Vice-President Salous Chilima says Malawi is still ill -prepared to fight Coronavirus (Covid-19) and has since asked the government to consider some firm measures he has proposed to ensure that the lives of ordinary Malawians are protected and their livelihood cushioned from the effect of the virus pandemic. Among the measures, Chilima says government should […]
State vice-president Saulos Chilika said described a 10 percent pay salary cut for President Mutharika and his 32-member cabinet to cushion the impact of coronavirus on the economy as manifestly inadequate for a country that depends largely on donor funding, and where the virus is starting to be felt, therefore calling for further reduction up […]
State Vice President Saulos Chilima, who is also UTM president, has told Malawi government to completely lockdown Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe, in view of the coronavirus outbreak and advised President Mutharika to relocate to the capital from Blantyre to inspire authorities “in this time of despair”. Chilima said this at a […]
The opposition claims that government forced telecommunications companies to provide Virtual Private Networks (VPN) at State House with the intent to intercept data transmission going into Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) system for the fresh presidential elections “should not be treated lightly” is the verdict of the editorial comment in Malawi’s flagship daily newspaper on Monday. […]
Malawi vice-president Saulos Chilima has said he will forgo his entire salary of K1.7 million monthly towards efforts to mobilise resources for the coronavirus (Covid-19) fight. Chilima’s spokesperson Pilirani Phiri confirmed that the State Vice-President has committed all his salato ro the Covid-fight. “I can confirm that Chilima is giving up three months salary to contribute […]
UTM Party and its alliance partners are launching a Saulos Chilima ‘Command centre’ as one way of engaging the public on national issues and Coronavirus outbreak as well as beam all its rallies on different media platforms. The Virtual Command Centre will help UTM and its alliance partners to stay in touch with Malawians via […]
A political analyst has told the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party alliance and its partners to come out of its cacoon and announce its presidential candidate in the Constitutional Court sanctioned presidential election on July 2. Latim Matenje says the delays by the party to officially unveil its presidential candidate will negatively affect […]
State vice-president Saulos Chilima, who is also the UTM Party leader, has commenced legal proceedings against President Peter Mutharika for failing to sack Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah and other commissioners who the Constitution court declared incompetent to manage an election. President Mutharika last week said he would not fire the MEC commissioners when […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential hopeful Lazarus Chakwera will likely lead the opposition ‘grand alliance’ in the forthcoming fresh presidential elections, according to political analyst at Chancellor College of the University of Malawi , Happy Kayuni. During the signing of an agreement on the electoral alliance MCP and UTM Party of State vice-president Saulos Chilima […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s exclusion in President Peter Mutharika’s new Cabinet which has been bloated by 60 percent announced on Thursday night is illegal, according to prominent legal scholars. In the revised Cabinet, there was no mention of the Office of the Vice-President whose holder – Chilima- leads UTM Party which has now entered into electoral […]
State Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima has said the UTM-MCP alliance marks the start of a new journey to State House. Chilima said this on Thursday during the UTM-MCP alliance signing ceremony at Kamuzu Institute for Sports in Lilongwe. The UTM leader said the alliance has the welfare of people at heart and has the […]
State Vice-President Saulos Chilima has told the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers and the police to defy orders to shoot down peaceful protesters. Speaking at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre on Sunday, Chilima said it was illegal to shoot down peaceful protesters. “Let me talk to you now as the country’s state vice president, do […]
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima on Sunday moved in to assure anxious party supporters that he has not given them a raw deal in the grand political alliance with the main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), saying they share the common goal of rebuilding the country. “You should have trust in me. I think […]
State vice-president Saulos Chilima has become the first top political leader in Malawi to speak of the ravaging deadly coronavirus, saying he is ready to lead newly established special Cabinet committee on Covid-19 pandemic to keep Malawians safe and keep the economy rolling. Speaking at a political rally at Njamba Freedom Park on Sunday in […]
State vice-president Dr Salous Klaus Chilima on Sunday said UTM remains the hope of the country as the party has mega plans to rebuild the country and that programmes contained in its manifesto will be incorporated into a grand opposition alliance package that will be unveiled on Thursday this week. Speaking to a mammoth crowd […]
UTM Party president Saulos Chilima has assured that the ‘grand alliance’ that the party is going into with Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and other parties is a well thought through decision and they should believe in it, saying ‘ wind of change has come’ as the country prepares fresh presidential elections. Chilima, 46, who is […]
Various speakers at UTM Party rally at Njamba Freedom Park in Blantyre on Sunday focussed their speeches on various issues affecting the country and how the party is geared to address the challenges, unlike a similar rally by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a week ago at the same venue that was dominated by obsence […]
A senior official of courts has dragged two pro-government rights activists to the High Court for alleging that UTM president Dr Saulos Chilima met support judiciary staff to bribe them over the Constitutional Court ruling. Undule Mwakasungula and Fryson Chodzi trading under what is called Joint Civil Society on Good Governance wrote the Chief Justice […]