2025-02-19

Chizuma faces fresh lawsuit on leaked audio

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The Anti-Corruption Bureau General Director, Martha Chizuma has been sued over the leaked audio conversation in which she was heard discussing officials matters with a third party.

According to the court documents in possession of this publication, the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Lilongwe has set down the plea-taking of this matter on 26th January, 2023 in the afternoon.

“Martha Chizuma during the month of January 2022 in the City of Lilongwe in the Republic of Malawi, while a judicial proceedings is pending in high Court in which Ashok Kumar Sreedharan is a party, made use of speech calculated to lower the authority of the judge, to wit Justice Simeon Mdeza, before whom the Judicial proceeding was being had, by stating and suggesting that the said judge received bribe,” reads the particulars of the offence.

Meanwhile, lawyer for Martha Chizuma, Martha Kaukonde told the Nations that it is unlikely that her client [Chizuma] will appear before the court on the stated date.

“I am currently out of office, we haven’t received the documents and the Director General is likely not to attend court,” She said.

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