Chitipa District Council has today announced that one of the councillors in the district Mr. Piason Kapira.
The statement from the Council says Mr. Kapira, together with other three passengers died on road accident during the early hours of Monday, the 13th June, 2022 at Jembya ascent along the Chitipa-Nthalire M9 earth road while on their way from Wenya to Chitipa Boma.
Facts of the accident are that on the motor vehicle they were travelling in, Mitsubishi Canter 3 tonner registration number BW 6051 was heading to Chitipa, carrying 15 passengers on board. On arrival at Jembya ascent, the vehicle failed to ascent and it started rolling backwards and in the process, the driver lost control of the motor vehicle. The vehicle went to the extreme nearside of the road where it fell into a deep ditch.
Following the impact, the deceased sustained injuries of various degrees, and all the four were pronounced dead on arrival at Wenya Health Centre. Councilor Kapira was until his death Chairperson for the Agriculture Service Committee.
The public is therefore informed that the council is preparing for the burial arrangement to be communicated in due course. May the soul of Mr. Piason Kapira, and three other citizens rest in eternal peace.
Ministry of Health says Malawi has not registered any Monkey Pox case as it is reported on social Media platforms.
In a statement, the Ministry’s Secretary Charles Mwansambo says they indeed received a report from Chiradzuru District Health Office ( DHO) on a patient suspected of having Monkey pox but medical results proved that the person was not suffering from Monkey Pox.
” The Ministry received a report of a said patient from Chiradzuru District Health Office. The Ministry Immediately, using WHO recommended Integrated Disease Surveillance Response ( IDCR) started investigating the case including getting a specialist opinion from from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital which is indicating that it was not a case of Monkey Pox but disseminated varicella disease which affects the skin, brain, liver, lungs( encephalitis, hepatitis, and pneumonitis )and is caused by varicella virus, the virus that causes Chicken Pox and Shingles,” he says.
Dr Charles Mwansambo
Mwansambo says, the patient also had not travelled outside the country and neither had been in contact with any known case of Monkey Pox and that through the Public Health Reference Laboratory at the Community Health Sciences Unit( CHSU) in Lilongwe, the Ministry will proceed to process samples from the case to guide the definitive diagnosis.
Mwansambo has however, assured the public that the Ministry will continue working with the World Health Organisation in monitoring the monkey pox global situation.
In what could be the best example of defying Presidential directives, Anti Corruption Bureau director Martha Chizuma has chosen to leave the country for international duty without approval from her bosses.
She left Malawi on Friday for Vienna, Austria where she is attending the 13th Session of the United Nations Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on the Prevention of Corruption also called the “Working Group on Prevention” slated for June 15-17.
The defiant Chizuma has taken to the event three of ACB’s senior officials with whom she has skirted around the government procedure and a recent circular on foreign trips issued from the office of Secretary to the President and Cabinet (SPC).
Off to Austria, ACB Director Chizuma
The current SPC, Ms. Colleen Zamba and her predecessor, Zangazanga Chikhosi, have been reminding civil servants and all top government officials on the directive to have their travel arrangements vetted by the OPC. Just last week Zamba sent a strong-worded circular to all government officials reminding them of this directive and asking everyone to abide by it fully. However, Chizuma seems to have excluded herself from such an arrangement as she, together with her team, have proceeded on the Vienna trip without any regard to prevailing orders from above.
Her entourage from the ACB include Director of Investigations, Daniels Kelly Mponda, Director of Legal and Prosecutions, Chrispin Khunga and Legal Services Manager, Collins Chitsime. Besides the ACB team other officials who were supposed to travel but are waiting for approval from Zamba’s office include Director of Public Prosecution Dr. Steven Kayuni, Daniel Daka who is Deputy Director of Tax Investigations at Malawi Revenue Authority, newly-appointed director general at Financial Intelligence Authority, Jean Phillipo, and legal counsel Edwin Mtonga. Others also on the list are Mabvuto Katemula, First Secretary- Legal Affairs Permanent Mission of Malawi to the United Nations, and Dzkondianthu Malunda who is Senior Assistant Chief State Advocate. As if traveling without approval is not enough sin, Chizuma has also chosen to travel business class against another order that demands government officials to travel economy class as a cost-cutting measure. Government is in the process making sweeping reforms on expenditure to respond to economic uncertainties that have come about as effects of global events such as the war in Ukraine which has spiraled the costs of living upwards in all economies.
It is not yet known how Chizuma expects to defend herself from her delinquent conduct and similarly the nation will wait with abated breath to see how SPC Zamba will discipline of one the country’s most controversial public officers.
Center For Sports,Culture and Arts(CESCA) on Saturday June 11,2022 supported Deft Poetry Festival with MK 2,000,000.
The presentation took place at a press briefing which was organised by Deft Media Malawi at Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre.
In his remarks, Director of CESCA Kennedy Chitsundi said the support rendered was a symbol of their organisation comprehending and promoting Arts and Culture in Malawi.
The chairperson for the organisation Caleb Thole sard art has power of contributing to the social and economic development of Malawi.
Thole said it is Art and culture that can sell Malawi on the international market and contribute alot to tourism attraction.
He then advised upcoming poets in the country to take this chance seriously for their growth in the poetry space.
Sales and Marketing Manager for Amaryllis Hotel Khaira Sutter announced the hotel as the official partner and host of the event this year .
she said the hotel’s commitment to the Deft poetry Festival and Arts industry is still kept strong.
Rodwell Lumbe ,The Managing director for Deft Media Malawi appreciated CESCA for their gesture.
He disclosed that this year’s festival will run smoothly because of the money rendered.
Lumbe proceeded by calling on the corporate world to open its doors and support poetry through the Deft Poetry FESTIVAL.
This year’s Deft Poetry Festival will take place at Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre on July 30.
The Public Affairs Committee-PAC Chairperson Joyce Chitsulo MP for Mwanza West is reportedly among the unpatriotic Malawians who benefitted from Zuneth Sattar’s corruption proceeds, it has been established.
It was reviewed in London by National Crime Agency that in May last year Zenith Sattar through one of his agents in Lilongwe Malawi provided the PAC Chairperson millions of kwacha to stave off the confirmation of the Anti Corruption Bureau-ACB Director Martha Chizuma.
On 29th April last year, President Chakwera appointed Martha Chizuma as the new Director-General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau subject to confirmation by the Public Affairs Committee of Parliament.
Little did Malawians know that the appointment did not please fugitive Sattar and a web of his corrupt cartels that include the office of the Vice President, some Cabinet Ministers and senior State House officials.
Joyce Chitsulo
This was when it was planned to involve PAC Chairperson Joyce Chitsulo to reject Chizuma from assuming the ACBs top leadership position a move that would receive public displeasure a little later.
During the interview by PAC Chizuma is said to have performed exceedingly well but she was rejected despite the fact that there was a tie during voting.
This is a revelation that all the drama that surrounded the confirmation of Martha Chizuma as ACB Director-General by PAC was because its Chairperson Chitsulo received money from Zuneth Sattar and shared it with some PAC members.
