Government says it has sent auditors to all city and district councils before releasing this year’s funding allocation. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe said councils which misappropriated last year’s funds will not get the allocation unless every penny is accounted for. “We will prosecute all officers who embezzled the money,” said Gondwe. Parliament approved huge sums […]
Top government officials are blocking Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) from acting on whistle blowers a multibillion Kwacha corruption scandal where cabinet ministers are involved in illegally ‘brokering’ a deal between the Malawi Defence Forces (MDF) and Ashok Leyland, an Indian automobile manufacturing company, with the latter negotiating to supply 500 units to MDF. The bureau […]
Local Government minister Kondwani Nankhumwa has told ward councillors to stop politicizing development projects if people are to benefit from them. Nankhumwa’s remarks come barely days after a Malawi Congress Pary (MCP) took the Lilongwe City Council to court after disagreements with fellow ward councilors in the allocation and distribution of money for road construction […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Kondwani Nankhumwa on Tuesday launched motor cycle loan scheme for the councillors in Lilongwe. The launch of the motor cycle loans follows Councillors threats to hold vigil at Capital Hill over delays in disbursing the motor cycle loans. Speaking during the function which was attended by District Commissioners, council […]
Local Government minister Kondwani Nankhumwa has lashed out at irate villagers in Salima who on Tuesday sealed off offices of the district commissioner to force him dethrone a chief. Nankhumwa said the villagers action was regrettable and could not be condoned. “Their issue has nothing to do with the DC. Actually we are looking at […]
Some people in Mulanje are accusing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials of meddling in government programmes including partisan selection of beneficiaries of tax payer funded public works programme. At a debate organised by Nice recently, some people pointed fingers at DPP officials for favouring party loyalists in the selection of beneficiaries of the […]
Minister of Local Government Kondwani Nankhumwa has warned people should not take as persecution its decision to prosecute those who swindle money meant for various development projects in councils. Nankhumwa sad this in Mangochi when he installed traditional leaders Mtonda and Lulanga. “We are not targeting anyone because of his or her political affiliation or […]
Deputy leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa says the government expects parliament to help find lasting solutions to the current crisis of food shortages and the economy. Nankhumwa said this ahead of parliament seating which starts this Monday. “The minister of Finance will tell the House the overall performance of our economy for the last […]
Local government minister Kondwani Nankhumwa on Friday miraculously removed mistrust that existed between M’mbelwa council officials and elected leaders of a K1:9 billion funding from state coffers which councilors suspected was swindled by the staff. There have been accusations and counter accusations over the money until Nankhumwa symbolically brought the money to the council and […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa has expressed disappointment at the poor workmanship in the initial stages of the on–going construction of a stadium in Mangochi. Nankhumwa expressed the disapproval on Tuesday when he together with officials from the Local Development Fund (LDF) inspected construction works at the stadium. Government awarded a […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa, Tuesday expressed disappointment with the poor quality of construction work being done on the nearly K400 million sports stadium in Rumphi District. Nankhumwa registered his dissatisfaction on Tuesday during his tour of Local Development Fund (LDF) projects. In Rumphi he toured the sports stadium which is […]
A Malawian owned company Super Sakuwa Steel Limited has donated 1,620 iron sheets worth K7, 387 200 to 54 churches and mosques that were affected by torrential rains and winds in Mulanje Central Constituency. The 12 feet iron sheets were presented in Lilongwe on Thursday to the constituency’s Member of Parliament who also Minister of Local Government […]
Some senior cabinet ministers spent Christmas holiday doing official jobs because of messy programmes the government is implementing. The government announced Christmas and New Year holiday from December 23 to January 3. Minister of Local government Kondwani Nankhumwa, one of President Peter Mutharika’s elite inner circle told civil servants in his Mulanje Central Constituency that […]
Minister of Local Government Kondwani Nankhumwa on Monday handed over a K2:6 cheque to market traders of Lilongwe’s Area 18 market gutted down by fire a few weeks ago, the last but one cheque making a total of K53 million the government is ‘compensating’ traders whose wares were destroyed in inferno. Nankhumwa told the traders […]
Cash strapped government, which is failing to provide food for patients in public hospitals, has splashed out K20 million to vendors whose wares were gutted down by fire in two markets in Mzimba. Over 200 vendors from Mzuzu market smiled all the way to the bank with a K7.2 million whilst 435 vendors at Matabwa […]
Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua has asked Local Government minister Kondwani Nankhumwa to apologise to him for allegedly linking him to the infamous cashgate. Kalua had stood up on a point of order on Tuesday to challenge Nankhumwa why he kept on saying that the government could not go ahead with some projects due to […]
Minister of Local Government Kondwani Nankhumwa has confirmed that traditional leaders in the country have gone five months without their monthly allowance attributing this to unprecedented 20 000 promotions that former president Joyce Banda made in the run up to the 2014 polls, among other factors. Nankhumwa said the 20 000 promotion of chiefs could […]
Lilongwe City officials are now back to work in earnest ensuring cleanliness in the capital city just a week after Minister of Local government Kondwani Nankhumwa blasted them for unhygienic standards and lack of revenue innovations. A check on some places where the minister expressed concern over poor sanitation like at Lilongwe bus depot, cleaners […]