Minister of Local Government Richard Chimwendo Banda has accused Malawi Police Service (MPS) officers for demanding hefty allowance whenever engaged to clear out vendors in the streets back to designated places.
Chimwendo raised the concern at the opening of Lilongwe City Summit.
The local government minister described the behaviour as strange saying the officers are employed to enforce the law.
He appealed to the men in uniform to do their job as stipulated under the law.
Chimwendo
He said there is need for everyone to join hands to make Lilongwe City a better place to live.
“It doesn’t need a workshop to clear the vendors it is a straight forward issue. No need for any expert its a matter of just following the law,” he said
The summit is expected to discuss four thematic areas which include street vending, waste management, recreation and infrastructure development such as roads and buildings.
The 2023 FDH Bank Cup National draw will take place on Thursday May 25, 2023 at the Mpira Village in Blantyre.
According to a statement released by the Football Association of Malawi (FAM), the draw which will start at 10 am, will attract 32 teams with 16 coming from the Super League and the other 16 from the three regional leagues.
The Regional preliminary round ended last weekend with 60 Regional League teams taking part.
The South had 22 teams; the Centre had 18 teams while the North had 20 teams.
Following FAM’s decision to bar Reserve Sides of Super League from joining the National phase of the competition, the immediate losers in ties against Reserve sides in the last preliminary round will qualify for the National draw.
Thousands of people basked in the sunshine for a memorial show to honour hip-hop star Martse who died in a house fire on 23 May last year.
Photographs from Cape Maclear Primary School ground show the ‘spectacular’ turnout for the event, which marked the first anniversary of Martse’s death.
Wikise performing
Fans enjoyed performances by Evanz Muzik, Nepman, Wikise, Krazie G, Hyphen, Provoice , Waxy Kay, Crispy Malawi, Fly P and many more.
Prior to the show, the Martse Foundation delivered desks at Cape McLear Primary School to honor Martse’s promise to the school.
The award-winning hip-hop star succumbed to fire burns which he sustained in a house fire at Cape Maclear in Mangochi and was laid to rest on May 25 in Lilongwe.
Members of Martse foundation presenting desks to Cape Maclear Primary School staff
A court sitting in Blantyre has convicted football fan Anthony Matupa for assaulting referee Mayamiko Kanjere after a Super League match between Mighty Mukuru Wanderers and Bangwe All Stars last Saturday.
The match which was played at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, ended 2-0 in favour of the Lali Lubani side.
Matupa who is a Wanderers supporter is said to have assaulted the referee for flashing a second yellow card to Wanderers’ player Gaddie Chirwa which led to his suspension.
Matupa has since been remanded to Chichiri Prison pending sentencing which will be done on June 5, 2023.
President Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday, 23rd May, 2023 told the nation that governance, institutional dysfunctions, and external shocks have for long created conditions not conducive for development of the country as they have been negatively impacting on the economic growth.
He was speaking at Bingu International Convention Center (BICC) in the city of Lilongwe at the Malawi Investment Summit II.
In his speech, Malawi leader mentioned governance dysfunctions and external shocks as being the country’s major challenges towards achieving meaningful development over decades.
“As you may recall, I mentioned two major obstacles that stand in the way of our efforts to create the conditions for a producing, exporting, and forex-generating economy. The first such obstacle I mentioned at that time is the governance dysfunctions in the public institutions responsible for running these sectors. For decades, we have had public institutions that are meant to regulate sectors of our economy but that do not do so efficiently, either because of corruption, or because of slowness in execution, or because of incompetence, or because of resource constraints, or because of political sabotage, or because of petty fights by institutional leaders with fragile egos. The institution dysfunctions that emanate from these toxic elements often leave many sectors of our economy too disorganized, too neglected, too unregulated, and too exposed to exploitation to attract meaningful investments or to unleash their potential.
For this reason, two of the economic enablers we have spelled out in Malawi 2063 are building effective governance institutions and systems, and enhancing public sector performance. As such my administration’s present posture is to intensify the level of accountability for heads of governance institutions, streamline systems that are needlessly long, tedious, and redundant, and exacting uncompromising and unapologetic consequences for public service deliverers whose performance is woefully poor.” Said President Chakwera.
Further, Chakwera mentioned the external shocks of Covid-19, War in Eastern Europe, and Tropical Storms as another major obstacle that has tormented the country’s economic progress.
However, the President told the nation that despite all the challenges, Malawi has been upbeat in the quest for economic growth through Private Sector Investment, hence restoration of the power plant at Kapichira power station, and government’s embankment on the pursuit of winter cropping and Mega farms among others to create wealth, jobs, and achieve food security in the country in the midst of all the challenges.
In his speech, President Chakwera has once again said Malawi can easily become a middle-income economy only through increased Private Sector productivity, saying it is the primary sector where a healthy, and strong nation creates jobs, wealth, and achieve food security for its citizens.
Meanwhile, President Chakwera has said he is sending Ministers of Agriculture, Tourism, and Mining to South Africa to address potential investors at the Malawi Investment Forum that is being hosted by the Malawian Embassy as one way of intensifying country’s vision of prioritizing Agriculture, Tourism, and Mining for economic transformation under the ATM Strategy.
