Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has granted bail to former Irrigation and Water Development Minister and DPP regional governor for the South Charles Mchacha and two others.
Mchacha, PS Henrie Njoloma and acting CEO for Lilongwe Water Board, Moses Mwenye have pleaded not guilty to charges of abuse of office, theft and money laundering involving K539,000 public money which was allegedly used to pay for honeymoon for Mchacha at Ryalls Hotel in Blantyre.
The three have pleaded not guilty to all the 6 charges.
The charges range from abuse of public office, theft and money laundering.
They have been ordered to produce a cash bond of 500 thousand Kwacha, one surety bonded at K1 million kwacha each among others.
still things not adding up. money suspected to be stolen k539000. Bail bond k500000 each totalling to k1 500 000 cash and then k1m surety each totalling to k3m. Some1 ate covid funds and yet was allowed to pay back just that said amount despite accepting abusing the funds. Martha whimped and shivered and dared not to touch the untouchable sacred guy. Very interesting, isn’t it? Frankly speaking tonse has lost its head. They even don’t think about the said period the crime was thought to have been committed. Every1 knows in the said month in 2020 thats when we had court sunctioned presidential polls and every politician with top positions like that of mchacha could not dare to lose an opportunity of messing themselves up with marriage ceremonies. DK2025 is the main isssue here and yet no1 stopped them from trying their political fortunes. For sure this is kremlin, kampala or dar es lam crackdown on dissent.