[civsoc-mw] The allogance of Chisale

Tue Oct 6 11:13:21 CAT 2020

Actually it is not only the president who is exempted from paid customs
duty. Diplomats and people working under international bodies are allowed
to import vehicles and other items for their personal use duty free.
However, MRA collects duty at the time such goods are sold off or given to
other parties. Whether the importer dies or not is not even an issue.

MRA impounded the vehicles for collection of customs duty. Not withstanding
where Bingu got the money to import 125 vehicles.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 08:19 Keyboard Boyd Kilembey, <kkilembe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Be wary of lawyers. They are the most corrupt after doctors and policemen.
> Don't trust what they say. Most of them can sell their mother's at a fee.
> Don't say I didn't warn you.
>
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 08:10 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> KB
>>
>> I was shocked when MRA lawyers did not appeal that judgement.
>>
>> I have read his response here and it is all over the place. What is it
>> that Parliament should change?
>>
>> The provision is straight forward. The president doesn't pay customs duty
>> for anything he imports for personal use. This means he pays customs duty
>> for anything that he imports and it is not for his personal use.
>>
>> Some of these judgements are very demoralizing to hardworking honest
>> civil servants who want Malawi to progress.
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 07:37 Keyboard Boyd Kilembey, <kkilembe at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The Jaji had all the opportunity of righting a wrong or wronging a right
>>> bit he chose to be on the side of the criminals who steal from hewe and
>>> likaka povos using law technicalities. It was obvious bingu was not using
>>> the cars personally. We all know why MRA did not charge duty. Shifting the
>>> blame to parliament to make new laws was dereliction of duty. The law
>>> allowed importation for personal use. All the judge had to do was establish
>>> if the goofs imported were being used for personal use.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 06:01 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your honour,
>>>>
>>>> The part that is in question is, "For personal use"
>>>>
>>>> The question was to interpret what  does, "personal use" mean and
>>>> whether anyone can reasonably say ordering 125 vehicles can be for
>>>> "personal use"
>>>>
>>>> My simple interpretation is that if the president orders a car for me,
>>>> he should pay customs duty. Any reasonable person can not say the car is
>>>> for the president's personal use when it is clear that he bought it for me
>>>> and not himself.
>>>>
>>>> That is why I am saying Chisale is smiling because of your judgement on
>>>> 125 for personal use. The president's privileges were used to import
>>>> thousands of bags of cement which were sold to the public. And you say it
>>>> is harassment if MRA demands duty.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, 05:22 Dunstain Mwaungulu, <
>>>> dfmwaungulu at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I never said what you say when you read the judgment away from the
>>>>> hype you say. The constitutionality of two very clear statutes that protect
>>>>> the President from duty was never an issue before me and I never decided
>>>>> it. I can produce the judgment to anyone who requests for it to your email
>>>>> box. In summary, this is, and I will avoid the politics of successor
>>>>> governments - since the Press Trust Reconstruction Act - to, in violation
>>>>> of human rights - to interfere with property rights of their opponents. I
>>>>> also say this, because, I am probably one of the few judges, if more,
>>>>> whodoes not start from the LAW paradigm but the right paradigm. This is
>>>>> because we are required by the Constitution to protect ALL RIGHTS created
>>>>> under the CONSTITITION and LAWS of Malawi. More over we are required to
>>>>> enforce and uphold the law and the Constitutio unde the Constitution by our
>>>>> oath and SEPARATE STATUS, DUTY AND FUNCTIONS in Section 9 of
>>>>> the Constitution. So here is what I decided, briefly. The action before me
>>>>> was to decide the constitutionality of an action of government - the MRA -
>>>>> to impound or harass Dr. Peter Mutharika over motor vehicles of his
>>>>> deceased brother by judicial review.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. In a judicial review, the complainant is the State, in this case
>>>>> Dr. Peter Peter Mutharika. The matter is labelled, if you check, "In the
>>>>> Matter of the State of the State v The Commisdioner of Revenue  ex parte
>>>>> Mutharika. It is the State complaining against the government for its
>>>>> unlawful actions.
>>>>> 2. In an action where the State, not government is being complained
>>>>> of, the government cannot discuss the legality of the laws it promulgated.
>>>>> So naturally, the constitutionality of the Customs and Excise Act  and the
>>>>> President Privileges snd Immunities Act could not be raised. Peter could
>>>>> not raise it either because this contention was that the government had
>>>>> acted unlawfully.
>>>>> 3. The first point for consideration  - not seen by both parties - was
>>>>> whether government, the MRA, directed their actions to the right person. If
>>>>> it was not the right person, the government, the MRA, was hounding and
>>>>> harassing Peter unconstitutionally and unlawfully and should be stopped
>>>>> right in their pants - just as my decision in the Press Trust
>>>>> Reconstruction Act  - reversed by the Suoreme Court - on other grounds -
>>>>> because it violated the law in three respects.
>>>>> 4. First, because it was interference in the rights of the estate of
>>>>> Dr. Bingu which, as we see shortly, did not and could not  except by will
>>>>> and there was none proved, under the Deceased Estates Wills and Inheritance
>>>>> Act could never as in ever devolve to siblings until it was shown there
>>>>> were no parents, children, dependants and grandchildren of Dr. Bingu. It
>>>>> was common knowledge that Dr Bingu had children and grandchildren who, even
>>>>> if there  was just one, could inherit the WHOLE estate.
>>>>> 5. The action by MRA was an action which itself was required to
>>>>> uphold. The sections directing them to offer duty free facilities  was
>>>>> directed directly at them. How could they with impunity choose to neglect
>>>>> the law?
>>>>> 6. This goes to my articulated reasons why I could not intervene with
>>>>> the Act. First, I noted that the reason why there was such a provision was
>>>>> because the Act, probably passed in the 1960s, "recognised" the doctrine
>>>>> that the sovereign does not pay taxes.
>>>>> 7. The two statutes covered ALL goods from a needle to anything else
>>>>> the President acquired. I decided correctly, that it cannot really be the
>>>>> duty of the courts to determine what tupe of goods - in thousands of not
>>>>> millions and what quantity of goods to exclude or decide upon what is
>>>>> reasonable. Specifically, the  privilege statute quantified the number of
>>>>> cars for the VP and NEVER as in EVER limited the President's number. In
>>>>> short, these are policy matters of policy - budget and economics which
>>>>> judges do not know and are under oath not required to use in resolution of
>>>>> disputes.
>>>>> 8. The Court could have listened to evidence on the matter if it was
>>>>> proffered by MRA.
>>>>> 9. So I determined that it was a matter for Parliament  - not the
>>>>> Court to decide. As you would have it Predident Joyce Banda and the
>>>>> Legislature could not - for good reasons known to them - dare to change the
>>>>> law and she and Peter took on to use it  for a legitimate right, as we see
>>>>> shortly, to use its openendedness.
>>>>> 10. The two sections can be viewed analytically from a power point to
>>>>> raise the questions you well observe. But they create a right personal to
>>>>> the president. We are called upon to uphold rights under the Constitution
>>>>> and under the law.
>>>>> 11. In this case, the rights and liabilities of the Bingu Estate
>>>>> insured to the Adminstrator/Adminstrstrix or Executrix/Executrix  - not
>>>>> Peter - of the Estate. In an earlier order, I ruled that lawyers had misled
>>>>> the Court in obtaining letters of administration from the Zomba Registry
>>>>> when the law prohibited District Registries from issuing such letters. The
>>>>> consequences of this that only the people in the first and second circle -
>>>>> who did not include siblings, the third circle where Peter belonged - could
>>>>> obtain letters of administration. SO THE GOVERNMENT  - THROUGH RMA - WAS
>>>>> GROSSLY OUT OF COLOUR TO HARRASS PETER ON HIS RIGHTS.
>>>>>
>>>>> QED
>>>>>
>>>>> This is very different from the hyperbole you want to create. I will
>>>>> send the judgment to your inbox or email if you send addresses.
>>>>>
>>>>> THANK YOU FOR READING.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, 08:05 KPD, <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> For a person who has denied Malawians the desperately needed revenue
>>>>>> by colluding with Indians to avoid paying customs duty on imported cement,
>>>>>> Chisale is just laughing at ACBand Directorate of public prosecution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All this thanks to Judge Dunstan Mwaungulu who believes that ordering
>>>>>> 125 vehicles by a president duty free is allowed by the constitution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know which part of the constitution was used to arrive at his
>>>>>> judgement. The constitution clearly said for personal use. Just Mwaungulu
>>>>>> basically interpreted it as, "the president is allowed to import anything
>>>>>> in any quality duty free"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the judgement was never appealed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A few years down the line here is Peter Mutharika who has used this
>>>>>> privilege through his proxy to deny Malawians billions of Kwacha in customs
>>>>>> duty revenue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see another Mwaungulu judge setting Chisale free and saying there
>>>>>> was nothing wrong for Mutharika important millions of bags of cement for
>>>>>> 'personal' use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But Malawi. Where is God when we need him most?
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