ACB arrests man who got paid K1bn
There is more dirt coming out from the Capital Hill cash-gate scandal with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) yesterday arresting yet another businessperson who got paid over K1 billion (about $2.5m) by Malawi Government without a contract.
In a statement issued on Monday, ACB said the businessperson, Stafford Mpoola, had no contract with government but was paid a sum of K1 113 397 413.31.
The bureau, in the statement signed by its spokesperson Egrita Ndala, said the suspect may be charged with procuring corrupt use of official powers contrary to Section 25 (2) of the Corrupt Practices Act and obtaining money by false pretence contrary to Section 319 of the Penal Code.
Reads the ACB statement in part: “On 12th September 2013, the Anti-Corruption Bureau received a complaint alleging that government officers at Capital Hill were making entries in the Integrated Financial Management Information System [Ifmis].
“The Anti-Corruption Bureau immediately instituted investigations. The investigations found that Mr. Stafford Mpoola, a businessman trading as Stadal Building Construction and signatory to Dan Civil Engineering and Building Contractors, received various sums of money amounting to K1 113 397 413.31. The bureau established that there was no contract between government and Stadal Building Construction or Dan Civil Engineering and Building Contractors.”
Last week, ACB also arrested an assistant accountant in the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Frank Mwanza, for allegedly making payments worth over K1 billion to International Procurement Services (IPS) which belongs to Oswald Lutepo, a member of the national executive committee of the ruling People’s Party (PP).
Lutepo is PP deputy director of recruitment and sensitisation.
Responding to a specific question from journalists on arrival from the United States of America (USA) on what she was going to do if an official of her PP was involved in the Capital Hill cash-gate scandal and claimed to have been assisting the party, President Joyce Banda said such smear tactics would not work because “a thief is the one who has stolen and [been] caught, and not the receiver.”
Mrs Banda muli m’madzi. Zakariya lero uyo waziona! Pano akukwanitsidwa mau akuti “Khoswe akakhala pa mkahte sapheka”. Lutepo protected and Mpoola arrested. Amai zimene mukuchita mukungocheza popeza simudziwa m’mene takwyira a Malawi. Mwina mukanali ndi ganizo loti tikukupatsani ulemu monga zinthu zinali pa chiyambi. Iwalani zimenezo chifukwa boma lanu laononga kwambiri kuposa maboma onse am’mbuyomu. Muzitenge bwino zinthu’zi ndipo chilungamo chionekere bwinobwino apo zii mkwiyo wa a Malawi uchitika pa inu ngati kung’anima kwa mphenzi wotsatidwa ndi ukali wa bingu lalikuru.
Joyce Banda analunkhula mawu akuti Olandira siwakuba koma amene amatulutsa ndalama zaboma ku Capital Hill ndiye wakuba mauwa anayankhula Pozindikira kuti iyeyo (Joyce Banda) ndim’modzi mwa anthu amene akhala akulandira ndalama zankhani nkhani Zobedwa ku thumba laboma .Mukawonetsetsa nkhani yonseyi akuyizembetsa zembetsa powopa kuti khale khaleni Nayenso aululika .Amalawi tisayemekezere kuti anthu amene amangidwawa alangidwa mwa mtundu wina uliwonse chifukwa ionsewa amagwira ntchito ya bwana wamkulu Joyce Banda Herself the Biggest crook, Thief and looter ,Chimzimayi chonyasa ndimtima omwe Joyce Ulibe chifundo ndi amphawi mdziko muno. Koma udziwe ichi ndipo zimene ndinene pano ndichilungamo chokha chokha Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda ngakhale utalemera chotani ndi ndalama zathu zamsonkho Sudzapezanso mtendere moyo wako onse ndipo udzafa imfa yonzunza kwambiri Kuposera amphawi amene amwalira chifukwa chakusowa kwa mankhwala ndichithandizo mzipatala za boma pakanali pano anthu mazana mazana akuvutika ndi njala mdziko muno inu ndalama mukutakata. takatani ndinthawi yanu . Ife sitingakugundeni koma Yehova yekha wankulu Akulangani mwamphamvu zake ndi nzeru zake zones.
“Anawatsitsa Anthu amphamvu zawo ndikudzitama Pampando wachifumu,
Nawatenga Anthu osauka ndikuwapatsa ulemelero Osatha”
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