The member of parliament for Rumphi Central Mcdowel Aaron Chidumba Mkandawire has joined Malawi Congress Party. He was welcomed by MCP secretary general Catherine Gotani Hara in Mzuzu at the mega rally conducted by the Tonse alliance
Gotani Hara said the ruling DPP time is up and the party has failed not only to develop Malawi but to develop the Northern Region as well. She said most of the developments in the north were done by the late Bingu Wa Mutharika but the current DPP regime has only made empty promises to the people of Malawi. She then announced the new members that have decided to joined the party.
Chakwera and Gotani welcoming MCP new members
Chidumba Mkandawire won Rumphi as an independent candidate but later joined the ruling DPP. He has now jumped ship and has officially joined Malawi Congress Party. He defeated Aford President Enock Chihana in last year’s Parliamentary elections
Others who have also joined the party include Carlton Sichinga who was UDF treasurer General , Mrs Chirambo and Mr Mumba who was former ambassador in China and was a DPP member. MCP president Welcomed the four leaders to the party
I have seen the alliance of APM and Atupele Muluzi and I still fail to be convinced about the purpose of their alliance. I will scrutinise that later but today I am making a case for Tonse Alliance as below.
The presidential rerun election will be taking place on 2nd July 2020 and everyone knows this will be an opportunity to rescue our country from the difficult socio-economic problems people shouldn’t be facing if we had a proper, corrupt free government.
Over the past few years people have faced high food prices, a shortages of medicines in hospitals and hospitals becoming death traps for people in particular mothers and children , rampant corruption, high un- and under-employment (especially amongst the youth), an increase in extra-judicial killings (we have just seen the horrible death of a mother and children in Lilongwe last week) and a cold war between the government and prominent human rights organisations, which called into question the governments ability to provide security and development.
For many who have been waiting to see a new dawn and a closure to the above problems the Tonse Alliance led by Dr Lazarus Chakwera and Dr Saulos Chilima is offering that opportunity to save this country.
For many who want to get rid of tribalism, nepotism and an end to the corruption the Tonse Alliance is offering that window of opportunity to have a new start.
If you want an end for Malawi to be treated as a family farm of two families of Muluzi and Muntharika where all they care is to come, loot and steal our resources then claim being sick when taken to court then let you vote Tonse Alliance to rescue this country from such looters.
Never again should your children have high expectations and then fail to go to school or university just because the government is failing to do its job. We have seen university students looking like beggars and some girls being exploited into prostitution because the ministers are stealing money meant for them. We can end this by joining Tonse Alliance!
The list is endless but for now you have every reason to put your country first by choosing Tonse Alliance to get rid the alliance of two families who are a serious threat to our unity, our human rights, our democracy, our economic development and threat to worsening of problems making our country look like a war zone state.
In Tonse Alliance you have a serious chance to transform your country!
***views expressed are independent views of the author ***
DPP – UDF alliance running mate has shocked the nation today when he was on his whistle stop tour after being spotted using the same convoy that is assigned to the countries vice president . Critics of the government have not missed words but expressed concern that DPP continues to break laws and misusing government resources
Atupele who was on a whistle stop tour to the eastern region is a Energy Minister and has just been picked by Mutharika to be his running mate in the forthcoming elections. This however doesn’t not make Atupele to be the Vice president of the country nor deserving to be given the vice presidency treatment as the country already has the vice president in Dr Saulos Chilima. This is not the first time that the DPP government has taken Malawians for granted after they did the same thing when Everton Chimulirenji was also picked as the party’s running mate
Atupele convoy
UK based Political commentator Allan Mandindi expressed shock with DPP arrogance and lack of respect to rule of law. Writing on his social Media , Mandindi described this as abuse of tax payers money “ Atupele is enjoying privileges of Vice President as running mate when we already have a vice president?” argued Mandindi
Former attorney general and renown lawyer Ralph Kasambara was also left belwidered and questioned “So Malawi has 2 Vice Presidents ? interesting times “
Musician and political activist Nic Thindwa also had no nice words about the DPP government . He said “ Atupele abusing funds as he is being treated like a VP with police cards , sirens everywhere”
Hi remarks were echoed by MCP Diaspora Director of Communications Chalo Mvula who said today was another dark day for Malawi as it showed how DPP is prepared to waste government resources to its advantage “ There is no way Atupele should get same treatment that is deserving for Dr Saulos Chilima who is the legitimate Vice President . Once again DPP is being arrogant and thinking that they are above the law. Let them know that their days are numbers and Malawians will have the final say on 2nd July”
Malawi goes to the polls on July 2nd to elect New President after Supreme Court upheld constitutional court earlier ruling to annul elections that took place in 2019.
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill doctor is continuing to help children in Malawi, even after being forced to return home and fight the COVID-19 crisis here.
Dr. Elizabeth Fitzgerald and her husband established the The Malawi Children’s Initiative in 2017. The two doctors adopted two 8-month-old twin boys from the country, forever binding them to Malawi. Since then, they have worked tirelessly to save lives in their children’s home country–even establishing a pediatrics lab overseas.
This year, however, their fundraising efforts were interrupted by COVID-19, threatening resources for the hospital in Malawi, which has come to rely on financial support from Orange County, North Carolina.
With Dr. Charles Mwansambo, Principle Secretary of Health for the Malawian Ministry of Health, and Dr. Msandeni Chiume, the Pediatric Head of Department.
Last year, over 100 members of the Chapel Hill community gathered together for a run to benefit sick children in Malawi. Racers raised over $35,000.
“The run that we had last year raised enough money to start this pediatrics lab at Kamuzu Central Hospital. It opened in November, and we were able to hire a total of eight employees while we were living in Malawi,” Fitzgerald said.
This hospital has come to rely on the charity work done in Orange County. Race director, Jeff Nieman, wanted to make sure no one gets left behind.
However, social distancing guidelines made traditional fundraising impossible this year. Supporters had to get creative if they wanted to help address these critical needs.
“We thought, well, people still want to get out and get exercise and we still want to do something to support this charity, so we came up with the idea to make it a virtual run,” said Nieman.
Malawi has now registered 13 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the national total figure of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 56.
Out of these, five are health care workers from Blantyre District Health Office DHO.
Making the announcement in Mzuzu, Minister of Health Jappie Mhango said Blantyre district health office embarked on COVID-19 testing for both the DHO staff and the health care workers that attend to clients at Kameza quarantine site.
“A total of 44 specimen were collected and five have come out positive”, said Mhango.
Health Minister Jappie Mhango
He said the 13 new cases have been confirmed by Malawi Welcome Liverpool Trust Labouratory in Blantyre.
Seven cases are contacts of the Thyolo case, one case is from Mangochi and is a contact of an earier confirmed case.
Of the total national cases ,14 have successfully recovered and are well, three lost their lives and 39 are still under management by the health system.
