Embattled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Gustave Kaliwo is telling all delegates rushing to Lilongwe for a convention on Saturday to call off their trips, saying the indaba is illegal. At a lone news conference in Blantyre on Friday, Kaliwo said the power to call for a party convention rests with him. “The party […]
The High Court has issued an injunction order to man opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its leadership not to hold its national convention and stopping the disciplinary inquiries and suspending its embattled senior members. Justice Mike Tembo on Tuesday granted the injunction after lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale filed an application on behalf five senior members stopping MCP from […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) embittered suspended Secretary General Gustuv Kaliwo has said he will file fresh notice to High Court after registrar Justus Kishindo on Monday set aside the summons of Kaliwo and others, restraining the party from conducting any party activity including the convention. Kishindo had set aside the Kaliwo summons on technicality, following […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) will proceed to organise its much-anticipated national convention after the High Court in Blantyre has given the go ahead after throwing away an injunction obtained by Gustuv Kaliwo and others, restraining the party from conducting any party activity including the convention. The suspended faction of the main opposition party’s embattled vice-president […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says the party has not engaged the ‘rebel’ secretary general Gustave Kaliwo and others, saying the party told the court it was withdrawing the case on tactical legal point. In an interview, MCP deputy secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka said the MCP told the High Court last week that it was withdrawing […]
Embattled opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general, Gustav Kaliwo, on Thursday walked out of Lilongwe High Court a furious man after it was ordered that issues he has with the party’s president Lazarus Chakwera be settled out of court. Kaliwo, a lawyer by profession, had wanted Chakwera to appear in court over a case that revolves […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) warring factions, who have fought each other a bitter battle over power struggle, have t agreed to settle their differences outside the court when they appeared before the High Court in Lilongwe. Party president Lazarus Chakwera, who was expected to face-off his ‘rebel’ secretary general Gustave Kaliwo, did not turn up when the court endorsed the […]
Gustav Kaliwo—opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general—has said there was nothing hazy in the manner the party’s vice president, who is also Speaker of the national assembly, Richard Msowoya acquired a Volkswagen Tourag that was cleared by the Malawi Revenue Authority duty-free. In an interview with Nyasa Times, after we run the story, Kaliwo […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) will likely postpone its convention in April this year after High Court in Blantyre reserved its determination to rift an injunction obtained by party’s Vice President Richard Msowoya and four other members. The April 4-7 2018 gathering at Mary Mount Secondary School in Mzuzu is expected to put in office […]
Speaker of the National Assembly, Richard Msowoya, has abused his office by aiding his party’s suspended Secretary General , Gustav Kaliwo, to import a Volkswagen Tourag duty free, Nyasa Times can reveal. Msowoya—as Speaker—has several benefits including a provision for him to import vehicles duty-free. The benefits are entirely personal, according to laws. Documents which […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has been ordered to appear at High Court in Lilongwe on April 10 2018 in a case against the party’s suspended Secretary General Gustav Kaliwo who called for convention. Chakwera did not come to court on Monday with his the party lawyer Charles Mhone saying he was away […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and embattled secretary general Gustav Kaliwo are set to face off and trade questions in court in a case the party obtained an injunction restraining Kaliwo from calling for a convention. In June last year, Chakwera obtained a court injunction stopping Kaliwo holding an emergency convention […]
Embattled opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secreyray general Gustav Kaliwo has obtained a fresh injunction against the party not to organise a convention in April this year expected to put in office new leadership. Kaliwo through lawyer Kalekeni Kaphale has successfully obtained the court order restraining MCP from implementing suspension orders which the National Executive Committee […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first-vice president Richard Msowoya together with party secretary general Gustav Kaliwo and three other executive members who were suspended last Sunday, have gone to court for a relief after obtaining an injunction stopping the main opposition party from implementing the decision of the national executive committee (NEC). Former Attorney General Kalekeni […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) national executive committee (NEC) has resolved to suspend the party’s first vice president Richard Msowoya and Secretary General (SG) pending disciplinary action for causing “confusion” in the main opposition party. The party suspended Msowoya and Kaliwo who stayed away from the meeting despite being invited to attend. The MCP NEC has […]
Embattled Malawi Congress Party (MCP) secretary general Gustave Kaliwo has rebuffed calls by the party’s members of Parliament (MPs) that he should be suspended on charges of incompetence for failing to show policy direction in the party. The MCP legislators accused Kaliwo, among other things, that he absented himself from major party functions for two […]
Members of Parliament of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) have issued a communiqué after their meeting in Lilongwe where they met to air their views on the ongoing leadership wrangles in the opposition party and have recommended to National Executive Committee (NEC) removed party Secretary General Gustav Kaliwo for “gross incompetence” as one of the reasons. […]
A faction of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) led by vice-president Richard Msowoya has warned that should the party continue on its current path, it would split or, even more ominously, perform dismally in next year’s elections. Msowoya and other top gurus accusing MCP president Lazarus Chakwera of flouting the party constitution and warning him of taking the […]