INTERNATIONAL human rights watchdog, Transparency International (TI), has criticised Malawi’s President Bakili Muluzi for retaining six cabinet ministers and various parliamentarians implicated in a US$2.5bn fraud scandal. The scandal saw politicians and their administrators award massive contracts to ghost companies run by relatives, secret lovers or close acquaintances. Most companies simply failed to deliver services, but even those which did delivered shoddy or incomplete work. – African Eye News Service
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