Fiscal police is investigating Mulanje Bale member of parliament Victor Musowa of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and other five legislators for alleged abuse of Constituency Development Fund (CDF). CDF—ideally a tool for parliamentary involvement in community level projects within the decentralisation rubric using earmarked public funds under the MP’s influence—has become so […]
On Tuesday morning, Member of Parliament for Mulanje Bale, Victor Musowa, threatened to boycott Parliament sitting and would only come back when students resume learning as teachers are on strike, demanding government to give them Covid-19 risk allowances. Musowa promised to refund his allowances for the days he will be out of Parliament, saying it […]
Chikwawa Central member of parliament (MP) Salim Bagus has said State security personnel surely deserve better accommodation like everyone else and asked government to construct houses for police officers and a fence at Nchalo Police Station. Bagus, who won his seat as an independent but is now member of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), said in […]
Ministry of Agriculture has announced that this year’s (2021/2022) Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) will commerce earlier than the 2020/2021 program started. Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Lobin Lowe, said this on Monday in Parliament during his presentation of how the 2020/2021 AIP has fared. “Last season, we worked under pressure, but this season […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (Cdedi) has accused President Lazarus Chakwera and Speaker of the National Assembly, Catherine Gotani-Hara, of paralysing parliamentary committee meetings to dodge questions on the K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds, which is feared to have been looted. CdediI executive director Sylvester Namiwa claims that their independent investigations revealed […]
Legislators will be meeting for mid-year budget review meeting from Monday, February 22 to March 22, officials from the National Assembly have announced. Clerk of Parliament Fiona Kalemba says some parliamentarians will be attending the meeting physically while others virtually then alternate but all will be based in Lilongwe. The Meeting was previously scheduled to […]
A parliamentary committee responsible for the hiring and firing of public officers has rejected the re-appointment of Atuweni Juwayeyi Agbermodji as the director general of Financial Intellegence Authority (FIA). The Public Appointments Committee (Pac) met on Monday in Lilongwe to decide her fate. A member of the parliamentary committee says she has lost the appointment […]
Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) has recommended to president Lazarus Chakwera to fire two Malawi Electoral Commissioners who represent the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The committee made the recommendations after noting that both the Constitutional Court ruling had the Supreme Court ruling on the election case found the Jane Ansah commission incompetent. A member […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje, who is also chairperson of Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament, Gladys Ganda, has said parliament must step up and play its oversight role to ensure that public funds are not being abused by people with ulterior agenda. Ganda said this in reaction to revelations […]
Officials from parliament say the National Assembly has postponed the mid-year budget review meeting scheduled for February 8 to February 22 due to rising Covid-19 cases. Covid-19 has claimed lives of two cabinet ministers and two members of parliament, among the 600 Malawians who have died due to the infection. Initially, parliament was set to […]
Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Gotani Hara has convened a meeting for the leadership of the House to decide on the mid-year budget review meeting in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases. This follows the death of two legislators due to Covid-19 amid reports that many more MPs are infected. Leader of […]
Officials at National Assembly say the mid-year budget meeting will go ahead despite the fact that Covid-19 is attacking more legislators. Parliament reconvenes from February 8, 2021, a meeting that will last for three weeks as the House will hold a midyear review of the K2.2 trillion national budget which was passed in October 2020. […]
Two ruling Tonse Alliance legislators have today died of Covid-19. Parliament says Ntchisi North parliamentarian Jacqueline Chikuta and John Chikalimba who represented Zomba Changalume constituency in parliament have succumbed to the virus disease. “The late Hon. Chikuta has passed away today, 27th January 2021 at Mtengowanthenga Hospital in Mponela where she was undergoing treatment,” says […]
The flamboyant chief executive officer for Pacific Group of Companies , Faisal Aboo, has apologised to Parliament’s ad-hoc Privileges Committee for the statement his private company issued on Blantyre City South East member of Parliament (MP) Sameer Suleman in November 2020. The larger-than-life businessman Aboo, appeared before the committee on Tuesday after being summoned as Speaker […]
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has asked members of Parliament (MPs) to seriously consider reviewing the Electronic Transaction and Cyber Security Act, stressing that some provisions in the Act can potentially frustrate efforts to promote digital rights and freedom of expression. CHRR acting executive director Michael Kaiyatsa cited Section 24 (e) (f) of 2016, which […]
The High Court has thrown out the petition by some former legislators who thought they, too, had a case after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) nullified the May 21 2019 presidential election result. Following the February 3 ConCourt landmark ruling, the group comprising mostly former legislators and other candidates who lost the election, went to court […]
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) on Monday met with President Lazarus Chakwera at the Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe where key on the talking points was the decision by Members of Parliament (MPs) to hand themselves an inflation-busting huge increases in salaries and allowance, bringing their salary bill to almost K3.4 billion in the current fiscal year from […]
Despite coronavirus wreaking havoc on the Malawi economy and depressed revenue, Members of Parliament (MPs) have handed themselves an inflation-busting a huge increases in salaries and allowance, bringing their salary bill to almost K3.4 billion in the current fiscal year from K2.4 billion in the 2019 /20 fiscal year. Even in the wake of 2020/21 national […]