Banda returned home in April from four years of self-imposed exile after being embroiled in a  corruption scandal with officials stealing millions of dollars in public money.

Joyce Banda made her name as an austere leader who sold the presidential plane.

She could not control her officials involved in the infamous cash gate scandal.

Banda founded the People’s Party after splitting with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party of President Peter Mutharika.

An arrest warrant issued for her remains in force but police have not acted against her in the two months she has been back home.

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She’s clearly leaving the door open for another run at the presidency in a year’s time.

Joyce Banda says she’s come home to reorganize the People’s Party she founded when she broke from the ruling  Democratic Progressive Party in 2012.

She left escaping corruption charges that she now says she can prove were politically motivated.

Authorities say the arrest warrant issued against her is still force.

At 68, Banda is guarded about her personal political plans.

She says her party will have to decide at a congress if they want her to run in elections scheduled for May 2019.

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