MALAWI President Bakili Muluzi said on Saturday his government would spend 40-million kwacha ($533,000) to build a high-tech tomb for the late dictator Kamuzu Banda. “I don’t want a cheap tomb. I will fire the committee looking into this construction if it does shoddy work,” Muluzi said as he laid a wreath at Banda’s grave on Capital Hill in the capital Lilongwe. The two-storey mausoleum will include a lecture room and a library housing Banda’s books and other memorabilia, and have its own website. Banda ruled Malawi with an iron fist for three decades until the nation’s first multi-party elections in 1994 won by Muluzi. He died three years later at the age of 99 and was buried in a $37,000 gold-plated casket imported from the United States. – AFP