Firebrand politician, Rumphi East MP Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP) has vowed that his voice cannot be silenced with money, saying he will continue with his no-holds-barred checks and balances. Kalua told Parliament that some people claimed that he was put as one of the beneficiaries of the controversial K4 billion to 86 parliamentary constituencies to silence him. “Some […]
Outspoken Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP) stood up in Parliament to raise the issue of the mandatory SIM card registration exercise, asking Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi if he could be arrested for refusing to register his SIM card. The mandatory SIM card registration is provided for under Section 92 of […]
Opposition members of Parliament (MPs) Khumbize Kandodo and Kamlepo Kalua were up in arms against Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango who presented a ministerial statement updating the House on infrastructure projects, saying he should withdraw the part where he sounded like reciting a manifesto for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mhango […]
Outspoken Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua has slammed the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government of embarking on a crusade to lay foundations stones for projects merely as election campaign gimmick and Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee has observed that the long list of infrastructure projects government plans to embark from now to next year would […]
Against the backdrop of rumour plot to impeach Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya, the deputy speaker of the National Assembly Esther Mcheka Chilenje, has told the House that there is no information oust the Speaker. On Monday, Chitipa South lawmaker Werani Chilenga (People’s Party- PP) first raised the issues in the House that some people […]
Outspoken legislator for People’s Party (PP) Kamlepo Kalua wondered what is so special with Thyolo district – the home of President Peter Mutharika – after government allocated K1.5 billion in the Social Cash Transfer programme. Kalua made the query in Parliament on Tuesday after the Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Dr. Jean […]
Outspoken Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua (People’s Party-PP) has accused the government of ambushing Malawians by circulating in Parliament pieces of legislation in the Electoral Reforms Bill which are not what Malawi Law Commission proposed. Government has rejected several recommendations of the Special Law Commission and introduced new provisions including extending the 50 plus one […]
People’s Party (PP) vice-president and parliamentarian for Rumphi East Kamlepo Kalua has said the much aniticipated political alliance between his party the ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) will not come to pass. PP parliamentarians have been prostituting themselves with DPP in secret taks aimed to form a working alliance as observers say DPP desperately wants to frustrate […]
There is total confusion in the opposition People’s Party (PP) after a group of some legislators from the party on Sunday night secretly met President Peter Mutharika at Kamuzu Palace, with the party’s vice president Kamlepo Kalua disclosing that they went to plead with the President to ensure former president Joyce Banda should be allowed […]
Former social and political activist Ben Chiza Mkandawire has expressed interest to join frontline politics and contest in the 2019 tripartite elections by running for a parliamentary seat in Rumphi East currently held by firebrand politician Kamlepo Kalua. Chiza Mkandawire, currently residing in Dubai, a frequent user on social media took to Facebook to announce his intentions. The […]
Salima North West member of Parliament (MP) Jessie Kabwila for opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said government should not live in denial as Malawians are suffering with every passing day of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in power. “Just go outside this House and you will see how people are suffering,” Kabwila said in Parliament […]
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) vice-chairperson Kamlepo Kalua told officials of Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs that they were lucky the committe has no powers to detain, they could have been nabbed following revelations of abuse of public funds for officers’ wrongful enrichment. Kalua was chairing a review of audit queries of Malawi Government […]
The devout Muslim-cum-politician, Uladi Mussa, pulled a surprise on Friday by attending a Christian prayer service at the Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) in Pretoria. According to the ECG Public Communications Advisor, Ephraim Nyondo, the church welcomes everybody regardless of any background. It was not clear, hence, whether Mussa, who is also acting […]
Firebrand Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua on Friday took the government to task over a spy machine which he said the government has planted in South Africa to snoop on critics of the government. He told parliament just before it rose that state intelligence agents visit South Africa every fortnight to retrieve information from the said machine. […]
Vocal Rumphi East Member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua on Thursday raised a motion for Ministry of Foreign Affairs to comment why the Indian High Commission in Lilongwe has been demanding diplomatic immunity for deported Chandrashaker More an Indian businessman. More evaded K20 million which he owed Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) and had been jumping bail granted by […]
Malawi Parliament was on Tuesday thrown into stitches after Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua reported Minister of Labour, Sports and Manpower Development Henry Mussa that he was sleeping in the House. Mussa had his eyes closed and his head resting on his left shoulder when the maverick Rumphi East MP stood up on a point of order […]
Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua who sued two Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) officers and a police officer who impounded his two vehicles on suspected tax evasion, will have to go into mediation to enable a settlement out-of-court. Kalua sued Maganizo Chinkoko, MRA senior tax investigation officer and lead investigator during the raid, […]
Former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has denied “politically-motivated claims” that he ordered a kidnap Rumphi East member of Parliament (MP) Kamlepo Kalua. Earlier this month Kalua, an outspoken critic of the government who is also People’s Party (PP) third vice-president, alleged that Chaponda was the master-mind of his abduction. Kalua told […]