President Bingu wa Mutharika’s spokesman, Hetherwick Ntaba, has praised Malawi’s female vice president Joyce Banda as a law abiding politician. Ntaba said the Vice President who also leads an opposition People’s Party postponed a scheduled rally in Dowa following a police directive while accusing a presidential aspirant for UDF, Atupele Muluzi for “disobeying the law” […]
Presidential spokesperson Dr. Heatherwick Ntaba has made fresh attacks on Atupele Muluzi, Machinga North MP and one of the leading presidential hopefuls in the 2014 elections, accusing him of being the cause of the clashes between residents of Area 24, Lilongwe and the Police. In a statement released on Tuesday and made available to Nyasa […]
Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba and Minister of Information and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati, have said a resign-by-May 14 ultimatum to the Head of State would be rejected. The Public Affairs Committee, a group of religious leaders and activists, has threatened “civil disobedience” if Mutharika will not step down within 60 days […]
On Tuesday 6th March 2012 President Bingu wa Mutharika sneaked out of the Malawi on a secret visit to Nigeria. He used his Presidential Jet for the trip. The Presidential jet is an official facility assigned to the head of state to use as a means of official transportation , because taxpayers ( Malawians that is […]
Despite repeated claims of coup de tat on March 14 by President Bingu wa Mutharika and his cohorts being in the public domain, government has now changed tune on the issue saying nobody said so. For about three weeks now, government has been making allegations that it has intelligence information that some Malawians were planning […]
Malawian authorities Friday accused a leading rights group of plotting “regime change” and blocked a meeting meant to discuss political and economic challenges in the southern African state. Hetherwick Ntaba accused the Public Affairs Committee of calling the meeting to propose a recall movement against President Bingu wa Mutharika, whose second term in office has […]
Presidential Spokesperson Dr. Hetherwick Ntaba has accused the media practitioners and Civil Society Organization Leaders (CSO) for attacking President Bingu wa Mutharika and his government and also plotting to overtake the leadership of Malawi. Ntaba was speaking on Thursday through the state controlled public broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation TV (MBC TV). He echoed that the […]
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is worried with the fragile situation in Malawi and has asked Southern African Development Community (SADC) to assess the situations. The UN chief asked Angola, as chairperson of SADC , to assess Malawi “ on the worrying situation.” Malawi situation triggered more concerns on Sunday when President Bingu wa […]
Despite derogatory language towards donors on homosexual rights and unfounded allegations that NGOsare getting funded on the backs of homosexuals, President Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration is the one receiving funds from donors and implementing gay activities, The Nation has revealed. The exact amount government has received for gay activities is unclear, but the US Embassy […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has hired a hit-squad from his political ally Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe to deal with critics and activist, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have claimed. Presidential spokesperson Heatherwick Ntaba has however refuted the allegations as baseless. Acting national coordinator of Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), Reverend MacDonald Sembereka, speaking at a […]
The diplomatic relations between Lilongwe and Lusaka which was said to be mended risks to strained again following statements by Malawi President’s spokesman linking Zambia’s President Michael Sata to a coup plot. As an opposition leader, Sata was deported from Malawi in 2006 by the Bingu wa Mutharika government when he was visiting former President […]
MalawiPresident Bingu wa Mutharika has welcomed the stand taken byZambiaPresident Michael Sata to forgive him following a diplomatic row that has soured relations between the two neighboring countries. Mutharika’s spokesman, Hetherwick Ntaba, told Times of Zambia that the Malawian leader has welcomed the reconciliatory message from President Sata. Sata said he has forgiven Mutharika following […]
The two civil society organisations have said Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has lost the mandate to rule because Malawians have lost trust in his government. The NGOs, Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Centre for the Development of People (Cedep), in a statement marking the commemoration of World Human Rights Day on […]
Presidential and ruling DPP spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba was business as usual on Thursday, downplaying criticisms over President Bingu wa Mutharika’s brother, Peter, for his use of presidential helicopter to fly him to Mzuzu for campaign and inaugurate street lights. Peter, DPP presidential candidate and Minister of Foreign Affairs, used the presidential chopper last Sunday from […]
“…A wretched soul, buried with adversity, we bid be quite when we hear it cry. But were we burdened with like weight of pain, as much or more we should ourselves complain…” William Shakespeare, English Dramatist & Poet (1564 – 1616) In the Holy Scriptures, the almighty God clearly declares in the Book of 1 […]
Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba has defended the actions of ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who booed and threatened to rough journalists for asking President Bingu wa Mutharika probing questions on Monday during the press conference at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe. The press conference was hijacked into a political rally for the DPP where […]
Presidential spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba has dismisses the charge levelled against President Bingu wa Mutharika on impeachment, raised by Ken Msonda, UDF’s spokesperson Msonda told Capital FM radio Day Break Malawi programme that President Mutharika should be impeached for going AWOL! (Absent Without Leave). He said Mutharika’s holiday at the time when Malawi is suffering the […]
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika was forced to refute recent reports that he was “missing” and rumours circulating that he was critically ill and had died. Ruling DPP vice president Yunus Mussa and spokesman Hetherwick Ntaba organised a news conference in Lilongwe on Monday to prove that the President was alive. Mussa telephoned Mutharika in […]