Tonse lawyers get more tax payer funded legal fees, again as MEC lawyers pocket K5bn

Tonse alliance lawyers will be smiling to the bank again with a tax payer K300 million as legal fees for representing President Lazarus Chakwera and vice president Saulos Chilima in the landmark presidential election case in the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Battalion of lawyers at the Constitution Court
This comes barely days after High Court registrar Agnes Patemba awarded the lawyers a staggering K7 billion for representing Chakwera and Chilima in the case in the Constitutional Court.
Senior deputy registrar of the High Court Justus Kishindo has awarded Chakwera’s legal team over K210 million and Saulos Chilima’s legal team over K113 million as costs incurred during the presidential election case in the Supreme Court.
Kishindo made the assessment  on August 13 2020.
The new legal fees comes at a time when the public, in both social media platforms and traditional media are describing the legal fees as outrageous.
Meanwhile, Nyasa Times has established that Malawi Electoral Commission has paid its lawyers who represented the pollster in the case a whopping K5 million.
MEC officials are refusing to comment the justification of such a staggering figure.
We are yet to establish how much former president Peter Mutharika has paid his legal team in the case.

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shabobina
shabobina
4 years ago

Inu tawasiyeni awa alandire ndalama. These people school yawo ndi yovuta zedi ku Chanco. it demands alot of reading. sapuma ayi. Even preparing for the cases, they need to read alot , sagona ayi.
Inu mmagona ndi akazi anu for 6 months ndiye mukufuna alipidwe peanuts with all this work. ndipo yachepa the way i know their school cifukwa ndinali ku Chanco konko.

Let them be rewarded for the hard work. Aba chani apa. Wakuba ndi Getrude ndi Chisale ndi enanu a ku ESCOM, MACRA, MERA etc. Awa siakuba

Andrew
Andrew
4 years ago

Mukulila chani inu mamati zizathela ulele? I don’t really see how a sane person can find this ruling strange.olakwa ndi a DPP coz all this court battle was because of greedy and willingness to cling to power.

Anzelu ndi Anzelu
Anzelu ndi Anzelu
4 years ago

Asiyeni adye, ndinthawi yawo. This is the change you wanted, stop complaining and watch the drama unfolding. Tonse is To-No-Sense.

I love malawi
I love malawi
4 years ago

Malawi wanga ineee,,,,,,koma zoona ndithu acourt akugwirizana zokuba ndi chakwera komanso chilima….malawi tithawira kuti?

Litmus
Litmus
4 years ago

We knew it from the onset. Munayamba ndi kunamizira DPP kuti yaba K1.3 Trillion cholinga mukayambapo zanu ziwoneke zochepa. The Almighty God is watching!!! Allah!!!! We cry to you Allah!!

Mannequin 2
4 years ago
Reply to  Litmus

Which God?

Litmus
Litmus
4 years ago

Mboni zanu zonse zija mwangozitaya basi? Zikungotuwatu kunjaku. Kuzikonda kwanji uku? Zachisoni kwabasi. Kungofera zaeni za ziiiiiiiiiii!!!!

Minister without Portifolio

This is peanuts. Wait until you get the real figure for me and my team!

Sleepy acb
Sleepy acb
4 years ago

Tonse this money will haunt you

Welensike
Welensike
4 years ago

Ingotimalizani basi. Award them the oxygen cylinders in our hospitals too tife basi.

Chi
Chi
4 years ago

When Muluzi was running for President some people said that he was a thief and the majority said tivotera yemweyo kakubayo… That was a green light that we want anthu akuba no wonder aliyese akuomba..,,

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