Malawi police officer who guarding at Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia’s residence in Lilongwe was arrested on Saturday on suspicion that he was drunk and disorderly. Constable Ronnex Njema of Police Mobile Force (PMF) C Division was arrested for failing to perform guarding duties because he was drunk, Central Region […]
Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia has been sued by 14 National Registration Bureau (NRB) workers arrested for convening a meeting in Mzuzu last September, demanding damages for the arbitray arrest which she alleged to have ordered police to effect. Chiumia, then Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, ordered […]
Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development, Grace Chiumia, has increased sponsorship for Obama Football League in her Nkhata Bay West Constituency from K1 million to K2.5 million. Chiumia said she has hiked the sponsorship to motivate competitive spirit amongst the youths in sporting activities in her constituency, thereby making them refrain from risky […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia for threatening chiefs to support President Peter Mutharika or risk not being elevated. The controversial Chiumia is reportedly to have made the threats at a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rally at Katoto in Mzuzu […]
The Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development, Grace Chiumia on Wednesday called for a multi-sectoral approach to promoting youth education and adult learning in the country. Chiumia made the call when she opened a day- long meeting for officials from her Ministry and other stakeholders at Pacific Hotel in Lilongwe. The meeting, which […]
Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia has conceded that there are deep divisions within the e governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), saying she is one of the targeted politicians to pull her down. In trying to put a positive spin to what she said recently that President Peter Mutharika’s administration is not in support […]
Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia has bluntly said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government is not in support of the proposal of a 50+1 electoral system where the triumphant president contender is decided on the basis of getting a majority 50 percent plus one of the votes to win. One of the electoral reforms the Malawi […]
President Peter Mutharika has made a minor cabinet reshuffle as he has swapped the portfolios of his Internal Security and Civic Education Ministers. Grace Chiumia, who served as Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister will now handle Civic Education, Culture and Community Development portifolio. Cecilia Chazama, who was Civic Education Minister will now take up […]
Over 7.9million Malawians have registered so far in the past four phases of the national mass registration against the projected total figure of 9 million people. Project Chief Technical Advisor for the National Registration and Identification System (NRIS), Tariq Malik disclosed this in Mangochi on Wednesday at a press briefing aimed at announcing the results […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Grace Chiumia has reiterated that government will remain committed to providing the Malawi Police Service (MPs) amiable working environment to enable the law enforcers execute their duties effectively. Chiumia made the commitment on Friday during the pass–out parade of 941 police constables at Limbe Police Training School in […]
Embattled Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has refused to resign or even apologise for her order to arrest 14 National Registration Bureau (NRB) officers in Mzuzu, justifying her action as good citizenship. The 14 were arrested by Mzuzu police on Sunday 17th September, 2017 and were charged with unlawful assembly and […]
Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) has demanded an open apology from Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia and government spokesperson condemning Chiumia’s conduct where she ordered the arrest of 14 National Registration Bureau otherwise they will take the matter to Geneva during International Labour Organization General Assembly. MCTU is also demanding immediate […]
Civil society organizations in Malawi are asking government to fire from cabinet Home Affairs Minister Grace Chiumia for the behavior it feels not befitting a cabinet minister. Chiumia has on many occasions disappointed many people in the country over her public utterances and decisions she makes. She was recently in the limelight for a wrong […]
Forum for National Development (FND) has urged the 14 arrested National Registration Bureau (NRB) workers in Mzuzu to drag to court Malawi’s Minister of Home Affairs Grace Obama Chiumia for her role in their incarceration. The Forum has also called upon the Malawi Government and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to exonerate itself from […]
Mzuzu-based outspoken human righs and governance activist Charles Kajoloweka has accused Malawi’s Minister of Home Affairs Grace Obama Chiumia for her role in ambushing and and ordering the arrest of 42 National Registration Bureau (NRB) members of staff who on Sunday over alleged conspiracy to commit a crime and felony and unlawful assembly. Out of […]
Malawi Police has released the 14 National Registration Bureau (NRB) officers who were arrested in Mzuzu after Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia, accompanied by armed police officers, disrupted their meeting to demand arrears dating back to May 2017. Police did not take the officials to court to be formally charged but […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia on Sunday accompanied armed police officers and ordered the arrest of National Registration Bureau (NRB) officers who were holding a meeting to demand arrears dating back to May 2017. Chiumia went to Police to ask for officers to accompany her and arrest the NRB workers at […]
Malawi government has launched the first ever National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons which targets a 50-percent reduction rate in human trafficking crime by 2022. Home Affairs and National Security Minister Grace Chiumia, who presided over the launching ceremony on Tuesday, described this blueprint against human trafficking as an ideal supplement to the 2015 […]