{"id":68240,"date":"2018-07-09T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68240"},"modified":"2018-07-09T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:50:13","slug":"opposition-parties-want-attorney-general-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/opposition-parties-want-attorney-general-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition parties want Attorney General removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Feston Malekezo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/...\/malawis-ex-president-joyce-banda-to-return-after-4-year-..\">Joyce Banda\u2019s<\/a> People\u2019s Party and seven other opposition parties want Charles Mhango to resign as Attorney General for putting the Malawi government at risk in the Malawi Police Service\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/donors-want-justice-on-police-fraud\/\">food rations contract<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54488\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/charles-mhango.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-54488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/charles-mhango-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/charles-mhango-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/charles-mhango-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MHANGO facing pressure to resign as AG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The AG, according to the leaked ACB report, got involved when he had knowledge that the Minister of Finance was not the guarantor in the deal as demanded by the law.<\/p>\n<p>But in this case, the report says, the Malawi Police Service was the guarantor to the loan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand the immediate removal or resignation of the AG as these issues and others have deeply compromised him,\u201d the statement from the opposition reads in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Feston Malekezo Joyce Banda\u2019s People\u2019s Party and seven other opposition parties want Charles Mhango to resign as Attorney General for putting the Malawi government at risk in the Malawi Police Service\u00a0 food rations contract The AG, according to the leaked ACB report, got involved when he had knowledge that the Minister of Finance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68240","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=68240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68241,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68240\/revisions\/68241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}