CRAZY BINGU!!!

Ngwazi · Guru

CRAZY BINGU!!!

game · Guru

i thought the ACB was an independent entity,why is the president trying to run his nose in its affairs?so everything is a political witch hunt by the look of things.

awmygawd · Guru

Ngwazi wrote:

Folks,

Just over a week ago,our whisky loving President suspended the Director of ACB,Gustav Kaliwo for arresting Muluzi without consulting him.Today we are hearing that he has ordered the Diirector of Public Prosecutions(DPP),Ishmael Wadi to resign by 09:00 hrs on Friday for dropping the charges against Muluzi without consulting him,is he normal?Whats going on?

Apparently just because he was not "consulted",both have been attacked for doing their jobs.He feels they both are undermining his government,Kaliwo for arresting Muluzi and charging him and Wadi for dropping those charges,which is which now?

This Bingu is really crazy!!!

I'm surprised you're critical of Kaliwo's suspension. Just two weeks ago you were equally as critical of the timing of Muluzi's arrest saying "it was poor timing whether Muluzi is guilty or not and any politician worth his salt could not have made such a stupid mistake that will have profound impact on the poor man in the street" (http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=8720&p=3&topicID=7797588. Now, if Kaliwo indeed acted against direct recommendations NOT to carry out the arrest at that specific point in time, and proceeded to do so anyway, that's hardly excusable, is it? Where would the country be if the opposition had decided to retaliate by rejecting the budget? (It's not like they aren't capable of it, approval of the Information Ministry allocation was held up because opposition parliamentarians wanted a verbal apology, whatever for, from its minister). In my opinion, not to reconsider the position of anyone who puts the public interest at such unnecessarily high risk would be very irresponsible.

I don't know about the DPP though; my knowledge of that story is rather limited.

-- Edited by awmygawd at 17:27, 2006-08-10

Ngwazi · Guru

awmygawd wrote:

I'm surprised you're critical of Kaliwo's suspension. Just two weeks ago you were equally as critical of the timing of Muluzi's arrest

awmygawd,

Yes I criticised the actions of Kaliwo then and do so now bearing in mind the political impasse in parliament at that time.However we have to be honest with ourselves,I mean both of them could not have acted without"consulting "Bingu knowing pretty well how sensitive the issue is/was.If one is suspended for making a mistake and another is told to resign for "correcting" that mistake,isn't that hypocrisy on the part of the President?what does he want?I might give Bingu the benefit of the doubt on Kaliwo but I doubt if Wadi could have acted without consultation knowing how volatile Bingu is,no!

But again rumours are coming out of Malawi that he has been told to resign because he is suspected of being a UDF sympathiser,that might make sense!!

bingiza · Guru

Ngwazi wrote:

awmygawd wrote:

I'm surprised you're critical of Kaliwo's suspension. Just two weeks ago you were equally as critical of the timing of Muluzi's arrest

awmygawd,

Yes I criticised the actions of Kaliwo then and do so now bearing in mind the political impasse in parliament at that time.However we have to be honest with ourselves,I mean both of them could not have acted without"consulting "Bingu knowing pretty well how sensitive the issue is/was.If one is suspended for making a mistake and another is told to resign for "correcting" that mistake,isn't that hypocrisy on the part of the President?what does he want?I might give Bingu the benefit of the doubt on Kaliwo but I doubt if Wadi could have acted without consultation knowing how volatile Bingu is,no!

But again rumours are coming out of Malawi that he has been told to resign because he is suspected of being a UDF sympathiser,that might make sense!!

Too early to come in i havent gotten the stories sorrounding his "forced resignation" but the thing is it all smelt of hypocricy, in signing the warrant of arrest am sure he was presented with all the factual evidence (unless he says he just signed) but to come later and say ouright that Muluzi has no case, oh my how? this dude has a story to tell or the president has gotten it all wrong we are yet to get the full stories.

Mulopwana · Veteran Member

game wrote:

i thought the ACB was an independent entity,why is the president trying to run his nose in its affairs?so everything is a political witch hunt by the look of things.

If everybody was independent then there would be no government. You cant be independent when you were appointed. For the sake of national security and credibilty of the govt, the President was supposed to consulted on this important matter.

Ngwazi · Guru

Awmygawd,

I have copied the story below from the Daily times newspaper(online)of 14 August 2006.Please look at the bold and italised part.Thank you.

Let me meet Bingu--Wadi
BY MAXWELL NG’AMBI
05:37:13 - 14 August 2006

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Ishmael Wadi who President Bingu wa Mutharika last Thursday asked to resign within 24 hours, arrived Sunday from an official trip to South Africa, saying he hoped there would be a quick solution to the matter.

Wadi, who disembarked from a South African Airways plane at 12.45 pm at Kamuzu International Airport (Kia) in Lilongwe said: “We hope to find a quick solution between my employer and myself so that the conduct of criminal proceedings is not affected.”

He did not specify which criminal proceedings he was referring to.

However, Wadi has been handling high profile cases like the treason case where Vice-President Cassim Chilumpha is accused of plotting to kill Mutharika and the Fieldyork case involving former education minister Sam Mpasu.

Wadi, who was smiling all way through, looked composed in his blue suit and brown T-shirt.

In an interview, he said once everything is concluded government should take the opportunity to inform the public.

“Whatever would be concluded, government would be the one to take the opportunity to inform the public,” he said.

After meeting well-wishers outside the Very Important Persons (VIP) lounge, Wadi jumped into a black, tinted brand new looking private Toyota Avante 2.5 driven by his father.

When he officially opened the agricultural fair at trade fair grounds in Blantyre Thursday, Mutharika asked Wadi to resign in 24 hours because he discontinued a corruption and theft case against former president Bakili Muluzi without approval from the President.

“I want to ask Mr. Ishmael Wadi, Director of Public Prosecutions to tender his resignation letter within the next 24 hours. In other words, by noon Friday, the 11 of August, tomorrow, I want to see his resignation letter on my desk,” a visibly angry Mutharika demanded.

Mutharika claimed he did not have a hand in the withdrawal of charges against Muluzi, saying the DPP
went behind his back to discontinue the matter.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Gustave Kaliwo was a fortnight ago suspended by Mutharika on what was termed disciplinary grounds after he arrested and interrogated Muluzi at a time when a heated parliamentary budget was sitting. Kaliwo has since voluntarily resigned.

Meanwhile, Mutharika has left the world wondering what his real position on the Muluzi graft case was, having suspended Kaliwo when the former president was arrested and asking Wadi to resign after he
discontinued the same case.

The Malawi Law Society (MLS) and Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) have condemned the
manner in which Mutharika is firing senior public officers without giving them reasons and ignoring labour laws.