Residents of Lilongwe’ s Area 47 have expressed concern over the behaviour from Lilongwe City Council, Malawi Housing and Ministry of Lands over their conduct allocating land to developers meant for their graveyard. A block leader in the area, retired Brigadier General Charles Kalumo told said the Area 47 Cemetery has been demarcated into plots. […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has taken Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) to task for failing to provide descent houses to Malawians. The party Campaign Director Moses Kunkuyu said people living in MHC houses are the most tortured Tenants in the country. He said Malawians living in MHC houses deserve to be shown a human face now. […]
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has been given a four day ultimatum to repair the broken sewer lines in Lilongwe’s Area 18 residential estate. The residents in Area 18 and Malawians at large are drinking dirty water infested with face all matter, according to published reports. MHC has been warned to face unspecified drastic action by […]
Malawians have been gripped with depressing headlines that dominates newspapers and online publications on Thursday. ‘New MHC rentals effective September 1,’ ‘Escom announces more blackouts’, ‘Water crisis looms in Lilongwe’. Needless to say, these are depressing headlines. Water Crisis On water crisis, Lilongwe Water Board chief executive office Alfonso Chikuni has told a joint parliamentary committee […]
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has raised rentals of its houses by between 80 and 100 percent. Public Relations Officer for the MHC Ernestina Lunguzi Yobe has confirmed the rental adjustments. Lunguzi said that the rentals have been adjusted effective the first day of July. Yobe attributed the hike to the fact that the corporation is […]
Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) tenants have asked the government to honour long dwelling tenants by giving them the houses for free. This was said at a meeting on Thursday minister of Lands and Housing Atupele Muluzi held with them in Blantyre. Representative of the tenants Mervin Kaumphawi said there was need for the government to […]
While many Malawians are struggling to buy plots or houses from state owned Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), its former Deputy Chief Executive Officer Wanangwa Mbereka allocated to himself plots worth K40 million, Nyasa Times has established. Mbereka, who is now seconded to the ministry of information, culture and tourism, is said to have abused his […]
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Paul Chibingu has issued a stern warning to Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) tenants who illegally sublet their houses to other people, saying government will prosecute them. Chibingu said government aims to clamp down on abuse of MHC houses. The Minister said he has knowledge that some people are renting out houses at […]
Tenants of the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) will from July this year dig deeper into their pockets following the corporation’s rental hike. MHC General Manager, Wezi Mkandawire has not indicated by how much the rentals will be raised per unit. “We are in the process of coming up with a statement on that one and […]
Minister Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Bright Msaka has revealed about Governments commitment to provide Malawians with decent houses, water and good road network. Msaka told reporters on Monday in Lilongwe that Government is concerned with the increasing number of people living in slums and also the environment around them which leaves a lot to be […]
As the firing of top public officers continues under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regime, the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) will soon ‘enjoy’ its fair share of the ‘witch-hunt’. Both MHC CEO and her deputy, Wezi Mkandawire and Wanangwa Mbereka, respectively, face the boot in a move seen by some as a continuation of a […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) vice president Harry Mkandawire and Mzimba West MP has demanded thorough investigations and action of the housing scam involving the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) in which President Peter Mutharika and former cabinet ministers were involved in buying houses for a song. Mkandawire said in parliament that when government wants to […]
The Forum for National Development (FND) has petitioned government to repossess its houses sold to politicians and Cabinet ministers without following procedures. Among several high profile personalities in the housing scam includes opposition DPP’s presidential candidate in May elections Peter Mutharika, who is also brother to former President Bingu wa Mutharika. The former cabinet ministers and […]
The ever-growing demand for better houses in Neno has forced some residents in the district to seek the council’s intervention to ask the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) to construct houses in the area. The first to sound his concern was Traditional Authority (T/A) Chekucheku whose area hosts the council’s premises who said he is very […]
As if enthused by the Blantyre City Council (BCC) sentiments that it has absolute powers to seal off houses of rates defaulters, the Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) has started sealing off all houses whose owners owe the statutory body any payment. However, the action has not gone down well with Blantyre city residents who have […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested two accountants they believe stole over K10 million from Malawi Housing Corporation’s (MHC) confers. The suspects, identified as Loveness Stella Kamoto and Clement Makowa failed to account for K2,170,000 cash and cheques worth K8,451, 451.00. They will appear before Blantyre Magistrate Court answer charges of failing to account for K10, […]
The financially cleaned and scandalous Blantyre City Council (BCC) has controversially lost ownership of the historical Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre to fellow land managers Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC), Nyasa Times can reveal. A highly placed source at MHC confirmed to Nyasa Times that they have indeed ‘snatched’ the historical piece of land due to failure by the council […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court has thrown out a high profile multi-million housing scam case involving reinstated Malawi Housing Corporation (MHC) assistant general manager, Floyd Mondiwa after the State failed to obtain consent from Director of Public Prosecution to prosecute the matter. Mondiwa was arrested on October 24, 2011 by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) for […]