The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has changed tune in the K4 billion “funding by-pass” which was allocated to 86 parliamentary constituencies before government committed to share to all 193 constituencies after it was exposed, saying party president and leader of opposition does not want his party to be part of the “experimenting with […]
Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) member of Parliament (MP) for Salima North-West constituency, Dr. Jessie Kabwila said she will remain MCP member despite that some members within the party are hell bent at finishing her off politically. Kabwila said this on Sunday during political rally she organized at Katitima Primary school ground in her constituency. She attacked some […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has accused Ministers of Finance and Local Government of the act of criminalizing the government unbudgeted controversial K4 billion allocated to parliamentary constituencies, saying the opposition has saved the State from being criminalised by regularising the funding with MCP president Lazarus Chakwera demanding that the two ministers should resigns with […]
Malawi Congress Party Diaspora Network (MCPDN) has elected new office bearers. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, the new executive has been given a fresh mandate to work alongside the party in Malawi as the country prepares to go into the crucial campaignperiod for the next year’s general elections. The MCPDN, which is […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) financial spokesperson in Parliament, Alexander Kusamba Dzonzi has apologised for his controversial remarks he made towards people of the Northern Region. While responding to the Mid-Term Budget Statement, Kusamba Dzonzi accused Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe of allocating more water projects in the North, where he said there are ‘just few people’ […]
The State broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) has lost credibility as Parliament say it is now a propaganda outlet for the governing party as it continues to use traditional leaders and the clergy to demonise the opposition. Member of Parliament (MP) for Lilongwe Rural Central, Lobin Lowe (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) saidgovernment was using MBC—television and radio—to vilify those holding […]
Malawi Congress Party’s response to the 2017/18 mid-year budget review statement in Parliament will go down in Malawi parliament’s history as one of the most irresponsible, unethical and extremely provocative official statements. The MCP statement presented on behalf of the party by Alexander Mandaliza Kusamba Dzonzi, MP for Dowa West, did not bear any semblance […]
Business mogul and politician Mohammad Sidik Mia has warned the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to “start packing”, saying Malawi will have a new government led by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) after May 2019 election. Mia, who recently declared his intention to contest as vice-president for the MCP, was speaking Hewe, Rumphi when he accompanied leader of […]
Malawi Police in Mulanje has arrested a Sheik Daniel Mkwamba a regional secretary for Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) for drumming up support for the opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said. “Sheik Daniel Mkwamba was arrested last evening in Mulanje. He is currently being held at a police station in Mulanje,” the MCP […]
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has claimed that Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe and the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) elite colluded to benefit from the controversial sale of Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) in 2015 to FDH Bank. MCP spokesperson on Finance Alexander Kusamba Dzonzi responding to the Mid-year Budget Statement by Minister of Finance, said […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has told Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe to stop giving false promises to people, rubbishing the Mid-Year Budget Review as a a load of false hopes. Making his formal response to the statement, MCP spokesperson on Finance Alexander Kusamba Dzonzi said it had more grey areas in […]
Former deputy Speaker and New Rainbow Coalition (Narc) president Loveness Gondwe, who competed against former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika and others in the 2009 polls has joined Malawi Congress Party (MCP). Gondwe was welcomed in the rank and file of MCP at political rally with took place at Euthini in Mzimba over the weekend. […]
The opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has accused government of blocking the party president and leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera from giving his eulogies at the funeral of veteran politician Sam Mpasu, who was president of New Labour Party. Mpasu, who served Speaker of Parliament between 1999 and 2003, was found dead yesterday in his house in […]
In all fairness, as of the year 2003, I do not think A. Peter Mutharika, as he preferred to refer to himself, imagined he would be President of Malawi. Never mind the fact that dreams tend to be nebulous and often without limits, I am pretty sure this wasn’t amongst his dreams. He probably imagined […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been advised that Malawians do not expect any foul-mouthed tirades that they are used to these days whenever the likes of Nicholous Dausi and Paramount Chief Lundu take to the microphone during the never-ending campaign rallies of President Peter Mutharika thinly disguised as development meetings attacking Malawi Congress Party […]
Managing Editor of Nation Publications Limited, Ephraim Munthali, writing in his influential newspaper column, ‘Cut the chaff’ has observed that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has not lived up to its campaign promises and feel now after four years that they have failed the country. Launched in April 2014 titled: ‘Towards a people-centred government’, DPP had undertaken […]
The internal squabbles currently taking place in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) are at once an indication that the party has not yet shed its old spots and a reflection of gross misunderstanding of its responsibility to the people of Malawi. It was widely expected when the new leadership took over that it would rebuild […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, who is also the national campaign director for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) , has said the President Peter Muhtarika’s led party is in government for a long haul and that it wants to control power for 31 years just the same as how the main opposition Malawi […]