Court Sentence Cocaine Dealer Linda Chinula To 3 Year Imprisonment

Lilongwe Senior Residence Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced Linda Chinula to 3 years jail term for importation and 2 year jail term for being found in Possession of Dangerous Drug, Cocaine and these sentences will run concurrently.

KIA Police Arrests Cocaine Dealer Malawian Woman Aged 22

Linda Chinula 

Chinula holding her Cocaine

A young Malawian woman who sells cocaine has been arrested by Police at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) on Friday when police confiscated her luggage containing dangerous drug, cocaine weighing two kilograms.

Ministry Of Education Hail DAPP For Training More Female Primary School Teachers

The Ministry of Education has commended Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi for taking lead in increasing number of role models for girls by training more female primary school teachers in their Teacher Training Colleges (TTCs).

Chia Productions Brings Kutsendera 2016 Poetry Fiesta For LL Fans

The Lilongwe based poetry and music entertainment company, Chia Productions, has organised an end of year poetry festival dubbed Kutsendera 2016 Msangulutso Wa Alakatuli on December 11, 2016 to thank

poet loving fans in Lilongwe for the support they have given to the company in 2016.

Hon Ngumuya Pushing For Legislation For More Local Music Airplay In TV, Radios

Allan Ngumuya

Blantyre City North legislator, also veteran musician, Allan Ngumuya says is bringing again in the National Assembly a motion which seeks development of policy that will require all Malawi media broadcasting houses play more local music in order to enable home artists collect enough proceeds from Copy Right Society of Malawi (CoSoMa).

Malawians Press For Extradition Of Rwandan Genocide Convict

Phillip Kamangira 

Some concerned citizens have asked Malawi government to immediately arrest and extradite a Malawian of Rwandan origin, Vincent Banda suspected to be Vincent Murekezi a convict of the 1994 Genocide, back to Rwanda or face protests and vigils if Police fail to arrest him within 24 hours.

Speaking at a Press Conference in Lilongwe on Wednesday evening in Lilongwe, leader of the grouping, Activist, Philip Kamangira, said Murekezi is potential security risk to the country and urged the country to extradite him as a way of honouring signed protocols and treaties that regulate extradition.

Reports from investigations indicates that the suspect was issued by Malawi Government with two Malawian passports on March 10, 2016 and August 2, 2011 using the name Vincent Banda from Mbeya Tanzania and is currently having a Rwandan Passport which indicates same details which Rwandan Government name him a convict of the 1994 genocide.

The group is further calling for probe into how Murekezi whose businesses are not known in the country successfully got the passports and a licensed gun yet Malawi Police Service records shows they turned down his application for a gun.

DAPP Malawi Supports LL Demonstration Primary School Special Needs Classroom Project

Special Needs classroom used to be a toilet

Head teacher Mijiga receiving donation from DAPP

Development Aid from People to People (DAPP Malawi) has over the weekend donated bales of clothing to Lilongwe Demonstration Primary School in Area 25 as way of helping the school complete with the construction of the Special Needs Resource Classroom.

Mphwiyo Cashgate Case: Mtambo Plead Guilty As Mphwiyo Take No Guilty Plea

Paul Mphwiyo exit courtroom with wife

Lilongwe High Court found guilty and convicted Stanley Mtambo, on cashgate money laundering charge totalling K78 million in 2013 after taking a guilty plea yesterday.

Chilima Must Resign Over Mchinji By-Election Rigging Attempts- MCP

The main opposition, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is calling for the resignation of the State Vice President Saulos Chilima from position of Chairperson for the Public Sector Reform Commission over Mchinji By-election rigging attempts and intimidation by his personal assistant.

The MCP spokesperson responsible for Administration, Alekeni Menyani says their party members have lost trust in Chilima as leader championing the country’s reforms following his assistant Moses Kuchingale conduct.

It is reported that MCP Director of Elections, Maxwell Thyolera saw the vice president aide with some Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials in some voting centres in Mchinji during yesterday’s By-elections, impersonating Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) officials by putting on MEC uniforms instead of political party monitors uniforms.

“As Malawi Congress Party, we want the vice president to voluntarily resign from chairing the Reforms Commission” said Menyani who indicated that MCP members are making these calls because they “do not have confidence in him chairing such a very important process.”

“The reforms committee is supposed to be the new face of this country, he is supposed to champion new ways in accountability and transparency to an upper level. But I think by having his personal assistant impersonating Malawi Electoral Commission official on yesterday, intimidating our party officials who were our monitors, we feel that they have sunk to an old time law.” He explained

But he said “unless he [Chilima] should say that he is not in control of the personal assistant” and that the personal assistant acted “by himself”, this incident has direct connection to his office.

Menyani further expressed that even if the personal assistant working in such a high office acted by himself, still the vice president is not in control of his office.

“He ought to be in control, we expect him to be in control, and we expect him to be the new face of the new Malawi championing reforms and not be a wolf in a sheep skin.” He added

He continued “There were also reports that the other lady who also impersonated the Malawi Electoral Commission official is also from the same vice president office. And we are saying how in the same place can he [Chilima] be wearing two faces? Where on the other side he wants us to believe that he is championing reforms and he wants this country to move forward, on the other side he is also the same person who wants to defeat transparency, accountability and democracy in this country.”

Menyani disclosed that the party will take the matter further to the vice president’s “superiors”, and “making it known to the president.”

He said in their report they will remind the president that as party, which is also “seriously considering going into civil disobedience, very peaceful protests that should make this country ungovernable” they also demand that Chilima must stop chairing the reforms commission “now.”

Meanwhile, Press Officer in the office of the vice president, Pilirani Phiri declined to comment on the calls but said finds MCP calls “illogically incorrect.” 

MEC officials said are investigating on the incident in Mchinji West Parliamentary By-elections where MCP candidate Jephther Mwale won elections, a seat that fell vacant following the death of the late honourable Billy Kanjira Banda March 13, this year.

Man Walk Into Malawi Airport In Underwear

 

Pictures have emerged of a white man just putting on underwear, walking into Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) heading towards international passenger’s check-in counter attempting to board South African Airways.

Malawi Can Learn A Lot From Norway-Legislators

Some Malawi members of Parliament says there is more to learn from Norway on ways of managing population growth, education and women empowerment.