It has not had a Director General since March 2024 when the contract of the fiery Martha Chizuma was not renewed...
Chakwera's silence on corruption extends to his weakening of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) which has lacked a director since Martha Chizuma's contract ended in May 2024 (AC Vol 65 No 13 No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo)...
The Sattar investigation started as a joint enterprise between Malawi's crusading Anti-Corruption Bureau Director Martha Chizuma and the International Corruption Unit of the UK's National Crime Agency which first arrested him in October 2021 and raided his premises in the English city of Leicester while the ACB raided his premises in Malawi...
With the end of ACB director Martha Chizuma's term of office in May all hope of successful corruption prosecutions has been abandoned...
President Chakwera on the other hand has proclaimed ‘I didn't know' to abused Covid-19 funds the arrest of then Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Martha Chizuma and other scandals and he is slow to act when his closest officials are accused (AC Vol 65 No 13 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)...
The decision marks the end of the turbulent four-year tenure of ACB Director-General Martha Chizuma who leaves the agency this month...
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)...
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)...
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)...
