Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) says it ready to support the 2014/15 national budget so long it is pro-poor. The budget has to protect and advance people’s welfare, according to MCP Spokesperson Jessie Kabwila. Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe is expected to present a K743 billion zero-aid budget to Parliament. Kabwila therefore said the current administration […]
Louisa Angellina Kabwila, a daughter of spokeswoman for Malawi Congress Party (MCP), Dr Jessie Kabwila, has engaged her fellow youth in a clean Lilongwe campaign. The campaign is to make sure that Lilongwe is a beautiful and clean city. Louisa Angellina said it is unfortunate that the city is dirty and has some eyesore places, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) outspoken spokesperson Jessie Kabwila on Sunday addressed her constituents in Salima North west how she found herself in the delegation to the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) Summit in Zimbabwe, arriving back in the country on the President Peter Mutharika’s chartered jet. Speaking during the special meeting with her constituency, Kabwila said she […]
Outspoken Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Dr. Jessie Kabwira has maintained that she will maintain her criticism to the DPP-led administration, despite accepting a controversial “lift” in a charted presidential jet from President Peter Mutharika.. Kabwira has granted interviews to almost all media houses in Malawi, but there are sharp contradictions on how she accepted […]
President Peter Mutharika is swiftly implementing bold foreign and domestic policies which represent a considerable paradigm shift in Malawi’s politics which I can hardly resist to comment on. Right from his first rally, after his brother’s death, which I curiously attended in Thyolo and subsequent series of political rallies and interviews on the media, Mutharika […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said it will add its weight in pushing for amending the electoral law on electing a Head of State from the current first-past-the-post and adopt a 50 per cent plus one law to ensure that the winner of presidential elections enjoyed majority support. MCP spokesperson Jessie Kabwila said the party will […]
Before and immediately after May 20, the supposedly re-branded Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was full of Wise Men and Women from the East, who never wasted time in throwing their ‘wise counsel’, to anyone who cared. Until recently, party President and retired Assemblies of God cleric, Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, Spokesperson and former academician, Jessie Kabwila, […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has claimed that governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is responsible to the arson at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) warehouse in Lilongwe, destroying, among others, ballot boxes and election materials for the disputed Lilongwe City South East Constituency. MCP spokeswoman told a news conference in Lilongwe that DPP were responsible […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has called on Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioners to step down for ‘failing to manage’ the May 20 Tripartite Elections. The call was made by the party’s Publicity Secretary Dr. Jessie Kabwila and echoed by Director of elections Joseph Njobvuyalema during a news conference on Wednesday at MCP headquarters in Lilongwe. […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Dr Jessie Kabwira suspects foul play in the cause of fire that has set ablaze Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Warehouse in Lilongwe where a vote recount was supposed to take place. Although the Lilongwe City Assembly was called in immediately to put off the fire, there has been extensive […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) member of Parliament for Salima Northwest Constituency, Dr Jessie Kabwila, has been elected as new chairperson for Women Caucus in Parliament. Kabwila,who is also MCP spokesperson, will be deputised by former chair Cecilia Chazama. She told Nyasa Times that it’s “an honour to serve as the Chair of the Legislative Women’s […]
The just ended presidential and parliamentary elections have revealed that Malawians have grown politically. It is a good development as they can no longer be taken for granted. Ask former President Joyce Banda what happened in the May elections after handing out maize and cows if you think I am exaggerating. What is also interesting […]
Members of Parliament on Tuesday rejected a a $50 million (about K20 billion) Loan Authorisation Bill which Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe tabled. Gondwe said the government wanted the bill to pass so that they can borrow funds from the World Bank to finance increasing access to higher education at the […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) publicity secretary Jessie Kabwila has said United Democratic Front (UDF) leader Atupele Muluzi’s decision to accept a Cabinet post is a “threat to democracy”. Kabwila said Atupele’s decision “weakens the democratic fibre of the House.” Said Kabwila: “Democracy is about having a party that is in government and others in the opposition […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Msodzi South, Vitus Dzoole Mwale, and told parliament that President Peter Mutharika was ruling through a stolen votes but that their party leader Rev Lazarous Chakwera urged them not to react to avoid plunging the nation into turmoil. In his contribution to the State of the Nation Address delivered by President […]
Member of Parliament of Salima North West, Jessie Kabwila and Chiradzulu East MP, Henry Mussa, on Thursday clashed in parliament after Kabwila echoed remarks of MP for Mzimba West Harry Mkandawire that the new set of Cabinet ministers appointed by President Peter Mutharika has exposed the rationalistic agenda of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led administration. […]
Outspoken Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Services, Patricia Kaliati and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) maverick spokeswoman Jessie Kabwila on Wednesday traded barbs over President Peter Mutharika’s cabinet hiring. Kaliati, who is ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Mulanje West stood to react on scathing remarks made by People’s Party (PP) […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson and legislature Dr Jessie Kabwila rapped the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which won the disputed May 20 elections, saying “there is no government” following delays to appoint cabinet ministers by President Peter Mutharika. Kabwila was speaking in parliament on Wednesday over an impasse on whether to proceed to […]