Mulhako wa Alhomwe festival hangs in balance — Muchanankhwaye
Mulhako wa Alhomwe chief executive officer Muchanankhwaye Mpuluka said the Lhomwe cultural grouping is in dilemma over hosting of this year’s the annual festival which usually take place in October.
Mpuluka said the grouping widely associated with the erstwhile ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)- whose stronghold lies in the so-called Lhomwe belt, has yet started preparations for the event which previously normally used to take place in October.
He said the novel coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions on gatherings of not more than 100 people may be some of the reason that may force them to cancel the festival.
“The board and chiefs failed to meet last month to discuss whether or not to cancel this year’s celebration,” said Mpuluka.
However, he had little hope that only if the Covid-19 situation in the country improves by end September, the celebration will take place, but if not will indeed be canceled.
Chewa Heritage Foundation (Chefo) has since cancelled its annual cultural festival called Kulamba due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Organisers of the Maseko Ngoni cultural ceremony called Umhlangano wa Maseko , Mgonapamuhanya for Tumbukas and Chiwanja Cha Ayao said they will continue to monitor the coronavirus situation before deciding if the cultural event will take place.
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Nkhani si makobili apa. Kuzolowera ndalama zokuba basi.
This clearly shows that government resources were being used to promote this tribe that never speaks Lomwe. Why did they speak Chichewa during their functions? This issue of tribes must stop. We are not in the 1930s. Muthalikas and Bakili took Malawi backwards.
Tialomwe tiwanthu nltonunkha mitima. Mulila pyee simunati. Luba basi just like Ur ancestors
No source of illegal Funding is the issue!
That’s where u can know that they were using tax payers money doing that nonsense ceremony, it has finished now, mukunama osanamizira covid
Kamuzu spent close to 31 years drumming it into our heads that we are all Malawians, simply Malawians. No ngoni, no chewa, no sena, no lomwe, no tumbuka, no nyakyusa, and so on and so forth. It was not an easy task to achieve, but, by and large, we all started to buy into the idea and the feeling of nationhood took root.
Enter the Mutharika brothers, we now have Mlakho was Alhomwe, Chiwanja cha Ayao, M’dauko wa Atonga, Chefo, and so on and so forth. Thirty one years of nation building completely dismantled within less than three years of the Mutharika brothers’ tribal based politics.
True. These mutharika idiots couldn’t learn from the likes of Kagame who preaches unity. No Hutu or Tutsi, but simply Rwandans and look at the results.
Thanks God, Malawi will never be ruled by this thick family anymore.
The Muthalikas are to blame for bringing back divisions in Malawi. We were getting very close to each other and we married from any tribe and I know a good number of people who have married in the North. In the past Chewas were discouraged from marrying in the north and south and northerners were discouraged from marrying anyone south of Chatoloma and Nkhotakota Central but that was no longer an issue. Come the Muthalikas the Lomwes hated other tribes to the core and never gave them jobs. That destroyed the professionalism. Muthalikas destroyed the unity that Malawians once enjoyed.
So it means President Chakwera is on vengeance drive evidenced by promoting his chewa tribe in public appointments starting with his mostly Lilongwe cabinet? If so then Chilima is the right presidential candidate to unite Malawians. He balanced his choice of cabinet ministers he presented in the Tonse alliance.
Can’t speak better than what you have written Masharubu. The Muthalika brothers were on a mission to introduce satanism in this country but God has denied them.
Covid 19 pandemic is a scapegoat. Having thrived through illicit funding, Mulakho has an uphill task to raise sufficient funding for the event.
Noophia
We have been there before! Between 2012 and 2014 when DPP was out of government Mukhako wa Alhomwe struggled to stage this so called annual cultural even and now just months after DPP ouster from government..Muchanakhwaye,the man in the news for getting fuel from Escom, says the main reason for the potential cancelling of the event is COVID 19! My foot…most Malawians know that Mulhako wa Alhomwe was abusing government resources to find this tribal grouping and that during the DPP era there was no difference between government leadership and Mulhako leadership! Most top Mulhako officials were top government officials! Lero mwasowa posusa kapena kusolola…mukakakumana mukangotafuna gondolosi?
photo ai koma ija waboma ankavina pa stage ndi mwana wa eni mabele ali pa ntunda uja
olo Atupele akudikulilana ndi mai wanfupi uja pa stage.
iyi ya mwana waeniyu ikokedwatu. dpp used to brainwash young girls kuti azikakuvulilani .lelo kumati ana aculuka ndi zimimba. mungokwatila tiana tomweto ngati mwanamveka kukwatila ka nkaladi kamwana kenkeni.
kale nthawi ya kamuzu kunalibe izi koma azibambo awiliwa bingu ndi pitala. bwanji acina Moyenda samapanga nao.
mulipila muona.
CHILD ABUSE 100%
I am missing Mulakho so much. Please organisers tell us how we can contribute so that the event must not fail. We are ready to stand by our Lomwe cultural festival.
Heee mpuluka ingonenani simutha kukaba fuel ku Escom angulu inu
Whether there is the pandemic or not Mulakho is on its way to oblivion. An organisation which has had its mouth on the teats of parastatals from its inception the financial duds are dry. The parastatals that funnelled funds into the wasteful activities are now gasping for government bailouts yet the current Tonse government is just dishing out strategies about fundraising. The conduits for thieving has been sealed. The new team at the Capital Hill haven’t any appetite for fishing expeditions
Hopefully this dilemma has got nothing to do with lack of funding. I mean DPP is in the doldrums now and doesn’t have the financial muscle on its own to finance this function. Adaazolowera kuba ndalama za government to fund a whole lot of nonsense. Anyway mwakula mwatha muziona kuti mupanga bwanji. Bola ka Mulhako wa Alhomwe kanuko kasapange disband.
Covid19 – scape goat! The real issue is financiers. They are afraid as they know that every move is being watched. The question shall be – where did you get the money. And Mlakho guys do not want to spend now.