Chaudhry, Chisale probed over Kanengo Northgate Project
Law enforcing agencies are investigating Asian businessperson Azhar Chaudhry together with former president Peter Mutharika’s personal bodyguard Norman Chisale over Kanengo Northgate Project—an upmarket residential estate in Lilongwe— where over 100 hectares of land was acquired dubiously.
The land was acquired as a project to create a communal village that was supposed to have a shopping mall, an academy, clinic and other related services to service the residents of Kanengo Northgate Communal Home.
The project was modelled along the line of Beverly Hills and was launched in 2005 with the intention of building 1 800 modern executive houses and a business complex as well as a golf course.
However, the project never took off and only one building was constructed on the land and ended up in total abuse of the land which has been old to foreigners.
The National Anti-Corruption Alliance (NAP) recently tipped Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa and his deputy Abida Mia on how to curb systematic corruption surrounding acquisition of land in the country, saying the ministry should introduce stringent measures such as conducting a social audit on land property for each person in the country.
NAP chairperson Moses Mkandawire said there is rampant corruption and the ministry has not been honest enough when allocating land.
He said: “A preliminary report that we carried out some months ago has shown that there is a big problem of corruption in the Ministry of Lands. What has been happening requires social auditing on the assets people have.”
Mkandawire proposed the need for the minister to work with the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the civil society in sealing loopholes in land acquisition in both cities and district councils.
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Kanengo Northgate land is still owned by GM Properties Ltd. This company still exists, why not get the REAL truth about the current situation, instead of creating non-existent stories. These crazy and fake stories have the ability to scare away the new investors/financiers who are being courted to re-finance the project.
You may wish to know that the Maluza and Chowdry families who initiated this project are still in Malawi and ready to explain the current status of the project.
Anthu adabaiba malo syndicates LL Mzuzu and BT yet Malawi housing ndi land ndi city line malo yet some dubious developers have taken land.200 hactares one person what nonsensical Malawi I cannot it.These are the issues parliament should interven
At one time I heard that Maluza (forgotten the first name but the clever one) was behind the failed project due to issues of lack of institutional governance. Probably Chisale is involved in the sale of land…….
I am lost for words, all these muslim guys robbing the poor Malawians and doing all these charites and building mosques with harasm money. No wonder Allah is not accepting prayers and sending calamities.
Allah help this Ummah. You will have to answer to Allah,
Indian muslim they worship Allah as culture. They don’t fear God. You cant steal billions from poor people and give back a packet sugar as zakaah.
There is nothing that Chisale did wrong here according the story. Why linking him
Kodi Chisale yi waba kungati abale
Kodi Mr. Chisale khalidwe lao lakuba ndi matenda kapena chiyani?
Honestly, how did we get to this terrible situation such that Indians and Pakistanis should be running rampant with reckless abandon with our scarce land resources? Bundle the Pakistanis and Indians involved and take away our land.Alternatively, lock up the person for forty years and send him to Nsanje or Chikwawa prison so that our starved mosquitoes should feast on him.
Mixed up story and no clarity of what the issue is. Kanengo Northgate was there before Chisale came on the scene. How is the Kanengo Northgate land being linked to Chisale now? Has the land been sold to Chaudhry by Ministry of Lands through Chisale’s underhand dealings? Simple thing to report on.
Automated land parcel and identification system should sort this issue, once and for all. These days we have drones, GPS and mainframe computers to do the work for us. Just need stable electricity (ESCOM do you hear me?).