The office of the deputy defense minister, Jean Sendeza felt duty bound to respond to social media outbursts made by one of the vocal social media commentators, Yamikani Kachingwe. Kachingwe in his opinion posted and gone viral on various social media platforms expressed discontent with the operations of the deputy Defense ministry office. And this…
Category: Politics
Trust Formulated Amid Unfulfilled Government Promises
BY DRAXON MALOYA Following government failure to implement some of the development projects in the northern region, a group of some concerned individuals operating as a non-governmental and non-profit making organization trading under a banner, Nyika Development Trust (NDT) has been created. Speaking during the 2020 development conference in Mzuzu on Saturday, chairperson of the…
Nankhumwa Speaks Out On Fuel Price Hike
Esteemed Malawians,On Wednesday, December 16, 2020, the government through Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) announced an upward adjustment of fuel pump prices. Petrol price has now gone up by 20.87%, from K690.50 to K834.60 per litre; diesel has been raised by 24.31% from K664.80 to K826.40 per litre, and paraffin has been raised by 38.83%…
Tonse Government Dislocate From Pro-Poor Passage
The Tonse Government has finally disembarked from what many people thought was a budget formulated to address economic woes pressing most poor Malawians living in both urban and rural areas. Just this week Malawians have witnessed an increase in price of food and none food materials (inflation) on the market which spelled trouble to many…
Servant Leadership Loses Track As HRDC Plans Vigil At Parliament
BY DRAXON MALOYA The much popularized ‘Servant Leadership’ agenda championed by the state president, Lazarus Chakwera is said to have lost track following self enrichment reports on the part of parliamentarians and ward councilors who have almost doubled their take home packages when the rest of public workers and citizens in general are still languishing…
Homeland Minister Chimwendo Banda Under Fire
Human rights bodies Centre for Human Right and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and Youth and Society (YAS) have joined forces in calling for immediate resignation of the Homeland security minister Richard Chimwendo Banda over his remarks encouraging communities to use ‘mob justice’ on alleged perpetrators of defilement. In a joint statement made available to this publication and…
Chakwera’s Cabin Crew Got Stranded in Gaberone
Vomi News 247 Malawi Airlines employees on a flight that flew President Lazarus Chakwera to Botswana got stranded at the airport in Gaberone as they had been denied to disembark from the plane due to their failure to produce Covid-19 certificates as required in that country. A source from Gaborone alerted Vomi News 247 that…
MBC Shovel Some Staff to Guantanamo – VOMI Reveals
Vomi News 247 A well placed source within the state broadcaster (MBC) has reliably informed Vomi News 247 that finally heads have rolled at the corporation. The informat who did not want his identity to be revealed for fear of reprisals furnished our publication with a memo0 circulated to all members of staff which is0…
Chakwera Wept On Children’s Day – Vomi News 247
Concerns affecting the welfare of children in the country sent President Lazarus Chakwera crying before children who cheered him 0at Kamuzu Palace on Friday morning during this year’s World Children’s Day Commemoration. During the ceremony held in the banquet hall of Kamuzu Palace in the capital city, Lilongwe the visibly touched head of state could…
Chakwera Summon Cabinet Over AIP
Vomi News 247 President Chakwera to meet his cabinet over problems surrounding the Affordable Inputas Program. President Lazarus Chakwera has assured Malawians that him and his cabinet are meeting next week to discuss the problems affecting the AIP and map the way forward to make it a success. Speaking to the nation in a weekly…