Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Bright Msaka SC, has issued a stern warning to the National Assembly to ensure separation of powers in its operations, saying rushing to courts to seek injunctions on matters deliberated in the august House can negatively affect business of the legislature. Msaka said this after the motion for Acting […]
Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa has ruled out government plans to oust Speaker Catherane Gotani Hara, saying the issue has never been discussed. Nankhumwa said this on Wednesday in parliament when he gave a statement to the House on his controversial letter to Hara in which he described her as arrogant and biased towards […]
Malawi Parliament’s Business Committee has agreed that Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa should apologise to Speaker Catherane Gotani Hara over a letter which describes Hara as arrogant and biased towards the opposition. Parliament’s Business Committee is the political leadership of the 193-strong House which met on Tuesday following a commotion caused by opposition legislators […]
Malawi Parliament on Tuesday approved the controversial construction of two stadia for Nyasa Bullets and Be Forward Wanderers despite stiff criticism from the public and other sectors of the society. Parliamentarians from both sides of the aisle approved a K9 billion budget for the ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. The K9 billion national budget […]
Lilongwe Mpenu member of Parliament Eisenhower Mkaka ( Malawi Congress Party -MCP) has obtained a court injunction against the confirmation of Duncan Mwapasa as Inspector General of police. Parliament was supposed to debate and confirm Mwapasa as police chief after protracted arguments and counter-arguments between the opposition and government back-benchers. Mkaka says he has obtained the injunction so that the […]
Malawi Parliament was suspended in the morning of Tuesday for 30 minutes following a commotion which erupted after opposition legislators protested against Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa’s letter to Speaker Catherine Gotani Hara. In the letter, Nankhumwa is accusing Gotani Hara of arrogance and bias towards the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the party that […]
The Office of Speaker of Parliament demands that the one occupying it must lose their ‘partisan robes’ and discharge their duties based on competence and above-board integrity, Leader of Government Business in Malawi Parliament, Kondwani Nankhumwa has told Speaker of Parliament, Catherine Gotani Hara. Nankhumwa says in a letter to the Speaker that he is […]
Parliament on Monday could not confirm or reject a presidential appointee for the office of Inspector General of Police over arguments on legal technicalities as opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) opposed the name of Acting Inspector General of Police Duncan Mwapasa. At first Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa moved a motion to vary relevant standing […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Member of Parliament for Ntchisi South, Ulemu Jermoth Chilapondwa, was forced to withdraw a remark in parliament accusing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of campaigning for the “forthcoming re-run.” Chilapondwa was commending on txhe 2019/20 national budget and said the decision by government to fund two football giants Nyasa Big Bullets […]
Likoma Island legislator Ashems Songwe has ordered NICE Public Trust to present to parliament its May 21 tripartite election report. Speaking in parliament on Thursday, Songwe said the report should be presented to the legislators before the House passes the 2019/20 national budget. “NICE is a public trust, it is funded by the public money, […]
The ‘Jane Ansah must fall’ protest organisers, Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) are pleading with parliament not to confirm the embattled acting Inspector General of police Duncan Mwapasa. HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo has said this as protestors are gathering Friday morning for the last leg of this wave of protests in Lilongwe. “Malawians do not […]
Opposition member of parliament on Thursday forced Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development minister Kondwani Nankhumwa to explain how 7 000 tonnes of maize got rotten when the grain was in Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) silos. Lilongwe city south east MP Ulemu Msungama (MCP) asked Nankhumwa where the maize is kept and how it […]
Embattled acting police chief Duncan Mwapasa is to know his fate whether he will be Inspector General or not this Friday in an anticipated highly emotional parliamentary debate and vote. This follows the failure by the Leader of the House, Kondwani Nankhumwa on Wednesday to introduce the subject matter in the 193-strong House in what […]
Speaker of the Malawi National Assembly Catherine Gotani Hara on Thursday temporarily threw out Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Blantyre City South West, Sameer Suleman for misconduct and also ordered Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) out of the House for misconduct. But there was total chaos when Suleman defied the Speaker’s order after she invoked Section 105 (3) […]
First deputy speaker Madalitso Kazombo on Wednesday adjourned parliament 30 minutes earlier than scheduled as opposition lawmakers rejected the government move to ambush the legislators on the confirmation of embattled acting police Inspector General Duncan Mwapasa. This was after Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa asked the House to adopt a motion to vary order […]
Member of Parliament (MP) for Mulanje West Constituency, George Chaponda added a chorus to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators singing praise of President Peter Mutharika when contributing to the 2019/20 budget statement in Parliament, saying signs that Malawi will develop beyond recognition in his tenure are showing. Making his contribution to the budget statement presented by Minister of […]
Malawi Parliament has passed a US$150.1 million loan bill, authorizing government to borrow from the International Development Fund for access to electricity project. The money, according to the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha will be used towards the implementation of the Malawi Electricity Access Project which aims to increase access to […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) director of strategic planning Ken Zikhale Ng’oma, who is also member of parliament for NkhataBay South, united the National Assembly on Monday when both sides of the House clapped hands to his contribution to the 2019/20 budget statement. In his contribution to the fiscal plan presented by Minister of Finance, Economic […]