Editorial | ACB has to act: Grand Palace Skandal is a spot about Malawi's conscience – Malawi Nyasa Times

There is a point where silence becomes a complicity – and this moment is now.

The revelations related to the alleged commitment of the glandular palace hotel on the degree of narcotics of public funds for Malawi's elections 2025 are not only deeply troubled, but morally rejected. This is not a case of office horses or minor accounting errors. This is the calculated theft of taxpayers' money, which is carried out with arrogance, wrapped in official signatures and adjusted by institutional industrial dygiene.

Let us be clear: this is corruption in its shameless and most predatory form.

Malawians are blindly robbed and have difficulty fertilizer, school fees and basic health care. But here we are – with credible reports that MK200,000 per night was used for hotel rooms, while election workers were stuffed into MK 30,000 guest houses to return to the glandular palace every morning to record the illusion of the elite accommodation. The additional MK150,000 per person and day? Disappeared into the abyss of greed.

This is a scandal that cannot be swept under the carpet. Not this time. The anti-corruption office (ACB) has to stop, output tired press releases and to start a quick, aggressive examination of this outrage. Anything else would be a betrayal of the mandate that the office was created to protect the office.

The ACB must:

• Examine the financial documents of the glandular palace hotel in connection with the MEC contract.
• Check all accommodation claims submitted as part of this program and follow the money path without fear or favor.
• Pre -loaded -Mec official who made it easier for this racket or made it blind.
• If necessary, enter fees – and do this publicly.

It is not enough for MEC to take ignorance. That is the excuse of a coward. This is public money. Every Kwacha must be taken into account. Everything else is a complicity.

The executive director of Gland Palace, Sam Chamanza, has already shown contempt for the public examination by refusing to answer questions. That in itself is told. A man who had nothing to hide does not hit the door in the face of the press.

We ask civil society, the media and the public to maintain pressure. People in Malawi earn accountability, no empty platitudes. If we allow this theft, we say to every greedy contractor and colluding officials that the looting of the public wallet has no consequences.

And so, dear citizens, the nations rot from the inside.

ACB, the nation is observed. Law now – or stand before the court of public opinion as enables corruption.

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