The officials named in the charges against Sattar and by the US State Department as recipients of the bribes include: Chilima President Lazarus Chakwera's chief of staff Prince Harvey Kapondamgaga (still serving) the Inspector-General of Police George Kainja lawyer for the Malawi police Mwambi Kaluba Chizuma's predecessor at the ACB Reyneck Matemba public procurement boss John Suzi Banda Dan Kuwali head of legal at the Malawi Defence Force (still serving) and three others...
At one point the ACB named 82 officials including Vice-President Saulos Chilima Chief of Staff for Malawi President Prince Kapondamgaga ministers judges public servants the Inspector-General of Police journalists and civil society leaders...
She dared to arrest a sitting vice-president and confirmed investigations of the President's Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga and ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Secretary -General Eisenhower Mkaka and even arrested her predecessor at the ACB Reyneck Matemba...
State House Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga was reported by the local Platform for Investigative Journalism to have agreed to turn state's witness and to have given up a car he received as an alleged bribe in return for criminal charges being dropped...
She was expected to arrest MCP Secretary-General Eisenhower Mkaka Chakwera's right-hand man his Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga and Kayuni in matters related to Sattar for the first two and allegations concerning allowances in the last...
It said the recordings 'demonstrate[s] Sattar's influence over and corruption of a number of senior public figures in Malawi including the Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima the Chief of Staff Prince Harvey Kapondamgaga the Malawian Solicitor General Reyneck Matemba the Inspector General of Malawi Police Service George Kainja a Malawi Police Service Lawyer: Mwambi Kaluba and the Chairperson of the PPDA [Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority] John Suzi Banda...
The new president's allies are mainly religious people and his choice of Farmers Union of Malawi Chief Executive Officer Prince Kapondamgaga as his Chief of Staff reveals his main preference for 'born-again' Pentecostalists with another advisor Sean Kampondeni who is also his son-in-law another of the key early appointments...
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