Background: All in all six articles were published under these series in the year 2011. The first, Potholes on the Road to 2014 Part I, was published in March 2011 at the peak of an MBC Television programme bearing the name Road to 2014. The articles, carried by Nyasa Times with some appearing on MaraviPost, […]
Short bio: Henry Duncan Dama (HDP)Phoya was born in Blantyre on 10th December 1966. In 2014 he will be 48 years old. He privately practiced as a lawyer for 10 years before joining politics in in 2001/2002 as a United Democratic Front (UDF) Member of Parliament for Blantyre Rural East Constituency. Almost immediately, he was […]
Blantyre Rural East Member of Parliament, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) says he will consider entering the 2014 presidential race. Phoya speaking to Nyasa Times in a telephone interview however said he does not harbour presidential ambitions. The 45-year-old lawmaker said those asking him to run for presidentwere simply exercising their freedom of expression. Fix-factor Phoya […]
Blantyre Rural East MP Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) quarried government why it had to pay US$6.9 million for the ‘spy machine’ (Consolidated ICT Regulatory Management System -CIRMS) when the same machine costs other countries like Gabon only US$2 million. Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) had to pay US$6.9 million to a US firm Agilis International when they were […]
Blantyre Rural East MP Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) accused Minister of Education and government leader in parliament George Chaponda of making insulting statements, claiming the fuel crisis has just been there for a short stint. Malawi has been gripped by an acute fuel shortage because it cannot access enough foreign exchange reserves from the central […]
As the government continues to be criticized over formulation of draconian laws, including that of section 46 of the penal code that empowers a cabinet minister to ban any publication deemed to be “not in public interest”, former Justice Minister, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) said in parliament that the review of unpopular laws rests in […]
Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Blantyre Rural East, Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) says Malawi teachers should be well renumurated and deserve pay hike . The former minister called on government to give teachers good working conditions, that’s including providing accommodation for rural teachers. Phoya when hesaid this during the launch of three teacher’s house projects […]
By Wise One from the East Serving as a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) parliamentarian is easy. It is so easy that any idiot can do it. One does not have do anything at all except to tell the world, whenever possible, what a wise and visionary leader Malawi is blessed to have. In fact, if […]
By Andrew Nyayah, NyasaTimes A new line-up of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) national governing council clearly shows that the party has done away with its legal department which was headed by Henry Duncan Phoya (HDP) and deputised by Philip Banda. Phoya, who was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee of parliament, was fired […]