By Vincent Gunde
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Councilor for Dowa East Ward Holess Cheukani Madeya Chiphula, said he is ready to implement Youth Training Centre at Mvera Trading Centre in the district with Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to enable the youthful generation to be self-dependent.
Madeya said most of the youthS are indulging themselves into immoral behavior such as Chamba smoking and beer drinking because they have nothing to do saying the coming in of a youth training centre at Mvera will make the youth to be busy as they will be learning various vocational skills to sustain their lives
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He has challenged the people of his area that they have been learning of CDF from the previous years in cameras, saying time has now come for the CDF to be visible in the eyes of all as councilors and committees will be running the management of the community basket fund.
The MCP Councilor has thanked the people of Dowa East for putting their trust in him as their true elected councilor for three consecutive terms of office saying all this has been made possible because he stays within the communities’ easy reach.
He said councilors by the end of their term of office in 2030, they will be judged with the way they have managed the K5 billion Constituency Development Fund (CDF) unlike the previous years when councilors were treated as outcasts and not aware of the CDF funding.
Madeya said he has plans to provide safe water sources through piped water at Mvera and surrounding villages, building teachers houses and school blocks, CBCCS for better early education, and roads rehabilitation with their bridges to improve communication.
“The works of my hands shall speak for me after the expiry of my term of office, for years, we were only smelling CDF but this time around, CDF is entering the communities with the councilors,” said Madeya.
He said for many years, councilors were being regarded as the less educated leaders in their communities than Members of Parliament (MPs) saying with councilors implementing CDF, the difference will be seen and the wards will not the same as yesterday.
The MCP Councilor has claimed Isaac Jomo Osman has proved his critic wrong that beside being less educated, he is delivering more than those with Doctorate Degrees can do, he was elected Blantyre City Mayor and Malawi Local Government Association (MALGA) as its President.
Madeya Chiphula was first elected as Dowa East ward councilor in 2014, 2019 and finally on the 16th September, 2025 and on his future plans to serve the people in 2030, he said the communities of the area will decide just the same as they did in the three consecutive terms of office he has been with them.
Dowa District Council has an all MCP Members of Parliament (MPs) and councilors and Madeya’s area falls under MCP Secretary General Richard Chimwendo Banda who stood unopposed in the MCP primaries and won the 16th September, 2025 elections parliamentary seat with a landslide victory.
