Malawi: Some DPP MPs Feel Chaponda Corruption Trial Is Deliberately Being Dragged

22 November 2017

Some ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members of Parliament (MPs) who are for pro-George Chaponda, former Agriculture Minister's who is currently answering to corruption-related charges over a maize procurement contract with Zambia, have expressed their displeasure on the way the State is handling the case.

One of the MPs feels government is "tactically and deliberately" dragging the case so that they finish with Chaponda's political career pointing a figure on Leader of the House, Kondwani Nankhumwa as the one pulling politica strings for his personal political benefits.

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