Dedza East Member of Parliament Juliana Lunguzi has warned government against championing what she called politically motivated projects in the country, saying it is affecting their implementation. Lunguzi said such projects have ended up failing to get completed on time thereby costing more on taxpayers’ money. “This government starts too many projects [which are now […]
Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday stopped Minister of Information Nicholas Dausi from answering a question asked by MP for Mulanje Bale to his ministry because of his long-winded style of answers. The Mulanje Bale legislator Victor Musowa was asking the minister to negotiate with a Mozambican mobile internet provider, Vodacom to start working in […]
Members of Parliament (MPs) want tough laws to give motorists a greater incentive to drive carefully and government to investigate the rising road carnage. The causes include speeding; drinking and driving; poor signs; tired truck drivers; poorly trained drivers of public minibuses, a lack of public awareness, resulting in pedestrians darting across highways; people crossing […]
Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe on Monday assured opposition legislatures that there has been a solution to pay teachers arrears and leave grants at a right time. Gondwe said this in Parliament after opposition legislatures wondered why his ministry is failing to end the teachers strike by paying them their arrears and leave grants, […]
Malawi Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned officials of Northern Region Water Board (NRWB) to be quizzed on suspicioun of fraud of the Mzimba Integrated Urban Water and Sanitation Project . NRWB has lately come under spotlight for awarding the contract at $3.9 million more than Sawa Group’s bid price of $10.1 million. The […]
Parliament secretariat has clarified that the HP laptop computers delivered to all 193 Members of Parliament (MPs) were not valued at K1.1 million each but under K550 000. The Nation newspaper reported that each laptop had cost K1.1 million which was on the higher side when compared to prevailing prices on the market for laptop […]
Officials from Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining were sent back by Parliament committee, saying they should appear with their Principal Secretary (PS). Werani Chilenga, the chairperson of the Parliament’s Natural Resources and Climate Change Committee told the officials that they could not discuss the issues with them as they wanted the PS as […]
Parliamentarians will on Tuesday go into clusters as they start debating the K1.3 trillion national budget. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe presented the mixed bag budget on Friday. This means the 193 strong House would now go through the budget with the help of government officials before they return in the chamber in two weeks for […]
All 193 members of parliament (MPs) will be given an HP laptop computers valued at purchased from Globe Computers. Parliament spokes Leonard Mengezi confirmed about the hardware refresh on the MPs. He however said 190 laptops have been delivered as there are three vacancies. Mengezi said the laptops will help the MPs do their work, […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government has been accused of “sleepwalking” in power while the country is facing huge challenges. The accusations were made in parliament by opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) member f parliament for Salima North East, Jessie Kabwila. “I am actually saying as the representatives of Malawians, there is something that should […]
Leader of People’s Party (PP) in Parliament and the party’s acting president Uladi Mussa has condemned Cabinet ministers who are consistently absent from the House and stifling parliamentary business, saying the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lacks seriousness in issues of national importance. Mussa said absence of ministers hurts business in Parliament. On Thursday -which was a Private Member’s Day […]
Nsanje Lalanje lawmaker Sam Ganda who died at an Indian hospital on Tuesday will be buried on Sunday at his ancestral home in Nsanje. Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is also ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spokesman, Francis Kasaila has released the tentative burial programme for the deceased starting with the body arriving on Friday. Kasaila […]
Opposition legislators has accused the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of governing the country through ‘trickery’. Lilongwe South MP Peter Dimba (MCP) was the first to accuse the government of cheating Malawians that they would bring electoral reforms Bills when they had no intention of doing so. He asked: “Why should this government run the country […]
Outspoken Member of Parliament for Mzimba West, Harry Mkandawire took time to commend Second Deputy Speaker Clement Chiwaya for his decision to stop Mwanza Central member of Parliament (MP) Davies Katsonga (Democratic Progressive Party-DPP) to violate the dress code as provided under Parliamentary Standing Order 104(c). Katsonga, himself a former Speaker of Parliament, entered the […]
Members of Parliament on Tuesday afternoon took turns to praise the resumption of aid from the World Bank following the announcement of USD80million direct budgetary support after three years of suspension. Commenting on President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika’s State of the Nation Address, MP for Zomba Central, Patricia Kainga-Nangozo said the resumption of the aid […]
Maverick former minister of Civic Education Patricia ‘Akweni’ Kaliati on Thursday spoke in the National Assembly after she was fired just over a month ago and pledged continued loyalty to President Peter Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) , saying she is pleased with the gains made in the country on development. Looking energised, […]
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera has said Malawi government should not give “a wrong impression” that the World Bank’s$80 million (about K60 billion) general budget support to the county is aid but it is a loan. The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president who described the resumption of budget support by the World Bank as an act […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) MP for Zomba Chisi, Mark Botomani, has trashed Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera for describing the resumption of budget support by the World Bank as an act of mercy. Botomani who moved a motion to commence debate on the State of the Nation Address (Sona) delivered by President Mutharika at the opening of the […]