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How Malawi flew dead president's body to South Africa
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| Author | Rex Chikoko |
| News Date | Saturday, March 16, 2013 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Malawi President Joyce Banda has received a report from a Commission of Inquiry constituted in June 2012 to investigate circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor Bingu wa Mutharika.
Mr Mutharika died on April 5, 2012 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The events surrounding his death and the succession intrigues that ensued stunned Malawians and the world.
The 105-page report summarises what took place during Mr Mutharika’s illness and death and is the genesis of the activities that led to the arrests of 11 politicians on treason charges.
The eleven, all former cabinet ministers and government officials, including the late Mutharika's younger brother, Peter, were implicated in a number of activities ranging from keeping secret the death of the president, to trying to circumvent the Constitution to stop the then Vice-President Joyce Banda from ascending to power.
The Commission of Inquiry, chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Elton Singini, was mandated to establish two issues; the sudden death of President Mutharika and the events of political transition up to the swearing in of the successor. The commission had 124 people testifying.
Judge Singini told President Banda when presenting the document that: "This Report has told the two-part story: the story of the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika and the story of the political transition in considerable detail that depicts, in some cases, very minute details and graphic presentation of some of the events that took place."
The commission was also mandated to investigate reports of looting and missing government properties during the transition period and other unusual occurrences like the Malawi Civil Society threats as well as the involvement of the Nigerian Prophet TB Joshua. |
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