By Sam Sotta
One by one, the big men have fallen.
Senior Cabinet ministers. Power brokers. Untouchables in the previous administration of Lazarus Chakwera and Malaqi Congress Party (MCP). Arrested. Charged. Paraded before cameras. Released on bail, yes — but processed all the same.
Yet in this storm, one name remains strangely untouched: Simplex Chithyola.
The former Minister of Finance walks free while his peers shuffle between courtrooms and lawyers’ offices. No arrest. No public charge. No police drama.
Coincidence?
Or protection?
Serious allegations are circulating in political circles — allegations that powerful figures in the current DPP establishment may have been demanding staggering sums of money from Chithyola in exchange for shielding him from arrest. We are talking about figures whispered to run into billions of kwacha.
If true, they would expose a protection racket operating at the highest levels of power.
Recently, Chithyola secured a court order stopping police from searching his Namuleri farm in Kasungu, where investigators reportedly wanted to inspect fertilizer bags allegedly stolen from NEEF. The search never happened.
Why?
If the law is moving decisively against others, why is it tiptoeing here?
Is this about lack of evidence — or abundance of influence?
And if money is indeed changing hands, how much buys freedom in today’s Malawi?
In politics, patterns matter.
When everyone else is being arrested except one man, that is not just a legal anomaly. It is a political statement.
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Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article are those of the author not necessarily of The Maravi Post or Editor
