{"id":692731,"date":"2019-08-27T08:55:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T08:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who met Malawian President Peter Mutharika last week, posted pictures on Facebook of himself meeting Mutharika after discussing power pr"},"modified":"2019-08-27T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T08:55:38","slug":"malawi-controversial-businessman-chivayo-meets-mutharika-praises-malawi-leader-for-growing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/27\/malawi-controversial-businessman-chivayo-meets-mutharika-praises-malawi-leader-for-growing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Controversial Businessman Chivayo Meets Mutharika &#8211; Praises Malawi Leader for &#8216;Growing Economy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who met Malawian President Peter Mutharika last week, posted pictures on Facebook of himself meeting Mutharika after discussing power projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Chivayo&#8217;s wealth is linked to corruption in Zimbabwe and has been a social media attention seeker known for posting images of himself sitting behind a table loaded with bricks of US dollar bank notes in ostentatious display of riches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Known as Sir Wicknell, Chivalo was discharged by the High Court after Zimbabwe prosecutors dropped cases of fraud against him.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He is Managing Director of Intratrek Ltd, currently mired in controversy over stalled power projects following legal wrangles with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Chivayo was in Malawi where his technical partners Chint Electric of China have just completed four power projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Chint Electric, which is among the four largest companies in China and boasts an annual turnover of US$8 billion, constructed a substation and rehabilitated three others with funding from the United States government through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">After meeting Malawi leader, Chivayo took to social media to express his joy just weeks after he also met Zambian leader Edgar Lungu upon the completion of a power project carried out by his company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Chivayo praised Mutharika for his efforts to grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;I spent the last five days in Malawi on a business trip and more importantly had to pass by and congratulate His Excellency the President of the Republic of Malawi Peter Mutharika on his victory in the recent elections,&#8221; Chivayo said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8220;He is indeed a wonderful father figure to us all Africans. 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