Corruption Alleged in Malawi Committee Vote on Anti-Graft Chief
Voice of America
BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera said Wednesday that efforts to fight corruption would be delayed because a parliamentary panel rejected his choice to head the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Addressing Parliament, Chakwera said he was dismayed and disappointed by the committee's rejection of his nominee, Martha Chizuma, a day earlier. "Not only does this decision deny Malawians the services of a strong warrior, but it also delays our plan to empower the ACB to recruit additional prosecutors and implement the National Anti-Corruption Strategy II of 2019-2024,” he said. The Public Appointments Committee of Parliament said Tuesday that Chizuma failed to get the scores required for confirmation.Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024. Fire rages following an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced Palestinians, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still picture taken from a video, May 26, 2024. Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024. A member of the bomb squad of the Israeli police collects debris after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants struck in the Israeli city of Herzliya on May 26, 2024.