In our continued investigations into the East Bridge Estate deal, we have come across a strong hint that the Malawi Law Society is discussing launching an investigation into legal processes around the deal.
Our sources say justification for this is the public interest generated by the commodity exchange deal.
The MLS intends to establish, for example, why procurement laws and regulations were allegedly not followed, especially as the ACB appears to hold a different view on how PPDA should have handled a request from the ministry of agriculture for guidance on the transaction with East Bridge of Romania.
While ACB expected PPDA to invoke section 31 of the PPDA Act in the said request, PPDA responded that the transaction was not provided for in the public procurement framework.
The ACB also observed that the same ministry of agriculture wrote ACB demanding due diligence on the Romanian company when the ACB expected submission for vetting of procurement of the deal through PPDA as provided for under the PPDA Act in such matters.
ACB spokesperson Egritta Ndala says the Ministry
of Agriculture wrote the Bureau asking for the due diligence on EastBridge in April this year.
