Former Presidential Advisor on Domestic Policy to former President Peter Mutharika, Dr Heatherwick Ntaba has said a decision by the state to commence investigations against him over his alleged involvement in the murder McDonald Masambuka is a waste of time.
The remarks come as Director of Public Prosecutions Steve Kayuni directed the police to investigate him.
This after Mutharika and Ntaba were allegedly named in a 2018 murder of a 24-year-old albino man Macdonald Masambuka after the high court jailed 12 people, including a Catholic priest and a police officer, for taking part in the murder.
Some of those jailed has allegedly named the former president and Ntaba as accomplices which Mutharika dismissed as a ploy to tarnish his image.
However, Ntaba has told MIJ Online that cleared him of the allegations, when he was first implicated.
But Ntaba, said he wants the police to conduct the investigation so that the truth should be known.
Last week, Mutharika had in a statement said that it was during his reign, when a taskforce was set up to investigate, make findings and recommendations on any matter incidental to and connected with the attacks, abduction and killings of persons with albinism.
‘’ The commission of inquiry completed its work just before he left office and that his successor,
President Lazarus Chakwera, was presented with the full report of the inquiry but that, for some
reason, he has been unwilling to release the report. It, therefore, serves no public interest for the
President to hide the contents of that report from the public, whose right it is to know its
contents. But it seems characteristic of the current presidency to keep the masses guessing and in
the dark regarding matters of public interest. I, therefore, urge him to release the report of the
commission of inquiry,” Mutharika said.
However, in reaction, Gospel Kazako, Minister of information insisted that Mutharika should appreciate the fact that the matter does not do with administrative issues.