Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has said her ministry is taking robust measures to slow the spread of coronavirus as 223 health workers have since been affected by the virus pandemic in the country. Chiponda has disclosed that Treasury has released K90 million for risk allowances for Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) and […]
Mo Sidik Mia and Abida Mia has become the first husband and wife to sit in the Tonse Alliance government Cabinet as the country in previous administrations had couples serving in Cabinet. President Lazarus Chakwera appointed the Mia couple in his Cabinet on Wednesday night. Sidik Mia, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) first deputy president, […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator fro Kasungu South East, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda has asked the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to drop the case of former president Bakili Muluzi’s allged K1.7 billion corruption case, saying it is taking long to conclude and only torturing him. Chiponda’s request through a supplementary question in Parliament on […]
Former president Kamuzu Banda’s great grand-niece on Thursday sailed through the contentious Malawi Congress Party (MCP) primary elections in her Kasungu south east constituency where she is the legislator and immediately burst into uncontrollable tears of joy. Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, a sister to Ken Kandodo who has won the Kasungu central MCP primary elections, could […]
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 […]
Kasungu South-East member of Parliament (MP) Khumbize Kandodo-Chiponda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has decried the poor state of the national economy and the rising poverty level in the country. Kandodo-Chiponda despite the government claiming positive ecomonic data such as reduction of inflation to single digit, there is no real effect trickling down to the citizenry. “The difference between 24 per cent to […]
Member of parliament for Kasungu south east Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda on Tuesday took the government to task to explain what it is doing to end the strike by minibus drivers and conductors which virtually crippled the transport system in the capital, Lilongwe on Tuesday. This follows the government decision to impose stiffer penalties on road traffic offences. “What […]
Kasungu South-East member of Parliament (MP) Khumbize Kandodo-Chiponda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has raised concern in parliament that the State broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) continues to use traditional leaders and the clergy to demonise the opposition and is running a hate campaign. Rising on point of concerns of public importance under Standing Order 69, Chiponda said […]
A Member of Parliament (MP), for Kasungu South East Constituency, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, has expressed concern that Senior Group Village Headmen, Group Village heads and Village heads in the central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu have stayed five months without receiving their honorarium from government. This was known on Saturday at Chamwabvi Primary School, when Member […]