Home Affairs minister Jappie Mhango has conceded the government was caught pants down, snoozing when South African authorities caught three child traffickers with 82 children aboard a cargo vehicle. “As a ministry, we are dealing with this emerging problem, we never expected that the problem would be this huge,” he said on Tuesday. Mhango said […]
Home Affairs and Internal Security minister Jappie Mhango says the government is surprised with the Saturday attack on a woman with albinism in Chitipa as it thought the situation was under control. Mhango said this at Mzuzu Central Hospital where he went to visit a 52 year old woman with albinism whose hand was chopped […]
People’s Party (PP) leader in parliament and party’s acting president Uladi Mussa should “face the law” for illegally approving citizenships of hundreds of Rwandese, Burundi nationals, the Home Affairs and Internal Security minister Jappie Mhango has said. Mhango accused Mussa of “criminal negliegence” when he served as Home Affairs Minister during the Joyce Banda administration. […]
Minister of Information, Jappie Mhango has come out fighting that he will not resign as demanded by People’s Party (PP) acting president Uladi Mussa, saying the PP leader is “full of greed.” Addressing a rally at Makheta Primary School ground in Blantyre, Mussa said Mhango, Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe and Minister of Agriculture Allan […]
Malawi government spokesperson Jappie Mhango has said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government will accommodate views of political analysts and citizens in general even if the views are critical to the current leadership of President Peter Mutharika and his party. Mhango, who is also Minister of Information, gave the assurances after Chancellor College political analyst […]
Malawi government spokesman Jappie Mhango has lashed at Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbytery (CCAP) concentrate on matters of the pulpit in preaching than giving checks and balances to government. Mhango, who is also Minister of Information and Civic Education, was reacting to concerns the synod raised on the insecurity in the country. Synod’s […]
Malawi government on Thursday released a scatching statament to dismiss assertions that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government is scheming to snatch Press Corporation Limited (PCL) away from other shareholders by imposing DPP gurus on PCL and Press Trust Boards and went to town accusing PCL led by Mathews Chikaonda of destroying the corporation. Minister […]
Following President Peter Mutharika’s recent remarks against the country’s use of social media, government has disclosed it has drafted new cyber laws to regulate social media in the country. Information minister Jappie Mhango has said a bill that will be coming up in parliament soon to regulate the social media provides for stiff punishment for […]
Malawi Minister of Information, Jappie Mhango has lashed at The Sunday Times newspaper over a cabinet assessment report done and published by the newspaper 28 February 2016, saying it was a “blind opinion poll” and that it remains ” scientifically and statistically questionable”. Launched in 2004, the newspaper as the first-ever Sunday newspaper in Malawi […]
Independent memberof parliament for Karonga Central, Frank Tumpale Mwenefumbo has accused an “overzealous” Minister of Information Jappie Mhango for politicising the current food shortage in the country. Speaking in parliament, Mwenefumbo cited Mhango as one of the cabinet ministers who politicised the food situation in Karonga when he came to donate maize to the district […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) researcher and activist Makhumbo Munthali has cautioned government against stifling debate on Malawi’s current state of socio-economic governance and calls for President Arthur Peter Mutharika (APM) to step down, stating that such a move has no space in a democratic dispensation. The remarks comes on the sidelines of […]
Information minister Jappie Mhango has told district health officers to change their mindset and be innovative by growing maize to feed patients. Mhango said this in Chitipa when he donated 100 bags of maize and 10 bags of beans at the district hospital donated by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mhango said it is […]
Government has warned severe action against those involved in Admarc maize smuggling that has negatively affected the sale of the staple food in state controlled grain markets. Minister of Information Jappie Mhango said this at a rally after finishing donating K5 million worth of maize and beans in the north courtesy of the ruling Democratic […]
Minister of Information Jappie Mhango has swung swiftly to put down politically damaging reports that a man died of hunger in Mzimba last week. In a statement, Mhango said the reports were untrue because when the man’s body was discovered on January, it was in severe decomposed state therefore medical personnel could not determine the […]
Ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) says it has set aside K5 million to help buy food for hospitals in the north following suspension of provision of food to patients in public hospitals due to budgetary cuts. Minister of Information Jappie Mhango disclosed this on Thursday in Mzimba when he handed over 200 bags of maize […]
Government has for the first time said former president Joyce Banda faces criminal charges when she comes back to Malawi in connection with her alleged role in the infamous cashgate, the plunder of US$20 million public resources at Capital Hill,the seat of government in Lilongwe. “Government has a lot of solid information on her on […]
Minister of InformatIon Jappie Mhango has assured Private electronic media group, Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) journalists that the government will never shut them up in the course of gathering and airing news. Mhango said this Wednesday when he visited Zodiak station in the capital Lilongwe. This assurance comes barely days after State House press officer Gerald Viola did not invite […]
Government says it shocked with reports there is shortage of drugs in public hospitals and several flaws in the delivery of quality health system delivery. Responding to a questionnaire from Nyasa Times, Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education Jappie Mhango said he was “shocked” despite admitting growing reports of dwindling health services. Nyasa Times quizzed the […]