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Sam Mpasu, spokesperson for former President Bakili Muluzi, has challenged Attorney General Ralph Kasambara to prove any wrong doing in the Fieldyork notebook scam and described the impending arrest of President Mutharika’s former mentor as political persecution and harassment.
Mpasu, reacting to Kasambara’s leaked memo asking the Director of Public Prosecutions to arrest Muluzi and other leaders, accused government of trying the former president in the press.
“If these people were indeed professionals they would have taken proper channels, be objective and thorough in their investigations because at no time have they interrogated and asked him about the so-called crimes they want to arrest him for,” Mpasu said.
The former Speaker and Minister of Commerce challenged the Attorney General to go beyond 1994 if he has to be objective.
“How far back is he going? Is what he is doing objective and what has he got on Fieldyork that is new for him to think of arresting me when Parliament, presidential inquiry, the High Court of Malawi and the High Court in London all failed to prove any wrongdoing,” Mpasu said.
The High Court in London later charged the government of Malawi K40 million ($370,370) for breach of contract with Fieldyork.
In the memo, Kasambara also asked the DPP to effect arrests for people alleged to have been behind the US$7.6 million Apex Land Rover scam.
The file on Apex is ripe, he said, to effect arrests of those involved. The former Attorney General, Peter Fachi, former Home Affairs Minister Patrick Mbewe are alleged to have masterminded the deal.
But the two have since denied any involvement in the case which is still stalling in the courts.
Relations between Mutharika and Muluzi hit their lowest ebb last week when the President accused his mentor of trying to control him.
Muluzi has since denied to react to Mutharika’s outbursts and dismissed any plot to assassinate his anointed successor, now turned arch-foe.
Mpasu described the President’s remarks as unfortunate “because they are creating the impression of instability in the country and this to the outside world scares investors.”
On Sunday, Policy Interaction Institute, a sociopolitical think tank, cautioned the DPP against acting on hear says because he might end up victimising innocent people.
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