Death has been announced by Senior Chief Kapichi of Thyolo .
According to Spokesperson for the Ministry of Local Government, Anjoya Mwanza,Senior Chief Kapichi, whose real name was Fyson Mpina, succumbed to High Blood Pressure and Diabetes on Friday, July 7, 2023 at Malamulo Mission hospital in Thyolo.
The late Kapichi
He was born on 24 August 1944 and was installed as Traditional Authority (TA) Kapichi in 2004 before being elevated to Senior Chief Kapichi in 2018.
He is survived by a wife, four children and four grandchildren.
Meanwhile,burial arrangements of the fallen Senior Chief will be announced in due course.
Tanzania President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan has concluded her 3 day State tour of duty.
Suluhu has since left Malawi via Chileka International Airport. Malawi President Dr Lazarus Chakwera saw off Madame Suluhu.
Madame Suluhu Hassan arrived in the country on Wednesday this week and while in the country she visited Lilongwe City Council where she was conferred with Freedom of the City before attending National prayers at Bingu International Convention Centre in the city Lilongwe.
Suluhu Hassan inspecting guard of honour
The visiting president was then treated to a state banquet before attending the 59 Independence Celebrations where she was the Guest of Honour before flying to Blantyre where she visited Tropical Cyclone Freddy devastated area of Senior Chief Kapeni.
Prior to her departure Samia and the Malawi leader held a joint press conference at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre.
Speaking during the Press Conference Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and his counterpart Tanzania Hassan committed to work together for the common good of people living in the two countries.
Addressing the media at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre, President Chakwera said Malawi is viewing Tanzania as a real brother following how the Tanzanian Government assisted Malawi during the Tropical Cyclone Freddy calamity.
Chakwera described Tanzania as true friend in time of need.
The two leaders have since signed Memorandum of Understanding surrounding issues of crossborder crime, acknowledgement of stateless individuals living in both countries , Continuation of cordial relationship between the two countries and improving trade by removing trade barriers.
Dr Samia Suluhu has since extended an invitation to the president of Malawi Dr Lazarus Chakwera to visit Tanzania at a later date and His Excellency Dr Lazarus Chakwera has accepted the invitation.
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has today cleared Malawi’s State House Chief of Staff Prince Kapondamgaga of all charges which the bureau was investigating.
The Anti-Coruption Bureau has been conducting investigations into allegations that British Businessman Zuneth Sattar had been bribing senior public officers in the government of Malawi in order to gain advantage in obtaining public procurement contracts and Mr Prince Kapondamgaga was allegedly one of the said public officers.
Kapondamgaga
Mr. Kapandamgaga voluntarily gave a statement to the Bureau and signed a restitution agreement with the Bureau meaning that he is an innocent person.
“After a review of the evidence against Mr Kapondamgaga in this case, evaluation of the information he provided in respect of the broader investigations relating to Zuneth Sattar and the restitution agreement he has voluntarily entered with the Bureau, a prosecutorial discretion has been exercised not to lay criminal charges against him. Accordingy, the Bureau has completed and closed the investigations against him,” read part of statement which ACB has released.
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has emphasized that time for crookedness and greed which some people especially those from previous administration have been doing, is over.
The Malawi President, while addressing the Independence Celebration gathering at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe, said that culture has been retrospective to development because only few people are getting rich.
“It means we ended the culture of a few people in government treating the taxes of Malawians as easy money by dipping their fingers into state coffers for doing nothing and sharing it with their friends, because we knew that even though it would cause those who were benefiting from that system to feel pain, it would also ensure that state resources only go towards public service delivery for the benefit of the many, not subsidizing the insatiable appetites of the few,” Chakwera said.
President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera also highlighted high levels of toxic debt, fraud and financial mis-reporting to International Monetary Fund (IMF) and criminal cartels in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regime as some of the obstacles his administration faced as it embarked on its development agenda.
He said he was disheartened with the $7 billion debt Malawi had accumulated, with no sustainable plan for repayment.
Said the President: “On this day exactly three years ago, I stood before the Malawian people on Malawi’s 56th Independence Day to be inaugurated as the 6th President of Malawi. Upon my assumption of this high office, we made three sobering discoveries that represented significant obstacles in our quest for progress. The first was our discovery of the $7 billion debt Malawi had accumulated, with no sustainable plan for repayment.
“Our discovery of years of fraud and misreporting at the central bank, following a forensic audit that I ordered early in my administration, which resulted in the cancellation of Malawi’s program of support from the IMF and the need for us to effect disciplinary fiscal measures and reforms in order to restore the confidence of our partners and investors in our economic fundamentals.
“The third was the discovery of cartels that not only monopolize significant sectors of our economy, but that also collude with public officials to defraud the government and the Malawian people by smuggling raw materials and goods out of Malawi without remitting any revenue to the state as required by law.”
The Malawi leader disclosed that the net effect of these discoveries was the shrinking of the country’s fiscal space at a time when it needed resources to stimulate productivity and economic activity through the development of infrastructure and the establishment of public service programmes that would lead to the achievement of job creation, wealth creation, and food security.
He said it is against this background that his administration moved very quickly to close the loopholes of wanton theft of public funds.
Chakwera said this is why some people, who used to steal public money, are now crying that ‘there is no such thing as easy money in this country anymore’.
The Government of Malawi and the United Republic of Tanzania have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Communication and Digital that would ensure that the two countries are connected on the data corridor.
The agreement was signed at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Friday when Malawi and Tanzania held bilateral talks.
The bilateral talks were part of activities that the Tanzanian President Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan is undertaking during her three-day state visit to Malawi.
Minister of Information, Moses Kunkuyu and Tanzania Minister of Information, Communication and ICT, Nape Moses Nnauye signed the agreement on behalf of their respective governments.
In an interview after the signing of the MoU, Kunkuyu described the signing of the agreement as important saying it will accord Malawi data affordability which will be enhanced by connecting Malawi to the undersea cable through non-commercial avenues.
According to Kunkuyu, Malawi, currently, connects undersea cables to Tanzania and other countries via vendor cables which, he said, is expensive as Malawi is a landlocked country.
“When we connect directly through state to state infrastructure, such as ESCOM and TCL of Tanzania, we are going to lower the running costs of the bandwidth into the country thereby lowering the overall cost of data for consumers in Malawi. So, this is going to enhance connectivity, affordability and reliability,” said Kunkuyu.
In a separate interview, Nnauye said the MoU will cooperate on communication and information technology.
He said Tanzania is determined to cooperate on cybersecurity, exchange of information, connecting the people of the two countries on connectivity and diplomacy of the data corridor.
“Communication and information technology are enablers of other sectors in the cooperation. They are areas that determine the future,” said Nnauye.
