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Original Post Date: 2008-05-11 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Karyn Maughan and Boyd Webb
The government has accused Vusi Pikoli, the suspended prosecuting authority boss, of improperly investigating an alleged assassination plot – involving South African hitmen – against Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Cassim “Kaka” Chilumpha, the vice-president of Malawi, was arrested with 12 other former ruling United Democratic Front politicians in connection with the alleged plot in 2006.
Within days, the state had dropped its case against all but Chilumpha and two other accused. The state later dropped all charges against one of the remaining accused because of lack of evidence.
Chilumpha, who vehemently denies any part in the plot, has yet to stand trial. Malawian media reports reveal that he is accused of hiring “expert assassins from South Africa”, who are now state witnesses against him, to kill Mutharika.
The government’s main complaint against Pikoli in relation to the case is that he “undertook investigations into the conspiracy to assassinate the Malawian president”, which “amounted to an intelligence-gathering exercise”.
Pikoli’s legal team have rubbished the claims, which they dismiss as yet further evidence of government’s desperate bid to disguise the true reason for his suspension: the Scorpions case against Jackie Selebi, the national police commissioner.
In a strange twist, the so-called “Malawian investigation” claims against Pikoli come mainly from Manala Manzini, the National Intelligence Agency boss – the same man who tried to help Selebi get his corruption case quashed. It emerged that Manzini had obtained an affidavit from the state’s star witness against the police boss – Glenn Agliotti, the man accused of masterminding Brett Kebble’s murder – clearing Selebi of any wrongdoing.
The exact nature of Manzini’s complaint against Pikoli is likely to remain under wraps, as his affidavit before the Ginwala inquiry, which is determining Pikoli’s fitness to hold office, is classified.
Pikoli’s response to Manzini’s claims, however, reveals that the National Prosecuting Authority’s involvement in the Chilumpha investigation amounted to finding out “whether a certain identified suspect had on specified dates stayed overnight at particular hotels in Johannesburg and Durban”.
Pikoli has also pointed out that Brigitte Mabandla, the justice minister, has not supported claims that were made in the government’s first submissions to the inquiry, that Pikoli had failed to inform her of a request for mutual legal assistance from the Malawian attorney-general’s office.
“I submit that the only reason for this omission is that there is no truth to the contention that the minister was not informed of the Malawian investigation,” he said.
Pikoli also pointed out that both he and Menzi Simelane, the justice director-general and now one of his main accusers in the inquiry, had met with Malawi’s director of public prosecutions about the Chilumpha case.