Malawi: Banda sacks cabinet in corruption scandal
Issue 264
- 26 Oct 2013
| 2 minute read
On 10 October, President Joyce Banda sacked her cabinet amid allegations – dubbed the Capital Hill cash-gate scandal – of widespread government corruption. The scandal appears to have been sparked by the early September attempted assassination of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. At first, criminal elements were blamed for the shooting, but most Malawi observers now agree it was linked to a falling-out among corrupt officials who had been exploiting government accounting system loopholes to steal money. Some cabinet members were reinstated but, in mid-October, Banda named former World Bank economist Maxwell Mkwezalamba as finance minister, replacing the sacked Ken Lipenga.
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