Police have arrested James Clement Makopa for allegedly being behind the Bakili Muluzi TV Facebook page administrators.
National police spokesperson Peter Kalaya has confirmed the development saying Makopa is among three suspects they have been looking for from a number of complaints.
Says Kalaya:”He was arrested in Blantyre by our officers from the Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime Unit.
James Makopa arrested
“Through our investigations, we traced him and we have evidence that he is among three individuals who are behind the so called Bakili Muluzi TV on social media.”
However, there is a screenshot making rounds on social media, purportedly of the said fake TV, in which somebody claims to be the true operative of ‘Bakili Muluzi TV’ and that he is based in South Africa.
Makopa hails from Mitowa village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mpama in Chiradzulu District.
On 10 March 2019, Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera launched the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) manifesto at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe titled ‘Build on the foundation of a Democratic Developmental State powered by the Chakwera Super Hi 5′.
On Chapter 5.1, the MCP President promised to revitalize the transport sector after noting that Malawi’s road transport infrastructure is grossly inadequate and compared with neighboring countries, the road network is extremely poor.
Chakwera observed that as high as 84% of Malawi’s road network, representing 11,378 km is unpaved and has either an earth or gravel surface. The urban road network represents 43% of the total paved road surface which is estimated at 4,073 km.
The concern of the MCP President was that maintenance of paved roads is poor leading to progressive deterioration of road quality.
In the Manifesto Chakwera notes that Post-1994, road infrastructure development was highly politicized and not strategic as it was not usually linked with economic activities.
The President observed that national roads such as the M1 is extremely narrow, poorly marked and signposted, with no lighting, with narrow bridges, with limited guard rails or fencing to prevent encroachment of livestock thereby making them prone to accidents.
In view of the above, the president promised to ugrade the M1 road to the state of the art in order to facilitate efficient and effective communication across the country.
MCP manfesto is clear that the need for an improved road network need not be overemphasized because sub-standard infrastructure not only holds back economic development but it also causes additional costs in terms of time, effort and money of the people accessing essential services such as health care, education and markets.
“The MCP is committed to developing a viable road network because ready availabibility of road transport expands the market for agricultural and industrial products and thereby enable producers to produce on a large scale and reap the benefits of economies of scale.
“For this reason there is need to: Upgrade the M1 road to the state of art from Nsanje to Chitipa to facilitate efficient and effective communication across the country,” he said
True to his word, Malawi is no longer the same. The country has experienced high development levels surpassing any other leader who ruled Malawi before.
If we talk about roads infrastructure, the situation is totally different. There is even a good progress on the M1 Road.
So far the Kenyatta six lane road improvement project is a game changer on its own. People were taking one hour to travel from Shoprite to Lilongwe City Centre but now motorist will only be taking 10 Minutes on the same distance.
Not only that, double laned road project from Simama Hotel to Cross Roads is another game changer.
Malawi National Women’s football team, the Scorchers, have won the “People’s Brand of the Year” award at this year’s Institute of Marketing in Malawi (IMM), Marketer’s Excellence Awards (MEA).
The Scorchers received the recognition during the awards ceremony that took place last night at Sunbird Nkopola in the lakeshore district of Mangochi.
The Scorchers won their first ever COSAFA Women’s Championship after defeating defending champions Zambia 2-1 at Lucas Moripe stadium in South Africa .
Some other recepients of the awards included Football Association of Malawi’s (FAM) Commercial and Marketing Director Limbani Cliff Matola who won the Best Sales Personality of the Year and FDH’s Lorraine Chikhula who received the PR Personality of the Year award.
The Marketer of the Year award went to Airtel Malawi’s Marketing Director, Thoko Kamkondo Sande.
The event which was hosted by Zodiak Television presenter Ruth Kulaisi and renowned Marketer and Journalist Moses Gwaza, was spiced up by a number of activities including a special performance by musician ‘Driemo’.
Civil Service United has handed Nyasa Big Bullets their first defeat this season at Kamuzu Stadium, beating them 2-1 in an Airtel top 8 match played on Saturday afternoon.
The People’s team were first to score through Maxwell Phodo who connected with a header a corner kick well taken by Precious Phiri just a minute from kick-off.
Lloyd Aaron leveled the scores from the penalty spot 9 minutes later after Collins Okumu fouled Luke Chima in the penalty box.
Chifundo Ngapemba scored the winner for the civil servants with a beautiful header in the 57th minute, beating Bullets goalkeeper Richard Chimbamba.
Bullets Players
After the match, Civil Service United midfielder Lloyd Aaron was voted man of the match following his beautiful display during the match.
Despite the win, Civil have failed to progress into the semifinals as the People’s team cruise through with a 3-2 win on aggregate following the People’s teams’ 2-nil victory in the first leg in Lilongwe.
The win means that Bullets have qualified into the Airtel Top 8 semifinals for a third consecutive season.
Bullets will now face Blue Eagles in the semifinals while Mafco FC will take on the winner between Mighty Mukuru Wanderers and Silver Strikers.
Malawi President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has hailed Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church for the contribution it makes in the country.
Speaking in Blantyre during the SDA centenary celebrations, chakwera said he was so delighted to have such a national partner in the Church.
“And it is no secret that the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Malawi has made a huge contribution to governance, with prominent members of the church serving in various positions of influence in Government under different Administrations, including Ministers in my own Cabinet, not to say anything of the taxes that members of the church pay faithfully for the sustaining of public services and the counsel I myself receive as President from the leadership of the Church,” he said.
The president said its time to celebrate these contributions today and called on the whole church to recommit itself to a new life of repentance.
The President said while some may devote themselves to a life of service and development for the love of country, an Adventist has an even greater reason to do so, and that greater reason is the Second Advent of Lord Jesus Christ.
The President said Advent message is not merely that Jesus is coming again, but that Jesus says we must occupy until he comes.
“As such, I call on you to develop more schools to occupy the education sector until the Lord comes. I call on you to develop more hospitals to occupy the health sector, ” he said.
Chakwera arrived in the city of Blantyre this morning where he graced the celebrations marking 100 years anniversary of the Chiwembe Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The event, known as the Chiwembe for Blantyre Centenary Celebrations, drew thousands of SDA faithfuls from various churches from within Blantyre and surrounding areas.
