A senior Malawi government
official has been shot and severely wounded in an attack the presidency says
was aimed at silencing his efforts to combat corruption. Malawi’s Nyasa Times reported on Monday that police
had "important leads" they were pursuing after the budget director in
the Ministry of Finance, Paul Mphwiyo, was shot on Friday.
The Maravi Post quoted police as
saying he had been shot in the face, shoulder and chest. The newspaper added
that Mphwiyo, who had been trained in the United States and was appointed by
President Joyce Banda, had overhauled government financial systems and had made
himself unpopular by cancelling "dubious contracts".
The Times quoted Banda's office
as saying the attack "was not just any other robbery but a planned and
targeted attack aimed at silencing him and the government in the fight against
high levels of corruption and fraud".
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