Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) Board Chairperson, Bishop Dr. Martin Mtumbuka, says Malawi’s major problem with the national budgets is not the figures or amounts the government allocates to various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), but institutionalized corruption. Mtumbuka observed that more than half of the money allocated to MDAs is being stolen by some […]
Chairperson of the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee, Gladys Ganda, has said the economic growth projections at 3.5 percent as contained in the mid-term budget statement presented on Friday February 26, 2021 by Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu have been “overstated”. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, March 4, 2021 “to offer a few reflections as […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje, who is also chairperson of Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament, Gladys Ganda, has said parliament must step up and play its oversight role to ensure that public funds are not being abused by people with ulterior agenda. Ganda said this in reaction to revelations […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsanje Lalanje constituency Gladys Ganda has said the country has lost a very good person and steward of development in T/A Mbenje of Nsanje. She was speaking when she gave a tearful and lurid eulogy for the fallen chief who succumbed to Covid-19 earlier in the morning of the same […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), now divided into two political factions, is on campaign race in Nsanje where the party is fighting to retain a local government seat. DPP is sharply divided with its vice president for the south, Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is hanging on to the party by a court order, taking almost half […]
Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara has pended the Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament scrutiny to the 2020/21 national budget as presented by the Minister of Finance Felix Mlusu after some members of her committee claimed her response was not part of the original report they had unanimously agreed. Ganda, a Democratic Progressive Party […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje, Gladys Ganda, has been elected chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee of parliament following the resignation of Lilongwe Msozi North MP, Sosten Gwengwe in keeping with the legal provision that Chairperson(s) of the committee must always come from the opposition. Ganda becomes the second […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsanje Lalanje, Gladys Ganda dressed the elderly with Mother’s Day cloth in appreciating what women deserve during their occasion to celebrate motherhood. Ganda on Tuesday October 15, also distributed maize to the households of Group Mello at Nyamikuta Centre and Group Nyamjidu at Nyamjidu Center. Over 800 households received the […]
Youth Coalition for the Consolidation of Democracy (YCD), which was entrusted to conduct the 50:50 campaign, has produced three female Members of Parliament (MPs) out of five constituencies in Nsanje District which is 60 per cent representation. The three female MPs are Gladys Ganda of Nsanje Lalanje, Esther Mcheka Chilenje for Nsanje North and Eurita […]
Aspiring Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje constituency, Gladys Ganda, has commended Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) for guiding parties and candidates following the issuance of Electoral Code of Conduct for parties and candidates. Ganda, who is contesting on a ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket said this in interview on Tuesday at Magoti Primary School […]
National Bank of Malawi (NBM) has bade farewell to three senior management officials who have retired after decades of service with the “bank of the nation”. The event, which took place at NBM’s Learning and Growth Centre in Blantyre, was in honour of three senior management retirees—Head of Administration Tayemu Masikini, Service Centre Manager, Capital […]
Gladys Ruth Ganda, the losing candidate in the October 17, 2017 parliamentary by elections, which were held in Nsanje Lalanje, made a heroic return to her constituency on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 to address a ‘development rally’. Hundreds of ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters thronged to the rally Ganda addressed to thank all those […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) parliamentary candidate for Nsanje-Lalanje Lawrence Sitolo has branded Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Gladys Ganda’s behaviour “strange” when she avoided a political debate where she was scheduled to face her two rivals last Thursday. Sitolo said Ganda’s “attempt to dodge scrutiny shows how she holds the electorate in contempt” as she […]