The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised the Malawi Police to hunt for cashgate suspect Limumba Karim whose bail has been revoked by the High Court in Lilongwe.
The Court revoked bail after it learnt that the suspect had jumped bail on the pretext that he was unwell.
DPP Mary Kachale told local press that efforts to get proof of the suspect’s ill health proved futile, hence her application to have Karim’s bail revoked.
Manondo and Kumwembe handcuffed after conviction enroute to Prison
Raphael Kasambara is being bested by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in court and he has started cracking up, making mistakes a seasoned lawyer should not make in such a high profile case. Especially when the reputed lawyer has himself as a client. The reputed lawyer was strongly warned by the Judge against using threats to persecutors after he said he would slap Mary Kachale after he got objected on a question he posed to a witness in the shooting case of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Continue reading Raphael Kasambara falling apart in court, threatens bodily harm to prosecutor Mary Kachale→
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost). Malawi Police has extended bail for the arrested top officials of the Malawi Congress Party namely Dr Jessie Kabwira, Peter Chankhwatha who are both Member of Parliaments (MPs) and shadow MP Ulemu Msungama. The three were politically by the Peter Mutharika administration and were charged with treason and sedition charges.
Raphael Kasambara from Minister to accused attempted Murderer
High Court in Lilongwe has reinstated bail for lawyer and former justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Raphael Kasambara and former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe.
Kasambara and Kumwembe’s bails were revoked by High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on September 23, 2015 over what he claimed was an infringement on his private space by allegedly accessing his private information; making them to spend five and four months respectively on remand at Maula prison.
Kasambara- Answering charges of conspiracy to murder Mphwiyo
It would be hard to admit that we were wrong about ?Director of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice Mary Kachale. News coming of the court this morning indicate that Mousy Mary Kachale is getting under the skin of seasoned and until now respected lawyer Raphael Kasambara
Raphael Kasambara, Businessman Pika Manondo and Macdonald Kumwembe are answering attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder charges on former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo.
Kasambara being arrogant decided he was going to defend himself. Apparently he never heard the saying that “a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”
Kasambara has now had two major decisions go against him. If you were counting the score it is 2 – 0 for mousy looking Mary Kachale.
First a Malawi judge after listening to Mary Kachale detail the case against Raphael Kasambara decided “YES” the famed lawyer had a case to answer and the case was bound for trial.
Second Mary Kachale petitioned the court to revoke Bail for Kasambara. After long arguments in court Kasambara lost again and he now languishes in Jail. He appeared to be not bothered when he daily updated his Facebook status with bravado. Now he knows Kachale is a worthwhile foe. She has shown her cards and Kasambara so far has been less than his reputation.
What happened this morning during cross examination, Raphael Kasambara had wanted to establish a fact that on 13th September 2013 he went to Kamuzu International Airport to welcome former South African president Thabo Mbeki and on 14th September he went to Livingstonia Beach in Salima.
Kasambara: In your testimony, you said we went together to Salima on 14 September with Mr Mbeki?
Gani: Yes
Kasambara: Are you aware that a day before I went to the airport to welcome Mbeki during my tour of duty as Minister of Justice?
Gani: Yes
Then Prosecutor Mary Kachale stood to raise an objection, accusing Kasambara of misleading the witness.
“Objection my Lord, the questioning line is misleading the witness to say two statements”; said Kachale.
After presiding Judge Michael Ntambo asked Kasambara on his question tactics, he explained that all he wanted was to ask if Gani, his bodyguard when he was minister, was with him at the airport.
“Misleading”; emphasized Kachale.
Kasambara after being Challenged blew his cool, “With due respect Madam please don’t let me lose my temper, let the court decide on this one.”
Before Ntambo made his determination, Kasambara asked for five minutes adjournment.
“Thirty seconds it’s enough”; ruled Ntambo.
Mphwiyo’s shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money dubbed Cashgate.
He is on record telling the court that Brown Mpinganjira, a senior government official in the former Joyce Banda administration, warned him that Kasambara and another former ruling People’s Party (PP) official Hophmally Makande, had given him ‘ten days to live’ unless he honoured certain government payments.
Makande is not on trial for the case but testified that he had nothing to do with government payments.
Long time Malawi Politician Brown Mpinganjira is yet to testify.
Paul Mphwiyo still retains some iron in his body from the bullets that could not be pulled safely by doctors.
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