Category: Law Enforcement

* How do we fold our arms and look away while those chosen to guard our nation’s gates instead open them wide to greed, corruption, and destruction? By Duncan Mlanjira Dr. James Kadyampakeni — a prominent Canada-based Malawian economic policy analyst, researcher, and academic — contends that the citizenry should not “remain silent while watching our beloved country being slowly torn apart by the very hands we entrusted to protect it”. In an open statement posted on his Facebook…

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* MRA should be supported by other authority bodies like CFTC, FIA, CAMA, ACB, Fiscal police not to relent * MRA is trying to reinforce leaking taxes while shop owners feel the system is preying on their businesses * As Northern Region Business Association calls off planned demonstrations against MRA after government invited it for dialogue in Blantyre Analysis by Duncan Mlanjira Following the resistance from a pocket of traders, who closed their shops in protest against the implementation…

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MRA Commissioner General addressing the media accompanied by his executive management team * It is unfortunate that some traders have chosen to close their shops in protest against the implementation of EIS * It is even more concerning that some are reportedly threatening fellow traders who wish to continue operating * VAT is not paid by the shop owners; they merely collect the VAT on behalf of MRA and one would wonder why the shop owners are resisting the…

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*  Why Malawi must read South Africa’s Madlanga Commission as a warning, not a drama Opinion by Nkhuzana Kamoto, African Politics In Pretoria, a retired Constitutional Court justice sits in a quiet hall as a nation watches its criminal justice system unravel in public. Day after day, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has dragged into the light what most South Africans long suspected — that the rot in their police, their prosecution service, and even tendrils of their judiciary…

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