The office of Attorney General has been moved to act on revelations that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) used its cadets to channel K16 billion to unaccredited university in Blantyre just days before the 2020 Fresh Presidential election, this publication has learnt.
It has been revealed that through then Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) executive director, late Chris Chisoni, senior party officials sought desperate ways to externalize money from the public purse upon noticing that their loss was right on the cards.
“They used the loans board to move billions out of government system, and that money has never been traced to this date. The money was given out under the pretext of helping needy students who had applied for bursary at a small institution called Millennium University,” said our source.
Millennium University is owned by former cabinet minister Dr. Friday Jumbe. The university uses Jumbe’s premises in Nyambadwe Magalasi as its main campus in structures that used to be Superior Hotel.
Late Chisoni was a pure DPP cadet who was placed at HELB to siphon money for the party. At his death in 2020 he was answering charges relating to misuse of funds at the loans board.
Malawians are now waiting to see how the Attorney General will handle the matter to recover the money.
This is not the only self-profiteering move by the DPP using non-existent or dubious tertiary institutions during their thieving term. It is also believed that the DPP paid out billions to party cadres in form of salaries at the non-existent Mombera University in Mzimba.
Musicians like Dan Lu and women dancers were paid salaries and other benefits for years for a university that only exists on paper to this day.