Malawi president sacks cabinet over corruption scandal , can this be done in Nigeria
Malawi leader Joyce Banda disintegrated the cabinet on Thursday after police apprehended some juvenile officials in her government in recent weeks on doubt of stealing state funds.
The presidency of the south African state said in a declaration that Banda, who came to office in April 2012, “will announce a new cabinet in due course.” It did not complicated.
The presidency had said on Wednesday that Banda would meet her cabinet the following day to talk about the economic scandal and who was to blame.
It did not reveal details of Thursday’s gathering, but a older government authorized, who inquired not to be named, said Banda told the cabinet that she had “lost belief” in them.
The scandal, renowned in the local area as “cash-gate”, forced the government to fasten down its fee system last week so that it could investigate over $4 million that went missing, delaying the fee of wages to educators, doctors and medical practitioners.
Banda, who faces an election next year, has won acclaim in the West for austerity assesses and moves to boost the economy of the aid-dependent, impoverished country.
But steps such as an IMF-backed devaluation of the kwacha currency have stoked inflation, increased the price of nourishment for the rural poor and decayed Banda’s domestic support.
The police said that about 10 juvenile government agents had been apprehended so far for supposed graft, and that they had retrieved tens of thousands of dollars in cash from their vehicle boots and dwellings.
A little group of protesters marched in the capital Lilongwe on Thursday and delivered a petition calling for the dismissing of peak agents, including investment Minister Ken Lipenga, over the scandal. Lipenga has denied any wrongdoing. He was not directly accessible for commentary on Thursday.
Last week, envoys from eight Western donor nations, whose aid conventionally has accounted for about 40 per hundred of the state allowance, asked Banda to deal with the alleged corruption at the treasury and investigate an strike on the budget controller.
“These are worrying expansion that possibly risk Malawi’s steadiness, rule of law and reputation,” the envoys said in a declaration.
Budget director Paul Mphwiyo was shot last month, but survived the strike.
After the shooting, the government’s Anti-Corruption Bureau and policemanman commenced an investigation into the budget director and unnamed ministers over supposed graft, indicating the scandal extended beyond just a couple of juvenile agents.
“People have lost self-assurance in (Banda’s) leadership and the best thing she can do is to alignment the apprehend of senior officials engaged and ask her investment minister to resign,” Lazarus Chakwera, foremost of the disagreement MCP, said at a public rally over the weekend.
Malawi’s worried finances has shown signs of improvement in the past few months with inflation that was once running over 30 percent alleviating somewhat, while profits from its major trade goods tobacco are anticipated to double this year from 2012.
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