Rezine Mzikamanda
Director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), I would instruct officials in my office to investigate allegations that former first lady Callista Mutharika used her taxpayer-funded position at Safe Motherhood and Early Childhood Development to run her personal foundation.
If I were the ACB boss, I would appreciate that there is every reason to jostle my officers into action and come to the bottom of the issue if findings by the latest edition of Nation on Sunday are anything to go by.
How I wish I were the ACB director, because I would realise that if the claims by Mutharika’s successor Dorothy Ngoma to the effect that she found no record of the government initiative’s activities when she took over from the former first lady are anything to go by, then it raises eyebrows.
Yes, the former first lady might not have been involved in dubious activities during her tenure, but it is necessary that the issue be probed in order to clear any suspicions, as raised by health rights activist Martha Kwataine.
If only I were Mzikamanda, I would realise that such revelations that money meant for government was being channelled into her foundation, is an element of abuse and hence, the need to probe the issue.
That is if only I happened to be the ACB head, but I am not Justice Mzikamanda, am I?
