Legal Affairs Committee of parliament has asked Treasury to increase resources towards the Legal Aid Fund to allow more Malawians who cannot afford a private lawyer access free legal services. The Legal Aid Bureau was established under Section 3 of the Legal Aid Act of 2010 to provide legal aid services to vulnerable people in need […]
Social and governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali has warned that the federalism motion put forward by Mzimba North legislator Yeremia Chihana (Alliance for Democracy-Aford) has been rushed to Parliament and is likely not going to succeed. Munthali told Nyasa Times in an interview that the motion which was previously defeated in the same House, when it was brought […]
Nkhata Bay South legislator Ken Zikhale Ng’oma (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has implicated Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa and deputy minister of defence Chipiliro Mpinganjira as architects of the violence which Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadets unleashed to thwart a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in Blantyre on Wednesday. Zikhale […]
Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party – MCP) protested in the National Assembly that a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator has hurled repeated insults at interim leader of the opposition Lobin Lowe during his statement condemning DPP cadets involved in violence that thwarted a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in […]
Mzimba North legislator Yeremiah Chihana (Alliance for Democracy-Aford) on Thursday tabled a motion proposing the introduction of a federal system of government in the country to bring sanity by ending issues of nepotism, tribalism and worsening corruption. Chihana said national resources are not distributed equally , saying he was pleased his private member’s bill is […]
Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) on Thursday tabled in Parliament a petition by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) asking parliament to remove Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and other commissioners for allegedly presiding over flawed presidential elections. HRDC leaders delivered a petition to Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani-Hara at Parliament Building in […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has branded the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as an “interim government” pending dispute in court relating presidential election results in the May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections. The MCP legislators were calling DPP an interim government in parliament after interim leader of opposition Lobin Lowe raised concern of clashes between DPP youth […]
A parliamentary committee has asked the 193-strong House not to approve a government funding of K24 billion to Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) for maize purchase, saying the State produce-trader are inefficient and incompetent. Welani Chilenga, chairperson of a joint Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change cluster committee told the House on Tuesday that instead, […]
A senior opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) legislator wants to move parliament to demand from government a full report on the controversial sale of Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) to FDH Bank by demanding to know the whereabouts of K9 billion proceeds from the transaction and how the toxic assets were dealt with. Lilongwe Mpenu constituency […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have accused government of the proposed one percent withholding tax on non-bank mobile money transactions which threatens the financial inclusion agenda as the cost of the service will likely rise. In his 2019/2020 national budget, presented recently to parliament, Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) have given official response to the 2019/20 national budget statement in Parliament as UTM and People’s Party (PP) will not be making formal statements as parties owing to their diminutive number in the House according to Standing Order 190(1) (d). Presenting an official response on behalf […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) wants Parliament to bring back Electoral Reforms Bill which was shot down in the House last year. “We urge National Assembly to deliberate and pass the electoral reforms in their original form as proposed by the Law Commission as amatter of urgency,” HRDC has said In a petition the organisation […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) leaders have petitioned Parliament requesting legislators to table a motion that will be aimed at removing Jane Ansah as chairperson of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and her team of commissioners for allegedly manipulating the May 2019 presidential elections results. HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo said they presented the petition to Speaker of […]
Malawi Parliament is expected to establish a new committee which will oversee development and cooperating partners supporting the ever expanding National Assembly. Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Gotani Hara led officials from parliament in a crucial meeting with the cooperating partners to lay the foundation stone for the establishment of the committee. “The meeting […]
Opposition legislator Yeremiah Chihana invented himself as new loose cannon among the current cohort of Parliament during the last sitting and will be the MP to watch in general debate of the 2019/20 budget statement. Chihana, who is the only MP for Alliance for Democracy (Aford), is standing to advance transparency and accountability. He is […]
Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara announced that only Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) will give official response to the 2019/20 national budget statement when the House re-convene for general debate as tiny parties UTM and PP will not be making formal statements. UTM and Peoples Party (PP) have four and […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has vowed to continue boycotting parliamentary proceedings until the Constitutional Court gives a verdict on the politically charged presidential election case. In an interview, Chakwera said he does not recognize President Peter Mutharika as the Head of State following serious allegations of vote rigging and presidential election result […]
Speaker of parliament Gotani Hara says the National Assembly has now stopped publishing hard copies of chamber documents which include Hansards. Hansards details the daily planned business of the House. She said parliament will now be producing the Hansard in electronic form following an agreement reached at a recent business commitee meeting, a meeting of […]