Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has warned individuals who are still living off corruption or planning to engage in the practice, that the law will be enforced and jail will be their next address.

Lazarus Chakwera, said quoted by Radio Mozambique that Malawians are "fed up" with recurrent reports of widespread corruption in the country and the government is acting without complacency against the culprits.

The Malawian head of state who was speaking at the National Anti-Corruption Conference said he believes that the fight against corruption will be won and to this end calls for everyone's involvement in preventing and combating the greatest enemy of development.

The latest Transparency International report which is the global corruption perception index, places Malawi 110th out of 180 countries, which Chakwera said is worrying.

Several prominent figures in the government of the day and the former president, Peter Mutharika, including members of Parliament, have collected to jail during Lazarus Chakwera's two and a half years in office, accused of corrupt practices.

Three former ministers in Chakwera's government, namely Labor, Energy and Lands, have been dismissed and imprisoned on suspicion of committing illegal acts.

In connection with acts of corruption, the head of state, ceased delegating duties to his vice president and dismissed the police commander-general, the director-general of the anti-corruption office, and ordered 28 district administrators out of office.

Properties of some senior government officials, suspected of being fraudulently acquired, have been confiscated by the Central Department for Combating Corruption. (RM)