The root of the oil exploration mess that is causing capital hill serious headaches can be traced to corruption and incompetence displayed by two Malawians and a certain UAE Arab, we can reveal.
Few months after Peter Mutharika ascended to the Malawi Presidency, his government issued a moratorium which is basically a delay or a suspension of all oil exploration activities on Lake Malawi after discovering that there were massive irregularities in the way licenses were obtained by the companies doing the work.
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