A 62 year-old father, Bora Phaveni and his daughter Alinafe Magomero aged 40 have died while his daughter in-law has survived with minor injuries after a wall of school shelter collapsed on them.
South East Police spokesman Sub Inspector Edward Kabango has told 247 Malawi News that on Friday, December 15, 2023 Bora was accompanied by his daughter Alinafe and his 38 year- old daughter in-law, Esnart Makayiko on their way home from Thyolo Boma.
“When they reached Gubudu village at around 19:00 hours, it started raining and the trio decided to seek refuge in one of the school shelters at Suzumira Primary School but unfortunately a wall of the shelter collapsed and the two were pronounced dead at Changata Health Centre while Esnart survived with minor injuries,” says Kabango.
He adds that postmortem results show that the two died of head injuries.
The two deceased hailed from Muwanya village while the survivor comes from Nkhwangwa village, all in the area of Traditional Authority(T/A) Mbawera in Thyolo district.
On 14 December, 2023, Police in Chileka arrested Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Councillor for Soche Ward in Blantyre Leonard Chimbanga for allegedly being found in possession of an illegal firearm and two live ammunition.
South west region deputy police publicist Beatrice Mikuwa confirmed about the arrest of Chimbanga with a pistol and the two bullets.
Chimbanga is expected to appear in court soon to answer all charges leveled against him.
DPP IMPUNITY BLOOD SHED
This is not the first time for this party called DPP to be associated with weapons such as guns.
There was a time when Peter Mutharika former personal assistant Ben Phiri was addressing a rally. Just with him DPP cadets were busy giving him personal security wielding panga knives and guns but when governance experts queried about this behaviour Phiri lied to Malawians that he did not know the people.
Phiri said they came at the rally in their personal capacity and not as invited guests.
Again every time DPP has a big function its normal to see their cadets weild guns, pangas and machetes intimidating people.
Its is the same people who hacked Billy Mayaya during Civil Society organisation demonstrations in Blantyre.
So what people are seeing today is the manifestation of truth that DPP is a party of killers and people who do not respect the principle of rule of law.
The cadets used to buy cars but never paid duty to Government. Their duty was called ‘Ana Adadi’.
Fleetwood Haiya is now Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president after beating Walter Nyamilandu Manda who has been FAM President for the past 19 years by 23 votes to 13 votes.
The elections were held on Saturday December 16,2023 at Sunbird Mzuzu Hotel in Mzuzu.
Speaking to journalists after winning the FAM Presidency,Haiya committed to serve all without fear or favour.
Haiya
”We will endervour to transform the game by being transparent and accountable.
”it is my solemn pledge that I will not betray this valuable trust,” he said.
He went on to applaud the immediate past president Walter Nyamilandu for his service to the nation saying he laid a strong foundation for football development in the country.
He said: ”I hope you will be available when we need to seek counsel as we seek to transform the beautiful game.”
Haiya then appealed to the new executive to get right to work, stressing that ”there is no honeymoon”.
He concluded his speech by saying that he does not expect any confrontations urging the need for peaceful, co-existence and that all winners must celebrate responsibly.
He is using the motto ‘Transforming the Game Game’.
Here is the new FAM executive committee ;
President: Fleetwood Haiya
First vice-president: Christopher Kuyera
Second vice-president: Lameck Khonje
Executive committee members: Daudi Mtanthiko Chimango Munthali Bernard Harawa Patrick Kapanga
People in Mulanje have expressed concern over government’s delay in rehabilitating Muloza – Chiringa road which was heavily damaged by cyclone Freddy in the early months of this year.
A concerned villager, Moses John, told us that the delay is posing health threat to people in the district as patients requiring urgent health care are facing challenges to get to health centres, access to markets and schools among others.
By October 2020, communities along Muloza- Chiringa road in Mulanje and Phalombe districts were expected to have a new tarmac road, but as of today the communities are still in a muddy road.
Before 2019, the Muloza-Chiringa road had a gravel surface.
In 2019 the Government of Malawi began upgrading the road.
According to the reports, the work was contracted in phases of which the first phase was from Muloza Trading Centre to Muloza Bridge which is 20Kms, and the M.A Kharaffi and sons won the contract at the amount of MWK 7billion.
The first phase started in April 2019 and was expected to last 18 months which was around October 2020, but as we are speaking the contractor terminated by Vice President Soulosi Chilima before finishing up his part.
On September 18th this year, Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiative(CDEDI) Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa wrote a letter to the Vice President to ask him to tell the Malawians why Government terminated the contract with M.A Kharaffi who was rehabilitating the road and what happened to the resources marked for the project.
“Soon after the court sanctioned the fresh Presidential elections, Dr. Chilima the Vice President went to Muloza in Mulanje and announced that Government has terminated its contract with M.A Kharaffi and said that a new contractor would take over the project but to date there is no contractor on the site,” said Namiwa through his letter.
Through the letter dated September 20, 2023 signed by Principal Secretary in the office of Vice President, Luckie Kanyamula Sikwese, Chilima commended CDEDI for efforts of ensuring the resumption of construction of the Muloza-Chiringa road which has stalled for about 3 years now.
The letter also added that Chilima will respond through the Ministry of Transport and Public Works to matters such as procurement of a contractor for the road.
Now eyes of the communities are at the Ministry of Transport and Public Works to answer their unanswered questions.
President of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has reminded President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera to match with what he wrote on his 2018 facebook page on activists Bon Kalindo and the torture he and his MCP are doing on him.
Jumah said there was a time when the DPP was harassing and oppressing Bon Kalindo when he was Member of Parliament and today the same is being tortured and harassed by Chakwera’s MCP government.
He has asked President Chakwera to clarify his sincerity with his writing in 2018 that he will protect activists once he is voted into the government claiming that Kalindo is being moved from one court to another and a police station to another.
Speaking through his face book page widely read by millions of followers across the African continent, Jumah said it is very sad thar President Chakwera is doing exactly what the DPP and former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika was doing treating Kalindo as if he is a gangster or rebel.
Jumah has deplored President Chakwera and his MCP for personal punishments being perpetuated on activist Bon Kalindo describing what is happening to Kalindo as total dictatorship happening in a country of democracy.
He lamented that Kalindo just like everyone else has the right to go to court and justice observing that the court grant him bail, the police is coming to rearrest him and keeping him for more than 48 hours saying Kalindo is not a threat to national security.
The MRP President said Kalindo is being undemocratically held in custody at Mangochi prison demanding the democratic principles and free rule of law in Malawi to release him unconditionally as he has been held more than 48 hours without being taken to court.
He said President Chakwera and his MCP led Tonse Alliance government should borrow a leaf from what happened in 2019-2020 electoral justice in court where millions of property was destroyed and vandalized, Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo was not held accountable and why this time the same has happened, Bon Kalindo is paying the price. “I plead with you Mr. President, you have over-arrested and over-held Kalindo, release him forthwith without any condition attached,” said Jumah.
He has since advised President Chakwera that there is no permanency in politics, presidency and ministerial position observing that today Chakwera is President, three years ago, there was Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and nobody knows who will be the President of the Republic in 2025.
Jumah has also advised President Chakwera to leave a legacy that will be remembered by the future generations to come and not the legacy of destruction, torturing and harassing activists reminding him that he once wrote on his face book page in 2018 that… “If people vote for us next Tuesday, they are going to see change which they have not seen before,”……
He said it is sad that instead of Malawians see change as promised by President Chakwera while in the opposition party , Malawians are in pain and suffering and they are regretting to have made a wrong choice of a leader.
