INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CAUGHT UNAWARES AS MPWHIYO FAILS TO SHOW UP AT A SANDTON HOTEL At least seven international media crews from some of the world’s best media organizations were on Monday left mouth agape after fired Malawi Government Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo failed to show up at an agreed venue (Michalangel Towers in picture) in South Africa, we can reveal. Mphwiyo, had been due to give exclusive interviews to seven international media organizations including the BBC World, ABC, CNN, the Voice of America, Al Jazeera International, Sky News and the Financial Times. The exclusive interviews had been agreed upon by Mphwiyo’s contact in South Africa and they were slated at different times of Monday evening. Mphwiyo, had been booked to give these exclusive interviews at the Michalangel Towers Sandton, an upmarket hotel in the suburb of Johannesburg. According to Mphwiyo’s contact, the former Budget Director was also due to hand in incriminating evidence in a form of a dossier of Malawi’s interim President Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda. A hotel worker that we have spoken to disclosed that the media crews kept on coming at various times of the evening asking for the same guest, “Mr Paul Mphwiyo from Malawi”, who apparently had not checked in although he was booked there for the night. “I saw and talked to Sky New’s Alex Crawford as she waited for this guest in the lobby with her two cameramen,” said our source. Until before the break of the Cash gate scandal in September, 2013, Paul Mphwiyo was probably acting President Joyce Banda’s trusted man in government circles, syphoning millions of donor and taxpayers’ money to finance Mrs Banda’s party and enrich her personal coffers. The contact said, Mphwiyo is running out of patience and that he would like to make use of his promise that; “I would not go down alone in the scandal.” On Monday, Malawian authorities stopped Mphwiyo from slipping away on through Kamuzu International Airport using South African Airways Flight 170 to Johannesburg. They briefly detained Mphwiyo at Area 30, Malawi Police headquarters before his passport was taken away by the law enforcers. President Joyce Banda ordered for his immediate release. Family sources say that after delivering the dossier to the international media, hanging dry interim President Joyce Hilda Mtila Banda, Paul Mphwiyo was due to seek asylum in some undisclosed country. Mrs Banda has been described as probably Malawi’s greatest thieving President of all times. She faces a tough election in May 2014 where she is expected to lose miserably. Achoke! Achoke! Achoke!!!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 12:53:09 +0000
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