The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate’s Court has given the State a February 10 2026 deadline to serve the defence with documents in the case against former Cabinet ministers Jessie Kabwila and Vitumbiko Mumba. Since the State is not ready, we pray that the court should vary bail conditions, particularly the surrender of travel documents,” he said. Senior resident magistrate Bracious Kondowe ordered the State to serve disclosures on the defence by February 10 and set plea-taking for February 23 2026. “Failing to serve disclosures for over a month is uncalled for, especially when the court already issued an order,” he said. If the court makes an order, there are no two ways about it.”Kondowe said if the State had challenges, it should have applied for an extension instead of disregarding a court order.