In its quest to promote hygiene in all country’s cities, towns and municipalities, the government through the ministry of local government on Friday launched the Clean City Award, to be held each year.
Launching the initiative was Minister of Local Government, Unity and Culture, Richard Chimwendo Banda in Salima town when he led officials from his ministry and people of Salima District in a sweeping exercise as part of the National Clean Up Day.
Chimwendo said, through the initiative, the cleanest city,town or municipality in the country will get a trophy and a development project for the city’s market.
He said, development cannot take place in a city which is not clean and safe.
The minister urged business people, residents and market users to support the initiative by cleaning their surroundings frequently to avoid diseases that come due to poor hygiene.
” Let us all encourage hygiene in our towns and cities.
“We want our cities and towns to be clean and to be free from diseases such as cholera,” he urged.
The National Clean Up Day which was launched in 2020 by President Lazarus Chakwera in Lilongwe is a day which is observed every Friday of every second week of the month.
The day is observed in every district as a way of keeping the country clean and safe.
A 22-year-old student at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS), Junior Salijeni has won K38 million with Premier Bet’s newly introduced ‘Navigator’ game.
Salijeni who is in third year studying Information Systems is said to have placed a K5, 000 bet.
On the other hand, Nsanje District Hospital clinician, Francis House, is said to have won K50 million after placing an K8, 000 bet in two trays in the same game.
Last year, the clinician also won K40 million kwacha through betting and he used the money to purchase a house in Mangochi.
Salijeni hinted on investing his money in real estate while House said he will invest in poultry farming.
Navigator game is an online game similar to aviator and a person uses a minimum stake of K10 and a maximum stake of K25,000.
The 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries has ended in Doha, Qatar with President Lazarus Chakwera emphasizing the need for LDCs to be economically developed, saying their development remains imperative and urgent if the global economy is to succeed.
He made these remarks on Thursday, 9th March, 2023 during the closure of the UN Conference on LDCs held in Doha.
“The Least Developed Countries must be Next to Develop. This is non-negotiable. This is imperative. This is urgent. If that does not happen, and our nations fall behind in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, it will spell disaster for the global community and be a failure for the entire UN family, and that is a failure no UN member must find acceptable.” Said Chakwera.
Further, Chakwera commended all the Member States to LDCs for a successful conference not only because it has given the LDCs a Plan of action, but also because the Summit has offered the 46 Members States new resources and fresh momentum for the decade of implementation ahead.
Here, President Chakwera whose term of office as chairman for LDCs has ended at the closing down of the Summit acknowledged the presence of United Nations officials as a recognition by the UN that the economic growth of LDCs remains a must as far as global development is concerned.
Chakwera whom in his speech outlines some of the major challenges that have hit Least Developed Countries in the recent times including the impact of Climate change and wars in the Eastern Europe, said time has come for all UN members and bodies to put their hands together in saving not only the LDCs but the global economy.
Chakwera who has at the end of the Summit handed over the chairmanship of the grouping to Nepal added that there is a great need for the Member States under LDCs to keep working together to achieve their aspirations together, thereby pledging his full support to the incoming chairman of the block to achieve the work plan agreed at Doha Conference.
“In that spirit of working together, as I hand over the chairmanship of LDCs to Nepal, I pledge my full support to a successful tenure of implementation for the new chair.
But I want you to know that what I look forward to the most, even more than I had been looking forward to this Summit, is that day in the near future when there will be no more LDCs Summits. What I look forward to is that day in the near future when our shared aspirations to graduate all 46 of our economies to middle-income status would have been fulfilled. What I look forward to is that day in the near future when the Doha Programme of Action would have become the Doha Celebration of Achievement.” Chakwera emphasized while delivering his closing speech to the Summit and handing over the chairmanship to Nepal for the next one year.
Chakwera has since commended Qatar for successfully hosting the Summit, and all LDC Members for their support and solidarity with Malawi as he was chairing the block.
In an effort to make sure that students are accessing safe and quality water, Shantero Davie,a renowned athlete based at Chisitu trading centre in Mulanje has repaired a broken borehole at Chisitu Day School ( CDSS) in Mulanje.
The borehole is said to have been not functional for over 30 years, making it hard for the students and teachers at the school to access quality water.
Speaking when handing over the repaired borehole on Wednesday, Davie said he felt touched when he received the message that the school has no borehole after the one used was vandalized some 30 years ago.
” I was very touched to hear that the school has no borehole and that is why I thought of using my athletic skills to mobilize money to repair the borehole.
“Luckily enough, through the move some well-wishers helped me with something little which I used to buy the borehole spare parts,” he said.
The athlete said he was happy to see the borehole repaired saying this will save many lives from the danger of cholera outbreak.
” I am very happy today that the borehole has been repaired. I believe that many lives will now be saved from the cholera outbreak as safe and quality water will be available here,”said Davie.
In his remarks, Deputy Headteacher for Chisitu Day Secondary School Robert Njaganja thanked Davie for his kind gesture to save lives from the cholera pandemic.
” We are very thankful to Davie for this kind gesture. We had feared that Cholera would one time hit our school as we did not have access to safe and quality water.
“In general, the whole school is very grateful because the borehole is now back,” said Njaganja.
He assured of taking care of the borehole so as it lasted long.
The school’s Parents and Teachers Association ( PTA) chairman Clement Nanseta also thanked Davie for repairing the borehole and urged other well-wishers to emulate the same.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential aspirant Bright Msaka has expressed reservations on the efficiency and professionalism of Anti Corruption Bureau Director General Martha Chizuma.
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday morning, Msaka wondered if the ACB understands what constitutes corruption and what does not.
Msaka
Msaka gave an example of former Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP) Steven Kayuni who at some point was to be investigated by the ACB for allegedly pocketing allowances amounting to K5.5 million for a trip to Austria that did not materialize.
Msaka said the issue of allowances cannot be categorised as corruption.
Msaka’s remarks have further heightened Malawians’ doubts on Martha Chizuma’s ability to lead the fight against corruption.
In recent times Malawians have increasingly grown impatient over what they deem as incompetence on Chizuma’s side in handling corruptuon cases.
