{"id":40465,"date":"2023-02-10T21:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/donors-meet-lazarus-chakwera-hours-after-martha-chizuma-suspension"},"modified":"2023-02-10T21:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:41:27","slug":"donors-meet-lazarus-chakwera-hours-after-martha-chizuma-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/donors-meet-lazarus-chakwera-hours-after-martha-chizuma-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Donors meet Lazarus Chakwera hours after Martha Chizuma suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Hours after it emerged that government had interdicted the Anti-Corruption Bureau Director General Martha Chizuma, donors held an emergency meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by another meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday. The donors have been in meetings since Thursday and went into another meeting yesterday after the Kamuzu Palace meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting with Chakwera Friday, among others, discussed Chizuma\u2019s interdiction. It is understood that the donors wanted to know if the President was aware of the interdiction which was issued by the Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Colleen Zamba.<\/p>\n<p>Sources within the diplomatic community confirmed the meeting between the donors and Chakwera. \u201cI can confirm to you that the meeting took place. My boss was one of the ambassadors that attended the meeting from around 10am to 1PM,\u201d said one source.<\/p>\n<p>Another contact also corroborated this, adding that so far, the ambassadors are cautious on rushing to make a statement on their position regarding Chizuma\u2019s interdiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe donors have been in meetings since yesterday [Thursday] and from the State House they went into another meeting,\u201d another source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey say they will not say anything now,\u201d the source said. The source added that one of the issues raised during the meeting was whether Chakwera was aware of the interdiction. Chakwera\u2019s Press Secretary Anthony Kasunda confirmed the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President met with the development partners this morning and held candid discussions with them and the dialogue will continue in the coming days in the spirit of bilateral trust and solidarity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When she was arrested on December 6, 2022, the United States of America Ambassador to Malawi, David Young, expressed his concern, arguing those responsible must be held to account.<\/p>\n<p>Young said the government must focus all its energy on fighting corruption because the vice undermines democracy and prevents Malawi from realising its potential.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy issued a statement in which it condemned the way Chizuma was arrested and further reminded Malawi that the US government recognised Chizuma as one of the champions fighting corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US government reminds the Malawi government that the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken last year announced Chizuma as an Anti-corruption Champion, one of only 12 honourees globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was in recognition of not only her great courage in standing up against corruption in her professional capacity, but of the institutions and structures in Malawi that make investigation, prosecution, and conviction of those guilty of corruption possible,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Hours after it emerged that government had interdicted the Anti-Corruption Bureau Director General Martha Chizuma, donors held an emergency meeting on Thursday. This was followed by another meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera on Friday. The donors have been in meetings since Thursday and went into another meeting yesterday after the Kamuzu Palace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,306,234,835,3528],"class_list":["post-40465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-martha-chizuma","tag-public-appointment-committee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Donors meet Lazarus Chakwera hours after Martha Chizuma suspension - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/donors-meet-lazarus-chakwera-hours-after-martha-chizuma-suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Donors meet Lazarus Chakwera hours after Martha Chizuma suspension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. 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