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Martha Chizuma


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No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo

Many Malawians feel the book has now closed on the campaign by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Martha Chizuma to bring dozens of Malawian and foreign businesspeople and politicians to justice for wholesale bribery mostly procurement fraud...

After further electoral and political tumult Chilima found himself once more in government but he was arrested by the highly active Anti-Corruption Bureau under Martha Chizuma in November 2022 in connection with a US$150 million bribery case (AC Vol 63 No 12 Bribery accusations engulf government)...


Veep graft case abandoned

The decision marks the end of the turbulent four-year tenure of ACB Director-General Martha Chizuma who leaves the agency this month...


Generals persist with banned arms deal

ACB director Martha Chizuma came under extraordinary pressure to drop the investigation from members of Chakwera's government and was herself arrested on what turned out to be bogus charges (AC Vol 63 No 3 Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera)...


Bribes case on the rocks

ACB Director-General Martha Chizuma's investigations of bribery and procurement riled the establishment and saw her arrested on a trumped-up charge and then improperly removed from office before she was reinstated (AC Vol 64 No 4 Anti-corruption furore goes global)...


Mutharika manoeuvres for a comeback

Delay in Malawi was caused by the efforts of government law officers to unseat ACB director Martha Chizuma (AC Vol 64 No 4 Anti-corruption furore goes global)...


Anti-corruption furore goes global

The government has launched a war of attrition against the courts as it tries to stop Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director-General Martha Chizuma from investigating top politicians and their links to a British-Malawian businessman...

• The day after Africa Confidential published this article the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew all criminal charges against Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma...

Donors signal their outrage A delegation of western ambassadors held a three-hour meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera at State House on 3 February over the government's obsession with stopping Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma from investigating high-level corruption...


Bribery accusations engulf government

One of the NCA's arguments in support of the travel ban was its suspicion that Sattar is helping fund demonstrators in Malawi protesting against ACB director Martha Chizuma against whom they have threatened violence...


Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera

ACB chief Martha Chizuma has admitted she has come under pressure from the ruling party and the opposition but refused to give any details about it or about ongoing investigations concerning Sattar and other...


Chakwera loses his lustre

This makes Chakwera's appointment of a popular Ombudsman Martha Chizuma to head the Anti-Corruption Bureau all the more important...


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