Civil groups in Malawi call for Peter Mutharika to quit as president
Blantyre — On Monday, Malawian President Peter Mutharika faced a growing corruption scandal ahead of the 2019 election after a leaked report from the country’s antigraft body allegedly accused him of fraud. Civil action groups called for Mutharika to resign after claims that he and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) received about $195,000 from a contractor supplying food rations to Malawi police. "The information we have been getting is very clear that the president benefited from that transaction," Gift Trapence of the Civil Service Organisations action group said. "If he does not resign after 14 days, we will take to the streets." Mutharika’s spokesperson told local media that the president had done nothing wrong after the leaked Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) report was published in newspapers at the weekend. ACB director Reyneck Matemba confirmed it was probing the contract over police food but declined to give further details. "We are about to conclude our investigati...
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