{"id":28480,"date":"2022-01-25T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=28480"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T08:57:41","slug":"malawi-president-fires-cabinet-amid-graft-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/25\/malawi-president-fires-cabinet-amid-graft-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi President Fires Cabinet Amid Graft Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has sacked his entire cabinet over corruption concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a televised address to the nation on Monday, the president vowed to &#8220;confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said a new cabinet would be announced in two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three ministers are facing charges including the minister of lands who was arrested last month in a bribery case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The labour minister has been accused of diverting Covid funds and the energy minister of meddling with fuel deals. All have denied the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Chakwera was elected in 2020 promising to fight corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week two powerful church groups told him he was not doing enough to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC Africa News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has sacked his entire cabinet over corruption concerns. In a televised address to the nation on Monday, the president vowed to &#8220;confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials&#8221;. He said a new cabinet would be announced in two days. Three ministers are facing charges including the minister of lands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":28489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[7196,7197],"class_list":["post-28480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28490,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28480\/revisions\/28490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}