With just a few days left before the local-government by-elections, Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi took off his ministerial duties over the weekend to lead his United Democratic Front (UDF) party campaign at Msikisi in Mangochi. Muluzi was with his UDF entourage to drum up support for their candidate. UDF and its […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi has vowed that illegal immigrants will be kicked out of Malawi after reports emerged that over 400 illegal lags are detained at various prisons in the country. Muluzi said government has issued removal directions for some of the illegal immigrants. “There are presently approximately 300 illegal […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi, who is serving in the President Peter Mutharika cabinet, has said his party will not be dumped in the dustbin of political history for working with ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Muluzi persuaded his party into a parliamentary working coalition with DPP with a silent pact. Critics have […]
Malawi Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi, has said gangs have reached levels of criminal sophistication but has moved to reassure that government is doing all in their power to tackle the criminals. He said they will equip law enforcers to crackdown on crime. Muluzi said there is political will in the Professor […]
Opposition lawmaker, Kamlepo Kalua of Rumphi East (People’s Party –PP) has expressed concern that Malawi Police officers do not get danger allowance that would cover them when they execute their duties. Speaking in parliament, Kalua asked the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi, to consider incentivising the cops with risk allowances. “Looking […]
Malawi government has announced plans to construct a new maximum prison at Chitedze in Lilongwe after concerns of overcrowding in prisons and degrading conditions. Rumphi East MP, Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party -PP) asked Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe and Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi why there has been no allocation of […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi, who is also president of the United Democratic Front (UDF) has said as Muslims go through the Holy month of Ramadhan, it is a season for heightened reflection, worship, compassion and community. Ramadan is a sacred month of fasting from dawn to dusk and is observed […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi, has told parliament that the Malawi Police Service has reduced the number of traffic police checks and deployed some of its personnel to street duties. Muluzi told the House on Tuesday that the traffic police checks are now “strategically located” throughout the country and not at […]
The United Democratic Front (UDF), which relocated from opposition to government benches, continues to lose its identity in Parliament with Speaker Richard Msowoya announcing the party has lost membership in the Business Committee. Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MPs questioned the decision by Speaker to include Lilian Patel as UDF chief whip in the business […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi has signalled government’s action on gun crime, saying they are putting strong measures at every single level to tackle crime and providing security for people to enable them to get on with their lives. Muluzi was speaking a news conference he held together with Inspector General of […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Atupele Muluzi’s lawyer has sent a letter to a Daily Times newspaper demanding an apology and the retraction of an allegedly defamatory article published on Thursday May 28, 2015. The paper published a report that the minister has been implicated in a case in which two people are […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Affairs Security, Atupele Muluzi has said he remains the president of United Democratic Front (UDF) and its voice in parliament and cabinet . Muluzi said UDF has one command structure led by him as president. “I am the leader of the party, I speak as a leader of the […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) says it will not stifle debate among party members on the party’s’ decision to move to the government side in parliament as long as it is done with civility and within the structures of the party. UDF parliamentarians’ movement to the government side in the House with its leader Lucius Banda still on […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) has said it will not resolve the misunderstanding with its former parliamentary leader Lucius Banda in the media but by using established systems in the party. UDF spokesman Ken Ndanga in interviews on Joy TV and Times TV on Monday said that the party will engage its members at all levels […]
People speak of Late Chakufwa Chihana and his AFORD party. What happened to Chihana politically and his AFORD after Bakili Muluzi had dangled the 2nd Vice Presidency carrot to him and asked him to join government post 1994 election? It was the beginning of the end of Chihana’s political muscle clout in Malawi. Cross a […]
Former leader of United Democratic Front (UDF) in Parliament, Lucius Banda has claimed the leadership of the UDF has been swallowed up by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Banda has justified his move to not to follow other UDF lawmakers who have relocated to government benches. “I know that as a party we took […]
In an effort to upscale the number and standards of the Malawi Police Service, Government has disclosed plans to build an academy that will offer diploma and degree programs in law enforcement. Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Atupele Muluzi disclosed this Thursday morning at Police Training College (PTC) in Limbe, Blantyre during a […]
United Democratic Front (UDF) members of Parliament (MPs) have been goven a go ahead to join their Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) counterparts on the government benches in Parliament, Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya has confirmed . The UDF MPs will relocate to the government benches from Tuesday when Parliament reconvenes for national budget deliberations. President […]