The Judicial Service Commission has fired Zomba Principal resident magistrate, Ben Chitsakamire. This comes after the commission launched a disciplinary action against Chitsakamire in compliance with an order by Dorothy NyaKaunda Kamanga, a High court judge who faulted the manner he [Chitsakamire] acted in quashing a warrant of arrest the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), had obtained against business mogul Thomson Mpinganjira. Chitsakamire issued an order at midnight on January 22 2020 to free Mpinganjira in a case he is being accused of bribing a panel of five-judges of the High Court who were sitting as a Constitutional Court in the presidential election petition case.