Chakwera cleared of church plunder as Assemblies of God rejects Malawi Voice report
Malawi Assemblies of God Church has rejected online reports that the Lazarus Chakwera stole money amounting to K100 miillion during his reign as the church’s president before joining politics, saying what’s was posted on Malawi Voice is utterly fake news.
The State sponsored online publication had published the report alleging Chakwera had been thieving the church’s money.
But in a statement released by the church, the report is “totally false.”
“The Malawi Assemblies of God Press is governed by a Board, not the church President. Had Dr. Chakwera tried to steal any money from AG Press, the Board would have stopped it, and had any money been found to be unaccounted at the end of Dr. Chakwera’s tenure as President, the Board would have summoned him to account for it,” reads part of the statement signed by Reverend Maltilda Matabwa, the Secretary General.
Chakwera, had to resign from leading Assemblies of God Church, a prestigious position that earned the man of the collar, a coveted place in international Christian circles, to lead Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and he is billed as one of front runners to State House race in next year’s Tripartite elections.
In its story, Malawi Voice reported that Chakwera used to torture pastors but again the Assemblies of God Church has trashed such assertions.
“As far as the Malawi Assemblies of God is concerned, Dr. Chakwera served with honor, integrity, humility, and distinction as a Church Minister in the Malawi Assemblies of God for 30 years before joining frontline politics. He also served as President of the Malawi Assemblies of God for 24 years, during which the Church thrived and grew, and continues to do so, thanks to the contributions he made.”
It adds: “Today, though holding no office within the Church, Dr. Chakwera is still a licensed, credentialed, and ordained Minister of the Malawi Assemblies of God, with all the responsibilities thereto appertaining, and is a man in excellent standing with the Church.”
The church has also denied claims that it is involved in Chakwera’s leadership as a politician and that it supports the MCP which Chakwera leads.
“We are a Church that does not align itself politically with any party or individual, not only out of obligation to focus on our mission as a church, but also out of respect for the freedom of our church members to exercise their constitutional right to engage in politics according to the dictates of their conscience,” the church says.
The Assemblies of God Church came to Malawi in the 1940’s and it was first introduced in the country by missionaries who first arrived in Ntcheu district
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@Kaka ni dada
In this column we need arguments backed by facts. When PETER won the 2014 elections the victory did not wait for you to approve it. The same with the two mentioned MPs. Their victory did not wait for your approval. You did not even vote for the three. The party you voted for shamelessly failed in both Parliamentary and Presidential. What survey have you done to prove that MCP is the winning party in 2019? If you know what survey is all about I would like you to go in the field to ask people why they have denied MCP five times to rule over them. Go and find out from your party leaders what strategies they were making to make sure they win the next election after losing the previous one. Ask them why these new strategies have been failing again? It is these things which you should look into and then come on this forum and make a challenge. No one can take your words as truth because you have been trying but never won any election in all the five attempts. If Malawians have been giving you a hard wall do you expect Mozambicans to come and vote for your party, Kaka? How can Kuntsaila and Wa Jeffrey finish DPP? The thing is thatwith the addition of Kuntsaila the MCP will be destroyed further. It is in black and white that the day Binton was announced to be Regional governor Chakwera anatsekula m’mimba. Kaka, how do you feel to be hearing of defections from your party at every rally DPP makes? Politics is a game of numbers yet MCP is losing its members daily and worse still, much in central region. Ziyimbani nyimbo ya TIWINA mpaka Ambuye adzabwere.
Phwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! MBC agwa nayo. Koma chi CV icho. President material. Osati a Law Professor CV yobookabooka.
Koma eeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii aaaaaaasha kufuna kumuipitsa basi chala cha Mulungu chikaloza palibe angachikhotetse
Dr. L.M is Malawis next leader. whether one like it or not
@Kaka ni dada
What do you want to defend here? What was wrong in saying that the north will never produce a presidential candidate and win? Is that not the plain truth? Convince me with facts that the region will produce a candidate and win? Through which party? Wa Jeffrey was just telling the people around her the plain truth that its high time they support the party in power so that development is equally distributed to the north instead of waiting to support your fellow northerner whom you think will be the president one day. She was just telling them a fact that this will never happen. Goodall ,Jappie, Chiumia, cannot dispute this because they are wise enough to see the truth in the statement. This is why they are in government. Truth pains but this pain is being foolishly infected. Where and to who did Dzonzi render his apology? Is it not Chakwera who was doing chibwibwi when commenting on this? Akulu yengukhalani pasi ndali mwachepa nazu izi. Kwaimwe yengoyesani phada kapena kamgolontho wosati ndali yayi.
Whether Santana likes it or not wa Jeffrey will not win a seat in KK south, pakamwa pake ndi powola, the problem with you in DPP is that you are blind, you don’t see who is dirtening your party, that’s why even Peter Muthalika cried that DPP is not working in the central region when he was appointing Kutsaila to be regional governor, ndiye tizione ndale za Kutsaila ndi wa Jeffrey, onse owola pakamwa, should I ask you, do you conduct research in DPP, come and do your survey before it’s too late, if at all you have time to do that. This is time for Kutsaila and wa Jeffrey to finish DPP in the central region. Whether you defend wa Jeffrey or not nayeso analakwitsa, because in my view everybody within the borders of Malawi is a Malawian and deserve to be given chance to rule the nation, koma kusankhana mitundu ndi zigawo ndi zimene zikugwetsa Malawi, zipani ndi anthu a ndale. This is time for Peter Muthalika to fall chifukwa chosamva ndi kusawona. I advise you!
Maquire, if you dream of a young leader, that young leader is not Chakwera. Read the document from Assemblies of God written by Chakwera himself and signed by Rev. Matabwa. He was with Assemblies of God for thirty years. Before that he was with CCAP Nkhoma synod for a number of years. How many years was he in school? Adding up the years the fallen man of God must be over 65.
Banda has said it all. I salute you Banda, you know who Chakwera is. Please do a bit research and find out who was handling finances at Assemblies of God headquarters?
Nonsense the issue is that u wl try everthing to blackmail him but to not avil. This is guy is 100% Leadership we” Malawian we need to have if we want to see something defferent. Atchiritchi akukanilani munapitanaye kwa Pilato wakanirani mwapitanaye kwa kayafa zakuvutani munaganiza zomupachika pantanda during by election u failed wat else u left with!? Bring it on…! Mind u! You runout of tym. This man is unstoppable. Come 2019 chakwera president in (MALAWI)•
@Ben Mbewe
Achimwene munthu womumenyera nkhondo Ambuye amalandira chomwe wapempha. Kodi 2014 a Chakwera sanamupemphe Ambuye kuti alaweko u president? Ameneyu adzafera pa mpando wa Leader of Opposition basi mpaka abwerere ku KANISA.Muzilimbitsana mitima choncho monga mwakhala mukuchitira mu zisankho five zambuyomu. Wosangozisiya kaye bwanji? Inuyo a Ben monga mungatiuze kuti mwakhala mukulephera ka 5 chifukwa chiyani? Nanga mavutowo mwakonza pochita zotani mukamati muwina? Inuyo ma sapota a MCP muli ndi udindo wofunsa atambwali anuwa kuti ulendo uno mukuti tiwina kodi mwakonza pati kuti tikhulupilire? Mwina akudziwa kuti ndinu ma blind followers.
Don’t ever say things on behalf of God and never include Him in these useless stories!! Kungakhale bwino mutamangotsutsuna za ndale zanuzo basiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I become very much surprised when MCP supporters claim that Chakwera’s political battle is being fought by divine power.Where was this divine power in 2014 when he was flatted down? Who can claim to be helped by divine power between Chakwera and APM? When Joyce Banda accidentally assumed power in 2012 many of you claimed that it was divine intervention because God wanted to rescue Malawians from the evils of DPP. Is it vnot the same God who booted out Joyce and replaced her with the DPP? Why didn’t God choose Chakwera, the man who was kneeling down every day and night asking God to give him the presidency? Chakwera should know that he is punished for two main reasons: He abandoned God’s work looking for quick money forgetting that that chance for quick money would be granted only if God puts His signature. 2. The party he is leading is cursed by God so many years ago. Here it means both the party and its leader are cursed by the same God they claim to be helping them. If God saw something good in Chakwera He wouldn’t replace Joyce Banda with DPP in 2014. He would automatically go for Chakwera the pastor and his party of death and darkness. There are many things happening in the party that indicates that the power of the Devil is rooted in the party. Look at how the party goofed in the 50+1 bill despite being backed by fake pastors in PAC. Look at how Kusamba Dzonzi’s tongue slipped in disclosing to the public what evil ideas are in the armpits of the party against northerners once they assume power. Even if some northerners overlook this just to save face but the truth is that MCP have an ego with the north once it takes power. To MCP, the north is its punch bag politically. Support it and receive punches as a thank you. It is surprising that a party which is waiting to be in government a day cannot pass without defections to the extent of losing 500 members at one goal. The party would make a lot of noise if these defections were happening in DPP. Chakwera can show by face that he is confident to win the 2019 votes but I can tell you that deep down his heart the runaway pastor knows that the 2019 votes will be another disaster for his party and him as the torch bearer. So Omex70 and your Kaitano don’t talk of victory in 2019 for your party. This has been your song for the past five elections but nothing materializes.
Jefu wa Jeffrey ndiye adayambitsa kuti wa ku North sangalamule , paja ndi chipani chanji cha wa Jeffrey? When asked to apologise, did she do that? Kusamba Dzonzi apologised and disciplined by the party & his leader, Chakwera, stood in parliament to condemn Dzonzi’s remarks, WHO else in DPP condemned wa Jeffrey’s speech made in Mzuzu ? Did DPP disciplined her? Santana usamayambe kuchotsa chitsotso cha mu diso la mzako, chako chisanachoke. Work hard to clean your party’s image before December 2018, if at all you have time to do that, otherwise May 2018 will be a surprise to you!
Olo mutanimutani a DPP ife nkhondo akutimenyera ndi a ambuye basi and lachi 40 lanu tsiku lidzafika. Use the Kaliwo`s and company, MBC etc but as far as you are doing evil to Malawi as a nation, GOD WILL MAKE OUR WAY. I can challenge you Chakwera will see light at the end. Mdima umadana ndi kuunika.
That is if MCP and its leader are light. Mulungu si munthu musampinde manja. JB ankanena chimodzimodzi kuti Mulungu wasankha ine, lero ali kuti. MCP supporers kuuma mitu ngati ma supporters a Man U. Mudzalirabe. Opakula ndi opakulilidwa wamkulu ndani?
Manyazi uko bwa? Chitani manyazi dzivere Ku mtolo
A DPP mwamva!
Tatifunsani mammembala a Assemblies of God ife tikuuzeni zenizeni. A Matabwawo angofuna kuchitapo diplomacy apa. In actual fact, there is a lot of rot in Malawi Assemblies of God even now in terms of how churches including national Church misuse funds. You just needed to be present at any one of the General Councils where leadership for the church is chosen. You would agree with me that all is a search for earthly glory. Kumakhala katangale wa pheeee. f you are journalists worth your salt, do your own digging. I am even told that this is typical of most churches. No wonder today church issues find their way to courts. Ask Livingstonia Synod. The church should not pretend to be holier than thou. We christians who tithe nafenso timadziwa ndipo zimatipweteka. Lero azibusa ambiri a Assemblies ndi amphawi chifujkwa cha mfundo zonyansa zomwe lazaro adakhakitsa zoti mbuzi imadya pomwe aimangilira. Ambiri angofgawana ndalama ntauni a mmidziwa ife nkumavutika kumawadyetsa. Calvary yabwera later than Assemblies yomweyi azibusa akudya bwino coz there is a cenral fund imene mbusa aliyense amapezako kangachepe. Si church cha Assemblies chomwe Lazaro adachionongachi. Ataona kuti dollar ikuchepa mpamene adaona nsana wanjira poganiza kuti ku ndale kuli easy money. The guy and money are inseparable. Even Mia atamuuza kuti ukhale running mate wanga you will hear him clapping hands. A mipingo musayetse myansi zomwe mumachita sitimadziwa. Tayamba kuulula tsopano.
Chakwera 2019 boma!!!!! MCP woye!!!! Pulezidenti!!!!!
Mere malicious but futile attempts by MBAVA zachi NKHALAMBA to now smear everyone of wrong doing!!! They want to deflect attention ya umbava wa iwowo ngati aliyense ndi mbava.
Olo mizi ina imatchuka ndi mbiri zoipa, kutsuta chamba, kuba, etc. Zimamveka ndithu kuti madala awo ndikulambatu uku, pano ndi mkulu wa mpingo..
But with DPP ayi, tiri ndi MBAVA za chigogo. Kuikilana kumbuyo K4 billion theft, FAKE LICENSE a FOREX. No official records at all with RBM or MoF.
Now their defensive mechanism seems to be TONSEFE TIMABA, PALIBE WABWINO.
SHAME!!!
Abusa a Matabwawa angosainisidwa chikalatachi. Zikuoneka ngati bwanawo alemba okha chibaluwacho.
Popeza ayamba kuyankhapo Zina ndi zina, tiyembekezele liti yankho la nyumba ya Ku maula?
Hatton ndi nzako Satana bwanji manyazi?
Tiyambire yankho la ndata!
A good name is worth more than gold & this decisive leader continues to be consistent. Not matter how much you will try to smear this good man, served God with integrity at AGM. Servant leadership & Stewardship is needed in this broken country to bring about change that Malawi desperately needs.
Chakwera failed was a weak leader of Assemblies of God he removed powers from the real stake holders who are the funders of the church i.e. church members and gave the powers to the pastors. Today assemblies of God pastors are the richest in Malawi in comparison to other pastors. They have a great art of milking the poorest of the poor and even if a pastor is found wanting they strive to back each other Pastors like Rev Dube of nkolokosa assemblies of God has been going out with the wife of renowned Times sports Journalist for years but no action was taken no this evil man is the vice president of Assemblies of God. Check around you will find that the church as an organization has nothing to point out but the pastor are the richest in Malawi. They are wolves in a ship skin. Chakwera left a bad constitution in assemblies of God without checks and balances on his pastors.
He is becoming famous day in day out…. Dpp should have found other strategies not these dirty them, we would be clean strategy. It’s not working.
My fellow MALAWIANS
More especially younger
generation
Now is the best time to feature
a leader who is younger in age
Not these old mafias who want to die as politicians but don’t love their country (too much stealing. but doing little for the
Poor masses
We have so many young people
Who can take our country to
Another level
Let these old woods rest
In peace like their brother MUGABE