President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has reaffirmed his commitment towards fighting Covid-19 pandemic.
Writing on his Facebook page after hosting the Coordinator of Global of Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Ted Chaiban on Thursday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe, President Chakwera said his interface with different partners demonstrates his unwavering commitment in fighting the pandemic.
“I pledge our commitment towards the fight against the novel pandemic and interfacing with key personnel like Mr. Chaliban further emboldens our resolve on this path,” said President Chakwera.
He said Malawi is on course of rolling out necessary programs across the country that will ensure the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods is mitigated.
President Chakwera and Ted Chaiban
“Despite the low uptake of the vaccine, we still have remained on course in rolling out necessary programs across the country to ensure that that the we fully mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the livelihoods.”
The Malawi leader expressed his optimism that Chaiban’s visit will go a long way in accelerating the vaccination and mobilise more resources to curb the pandemic.
Statistics from the World Health Organization indicate that Malawi is among the least Covid-19 vaccination countries with 1.1 million people from a population currently projected around at 19 million.
The High Court sitting in Blantyre has ordered an immediate release of Clifford Khomba, a man who is suspected of hitting four traffic officers in Blantyre after a misunderstanding over an alleged road traffic offence.
In a court document 247 Malawi News has seen, the High Court through Justice Chima is requesting Blantyre Police station where Khomba is being held to release him immediately.
Clifford Khomba
” You are required to release the said Clifford Khomba from your custody unless he is being held for any other lawful reason,” reads the documents in part.
Khomba suffered a swollen jaw which his wife, relatives and lawyer claim affected his ability to eat.
He hails from Zangwangwa Village Traditional Authority( TA) Kapeni in Blantyre.
The Japanese Government on Thursday handed over MK2.5 billion worth of airport Ground Support Equipment (GSE) to Malawi Government through the Lilongwe Handling Company (LIHACO) meant to improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA).
Minister of Transport, Jacob Hara, described the support as timely saying the airport was lacking essential equipment for it’s day-to-day operations.
He said Malawi Malawi is looking at the MW2063 as such this kind of development is in line with the country’s plans to boost tourism through provision of a good transport platform that will be able to handle visitors well hence the equipment will put Malawi on international standards.
Ambassador Iwakiri handing over to Hon Jacob Hara
Japanese Ambassador to Malawi, Satoshi Iwakiri, said the procurement of the equipment was part of a project meant to expand the terminal building at KIA.
He noted that the handover of the equipment was significant as it would improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations such as management of airplanes, cargo and passengers, especially those with special needs.
The Ambassador has since asked LIHACO to provide necessary care and maintenance of the equipment in order to sustain effective and efficient operations.
The equipment handed over includes Ambulift, Air start unit, Towing Tractor, Tow Bar, Boom Lift and Cargo High Loader which shall be used for loading and offloading aviation containers for cargo airplane.
National Bank shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank after the bank announced a healthy profit made despite the challenging business environment.
The bank has declared a profit after tax of K34.2 billion for the year ended December 2021 representing a 52 percent increase from the 22.4 billion registered in 2020.
The Bank’s Acting Board Chairman, Jimmy Lipunga, made the remarks at the 50th Annual General Meeting at the bank’s resource centre in Blantyre.
Among others, shareholders are expected to ratify a new board of directors for the bank.
National Bank remains one of the top banks in Malawi
We break and reveal with pictures and video clips that the Finergy Petroleum for which Mr Chris Chaima Banda, Former Adviser to President Chakwera was illegally recorded and the three (Newton Kambala, Enoch Chihana and Chaima)were charged and are in court in a case where they are being accused of trying to influence Miss Helen Buluma to give it a contract, is now in Malawi for real, supplying NOCMA thousands upon thousands of tonnes of the black Gold, without a contract or a tendering process.
Their 6 tankers were at NOCMA’s Kanengo depot since last week to offload fuel to NOCMA.
According to the pictures seen, Malawians need to admire the evil of hypocrisy and how real thieves create a smoke screen behind which they hide is holy robs while putting individuals and their families in distress and finacial quandary, while they wine and dine from their illgotten harvests. Squandering those who just wanted to serve the nation with every passion and love for our beloved country.
In her testimony in court, Miss Buluma lied to the court that they blacklisted Finergy. That it is not allowed to do any business with Malawi. Malawians, we are witnessing the Jesebel shredding the Tonse government to pieces.
The Cross examination of Miss Buluma will be an interesting episode, as the liar and her handlers and paymasters will be exposed and be put to shame.
When Finergy went to see the President in courtesy call. They made it clear that they had come to Malawi to buy a bidding document. Chaima Banda is heard in the clip reading this section of their presentation to the President. It is clear, ftom the recording that Finergy never came to Malawi to bribe anybody. They came to buy a bidding document. Finergy had indicated that as they do in other countries where they do business’s, they wanted to start investing in social corporate responsibility programmes in Malawi, conditional to them successfully winming a contract in a competitive tendering process. They had indicated to the President that they wanted to upscale their quantities from the 20,000 metric tones they had won by tender in 2019/ 2020 contracting year to 40,000 metric tones in the following year 2020/2021.
But Malawians here we are, without a new round of tendering for 2022/2023, Miss Buluma and her compatriots in this evil scheme against the three innocent people above, have entered a supply contract with Finergy while the case is in courts in which the three are being accused of attempting to influence her to award a contract to the same company.
Many see Miss Buluma as an agent who will surely bring the Tonse government down. For all the efforts and sacrifices that Malawians made to bring MCP and its partners to power, can you really afford to throw all that away at the hands of a DPP serving National Governing Council Member, in exchange for the “THING?”
