Malawi’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Grace Chiumia, has disowned a letter circulation on social media that she has told the South African Airways and the immigration department that South Africa’s firebrand politician Julius Malema and a Zambian opposition leader Saviour Chishimba have been banned from attending an inaugural conference of political movement Transformation Alliance (TA. The […]
People’s Party (PP) interim leader Uladi Mussa who was recently arrested over the apparent citizenship and passport scams is challenging Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and government to arrest and charge Minister of Home Affairs Grace Chiumia on abuse of office and corruption. Whitsle-blower is said to have alerted law enforcing agencies that the Minister of Home Affairs […]
The Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Grace Chiumia, has clarified misconceptions surrounding the ongoing mass registration exercise regarding the National Identification Card Program. Word on the street, especially among opposition political parties, is that government wants to use the identity cards to rig the 2019 general elections. Chiumia was speaking in Blantyre on […]
Home Affairs and Internal Security minister Grace Chiumia had a rude awakening on Saturday at Zomba Maximum Prison where striking prisoners blocked her from entering the prison premises. This was barely a day after she was blocked from entering Maula Prison in Lilongwe as she wanted to address them in a bid to request them abandon the […]
Last time Malawi heard a public official answering to a clergy’s prayer was when late president Bingu wa Mutharika responded to a sermon which was critical to his administration. But now it’s the Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Grace Chiumia who directly responded to a prayer offered by CCAP Livingstonia Synod cleric. Revered […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has said a dubious Indian investor who was deported will not be allowed to come back. The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services in May deported Chandrashaker More, who owes the public tax collector K20 million, and had also racially insulted Police officers at the court calling them “poor […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has said the government has asked for extra funding from UNDP to increase the daily allowance for those working for the national identity registration. Chiumia told parliament on Thursday that the government would like to increase the daily allowance from the current K10, 000 per day to K20, […]
With the first phase of the mass national registration campaign gets close to an end, Home Affairs and Internal Security Minister, Grace Chiumia has revealed that one million Malawians have so far been registered. Briefingjournalists on Saturday after touring some of the registration centers in Salima, Chiumia said the first phase has gone on well […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has said Malawi will push for extradition of Nigerian who used a Malawian passport under the name of Victor Banda so that he can be prosecuted in ‘Passportgate’ scandal. Mzimba West member of parliament Harry Mkandawire (People’s Party –PP) on Thursday exposed a passport syndicate in […]
Mzimba West Member of Parliament Harry Mkandawire (People’s Party –PP) has christened the passport racket he exposed in the National Assembly as ‘Passport-gate” and said top government officials are involved hence inaction from law enforcing agencies. Mkandawire disclosed that a box of 250 blank Malawian passports got lost in December last year. “I would term it passport-Gate under […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has accused Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its president Lazarous Chakwera of irresponsible utterances which are political provocation and confrontation. Chiumia made the accusation during the send-off church service for former Cabinet minister in the one-party State the late Robson Chirwa in Mzuzu on Thursday. The […]
Malawi government is launching a crackdown on opposition members with arrests galore looming that will see among others the arrest of Dedza East Member of Parliament, Juliana Lunguzi who has been critical of government in parliament. Lunguzi, who is a member of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), has been subject of smear campaign on regime propaganda […]
A private law firm has been granted by the High Court to lodge an application to commit to prison Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia and Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama to prison for contempt of court for allegedly failing to comply with a Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal order. Chiumia […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in Dedza east Juliana Lunguzi took government to task to improve the country’s security and ensure that the life and properties of Malawians is secure. Lunguzi asked the minister of home affairs and internal security Grace Chiumia what the government is doing about the Capital […]
Tempers flared in the House as Lilongwe south MP Peter Dimba told the House that Home Affairs minister Grace Chiumia threatened to deal with him. Dimba also said he has received verbal abuses and attacks from MP Cecelia Chadzama and Civic Education minister Patricia Kaliati. The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MPsaid he has received […]
Government has flatly rejected pleas from Tanzania to release unconditionally eight Tanzanian suspected spies arrested in Karonga. The eight were arrested in December near Kayelekera Uranium mine where they allegedly were spying on whether the plant can produce nuclear or not. Home Affairs minister Grace Chiumia said the state will prosecute the eight in court. […]
Home Affairs and Internal Security minister Grace Chiumia has come under intense fire for directing traffic in the Capital, Lilongwe on Wednesday. Reports indicate that she disembarked from her official vehicle and started directing the traffic at several points where there were no traffic police officers. There is usually meandering traffic in some points in […]
In a bid to fight indiscipline in the Malawi Police Service, Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia is appealing to the general public to report any cop who is indiscipline. Chiumia made the remarks in Parliament while responding to a question from president of Alliance for Democrcay (Aford), Enock Chihana who is […]