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Malawi

Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs Dean Josiah Banda attacked while campaigning

Maravi Post Reporter
Malawi Congress Party thugs have stoned and wounded Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs Dean Josiah Banda.

Reporting from MBC says Suspected Malawi Congress Party thugs have stoned and wounded Presidential Advisor on Political Affairs Dean Josiah Banda. The incident occurred Monday afternoon in Gawamadzi village in the area of Traditional Authority Chiwere in Dowa district.

The Presidential Advisor was holding a rally in the area in the company of other party officials ahead of the country’s forthcoming fresh Presidential election.  The matter has been reported to Lingadzi police in Lilongwe. The visuals below might be disturbing to some. Viewer discretion is therefore advised.

Looks like violence will continue to be the order of this campaign as supporters have attacked opposition party leaders in the short period that parties have been campaigning.

supporters of the DPP-UDF alliance are demanding immediate action from the Police.

writing on Facebook, Frank Edger Kumwenda said, who so ever took part in stoning Dean Josaya must be arrested… We do not want this type of politics. Whether the perpetrators are for Tonse Alliance or not, they must be brought to book

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The Newly elected DPP Vice Presidents Nankhumwa, Uladi geared for transformation leadership

Maravi Post Reporter

By Chikondi Manjawira

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Kondwani Nankhumwa and Uladi Mussa have won the Democratic Progressive Party Vice Presidency for the Southern and Central region respectively during the party’s 2018 National Convention on Monday in Blantyre.

Nankhumwa who is the Minister of Local government and Rural development scooped 794 votes beating his competititors Joseph Mwanamveka and Henry Mussa.

Whilst Mussa won the position with 964 votes against other contestants in the likes of Dean Josiah Banda, Zaria Chikale, Hetherwick Ntaba and Samuel Tembenu.

Reacting to their win, Nankhumwa and Mussa promised to put their best effort to transform and strengthen the party in preparation for the May 2019 tripartite elections.

Nankhumwa said the party needs a complete transformation in the administration and political structures in as far as DPP in Southern region is concerned.

“It feels good to win. It means people were behind me and understood what I have been talking about. We want the party to perform well in 2019 elections guess the need for administrative and political transformation in its structures.

“After this. We are going to sit down at regional, district to constituency level to map the way forward because we need to listen from the grassroots. We are hitting the road right away but with consultations first, ” he said.

Commenting on his win, Mussa connected his victory to the work he did when establishing the party with the late president Prof Bingu wa Mutharika saying he did not travel to campaign as his opponents did.

Mussa assured the DPP members that he will dedicate himself and work harder to win more votes and more seats of Members of Parliament in Central region in the forth coming tripartite elections.

“I am very happy. I would like to thank all delegates and those who voted for me on this position. My goal is to win in the Central region as you are aware that Malawi Congress Party is somehow strong in the region and I will definitely counter attack the activities of MCP.

“We have planned to identity strong candidates to contest in the region after that hold meetings at all levels because we want to win over 40 parliamentary seats out of the 66 constituencies in the region, “said Mussa.

Mussa did not forget to thank the president and all members of DPP for accepting his coming back to the party.

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DPP appoints Kutsaira as central region governor

Maravi Post Reporter

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Tuesday appointed Bintony Kutsaira as its central region governor replacing Dean Josiah Banda.

The party has however said has redeployed Josiah to other duties.

This comes thirteen months ahead of next year’s sticky Tripartite elections which every party is re-positioning in its ranks and files.

Kutsaira, who is former State chief spy, when contacted on phone could not comment on the matter only said; “Talk to [Hetherwick] Ntaba or the secretary general of the party”.

DPP secretary general Grezelder Jeffrey wa Jeffrey said she has seen a letter of Kutsaira’s appointment dated March 12 2018 but said could not comment because she was in a place where network is very bad.

“The phone is faint. Let’s talk later so I can comment clearly,” she said.

DPP administrative secretary Francis Mphepo said President Peter Mutharika was Kutsaira to build the party in the central region.

Josiah Banda , a business tycoon and former football administrator, took over the regional governor post when he replaced late Eclain Kudontoni who was promoted to be the party’s Secretary general.

Kutsaira has been a political nomad, he first cut his political teeth in Malawi Congress Party (MCP) where he once once served as its member of parliament.

He then joined DPP and defected to Peoples Party when it was in power where he served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture Bintoy before rejoining MCP and now is back to DPP fold.