Malawi Parliament rose on Friday after a nine week seating which saw a swift enactment of the Anatomy Act and the passing of the K1.1 trillion budget among other highlights. During the scrutiny of the budget, the opposition took government to task on why it wanted to buy eight vehicles for the president’s convoy and […]
Speaker Richard Msowoya on Friday referred to parliamentary committees the Access to Information bill after the opposition tore it apart, saying the bill was in actual sense a roadblock to information as it is “adulterated”. Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe East Ezekiel Ching’oma said it was uncalled for for the government to demand a […]
Parliament on Thursday finally passed the controversial Customary Land bill after opposition demanded a fee on customary land be removed. The passing of the Customary Land bill become the fourth and last land related bill to be passed. Land minister Atupele Muluzi insisted there was no fee on customary land but that three is a […]
Opposition legislators on Wednesday accused the government of punishing ordinary Malawians by introducing a fee on customary land. Chairman of Natural Resources Committee Welani Chilenga withdrew all amendments he wanted to make to the Customary Land bill in protest against the government decision to refuse to remove the fee. “This is very bizarre, how can […]
Minister of Information, communications technology and civic education Patricia Kaliati is Thursday, expected to table in parliament the much awaited Access to Information bill. Deputy Leader of the House Kondwani Nankhumwa said the government has already made necessary official arrangements for the tabling of the bill. “We have several bills like Land bills and financial bills but the […]
Malawians under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government will be forced to pay tax to their inherited land as government bill proposes that all land owners under customary land will be forced to register before start paying. Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Atupele Muluzi on Wednesday found himself on a collision course with his step […]
Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo was on Wednesday forced in parliament to withdraw a statement after he called all foreigners who grab land from Malawians as dogs. The legislator was contributing to a Land Survey Bill. “We should get back the land from these dogs. Why should they get our land, grow tea and sell […]
Members of parliamnt on Wednesday morning got back to serious business when they passed bills in harmony, in sharp contrast to the previous day when the opposition walked out of the House and senior politicians wanted to fight. Parliament on Wednesday passed two Land bills in a very peaceful atmosphere and for the first time […]
Member of Parliament for Mzimba West, Harry Mkandawire has made another serious claim in parliament against Portuguese construction and industrial conglomerate Mota-Engil, saying the firm leased land on Northen Malawi for 35 years but has not paid anything. “Mota-Engil leased the Northern Malawi for 35 years and it has not paid a single penny to the […]
Outspoken legislator Kamlepo Kalua (PP—Rumphi East) has claimed that the Democratic Progressuve Party (DPP) government has been corrupted by tea estate owners to bulldoze the Land Bill in parliament to be passed and reject amendments that would benefit natives. The Land Bill was passed in the House on Tuesday after opposition law makers had walked […]
Members of parliament on Tuesday told of horrible experiences they were undergoing at the magnifiscent parliament building in the capital Lilongwe where water had not been coming out of taps for two running days. A male MP told deputy speaker Esther Mcheka Chilenje that it was embarrassing that cleaners waited at doors with water buckets […]
Leader of the House George Chaponda on Tuesday lost his cool and challenged Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire for a one to one bout outside parliament. The two picked a quarrel after Mkandawire presented his evidence to back up his allegations that the government has ‘sold’ Lake Malawi to Mota Engil, a Portuguese contractor. Chaponda […]
Malawi Parliament on Tuesday afternoon rejected a newspaper report as evidence on claims by Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire that the government had sold Lake Malawi to a Portuguese construction company, Mota Engil. First deputy speaker Esther Mcheka Chileka said the weight of evidence could not be accepted in the Chamber because it was a […]
Opposition members of parliament returned to the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon after a brief protest walk out just to find the government had passed the controversial Land Bill in their absence. They fiercely demanded that the passing of the bill be reversed, saying they had amendments to make. Rumphi east MP Kamlepo Kalua and other […]
Opposition parliamentarians on Tuesday morning stormed out of parliament in protest against some clauses in a Land bill but this move proved imprudent as the government easily passed the bill without any challenge. The opposition legislators and the government were at each other’s throat since parliament started sitting at 9:30 am. The opposition wanted to […]
Opposition member of parlaiment on Tuesday walked out of the House after disagreements with goverment MPs on the Land Bill. Only government MPs left in the chamber and the bill has been passed. The opposition MPs were against some of the amendments in the Land bill and the progress of debate on the matter with […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya has said members of parliament will on Wednesday meet from morning not in the afternoon as is tradition on Mondays and Wednesdays. He said the Business Committee, the political leadership of the House agreed to waive the Standing Orders so that the House meets from morning to finish […]
Football: MPs 4 Airtel 3 Netball : MPs 17 Airtel 2 Parliamentarian football and netball teams tampered with Airtel network, when they defeated Airtel football and netball teams in social friendly games played at Silver Stadium on Friday, July 8, 2016. Trouble started for the mobile network specialists on the Silver netball court, where the […]