Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda (born 1982) is the Current Attorney General of the Republic of

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. Before assuming the Attorney General's office, he worked at Malawi's central bank, the

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(RBM) as Manager of Ethics and Compliance Division and as In-house Legal Counsel.

Education

In 2001, Nyirenda joined the

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at Chancellor College where he was enrolled to study Bachelor of Arts in Humanities (BAH) Degree. One year after studying for BAH he crossed to the Faculty of Law at the same Chancellor College where he graduated with Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) (Hons) in 2006. In 2018, he went for Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in International Financial Law at

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in United Kingdom.

Career

Nyirenda has worked as a Senior Legal Aid Advocate from 2006 to 2008 at Legal Aid Department. He then joined the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in August 2008 as a Senior State Advocate where he worked as government lawyer in both criminal and civil suits. He was employed at the Reserve Bank of Malawi as an in-house Legal Counsel from July 2010. On 27 August 2021, the President of the Republic of Malawi

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appointed Nyirenda as the Attorney General replacing Chikosa Silungwe who was fired on 21 July 2021. As the attorney general, he led a five judge panel for a constitutional court which included

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and Annabel Mtalimanja. It was an unusual case as the DPP party were arguing that an election should be overturned because it had been overseen by members of the

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who had been illegally appointed. The case was thrown out when it was pointed out that the illegal appointments had been made by the DPP. The DPP were now trying to benefit with this case from their own illegality.

References

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