{"id":3078,"date":"2015-05-26T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2015-05-26T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:00:11","slug":"mutharikas-aid-ben-phiri-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/mutharikas-aid-ben-phiri-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutharika&#8217;s aid Ben Phiri resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s long-time right-hand man and Special Assistant Ben Phiri has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Phiri has confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>He says he has resigned to pave way for investigations into multi-billion kwacha assets that he is widely believed to own.<\/p>\n<p>The resignation is with effect from June 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>State House Press Secretary Gerald Viola says he does not have details of the resignation.<\/p>\n<p>More on the story on Times TV News bulletins, Matindi FM [Powered by Times Group] and Wednesday&#8217;s Daily Times Newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Peter Mutharika&#8217;s long-time right-hand man and Special Assistant Ben Phiri has resigned. Phiri has confirmed the development. He says he has resigned to pave way for investigations into multi-billion kwacha assets that he is widely believed to own. The resignation is with effect from June 1, 2015. State House Press Secretary Gerald Viola says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}