President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has secretly ordered a 40% increment for Judges salaries and other perks.
According to our impeccable sources, the President has increased their salaries to K3,000,000,00 per month amongst other benefits.
The development comes barely a week after the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) filed an application seeking the nullification of 2020 Fresh Presidential Elections.
The DPP filed the application following a High Court ruling that fired four commissioners of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) who presided over the elections.
The DPP argues that the elections were managed by a commission that included commissioners who were not duly appointed hence should be nullified.
In the 2020 presidential elections, Tonse Alliance’s Lazarus Chakwera beat DPP’s Peter Mutharika.
Mutharika was the incumbent at the time and he appointed new MEC commissioners weeks before the polls.
The commissioners included four nominated by the DPP and two nominated by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) which is led by Chakwera.
Justice Kenyatta Nyirenda earlier this month ruled that the law compelled Mutharika to appoint equal number of commissioners from the two parties.
Nyirenda then cancelled the appointments of the four DPP commissioners and ordered the DPP to submit three names to the president.
The fired DPP commissioners are Arthur Nanthulu, Steve Duwa, Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga.
The DPP has since replaced them with Francis Lazaro Kasaila, Emmanuel Fabiano and Caroline Mfune.
The three together with Richard Chapweteka, who was nominated by the Malawi Congress Party, were appointed by Chakwera last week.
When we say we have lots of money in this country you think we are joking. Dpp proved it all. It only takes big brains like that of apm, goodall, mwanamvekha and kabambe to manage them. Its laughable to see how teachers were denied a mere k4000 risk allowance for masks and sanitisers and yet couple of judges have been added k1200000 to their monthly salaries. What is clear with us malawians is selfishnes and envy. Kabambe is facing prosecution for responding to apm’s call of government departments to help in curbing n-cov. The k6.2bn released was all swindled by utmcp gurus and none of them faces any charge. This is really new malawi. How can you accuse someone for wrong doing and yet you’re maintaining the same wrong thing and even stealing from it? This is hypocrisy of the highest order. All what can be seen is that only few individuals benefit from the 1st account. Utmcp lacks cross cut vission for this country.