Parliament on Thursday, May 27, 2021 adopted a ‘Special Report of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change on the Process of Procuring Fuel by National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) and the Role of Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA),’ which was presented by the committee’s Chair, Welani Chilenga. There have been disagreements […]
Chitipa South MP Werani Chilenga is proposing that parliament takes tight control of constituency development fund (CDF). Currently, the K100 million per constituency development fund is administered by councils. In parliamentary motion notice, alleges that councils are abusing the fund. “That having adopted the report by the ad hoc committee on CDF and water development […]
The Malawi Parliamentary Conservation Caucus (MPCC) has poured out its anger over recent media exposure of “stinking” bribery in illegal charcoal trafficking from Zalewa to Blantyre, saying the revelation is “quite frankly an embarrassment” on a global platform. The caucus called for investigation and prosecution of the perpetrators. MPCC–which addressed a news conference at Peak […]
A member of parliament and ward councillors have dug themselves in war trenches as they are fighting over control of Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This warfare is delaying development in Chitipa south where its legislator Welani Chilenga is in disagreement with ward councillors over the use of the CDF. The Chitipa district council has since […]
The Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change says the government-owned National Oil Company of Malawi (Nocma) should have a lion’s share in fuel importation. The committee’s chairperson Welani Chilenga said this on Friday in Lilongwe when they toured strategic fuel reserves to appreciate Nocma’s readiness to start transporting fuel through rail from Nacala […]
Funds amounting to K1.2 billion—a figure enough to support 30 constituencies at the present package of K40 million, in constituency development fund (CDF)—may as well have miraculously disappeared in government coffers as officials from the Ministry of Finance have failed to explain how they were spent. Government, last year, introduced carbon tax levies which it […]
Officials from the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, Energy and Mining have given up two two weeks Energy Generation Company (Egenco), the company established to generate power, to fix broken power electricity generators. The committee chairperson Welani Chilenga said it was surprising to note that six out of the 10 generators were not working yet […]
A parliamentary committee has asked the 193-strong House not to approve a government funding of K24 billion to Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) for maize purchase, saying the State produce-trader are inefficient and incompetent. Welani Chilenga, chairperson of a joint Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change cluster committee told the House on Tuesday that instead, […]
Members of parliament have asked Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers to go back to Namizimu forest in Mangochi to fight illegal mineral miners. Chairperson of Natural Resources and Environment parliamentary committee Welani Chilenga said it was worrisome that illegal miners are back in the forest just a year after they were forcebly driven out by […]
The Malawi Parliamentary Conservation Caucus (MPCC) wants the Speaker of Malawi’s National Assembly, Richard Msowoya, to engage Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda over the High Court’s delay to pass judgement on the banning of thin plastic papers in the country. Members of Parliament (MPs) that attended an MPCC meeting in Lilongwe on Thursday took turns in […]
Chitipa South Member of Parliament Welani Chilenga sudden obsession with praising the Peter Mutharika administration is, apparently, not sitting well with a number of his fellow parliamentarians with some of them describing his actions as unnecessarily overzealous. Chilenga, a once influential People’s Party (PP) legislator, fell out of favour with the party’s top leadership. However, […]
Chitipa South legislator Werani Chilenga of People’s Party ( PP) currently associating with ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Tuesday irked opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) attacking it of practicing nepotism. Chilenga pointed out during the State of the Nation Address (Sona) debate that MCP is a party which lacks front benchers from the North. […]
People’s Party (PP) Members of Parliament (MPs) have kicked into touch the ball rolling against the party’s leader in the House, Raphael Mhone by informing the Speaker of Parliament — a motion of no confidence – for flouting parliamentary procedures when removing members from various committees. According to Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire, Mhone has […]
People’s Party (PP) of former president Joyce Banda will be reduced to spectators in the 2019 elections because it has no direction like a headless chicken, two members of Parliament (MPs) for the party have said. Welani Chilenga of Chitipa South, who has been a vibrant voice of PP in Parliament, and former Chief Whip […]
Speaker Richard Msowoya faces impeachment over his alleged association with the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and causing friction in the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) where he serves as first-vice president, the House has been told. Chitipa South Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Welani Chilenga claimed in Parliament that work on the street is that […]
The opposition Peoples Party (PP) has written the Speaker of Parliament Richard Msowoya requesting him to remove one of its Parliamentarians, Ralph Jooma from the Parliamentary Service Commission (PMC) and to invoke section 65 on two of its law makers who are deemed to have changed parties. Jooma resigned as party’s Chief Whip last year and […]
The People’s Party (PP) has said it will request in writing, the National Assembly speaker Richard Msowoya, to invoke Section 65-on crossing the floor – and declare rebel members of Parliament (MPs) seats vacant. PP deputy publicity secretary Ackson Kalaile Banda said some MPs have been flirting with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and are […]
Former governing People’s Party (PP) has cracked the whip on Chitipa South Constituency, legislator Welani Chilenga, who was among members of Parliament (MPs) who went against the party’s alleged stance to support the defeated Electoral Reforms Bills during the November meeting of Parliament. PP has since ‘punished’ Chilenga by removing him from Natural Resources and […]