Mbeta delves into Suleman’s qualifications, professional IT competence
Lawyer Frank Mbeta representing President Peter Mutharika who is the first respondent in the ongoing presidential elections nullification petition hearing on Wednesday morning started cross examining Daud Suleman, who is the sixth witness for second petitioner and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera, centering much on his qualifications and professional competence.
Mbeta touched on claims by Suleman, an information technology expert (IT), that he was the first Malawian to pass the CISCO examinations in Malawi and that he has graduated from a junior to a top notch IT expert in the field.
However, Suleman agreed to the notion that he was not the first Malawian to pass the examinations but that he was the first Malawian to do so in examinations written in the country.
Mbeta cited an example of when Suleman worked with NBS Bank in upgrading their IT system where he was heading all the process.
He alleged that after completing the work, they system was down which prompted the Reserve Bank of Malawi to fine NBS Bank K50 million to which Suleman answered that he was not aware of the development.
“Are you aware that after that system failure, it was your junior who came to work on it?” asked Mbeta.
‘Not quiet true with a big explaination,” answered Suleman.
However, the questioning line was protested by MCP lawyer Pempho Likongwe who felt that it was against NBS’s privacy and also against the respondent’s questioning check list that was filed before the court.
Mbeta argued that he was still within his frame because everything that happened with NBS bank was in the public domain and that his questioning on Suleman’s professional competency was also within his checklist, which the court through president judge Heally Potani agreed but cautioned the lawyer to be within his lane.
Suleman has portrayed that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Result Management System (RMS) was compromised and accessed by ‘ghost’ administrators.
In the case, Chakwera alongside first petitioner and UTM Party president Saulos Chilima are seeking nullification of the presidential election results in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections and an order for a rerun.
The court earlier projected that it would conclude hearing the case by December 6 and that the judges would deliver their verdict within 45 days from the date.
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My question to MEC team is: Did the ghost (mzukwa) really enter into the RMS? Malawians need an answer. whether Daud is qualified or not its nothing to Malawians. Unqualified citizens are helping the police to catch thieves in Malawi, so unqualified Daud has exposed MEC (Wamisala anaona nkhondo). Just convince the Malawians that the Mzukwa was just a trojan.
He or She who laughs last, laughs longer! Never mix professionalism with Prejudice and hearsay. Lero a learned Counsel muti chiyani?
the truth is needed inorder to make good malawi
Inu a UTM musatinyase mwamva! Mumatubwa kuti za IT ndi kudya kwanu palibe amene angabele chisankho. Ife a MCP ndi amene tatulukila zinthuzi ngakhale zili zoboza. Munthu uyu Sulemani uyu watipusisa. Mwina tinakagwilizana kupeza an expert IT
ndiye amanama kuti palibe angabwere zisankho, inu munanenapo zimenezi, popanda UTM kunena kuti wina sadzabera chisankho inu lero mukanapita ku court. be unit until zithe, do you think UTm ilibe ma expert kuposa suleman? asiye akuluakulu akutithandizana zochita kuti zinthu zikhale bwino, osamalankhula ngati kuti iweyo unapitako ku court mkukaona kuti UTM palibe ikuchitapo pa nkhani ya IT
you are stupid ndiwe dpp cadet usaname apa
cadet galu…osathawila ku MCP
You dont need qualifications to see that MEC messed up the elections, even a dog could tell you that.
Am still waiting tangible points of discrediting Suleman’s testimonies.What hearing is about qualifications.
Kaphale and Mbeta, shame on you! You very well know that you’re defending thieves, election were rigged, jane ansah and all commissioners pocketed a lot of money, that much you know. You’ve both committed a sin that God will never forgive you! Thank God he is watching and sooner very soon, freedom is coming!!!
Tell them again
The truth shall always set you free. Listening from both parties it is evident that nobody is honest. Even Sulemani himself is not honest enough in his yes or no responses.
Court liyenera lidziwe Kuti Suleman ntchito yake akuidziwadi osati poyang’ana umboni wake okhakha komanso credibility yamunthuyo. Ndiye mafunso a Mbeta siolakwika. Ndiolakwika Kwa anthu a opposition chifukwa akufuna amve zimene iwowo zikuwasangalasa.
Waonesa umunthu wake kusiyana mkuti aziyaluka. Zomati u can agree with me kenako can u confirm Mmmmmmmmmmm zatopesa bwanji
Joloza, do you know that Mbeta would have been removed from the bar had it been that he was no cadet? Do you know what he did in the thin plastics case? Zinazi muzidziwa!!!!
Inu kuyambira kale ndinu achitsiru amunthu moreover umunthu mulibe.How many court cases has Frank Mbeta lost,so many.Does it mean that he is no a qualified lawyer?I think all DPP supporters are confused.And let me just tell you this,a well patriotic and well educated person can not support a government or party that steals peoples rights of voting who to govern them but it takes fools like you JOLOZA to do so.
Hungry Lions are always Angry. This is the same with all those supporting MCP’s Daud Suleman kkkk.Knowing for sure that they are losing the game they tend to shout at Mbeta kkkkkkk!!Auze bamboo mukumva pheni kkkk inuyoo.Daud is smalling khabhaaa kkkk
I have just noted that all those who are against Ruling Party are assuming that MCP is gaining ground but its outside the box kkkk.Suleman has really demonstrated that he is more than a GOAT.Komadi mukumva pheni inuyooo.a Pempho Likongwe mpaka kufuna kukomoka kuteteza Suleman kkk
Rerun z the next move bro
don’t worry ur dada will peaceful leave Malawi and go back to America ,,,,,,
A Mwinithako mulije mahala
Nothing good has come out from you apart from your stupidity and filthy mouth.Just look at your name,it really clearly shows your brain is just full of water and smoke.
From what I have learnt from this case is that anyone can be a lawyers. In fact chiefs in the village are better “lawyers” than what some of these so called “learned” fellows
can there be some brave men or women to tell these pitala idiot lawyers to stick to the serious case than all these drama from showbiz pitala/ jeni crooks please. sto wasting mwians time just to show off your beardless ugly chins here okyýyyyyyyy
Why dwelling much on his qualifications and not experience????
Because you needs to have qualification before he becomes an expert.
Inu mpando wanu okongola mmakhalira kwanu uja kaya munagula ku ndirande kaya ku nchesi or wherever anakhoma uja analowa nkalasi?
Just imagine
You don’t have to go to school to learn It. Look at Google and Microsoft owners.
Munangomva kwa anthu akunena eti. The idea, yes, but evolution of that science to be where it is no.
Do u think u Mbeta since u started representing your clients in Court, u have won all cases???
U have failed miserably in different cases held in court though u won some through pam oiled means.
So many educated fools in our country starting from APM to his lawyers.Honestly,the issue is about the elections then someone is bringing the NBS things on a national matter then you call him a qualified lawyer kkkkkk.Focus on something tangible than your irrelevant questions.Stop wasting peoples time Mbeta if you have got no question to ask just say i am done.
Unfortunately, he did not even investigate about the issue. See the truth of the story behind the NBS and qualification that Suleman presented. I don’t know if these self-proclaimed learned lawyers have any tangible case to defend here. From the word go, they have been dwelling much on qualifications which has nothing to do with this case. We used to think that lawyers are people who dig deeper into history. However, the story is different now, they just rely on lies from social media and take that to court as the truth.
These are not qualified lawyers but corrupt ones.They don’t even know what to say or ask.How can a qualified lawyer concentrate on a personal private matter than a national thing?SHAME ON MBETA!
Some of us worked there and the lawyer is right. The good thing is that it is easy to prove. Who can honestly just admit to that.
This is a total nonsense, how can this so called mbeta ask such stupid question… Stupidity at it’s best, right from useless professor president .. Attorney General arguing for the open case. Khani imeneyi ikanakhala kwa afumu itatha kale, why fighting the truth? God will judge you soon
Professional qualifications of a witness in a tidal case like this one, and professing to be a technical expert is obviously within reason for lawyers to delve into. Ditto for previous performance, like Suleman’s botched repair at NBS Bank. BTW, that is true.
There is so much of padding up the resume going on with this Suleman guy, it boggles the mind how MCP missed it. Or did oChakwera and Mia simply ignore the padding, and hoped the defense would miss it too?
What has NBS Bank have to do with this case?That is total rubbish type of a lawyer.That is his private matter if you don’t know
Mr Lego, you need some schooling on this. I am an ICT EXPERT??? Ask yourself why you put a referees on a resume???? You may fail to get a job because of past references if you not careful.
Daud zero pa hundred
Daud zero pa ten
Since suleman is being questioned according to his qualifications not about evidence those representing these thugs of Dpp. Even kaphale focused on qualification which is out of order. Judges will rule against mec and those old fools of dpp.
Am not a legal person but I have watched legal drama series’ and honestly our lawyers are far from the standards i see in other countries. What do they exactly learn ku school ko?
Someone brings an irregularity to court and then you question his competency at identifying an irregularity????????????? Is that even sensible….
Anyway, lemme sip my Malawi Gin…
Share apo indeed may be we need a drink a little to understand these drunken nduna za pitala. Did your watch Suleman he could have smoked these these with Drambue fumes and they are still intoxicated. I hope they sober up before it’s too late.
Truth pains! Credibility is critical for a witness in a court of law. That’s why Mbeta’s line of questioning went this way and we have heard all the transparency about Suleman.
MBETA should never question the integrity of any other professional member because he is one also widely publicised to have dwindled his clients. If anything Mbeta should not be practising law but deregisterd by MLS or even locked up at Maula! What a hypocrite and an idiot this lunatic called Mbeta is?!!!
Frank Onjezela Madzi Nsima Ndiyanyama..mfunsenso kuti paja ndiwe unagwesa OIBM through his (suleman) fraud Orchestration
Don’t argue against the person, argue against what he said…very simple logic. Kodi ma lawyer akumalawi mumaphunzila logic? Even if it would be true that he failed at NBS, does it mean he will never succeed again in other assignments? Mbeta how many cases have you lost? Does it mean you will never win again?
Even Mbeta himself has embezzled clients money does it mean that he can region his integrity…they are missing the point…please attack his evidence that he brought as it seems no-one is challenging his evidence
Chimanga you have hit the nail on the head. Mbeta has lost cases in his career and clients have paid the cost for litigation. So if what he is saying has weight then he should not be a participant in this case. Ma Street lawyer awa.
And to my surprise, I wonder who introduced this parallel Tallying Centers?what was the reason? Who was the beneficiary? Was it parties themselves? Why? What was wrong with the way we were doing in the past? Can we say this is good as it is today having this kind of elections? Your answers are better than mine, now let’s see here, my guess is that these Parallel Tallying Centers were introduced by Mec, suppose it’s true, can we say they had other reason apart from trying to show how the integrity of the Team will be in this election? I think it was a very good I dea, to that I give MEC a high 5, that was great indeed . You guys you tried your best to make sure that the election should be transparency. To my understanding, I take it like Mec is Referee and the Parallel Tallying Center as Lines men, ( Flag boys ). What are the work of linesman?(Flagboys ) are they not the eyes of the Referee? Why to have them? Is it not to help the Referee? How? Where the Referee can not see,he or she can be assisted by these Flagboys, Suleman said and i qoute,,our duty was to raise the Red Flag,, that was their duty, but does it work when the flag man raises his flag? Yes it does, only when the Referee is is not a Crook! So now the question is when MEC introduced this parallel tallying centers, what was it behind? To help them where they can’t see or to hoodwink Malawians? I have come to understand that when you see flag man raise the flag and the referee ignores it, it’s not those who are in the ground who start creating misunderstandings but those who are sitting and watching, those ones are the ones who are near by the bricks, be afraid!I thought what the flag man (Suleman) has done is to help the integrity of MEC as the Referee, I don’t see these two guys exchanging words as proper unless the Referee is on one side, then the out come will be stupid stupid stupid as the way it is happening,the MEC and the Kaphales including the Modicai would stand together and say, this is what happened? Lets look into that and the Judges would come when they have failed to find the solution after power struggling, but the case is totally different, Seems someone was not neutral on this, in this case MEC. But am very much sure that at the end the truth shall prevail, with hoping that NO brick shall come from kuma stand! My conclusion is WHEN YOU SEE THE REFEREE ARGUING WITH THE FLAG MEN, JUST KNOW THAT THE REFEREE IS A CROOK!!!
MAY THE POWER OF GOD AND HIS PRESENCE COVER UPON MALAWI.
In a court of law credibility is important. Daud has been lying under oath.
Mbeta you are full of shit if your mnthali lose you wll also rote in jail for your nonsense
Kikikik kikikii shame
mbeta ndi number 1.Suleman wachepa
Your stupid to hell with your Mbeta, soon the cadets to face justice anthu oyipa inu
Mbeta is respondent, while Suleman Petitioner, in this case Suleman is no1 Mbeta 2 and or Suleman raised more issues while mbeta just came with questions, aaaaaaa Suleman is no1 kikkkkkk
Cadet lawyers with very faulty thinking. Those who call Getrude mutharika professor without anything to show for
I wonder, why these lawyers are so ignorant about the qualification of the guy? Are they trying to tell us that what Suleman has done is something that they didn’t expect to happen or they want to know how exactly did he managed to reveal all what he has revealed? Ya that can be part of knowing who Suleman is, but who is and was supposed to be worried with his qualifications between those who employed him and work accordingly and those who have see that something strange has happened? I thought MCP as the employer would be the ones worried for recruiting some one who seems not to be what they wanted? Having a Degree if you look at it, you will see just apiece of paper. We have many Educated fools indeed! Tell us if what he said that the election was full of irregularities, not about his this and that!
Mbeta chitsiru cha munthu ungotitayusa chabe nthawi bwanji kungovomereza kuti munatibela Ma vote ife a Malawi..yooh
Chisankho chinabedwa. Bring IT experts to disprove Suleiman
Unfortunately they are not doing it..they are missing the point…please guys discredit his evidence cause remember re examination will fine tune everything that was said
The fact is that the RMS was manipulated. Why cant you press on asking questions on this instead of dwelling on issues that do not relate to case at hand? I think you are a useless lawyer like Kaphale.
Its evident that you do not know anything about computers that’s why you are dodging to ask the witness questions that relate to what is in his sworn statement. You want to divert public attention and make us believe that the so called MEC chair did not rely on the results from RMS to announce the winner. You think we are fools?
If the commissioners had waited for all manual results to reach the National Tally Centre, how many days could it have taken to announce the results? If the RMS was not an important tool in the elections then why was it there? Why do you call it Results Management System? Is it not because it manages the results of the elections? Today you want to foolishly convince the court that RMS was not relied upon to announce the results simply because Malawians have known that MEC and DPP tampered with the system.
Fool those foolish Malawians not some of us.
Great these people must know that you can fool some people some time but not all the all the time.
pamlandu uwu co-court ngati kuli mbuzi ya ma lawyer ndiye ndi imeneyi, kodi anakamutenga kuti ameneyu mbeta chitsiru chamunthu, nanga ndi zimene akufunsa its outside the topic
The most boring lawyer in the case. I guess it’s Chisale who settled for this poor guy who doesn’t know where he is coming from and where he is going in his line of questioning
maloya ena inu zafika mpaka ku NBS kusowatu zofusa uku
Mbeta Chokhoto and Kaphale are in complete disarray. Shame. Can you rebut the IT Genius Suleman presentations. Simple. NBS Bank where is it coming from?
This sulemani chap frequently contradicts his own responses to the court. Fails to keep track of his own lies. Shameful
Mr Okay, they are not lies. A missing audit trail, broken database relations or links, and users logging on one station from different places imply that the system lacks integrity and therefore could not be trusted. In IT audit one can say “its garbage” “manipulatable” and not worth being put to use. In this case, nullification of results could be the outcome of all this.
U dont understand principles of ICT. Sulemani is misleading pipo here. I am an ICT expert. If Sulemani wants to place the role of the auditor, he should not focus on the system’s engine, schemas, database tables. Thats a bit being shallow. Important components include INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT. To discredit the system, you need to start from the data handling systems. Handling system failures. You also need to understand that what is important in any system is the right data. Not information in the system. But rather informatio driven from the correct data input. Mr Sulemani doesnt know that I can build the whole system using EXCEL SPREADSHEETS and still get the information I require. No need of schemas, relational tables whatforth whatforth. Its all about right input to get right output even in a speadsheet model, this can simply be achieved with other sheets still being empty. If I were Sulemani, I would simulate one record from the data handling systems and then run it in the RMS and check the result. Obviously there is the RESULTS TABLE IN THE DATABASE. COMPARE YOUR SIMULATED RECORD WITH THAT IN THE RESULT TABLE AND SEE IF THEY DIFFER. THIS WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY. AS OF NOW, I DON’T SEE ANY MUCH WEIGHT IN HIS ARGUMENTS. HE PROPOSED THE Garbage -In-Garbage -Out theory which he contradicted during cross-examination when Mbeta asked him that, Suppose your run a wrong SQL Query, would you get the right results??? Is that not a classical example of Garbage In Garbage Out??? He said no. Ironically, Sulemani has run a lot of wrong queries which yielded nothing because of lack of knowledge of the database critical parameters. An obviously he issued garbage into the database which yielded nothing. But he still boasts there is nothing in the database.
Are we talking of the same case or you are in another country
Mbeta kufuna kulemera ndi ndalama zobela a Malawi, pakhalekhale nawenso ukumana nazo poti ku malawi kuno palibe lawyer yemwe sabela ndalama anthu owayimila milandu.
kkkkkkkkk thank you mbeta. just as a thief cannot pass good tittle to a product, a dishonest ordinary man who cost his client K50m posing as IT expert cannot be reliable witness on electoral rigging. Maybe its true that these low level crooked technicians tried to hack MEC systems then failed and are now testifying against MEC to cover their tracks.
Nayoni uyuyyyyu syuliman
Please educate the laity please. Maybe Malawian law is unique. Is there any difference between a witness who is hired as an external forensic consultant/ exper and a witness who has firsthand information about the occurence of an alleged crime? It is a requirement to have reputable qualifications in the former scenario, I really doubt in the latter scenario. In fact having expert knowledge is an added advantage that one can explain acclaimed irregularities in technical details.
Why respondents’ counsels unnecessarily delving on processes other than substance of the case? From the word go they actually wanted the whole case to be thrown out. Are they really good? What are they afraid of?
@ fake petros, MEC had over 500 staff and mcp/utm couldn’t find even one who can testify on their behalf? Sulemani didn’t have first hand information because he wasn’t involved with official MEC activities and wasn’t at any tally Centre to observe data being manipulated. Actually he is more of forensic expert because his evidence is based on interrogation of mec servers as such he needed to have relevant and updated certifications. No excuses
You’re not sophisticated enough. Firstly, Suleman is not a first hand witness. His observations are based on processed data. In this case the data was processed in his absence. Secondly Suleman is alleging on technical grounds. His technical opinion can only be validated if he holds authentic qualifications applicable on the technology in context not otherwise. Thirdly, the lawyers are aware of some of the technical claims that Mr. Suleman “stated as facts” when it was just his personal hypothetical conception. Trust me, am just a driver without a license.
@Sophisticata
Those self-acclaimed sophisticated pundits aka ACADEMIC PARROTS, should disprove Suleman claims with compelling substantive evidence and not just focusing on processes. In other words would another expert with “authentic” qualifications technically come up with a different view contrary to Suleman’s claims? Any sophisticated counter-argument? Otherwise, we are a country with ” qualified” educated PARROTS who can hardly apply, let alone come up with something innovative beyond what they basically memorised just to pass exams in colleges.
mbeta ndiwe mbuzi yeniyeni. sizikugwirizana. mmesa ndiwe lawyer odziwa malamulo namnga bwanji unamukana mzimai utamupatsa mimba. pamenepo ndiye bwanji
anawapasa mimba ma steni ako?
NDINU A MISALATU INU. LOOK AT YOURSELF
A mzanga zowona komenti iyi yatheka bwanji hahahaha. Aaaaa sizikugwirizan anta.
kambani zina zomveka not ma paper does not work we need to perform talking debris
Kkkkkkk. Uku ndi kuvomereza kuti nkhani kukhothi yavuta. It’s interesting how Suleman was a hero one day and the following day he becomes a total moron. Kukhothi ndi kuchenjera pakamwa ndi zinthu ziwiti zosiyana. Proving a case beyond reasonable doubt is beyond general reasoning
I have worked with people who have not attended accounting lessons but have performed well in accounts office. Qualifications and experience on the job are two different things. Mbeeeta concentrate on the case. Lawyer mnzako tinamuwina mlandu ife tilibe lawyer chifukwa chofunsa zambwerera ngati zakozo. Wake up man.
Nobody has discredited Suleiman evidence remember!!! Where are you guys not understanding?? Haven’t you noticed that our lawyers are fighting from the manual side in which Suleiman is saying NO to..wait for re examination mark my words u will be surprised..these lawyers once again have not discredited his evidence
Kalanga. Kuli kulira Kkkk. They just proved his theory of commissioners was a lie. The 5002 tally centres were all in there. One kit in 2 places was B.S.. some constituencies were overlapping. It’s a shame. He tried
Poor Mbeta has nothing to ask but only qualifications