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Image: Africa Press<\/p><\/div>\n

Faizel Patel \u2013 10\/08\/2021<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Malawi\u2019s anti-corruption police have arrested Energy Minister Newton Kambala, accusing him of trying to bribe officials in a fuel-purchase deal for the landlocked country.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Corruption Bureau says its investigations had revealed that the minister had “attempted to influence” the National Oil Company of Malawi to award multi-million dollar fuel supply contracts to three companies.<\/p>\n

President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s senior advisor Chris Chaima Banda was also arrested.<\/p>\n

Kambala is chairman of vice-president Saulos Chilima\u2019s United Transformation Movement (UTM) a coalition partner Chakwera\u2019s Malawi Congress party.<\/p>\n

Chakwera who came to power on promises of fighting corruption in April this year fired his labour minister for diverting COVID-19 funds to pay for government trip to South Africa.<\/p>\n

(Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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