Family, friends and political leaders gathered at Yolamu Village in Traditional Authority Mabilabo to lay late Robson Watayachanga Chirwa, a former Cabinet minister during Kamuzu Banda’s one-party State, to rest. Leaders across the political divide eulogized the late Chirwa as a man who was humble, dedicated, peaceful, development-oriented, prayerful and a good advisor and provided solutions to […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia has accused Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and its president Lazarous Chakwera of irresponsible utterances which are political provocation and confrontation. Chiumia made the accusation during the send-off church service for former Cabinet minister in the one-party State the late Robson Chirwa in Mzuzu on Thursday. The […]
The reverend Maurice Munthali of Livingstonia CCAP Synod on Thursday sent mourners at the funeral of veteran politician and patriot Robson Watayachanga Chirwa into stitches after attacking politicians for wrongful self-enrichment including Cabinet ministers for being corrupt. .Reverend Munthali in his closing prayer said he wished the clergy had powers to choose who should die, saying they would settle for corrupt […]
My once-off interaction with Robson Chirwa (RC) confirmed what former ministers of Kamuzu had shared to me about RC: that he was so timid and overly respectful of Kamuzu. For about 20 years of his service as cabinet Minister under Kamuzu, RC could not present his ministerial report during a cabinet meeting without having to […]