AG holiday refused

President Bingu wa Mutharika has turned down the request by Attorney General (AG), Jane Ansah to go for three months holiday, Nyasa Times has learnt.

“The AG applied to Justice Ministry to go for three months leave, the ministry forwarded her request to Office of President and Cabinet where its principal secretary Bright Msaka upon consolations with President Mutharika rejected the request,” a source within the ministry of justice disclosed.

Ansah is said to have recommended chief state advocate, David Nyamilandu to act on her behalf during her leave of absence.

The AG could not be reached for comment but a close link to her claimed she wanted time off from her duties which have been “contaminated with politics” following the section 65 battle between government and the opposition.

“The Attorney General is a pastor in charismatic and pentecostal churche, the political ball game being played in Section 65 and the manipulation by the ruling party in political tricks over the job does not go down well with her ministering of the church, so she wanted to have a breather,” claimed a source close to Ansah in religious circles.