JB dissolves Cabinet
Malawi President Joyce Banda has dissolved her Cabinet following calls from donors, civil society organisations the media and other quarters to act on those involved in massive looting of public funds at Capital Hill.
Banda’s Cabinet dissolution comes barely a few hours after she met Cabinet at Chikoko Bay in Mangochi.
In a statement from State House, Presidential Secretary Steve Nhlane said: “Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda, President of the Republic of Malawi, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by Section 94 (1) and Section 95 (2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Malawi, has today, 10th October 2013, dissolved Cabinet.
Following the dissolution of the Cabinet, all ministerial matters will revert to the Presidency through Controlling Officers. Her Excellency the President will announce a new Cabinet in due course”.
Banda came under heavy fire from all quarters of society following reports of looting of public funds by some civil servants at Capital Hill.
About 10 arrests have been made so far, but some CSO’s are posing questions as to why ‘big fish’ in government have not been arrested over the cash-gate saga.
Earlier today the Consumer Association of Malawi (Cama) executive director John Kapito warned Malawians not to elect a president with a record of mismanagement of government coffers.
Kapito was addressing demonstrators who marched to Lilongwe District Commissioner to deliver a petition demanding the firing of senior government officials including Finance Minister Ken Lipenga.
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If only the president can start listening.Taking on board those politicians and top government officials was a bad idea.She can still do good by sucking them all and start a fresh for her own survival.we are fed up seeing the same faces over and over again in different party colours.this is surely a sign of weakness
This woman is a thief herself so this move is completely stupid just to blind ignorant idiots that she is doing something. This move has no effect unless she bakha herself resigns and let an autonomous intitute investigate the issue! period. Amalawi umbuli, tulo and kutengeka ndi za zii! This generation is of completely dunderheads. If this stupidness is what you hail as politics while your relatives in the villages are suffering then you must be really foolish! Wake up you dead bodies! you obsoletes! its been too long you are lying in those shaby grave yards! wake up! the care takers of your cemeteries are long just interested in squandering its treasures! Untangle yourselves, you lazy bones, from the web of ignorance seen with naked eyes on your faces! Its high time you have been telling yourself lies that you have knowledge, alas! you are cheating yourself! munthu wakufa ngati iwe ukuchita matama achani? wake up !, stand up! go wash your face! for your children will suffer for decades to come. Even the God , whom you ignorantly believe, helps those who starts to help themselves first! Dont you see your negative uncertain future? You lazy fellow, nothing is for free, you need to sweat for sweet! Wake up you lazy bone or your children will suffer for decades to come, they will be slaves for millions of years to come! Wake up now lazy bone, awake yourself!
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