrong or that the ACB had completed investigations.
“We gave the President a report that he demanded from us. We never said we had completed investigations on some people,” said Mdala failing short of saying the President lied or doctored the report to hang his deputy.
It has been over 90 days since the President humiliated his Vice President yet the ACB has never questioned or summoned him, attracting sympathy from the public that the act was indeed political to soil the Veep’s image.
The interview has catergoricary indicated that they only provided a general report to the President without indicating that investigations were completed on the Vice President.
That quote doesn’t suggest that Chakwera doctored the report. Don’t twist matters. How much have they given you?
Chakwera is the main architect of the shortage of every service in the country, fuel inclusive. If Chakwera listened to the advice Malawians of good will gave him concerning his appetite of globe trotting, some of the problems we are facing to day could easily be manageable. Instead he chose to cover his ears with cotton wool so that none of the advice got through into his reasoning faculty. Does it mean that all the grounding to a halt of all those services in the country should be attributed to his predecessors and yet he is the one who occupies the decision making seat? The buck obviously stops on the door steps of Kwantele, full-stop.
It beats me to hear his praise-team trying to shift the blame onto others by engaging in unnecessary damage control. You will hear them saying that the scarcity of “Forex’ in Malawi is because people are buying too much KAUNJIKA and buying second hand cars. If Malawi had the capacity to manufacture own fabrics, that argument could hold water, or if the country was manufacturing vehicles then buying second hand cars would not be advisable. Was it not Chakwera and his useless Attorney General who chose to shut down a cloths manufacturing industry? So where does the citizens in the country get their clothing, you want us to move about naked or wear tree barks, really?
The same praise singer this other day boldly had the audacity to claim that ‘Forex’ is in short supply because there wasn’t enough tobacco sold at the Auction Floors. Has that Clown already forgotten that his own boss once said Malawians must stop farming tobacco because the international community is about to ban its sales? Surprisingly, as the leader he is, he never came out to spell the alternative. Now if tobacco was banned on the world market, why should its missing at the Auction Floors be a headache to kwantele^s administration, that that is the cause for the scarcity of Forex; are these people thinking rationally as custodians of the government? If that is the calibre of administrators we have incharge of running the affairs of the country then we are indeed in real unretrievable sorry state. The country has been left at the mercy of the dogs!!!
What do you gain by telling lies?