Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) president Enock Chihana’s spokesman, Saulos Thindwa has resigned but he remains a party operative, Nyasa Times understands. Thindwa, who is the former Malawi Broadcasting Cooperation sports reporter, was handpicked by Chihana to work as his advisor on media, spokesperson and personal assistant. However, according to the letter dated 12 November, 2017 […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials on Sunday attacked president of Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) Enoch Chihana who is also the son of the founder of the party, Thom Chakufwa Chihana, saying he is not the real son of the soil in the northern region. DPP regional governor for the north Kenneth Sanga said […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enock Chihana has told the state to arrest all cabinet ministers who served in the Joyce Banda administration. Chihana said he was angered with the state for issuing a warrant of arrest for the former president. ‘Government is a collective responsibility so the state should not arrest Dr Banda alone,” he […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) an opposition party with its base in the northern part of Malawi has sued Paladin, uranium miners at Kayerekera in Karonga for a K350 million for allegedly causing cancer and death to some people. Lawyers from United Kingdom, who were in the country for preliminary investigations on the classic lawsuit have […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) leadership says the national executive committee will make a decision during its convention in September on whether to go for a political alliance or battle it alone during the 2019 elections. Aford president Enoch Chihana says it will be up to the convention to make a decision. “We are the most […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) the first party to register after multiparty politics in 1994, is now set for revamping to get its lost glory. Owen Mumba, acting chairman of Revamping Aford Movement (Ramo) said Aford supporters are now fired up and wants the party to be great again and formidable in 2019 elections . “We […]
The Alliance for Democracy (Aford) members are calling for party president Enock Chihana to call for a national convention but the party says it will not hold the indaba this year. According to Aford secretary general Christopher Ritchi, the party is rebuilding and aims at bringing back old members who dumped the party due to […]
Opposition lawmakers in parliament said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is now in tatters and President Peter Mutharika has got to get a grip and start facing up to the realities of failed state. Member of Parliament for Rumphi Central, Enock Chihana, who is also president of Alliance for Democracy (Aford), first ranted that […]
Opposition leaders on Sunday took turns to protest against the continued arrest of ordinary people for simply criticising President Peter Mutharika and his government, saying the law is dictatorial, archaic and must be struck off. Malawi Congress Party president Lazarus Chakwera, Aford leader Enoch Chihana, Mafunde president George Mnesa and PPM president Mark Katsonga all […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enoch Chihana has said government should not to treat criticism against them as a crime. Chihana said he will move a private members motion in parliament to protect citizens from exercising their rights of freedom of speech. He decried the harassment and torture of opposition members and critics of the […]
Member of Parliament for Rumphi Central Constituency, Enoch Chihana has asked government to explain to the House the details of the contract details that Malawi government signed with Peermont Holdings from South Africa to manage Umodzi Park which include the Bingu International Conference Centre, the five star hotel and presidential chalets. However, things seemed to […]
Opposition Alliance for Democracy (Aford) has set aside K8.5 million for construction of four police units, a clinic and a bridge in Mzuzu’s Chibanja ward where by-elections are scheduled for Tuesday. Aford is fielding Gibson Chisale, an entrepreneur and youth activist. President of Aford Enock Chihana told Nyasa Times in an interview Friday that “the by-election will prove to the […]
President of the Alliance for Democracy (Aford), Enock Chihana, on Saturday alleged that the Malawi Government is planning to impose a K5000 tuition fee on any primary school pupil as a strategy to complement its zero-budget effective next term of school calendar , a development he cautioned might worsen education quality further. Chihana made the […]
Malawi Police recruitment system is at fault and contributing to security lapses, leader of opposition Lazarous Chakwera and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Internal Security, Enock Chihana have observed. Chakwera, who is also president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has faulted the unprofessional recruitment of police officers whom he said most […]
Malawi’s hero of multiparty democracy Chakufwa Chihana’s tiny grave in the city of Mzuzu remains a desolate, abandoned site despite earlier government promises to erect a mausoleum befitting the fallen trade union, human rights activist nd served as the country’s second vice-president. The administration of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika pledged to construct […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enock Chakufwa Chihana, MP has said Malawi will adopt federal system of government by 2019, adding that the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) resistance will not hamper the pursuit. Chihana, also legislator for Rumphi Central, told Nyasa Times that the DPP government’s endeavours to delay federalism will not stop it […]
Son to the Malawi’s fallen pro-democracy hero Chakufwa Tom Chihana, Enock, who is also leader of the now tiny opposition Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) is accusing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of by-passing democratic principles of free debate on issues of national importance such as federalism. Speaking to Nyasa Times on Friday, Chihana asked DPP […]
If the Alliance for Democracy (Aford) had won Malawi’s first multiparty elections in 1994, Dr. Dennis Nkhwazi, the party’s founding member, would have led a big push to introduce a federal system of government. In the run-up to the elections, this correspondent was assigned by two journalists who were behind one of Malawi’s first pro-democracy […]