Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Lobin Lowe has announced termination of Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) and replaced it with another program the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) which will benefit 4.2 million farming households in the country. Addressing the media in Lilongwe on Friday, Lowe said AIP aims to enable Malawi attain food security […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Lobin Lowe had a field day pulling holes in President Peter Mutharika State of the Nation Address (Sona) and attacked him for criticising the Judiciary following the nullification of the May 21 2019 presidential election results Lowe was at pains either to respond to the President or the gadget that […]
Leader of opposition in Parliament Robin Lowe has warned President Peter Mutharika of any attempts to cling to power after July 3 2020, saying fresh presidential elections should be held as a constitutional court and the Supreme Court ruled that he was not duly elected as President. In his State of the Nation address delivered […]
Malawi Parliament was nearly thrown into turmoil on the first day of its National Budget meeting Friday morning as opposition legislators demanded the presence of President Peter Mutharika in performing the State-opening of the new session. Mutharika addressed the House through a recorded message on a video link as a preventive measure of the raging […]
Leader of opposition in parliament Lobin Lowe accepted through President Peter Mtuharika before he was lopped into the now restructured Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19. And has refused to comment on his Malawi Congress Party (MCP) claims that government did not consult him. On Wednesday at a news conference in Lilongwe, MCP secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has said the appointment of leader of Opposition in Parliament Lobin Lowe into newly formed an inclusive Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus was an ambush, claiming Lowe was not consulted. President Peter Mutharika said Tuesday evening that the task force replaces the Special Cabinet Committee on Covid-19 that has recently come […]
President Peter Mutharika showed he is in control of the government’s response to check the spread of corona virus pandemic with a dramatic decision to restructure the Special Cabinet Committee on Covid-19 making it more inclusive, bringing leader of opposition Lobin Lowe of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and other stakeholders and changing it to be […]
Acting Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Lobin Lowe, has accused government for provoking people at a Martys Day Commenoration event he attended in Nkhata Bay on Tuesday for disregarding protocol by delegating a Cabinet minister to be guest of honour when the Vice President Saulos Chilima graced the event. Lowe, who is Lilongwe Central member […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is defiant, saying it can only appoint a permanent Leader of Opposition in parliament after a Constitutional Court ruling on the presidential election result challenge. Acting Leader of Opposition Lobin Lowe said he will continue holding the post until the court makes a verdict on the matter. “We will have to […]
Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party – MCP) protested in the National Assembly that a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator has hurled repeated insults at interim leader of the opposition Lobin Lowe during his statement condemning DPP cadets involved in violence that thwarted a planned Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) march in […]
Leader of opposition Lobin Lowe of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has described the 2019/20 National Budget as “the same, old song” and doubt the capacity for government to implement the fiscal plan. Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Joseph Mwanamvekha on Monday presented his maiden full budget whose nominal value in terms of total […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has elected Lilongwe Central member of Parliament (MP) Lobin Lowe as an interim leader of opposition. Parliamentary Standing Orders indicate that the opposition party with the highest number of MPs that the one in power contributes a leader of opposition. MCP won 55 seats in the 193-seat Parliament while Democratic Progressive […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has maintained that they will not take up a Leader of the Opposition role in parliament or respond anything from government as opposition because they are challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika, saying he won the May 21 elections by fraud. MCP Chief Whip Lobin Lowe said the party was […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has elected Lilongwe Rural Central member of Parliament Robin Lowe as a replacement for the party president Reverend Lazarus Chakwera who resigned from his position to contest as presidential candidate in the upcoming May 21 election in line with constitutional order. A communique signed by MCP publicist, Maurice Munthali, said Chakwera’s […]
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 […]
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lilongwe Central constituency, Lobin Lowe has appealed to Government to deal with proper disposal of waste in Lilongwe city. Speaking in parliament when he moved the motion on proper disposal of waste, Lowe explained that the city needs to be clean to provide a conducive to its citizen. He […]
Member of Parliament for Lilongwe Central (MCP) Robin Lowe has appealed to Malawi President Joyce Banda not to shun an African Union summit next month which was moved to Ethiopia from Lilongwe as she refused to host Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Banda announced that Vice President Khumbo Kachali will now attend the July 9-16 summit in […]