Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposition in parliament, Lazarous Chakwera toured the devastated villages of flood-ravaged Chikwawa district in the southern region on Sunday. Chakwera, accompanied by MCP officials, toured several places and rescue camps including Thabwa in the area of Traditional Authority Mlilima and the Sekani villages around Nchalo. All these […]
Malawi Justice Minister Samuel Tembenu has clarified why President Peter Mutharika declared a state of national disaster and not “ state of emergency” due to deadly floods, saying the law empowers the Head of State to declare disaster as a “prompt and immediate reaction” with less procedural formally as opposed to ‘state of emergency’ whose […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera on Saturday visited over 200 flood victims in Chilobwe Township and donated 30 50kg bags of maize to them as they cope up with various challenges resulting from the devastating floods that hit the area on Tuesday. Heavy rains caused havoc across the country, and besides killing at […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has urged government to declare “ a state of emergency” following heavy flooding in the southern African country which has killed 48 people and left another 23 000 displaced. Addressing a news conference in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday, MCP president Dr Lazarus Chakwera said this will enable government to get […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of opposition, Lazarous Chakwera has thanked Malawians for their comforting during the bereavement of the much-respected wife of retired politician John Tembo . Chakwera said Malawians mourned Mrs Ruth Tembo in peace, unity and dignity. “This was comforting to the Tembo family and the Malawi Congress Party,” said Chakwera. […]
It was a day of emotions and unity of purpose for Malawi as dignitaries, politicians and people from all walks of life gathered in Dedza on Saturday to pay their respects to the much-respected wife of retired politician John Tembo where her remains were interred. Mamarita Ruth Tembo, wife of 45 years of former Malawi […]
Lingadzi CCAP on Thursday led mourners in Lilongwe at the funeral vigil of the much-respected wife of party’s former long-time leader John Tembo. Hundreds of mourners gathered at Tembo’s residence in Area 10 and paid their last respects to Mamarita Ruth Tembo, who passed on in the late hours of January 5 at Dae Yung Luke […]
Leader of opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has urged the DPP government to restrain from threatening citizens particularly against the Judicial staff who are currently withdrawing labour seeking salary increment. Chakwera has since pushed all the blame to the Peter Mutharika government in the ongoing standoff on Judiciary and Anti […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and leader of the opposition Lazarous Chakwera visited affected people in Kauma Township in Lilongwe after a ferocious storm wreaked havoc and affected some 1 100 families during a downpour soon after midnight on Friday. Chakwera also comforted the family that lost a 10-year-old girl Shakila Banda through electrocution by a […]
The main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) youths on Saturday cheered the sick and distributed various food items worth K754, 000 at Mangochi District Hospital. The patients and hospital authorities expressed gratitude to the MCP for the donation. MCP Director of Youth Lobin Lowe said the youths decided to visit the hospital after noting that various challenges […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera has dismissed claims of unrest within the party, they MCP was moving in one direction. Sunday Times report indicated that there are cracks in the rank and file of MCP as evidenced by comments made by spokeswoman Jessie Kabwila supporting the controversial MPs salary hike and then […]
“The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why” –Warren Bennis From the beginning I must declare that Kondwani Nankhumwa needed not have gone down so low to issue a government epistle that was very high on hyperbole and too low on substance. I mean, I scrolled down the whole treatise just because it is my job […]
If the misguided Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) strategist advising the Mutharika administration to perform ridiculous stunts of “increment today, increment dis-owned, and increment indefinitely deferred” thinks Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika is scoring points, he must report to the nearest psychiatrist for a medical examination. If the praise team humming softly around Dr Lazarus Chakwera, for […]
Far from exculpating himself from complicity in gluttonous increments to remuneration packages for political elites, Chakwera’s press statement exposes him as a sheep in a flock rather than a herdsman and someone far less than a paragon of moral probity. Chakwera’s press statement has pretensions to being a poorly written pastoral letter. The flattery implied […]
Malawi government has trashed leader of opposition in Parliament Rev Dr Lazarus Chakwera for describing President Peter Mutharika as a hypocrite and that his government is trying to divert the attention of Malawians from real issues, saying the opposition chief should not claim to stand on a higher moral ground as a self-righteous leader. Chakwera […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera has asked First Lady Gertrude Mutharika to return K5 million to people with HIV and Aids in this country, irregularly taken out of National Aids Commission (NAC)by her organisation Beautify Malawi (Beam) Trust. Chakwera, who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president, told a news conference in Lilongwe […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera has said the prospect of a large pay rise for President, vice president, ministers and MPs including himself was “simply unethical” at a time when the economy is ailing and public-sector workers want better pay. Chakwera during a news conference on Monday accused President Peter Mutharika of engineering […]
Main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has spoken in support of the salary increments for Cabinet ministers and members of Parliament as its party’s president and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Dr Lazarus Chakwera and the bulk of its MPs are beneficiaries. Chakwera’s salary, has been adjusted from K600 000 per month to K1 […]