Minister Everton Chimulirenji, who was the de-facto Vice President of Malawi from May 2019 to February 2020, took a swipe at the judiciary claiming that they have hijacked democracy. The Constitutional Court stunned Malawians on February 3 2020 when it annulled the May 2019 vote that returned President Peter Mutharika to power as president with […]
Presidential aide and National Task Force Committee on People with Albinism chairperson Hetherwick Ntaba has snubbed calls from Persons with albinism (PWAs) body for him to resign from his position following allegations that he was involved in the killing of people with albinism. President for Association of People with Albinism Ian Simbota and the association’s coordinator […]
Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) has written a letter to President Peter Mutharika demanding the firing or voluntary resignation of presidential aide Dr. Heatherwick Ntaba – who is also chairperson of a committee tasked to fight against abuse of persons with albinism . APAM president Ian Simbota confirmed the developmet in an […]
Presidential adviser on local policies Hetherwick Ntaba has rejected Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) 7-day “ultimatum”, up to Monday to release a report of a Commission of Inquiry President Peter Mutharika appointed to investigate killings and abductions of persons with albinism. Ntaba, who is also chairperson of a committee tasked to fight […]
Malawians are urging the State to arrest presidential aide Hetherwick Ntaba following a string of allegations that he is connected to a syndicate that was murdering persons with albinism. Two suspects in the ongoing murder case of Macdonald Masambuka have mentioned Ntaba and as part of the syndicate. Ntaba is yet to make a comment […]
President Peter Mutharika’s special aide Dr. Hetherwick Ntaba has for the second time been implicated in the murder case of a person with albinism Macdonald Masambuka by Chikondi Chileka a police officer who conducted investigations into abductions and killings of persons of albinism. Chileka is one of the suspects in the murder case and told the […]
High Court judge Dorothy Nyakaunda Kamanga will on September 18 rule on whether witnesses in the murder case of a person with albinism Macdonald Masambuka should be recalled to testify or not. This follows the transfer of the case from the High Court in Zomba to Blantyre after judge Zione Ntaba recused herself from the […]
An angry mob has reportedly smashed an official vehicle of presidential aide Hetherwick Ntaba amid heightened speculation the ruling party officials were bribing presiding officers with K300 000 each to manipulate poll results. A local radio station says Ntaba was whisked away after 10 people descended on him at Chimutu tally centre in Lilongwe. “It […]
President Peter Mutharika should pay the K5 million bounty to Alfred Yohane who has named people being involved in killings of Persons with Albinism (PWAs). Mutharika promised the K5 million pay out when he met persons with albinism in Lilongwe earlier this year. Now Yohane, a suspect in the murder case of 22-year-old MacDonald Masambuka, […]
Family members of murdered person with albinism MacDonald Masambuka and commentators have called for President Peter Mutharika’s adviser Dr Hetherwick Ntaba to resign as chairperson of presidential committee tasked with protecting Malawians living with albinism after being implicated by one of the murder suspects, Alfred Yohane. Masambuka, 22, a person with albinism, is believed to […]
Zomba-based High Court Judge Zione Ntaba has asked McDonald Masambuka’s family to be patient because one day justice will prevail in the case where their relation, a person with albinism, is believed to have been murdered in Machinga in April last year. Justice Ntaba made the assurance when she recused herself from the murder case […]
Zomba-based High Court Judge Justice Zione Ntaba has recused herself in a murder case of a 22-year-old young man with albinism MacDonald Masambuka after Alfred Yohane, one of the suspects, implicated some high profile Malawi government politicians including her uncle Dr Hertherwick Ntaba, an aide to President Peter Mutharika. Yohane, represented by lawyer Trouble Kalua […]
Presidential committee on protection of people with albinism chairperson Hetherwick Ntaba said he has called independent pathologist Charles Dzamalala to furnish the State with forensic autopsy report which shows Buleya Lule, a suspect in the abduction of a boy with albinism, died from electrocution. Ntaba said Dzamalala did not officially give the autopsy report to the […]
Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has won governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) primaries in Mulanje Central constituency without any opposition. Amid heavy rains, DPP constituency committee members came in large numbers to endorse their loved parliamentarian. When one of the presiding officers, Dr. Hetherwick Ntaba set the process in motion, it was […]
Senior ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member and presidential advisor on local policies Dr Hetherwick Ntaba has said all is well with his wife joining Vice President Saulos Chilima’s United Transformation Movement (UTM) calling it a sign of political tolerance. Recently, Ntaba’s wife who is popularly known as Namoyo has been seen attending UTM rallies whilst in movement’s […]
Four Cabinet ministers who failed to win any position at elective national convention of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have pledged to continue supporting the party and back President Peter Mutharika in 2019 Tripartite Elections. They included Joseph Mwanamvekha (Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development), Henry Mussa (Trade, Industry and Tourism), and Francis Kasaila (Labour, […]
Presidential adviser on local policies Hetherwick Ntaba is waking up to the reality of a new vice –president for the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after he was ousted at the convention in Blantyre with popular vote to ‘returnee’ Salima South legislator Uladi Mussa who recently rejoined the party after dumping People’s Party (PP). Uladi got […]
Presidential adviser on local policies Hetherwick Ntaba, who is also chairperson of a committee tasked to fight against abuse of persons with albinism, has been accused by Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi (Apam) of failing to deliver with his committee. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the committee has asked President Peter […]