The lawyer who shouted so loud everyone remembered he failed

In the endless drama that passes for legal discourse these days, one man’s desperate search for attention has illuminated another’s steady hand.

Alexious Kamangila, a lawyer who once worked under current Attorney General Frank Mbeta, has abandoned the quiet discipline of law for the loud appeals of the platform. But those who remember his time in the corridors of power say his current theatrics mask an inconvenient truth—he was not very good at the job when he had it.

Sources familiar with the Attorney General’s chambers describe a man who promised much but delivered little. During his tenure under Mbeta, Kamangila’s name became associated not with courtroom triumphs but with incomplete dockets and filings that arrived after deadlines. What began with enthusiasm, insiders recall, quickly unravelled into missed deadlines, abandoned discovery tasks, and files that had to be reassigned to colleagues who spent months cleaning up the mess.

Those who were there describe his performance as an outright failure.Years after leaving the office, Kamangila has reinvented himself as a fierce critic of the institution where he once struggled to keep up.

He now occupies podiums and social media spaces, hurling accusations of corruption and directing personal insults at his former boss. But allegations require evidence. In Kamangila’s case, observers note an awkward gap between his fiery rhetoric and his actual record. While he was on the inside, there is little to show that he fought for reform or distinguished himself through diligent casework.

Colleagues and those who have watched his trajectory suggest that jealousy and poor judgment are more plausible explanations for his turn to theatrics than any genuine commitment to whistleblowing. He has surrounded himself with known provocateurs and made sweeping claims without offering proof, trading whatever credibility he had left for a few minutes of attention. In doing so, he has damaged not only his own standing but also public trust in a system that depends on patient, methodical work rather than loud accusations.

Kamangila now serves as a cautionary tale—a lawyer whose hunger for the spotlight and failure to deliver when it mattered says more about his own character than about the office he attacks. By contrast, Frank Mbeta has gone about his business with the kind of quiet professionalism that rarely makes headlines but gets the work done. That is the difference between the two men.

Now based in Ireland, Kamangila continues his denunciations from afar. Some suspect he is angling for international sympathy, perhaps even hoping the Irish government might offer him protection. But critics say broadcasting unverified claims from another country looks less like a serious pursuit of justice and more like a man still searching for the attention he never managed to earn through actual work.