{"id":22724,"date":"2022-05-14T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T14:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-cautions-against-chizumas-removal-from-acb"},"modified":"2022-05-14T17:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T17:43:25","slug":"cdedi-cautions-against-chizumas-removal-from-acb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-cautions-against-chizumas-removal-from-acb","title":{"rendered":"CDEDI cautions against Chizuma\u2019s removal from ACB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has cautioned the Public Appointments Committee (PAC) of Parliament against acting on calls by some Malawians to have the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General, Martha Chizuma, fired over a leaked phone conversation early this year.<\/p>\n

Some Concerned Citizens over the weekend held demonstrations in Lilongwe, demanding the removal of Chizuma from the graft busting body for breaking her Oath of Secrecy.<\/p>\n

However, President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera declared that he still has trust in the ACB czar effectively ruling out possibilities of dismissal over the said matter.<\/p>\n

CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa, while not directly commenting on Chakwera\u2019s decision to defend Chizuma, says Chizuma\u2019s very firm stance in the fight against corruption has proven to be a threat to corrupt individuals who are now employing every trick in the book to frustrate her resolve to eliminate the vice.<\/p>\n

In his letter to PAC Chairperson Joyce Chitsulo and copied to a number of public institutions, Namiwa wonders why there is deafening silence from the United Democratic Front (UDF) President Atupele Muluzi, and the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (LoP) Kondwani Nankhumwa and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), among others, as people push for the removal of Chizuma from her position.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from rallying their support behind the ACB Director, the UDF has moved a step further to suspend the party\u2019s District Governor for Chikwawa, Mr. Mpompho, who is suspected to have travelled all the way to Mzuzu to commence criminal investigations against Martha Chizuma. All the well- meaning Malawians had expected to see these major political parties rallying behind the ACB Director, in order to show their solidarity that they mean well for this country, but Ney!<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you are reading this letter Madam Chairperson, the side that is trying so hard to make sure that evil should triumph over good, is very loud to an extent that they have petitioned your office to see to it that the ACB Director is removed from office, while conveniently forgetting that a criminal offense was committed when madam Chizuma\u2019s telephone conversation was recorded and leaked, and that there is a High Court order regarding this very same issue,\u201d reads part of the letter.<\/p>\n

Namiwa adds that any attempts to discredit, frustrate, or halt the ongoing investigations at the ACB will be treated as a war against Malawians, and such actions are likely going to attract the wrath of the Malawian voters who also double as taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we have all the reasons to suspect that all these attempts to remove the ACB Director from office, are aimed at foiling these investigations, particularly those concerning the high-profile individuals. It is against this background that CDEDI is challenging PAC to seize the opportunity that has availed itself by the recent petition that was received by Hon. Arthur Chipungu on behalf of the committee, to unveil this hitherto unknown person that recorded and leaked the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from letting him face the long arm of the law, Malawians have the right to know his motive and intentions for the act. It is therefore only fair and prudent that the entire committee membership should take a deep reflection and soul searching before taking any course of action,\u201d says Namiwa.<\/p>\n

He claims that \u201call eyes are now on PAC as to whether the committee will join in crucifying Martha Chizuma, whose only crime is her detest for corruption, or side with Malawians whose lives are getting worse every day because of some selfish and corrupt individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of this nation will be determined by PAC\u2019s cause of action, which will show whether the country has either won or lost the battle against corruption. Either way, Malawi shall go down in the annals of history as a country that at one point in time was captured by a single individual, right from the Head of State, down to parliament via state agencies to the civil society; or as a nation that stood firm in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast but not the least, the outcome of the ongoing investigations on corruption scandals a the ACB, shall haunt us all as a nation for generations to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cTherefore, those in copy of this letter, are strongly challenged to act within their jurisdictions and mandate to liberate millions of Malawians that are walloping in dehumanizing poverty as a result of the same endemic corruption,\u201d thus Namiwa concludes his letter.<\/p>\n

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