Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has said it is “an open secret” that Malawi economic outlook is grim and has called on President Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse Alliance government to ensure strict financial discipline to avoid ‘crisis of unprecedented levels’. He was speaking during the closing of the mid-term budget review meeting […]
Leader of Opposition in parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has made a heartfelt tribute to National Assembly for protecting him when the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) attempted a ‘coup’ to remove him from his position. DPP president Peter Mutharika, who is also immediate past president, wanted to remove Nankhumwa as Leader of Opposition in parliament. Speaking in […]
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has asked President Lazarus Chakwera and his government to review its decision o to relocate some government departments and important parastatals like the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and the Department of Immigration, among others, from Blantyre to Lilongwe, saying this may take away […]
Leader of opposition, Kondwani Nankhumwa has called on parliament to swiftly investigate allegations that the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is using police training schools to train party youths in the use of firearms. Nankhumwa said this Friday morning as parliament rose sine dire. He said parliament’s Defence and Security Committee should investigate the alleged fire […]
Leader of Opposition in parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa says although President Lazarus Chakwera was direct and clear when answering some questions in parliament on Wednesday afternoon, he was dodgy on other questions. Nankhumwa has therefore described responses by Chakwera as a mixed bag. This comes as Chakwera took time to respond to some questions raised by […]
Estranged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president in the Southern Region, Kondwani Nankhumwa, on Sunday March 14, 2021 concluded a three-day exhaustive campaign tour of Mulanje, Nsanje and Chikwawa ahead of the March 30, 2021 by-elections, urging the people to vote for DPP candidates to ensure genuine social and economic development. The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) […]
Main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has suffered a political setback after two legislators announced that they have withdrawn their support for the party both inside and outside parliament. Blantyre City Central MP Chipiliro Mpinganjira and his Chiradzulu North sibling, Patrick Mpinganjira Matola, cite the hostile stance by party vice president Kondwani Nankhumwa on their […]
Estranged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (South) Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, on Friday, March 12, 2021 publicly expressed interest, for the first time, in running for the party’s presidency at the 2023 national convention. Nankhumwa made the declaration at Chitakale Trading Centre in his native Mulanje district. He was […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leadership has agreed to bar the party’s vice president for the South Kondwani Nankhumwa from conducting meetings anywhere in the country for refusing to apologise after the party leadership asked him to do so. This follows the expiry of the ultimatum he was given two weeks ago. Nankhumwa was given […]
Cracks are refusing to mend in the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as Nyasa Times has confirmed that estranged DPP Vice President for the South, Kondwani Nankhumwa, has now dragged the party’s spokesperson Brown Mpinganjira and regional governor for the South, Charles Mchacha to court for defamation. Two other senior officials being sued for alleged […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president (South) Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, has said the second wave of the deadly Covid-19 has claimed lives of very hard-working DPP officials and members and other Malawians across the country in the past few weeks and that Malawians should stay vigilant against further spread […]
Rights activists have given Leader of Opposition in parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa seven days to pay back K3.6 million he pocketed as sitting allowance in presidential taskforce on Covid-19. The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) says the money pocketed by Nankhumwa could have gone a long way in saving the lives of many Covid 19 patients. […]
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has urged President Lazarus Chakwera to reject a recommendation by the parliamentary Public Affairs Committee (PAC) to fire two DPP Malawi Electoral Commission commissioners, Jean Mathanga and Linda Kunje on the grounds that it was unjust. “I am utterly dismayed and disappointed by the recommendation,” said Nankhumwa […]
Nsanje District Council has denied assertions by Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa that the council misappropriated on Covid-19 response funds. At a news conference on Thursday at Parliament Building in Lilongwe on the alleged general mismanagement of Covid-19 funds, Nankhumwa alleged that Nsanje District Council’s allocation disappeared immediately after the funds were deposited […]
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has threatened to resign as member of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 if President Lazarus Chakwera does not order a “forensic audit” to establish whether or not the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) and some government clusters abused K6.2 billion, which was released by government to […]
Prominent newspaper columnist Ephraim Munthali, who is also managing editor at Nation Publications Limited, says the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesperson on finance and former Minister of Finance Joseph Mwanamvekha is demonstrating that he is a leader who wants to govern from the bottom up by getting what the grassroots people – through their […]
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential aspirant Kondwani Nankhumwa says he is on track for the party presidential bid. He said this amid rumours that he might have withdrawn from the party presidential bid due to, among others, lack of campaign money. But in an interview, Nankhumwa said he has not withdrawn from the party […]
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for South, has officially responded to the set of anti-coronavirus restrictions which were outlined by President Lazarus Chakwera this week, saying it does not have measurers to cushion loss of livelihood in one of the world’s poorest countries, where most people […]