Malawi Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody one of their officers for allegedly stealing two motorbikes from his workmates at C Division in the Capital.
Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Hastings Chigalu says the suspect Nokesi Kashitiyano,31, did the offence in December last year when his colleague the owner of the bike was deployed for guard duties at area 10 in Lilongwe.
He says the case was reported by his workmate after seeing his bike with a Kabaza operator.
“The Kabaza operator referred him to the owner who disclosed that he bought it from the police officer who accepted to have stolen the bike at the said place,while still questioning him another police officer came and disclosed that his motor vehicle also went mission at the station in the same way,”says Chigalu.
Kashitiyano hails from Mgona village Traditional Authority(T/A) Tengani in Nsanje.
Minister of Local Government who is also Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Director of Youth Richard Chimwendo Banda has asked expelled DPP NGC member Nicholas Dausi not to get worried following his expulsion from the DPP, saying the MCP is well prepared to warmly welcoming him back.
Chimwendo has also extended the invitation to DPP Member of Parliament (MP) for Mwanza West Constituency Joyce Chitsulo telling the two, Dausi and Chitsulo that MCP is not a family party, it is a national party saying it has an office for all its affairs and not using someone’s house as an office.
Flirting with MCP – Dausi and Chitsulo
Speaking during a Development rally addressed by President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in Mwanza on Friday, Chimwendo said Dausi was expelled from the DPP for no offense claiming that he asked for the construction of a stadium and other projects in Mwanza but the DPP failed despite of him being a cabinet minister.
Chimwendo said Dausi was not alone to ask for a sports stadium, Mark Katsonga Phiri asked for the same but their Party did nothing only promising lies for years until President Chakwera came and is fulfilling the development projects failed by the previous DPP in government.
“Chakwera is walking in the footsteps of Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda spreading development projects across the country even in areas which did not vote for him,” he said.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) District Youth Governor for Lilongwe Urban speaking on a strict condition of anonymity, has thanked Chimwendo Banda for publicly opening doors to those who have been expelled and suspended from the DPP to join the MCP.
The Governor said it is the wish of the party to see to it that all who have been expelled and suspended from the party joins the MCP claiming that they have been working with the MCP inside and outside Parliament to make sure that the DPP goes to the 2025 elections without a presidential candidate.
He said sanity has now come to stay in the mighty DPP following the expulsion and suspension of some of the party’s members advising all that if they have political muscles, they should join their MCP other than continue fighting with the DPP as this will take them nowhere.
The Governor has assured all the expelled and suspended members that the DPP remains a strong party and is poised to win the 2025 elections with or without castigations and insults from expelled members claiming that some of the members have already started advising Malawians not to vote for the DPP anymore.
“Just join the MCP or form your political party, don’t dream that your departure will divide DPP members, genuine DPP members are with the party and cannot follow you to the MCP,” he said.
The Governor has since appealed to all DPP patriotic members not to be shaken by failed politicians who are doing everything possible that infighting continues in the DPP assuring all that DPP under Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika will defeat President Chakwera even if elections are held today or tomorrow.
Political activist Bon Elias Kalindo has condoled families of six individuals of Area 24 in Lilongwe who have died following a road accident at Nature Sanctuary when a vehicle in which they were traveling in loaded with relief maize from Bingu National Sports Stadium was involved in an accident.
Kalindo has described the death of these six individuals as very sad coming at a time many family households are sleeping with empty stomachs because their pockets cannot afford to cough out K5,000 for a pail of 5Litre maize.
Poor people are contributing money to hire vehicles carrying relief maize to their homes.
He said these individuals were coming from Bingu Stadium after receiving relief maize which government is distributing across the country lamenting that poor people are walking long distances to Bingu Stadium, Civo Stadium and Kanengo Police Station to receive a bag of relief maize each.
Speaking through an audio clip circulating in various social media platforms, Kalindo has claimed that this accident which has claimed lives of six people on the same spot could have been avoided if the government identified places within their localities to receive relief maize.
Kalindo said poor people are contributing money for transport to ferry the maize from the distribution centres to their respective homes advising the government to reduce distance beneficiaries are walking to distribution centres for them to sing a good song of the praising government.
“Being President of the poor people in Malawi, I am sudden by the untimely death of these six people, may all the families receive my heartfelt condolences for the loss,” he said.
Kalindo has reminded all political parties in Malawi that 50+1 majority win was put in place by the court pleading with the legal practitioners to visit, review and make amendments in time for each and every party to have their own torchbearer on the ballot.
He said a big lesson has been drawn from MCP-UTM Alliance where Dr. Saulosi Klaus Chilima is being taken as a useless person besides sponsoring the MCP through the ballot advising all of its members to vote for President Chakwera.
The activist has claimed that he was receiving many calls from the MCP on the Alliance formation while he was UTMs Director of Youth not knowing that the MCP had a hidden agenda to fool Dr. Chilima and use him as a ladder to advance their political position in government.
He has made it clear that Malawians are being taken for granted by the MCP led Tonse Alliance government observing that it has completely forgotten that without Dr. Chilima, President Chakwera would not have been in government today.
Barely three months after graduating with a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), music producer Dkez Walker has landed himself a job as a lecturer at the Catholic University of Malawi (CUNIMA).
Walker real name Derrick Thom broke the news on his Facebook page on Friday evening.
DKez Walker
He wrote, “I just got my first job as lecturer in economics at Catholic University of Malawi (CUNIMA). God is great.”
The Zomba-based producer has worked with a number of popular artists including Saxess, K Banton, Sean Morgan, Blaze, Joe Kellz and Funghai Mutsinze just to mention but a few.
Dkez Walker follows the footsteps of urban musicians ‘Nthondwa’ who also works as a lecturer and ‘Fredokiss’ who worked as a lecturer at the University of Malawi (UNIMA)
Silver Strikers Football Club has on Friday fired head coach Pieter De Jongh just a year into his two year deal with the Central Bankers.
In a statement,the club said, the decision to part ways with the Dutch coach was made after a thorough evaluation of the team’s performance against set targets and obligations.
“While we appreciate the efforts and dedication, Mr. De Jongh has shown during his tenure with the club, the decision to part ways has been made in the best interest of the club’s future objectives and aspirations,”reads the statement from the Central Bankers.
Pieter De Jongh
The club added that a new coach will be identified very soon to replace De Jongh.
“Silver Strikers Football Club is committed to building a competitive team and will soon begin the process of selecting a new Head Coach.
“The search for a suitable candidate will be conducted with utmost care and consideration to ensure that the club continues to progress and achieve its set goals,”adds the club’s statement.
The self acclaimed “champ” joined the Area 47-based side at the start of the 2023 season in which he was given a target of winning the league and at least one of the three cups played in the just ended season.
Despite starting well, Silver failed to beat Bullets to the league title and also failed to win any of the three cups that were won by Kalisto Pasuwa’s charges in their first ever quadruple success.
He was summoned to a hearing in which he did not show up as he was still in Kenya for his holiday.
During his one year stay with the club, the ‘Champ’ was never short of controversies as he was, on several occasions, received marching orders from referees, exchanged words with opposite technical members, took a swipe at his own board and wasted much of his time fighting Bullets.
He also blamed the team’s failure to win any silverware on Chimwemwe Idana’s absence in seven games due to contract dispute and ended up blaming the board for not signing the players he requested.
