BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi’s renown radio satirist, Bwande, which airs on MIJ FM and shared widely through other platforms has reprimanded embattled Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Martha Chizuma of being slow in her operations.
Bwande says since Chizuma assumed office she has failed to expedite cases after initiating arrests on so many cases.
Using a skit around a lady named Mwandida who has been suspended from work and arrested for alleged corruption, Bwande points out at how the bureau is leaving everyone it arrests in suspense for a long time.
True to this, Chizuma’s ACB has arrested so many people since February 2021. To everyone’s surprise those arrests have not yielded anything as the suspects have not been taken to court after their successful bail application.
This tendency, Bwande argues, destroys livelihoods as people start suffering socially and economically even when they are innocent until proven guilty.
Most of the people that were arrested lost their jobs or were suspended waiting for the courts to clear them through a judicial process.
Bwande’s take has over the past months been shared by other quarters as well.
Others that have spoken on the same include governance experts Humphreys Mvula, Unandi Banda of National Electoral Systems Trust (Nest) and legal experts Kamudoni Nyasulu.
Other reasons attributed to Chizuma’s incompetence are to do with her failure to work in coordination with other state agencies in the fight against corruption.
She is failing to work closely with offices of Attorney General (AG), Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Malawi Police, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA).
Chizuma is also wanted in court over leaked audio’s defamation lawsuit.
She has however remained with 18 months before her contracts expires at ACB.
