Chief Resident Magistrate court Madalitso Nkhoswe has today adjourned Chizuma’s case to February 8, 2023.
According to Nkhoswe, the adjournment is because the accused Chizuma was not present in court.
Defense lawyer Powell Nkhutabasa claimed that Chizuma is currently in Blantyre where she is prosecuting Karim Batatawala and other accused persons who are answering corruption charges.
Chizuma
He however, asked the court to move her appearance to next week Thursday and Friday.
He also requested that the state should serve the defense with disclosure of the case.
But the state has said the disclosure will be served on Tuesday next week.
On his part Senior state prosecutor Levinson Mangani has told the court that the notice of summoning Chizuma to appear before court was served on her but she was complaining about the short notice but the state took it for consideration to change the date to Friday which is today.
Mangani added that it is worrisome that the accused person (Chizuma) is not present in court.
Chizuma is answering charges concerning a leaked audio where she disclosed the secrecy of her office with an unknown person.
Flames and former Mighty Mukuru Wanderers attacker Yamikani Chester has signed a one year deal with a Mozambican side Costa Do Sol.
Chester made the announcement on his Facebook page and thanked Wanderers and people who have been supporting him in his football career.
The former Mighty Tigers player failed to agree terms with Wanderers and both sides agreed to part ways.
Chester and Mbulu
However, it was later reported that the player had changed his mind and signed a three-year deal with the Lali Luban side but this was refuted by the club.
Then the player was reported to have gone to Maputo to try his luck at Costa Do Sol where he became successful.
He has now joined fellow Flames players, MDF soldiers Richard Mbulu and Chikoti Chirwa who also signed for the club earlier this year from Mafco FC and Kamuzu Barracks respectively.
A 16-year-old male student at Kamuzu Academy in Kasungu Kelvin Moses has reportedly committed suicide in a hostel yesterday January 26, 2023.
According to the Police, Moses committed suicide at around 3pm after being summoned for disciplinary proceedings because he was reportedly found with condoms in his locker.
It is reported that the boarding master found condoms in his locker, contrary to Kamuzu Academy’s rules and regulations and was summoned for disciplinary hearing the following day.
He took his own life at around 1500 hours in the hostel when his friends were in class.
The matter was reported to police who visited the scene in the company of medical personnel and postmortem results revealed that death was due to suffocation.
The late Kelvin Moses hailed from Subi Village in the area of Traditional Authority Khombedza in Salima District.
One of the country’s top private schools, Maranatha Academy has turned down reports making rounds on social media that some students at the school are sick.
The institution has described the reports in circulation as a move by some anonymous people trying to damage its image.
In a statement 247 Malawi News has seen, the school’s Head Teacher Aaron Banda has indicated that the information was shared by some unknown people in a Facebook post.
Says Banda in a statement “On 25th January, 2023, some unknown people started circulating false information about students of Maranatha Girls Academy.
Head Teacher Aaron Banda
“In a Facebook post by Sheilla Favoured Banda, it is alleged that about ten students at Maranatha Girls Academy are opening bowels and vomiting.
“The Facebook post also appealed to parents to go and visit their wards at Maranatha Girls Academy in Machinjiri.”
Banda has however, disowned the reports saying since schools opened on 17th January, 2023, the Academy has not registered any case of bowel opening or vomiting.
He has since advised parents and guardians to disregard the false information circulating in various social media platforms.
Banda added that the school instituted a Task Force on Cholera Outbreak to strictly monitor and implement all cholera preventive measures at the school.
The school has therefore offered a K500, 000.00 fee to anyone who might help in tracking those behind the publication of the alleged false information.
The government of Malawi, through the National Planning Commission (NPC), will on Thursday February 2 and Friday February 3rd 2023 host the third annual National Development Conference (NDC) where the main focus will be to review progress the country has made in the implementation of the Malawi 2063 national vision.
The conference, to be held under the theme: ‘Malawi 2063 One Year On: Forging Concerted Efforts on the Journey to Wealth Creation and Self-Reliance’, will be presided over by President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera.
NPC Director General Thomas Munthali
Briefing the media on Tuesday January 24, 2023 ahead of the conference, NPC Director General Thomas Munthali said the National Development Conference (NDC) 2023 is important as it provides an opportunity for reviewing the Malawi 2063 First 10 Year Implementation Plan (MIP-1) a year after its launch.
“We have to take stock of progress, the challenges faced as well as agree on accelerating implementation so that we recover quickly and still meet the MIP-1 targets,” he said.
He cited the COVID 19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the floods that affected many parts of the country during the 2021/2022 rainy season as some of the key challenges that have affected implementation of the MIP-1 but said that does not mean that the MIP-1 can’t be achieved.
“We just have to redefine our priorities and put in more effort, especially on the quick wins. The MIP-1 remains achievable,” said Munthali.
He cited accelerated investments in megafarms, mining and tourism as some of the key ventures that will put the country on the path to economic growth and enable the country achieve the MIP-1 targets of graduating Malawi into a middle-income country and meet most of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The NPC boss further bemoaned the slow pace the country is taking to roll-out projects such as Mega farms as well as improving mining and tourism sectors and since then urged responsible officers to pull up their socks.
” These are areas that the country could have done much faster, and as a nation this is a reflection point to say how do we begin to set very serious targets for ourselves and hold each other strongly accountable.”
The Malawi 2063 is a long term national multi sectoral vision of Malawi for the period 2020-2063.
Its main objective is to transform Malawi into a youth-centric inclusive wealthy and self-reliant industrialized upper middle-income country.
The vision is anchored on three key pillars, namely; agricultural productivity and commercialisation, industrialisation, and urbanisation which are to be catalysed by seven enablers, namely; mind-set change, effective governance system, public sector performance, private sector dynamism, human capital development, economic infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.
