Some members of People\u2019s Party in the Northern Region, sympathising with the party\u2019s president Joyce Banda, are living in fear following threats issued by the party\u2019s Provincial Chairperson Mzomera Ngwira that he would \u201cfinish\u201d all those regional members opposing his agenda to have former vice president Khumbo Kachali lead the party.<\/p>\n
The threats, made by Ngwira in Mzuzu on Sunday, compelled the JB camp to hold an emergency meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n
The party\u2019s Deputy Provincial Chairperson Patrick Ngoma, who is leading the camp against Ngwira, confirmed reporting the threats to Mzuzu Police Station on Monday, arguing that their lives are in danger.<\/p>\n
One of JB\u2019s loyalists Oscar Chisi, who sneaked into Ngwira\u2019s meeting, told The Daily Times <\/em>on Monday that Ngwira threatened to finish them, their homes and businesses because he knew where they all stayed.<\/p>\n Said Chisi: \u201cWhile pointing at me and Ziffer Mumba who is Director of Research and also referring to our JB camp members, Ngwira said he is a mafia. He knows our homes, businesses and everything. He said he did big things when he was with DPP\u2026 who are we? We are very small\u2026and he will finish us completely.\u201d<\/p>\n But Mzuzu Police Station Public Relations Officers Martin Bwanali said on Tuesday that the station was yet to receive the information.<\/p>\n In an interview, Ngwira said what he meant was that he would finish them politically.<\/p>\n \u201cI know these few people are being sponsored by the party leader who is outside the country. The aim is to silence the proposal we made over the party leadership. I said I am going to finish them politically and not physically. This is a political fight and not what they are thinking \u2026 politicians can finish each other politically,\u201d argued Ngwira.<\/p>\n At Ngwira\u2019s meeting, PP women led by the recently reinstated Director of Women Cliffer Kondowe sang songs against Banda while endorsing Kachali as their best leader for the party. In their songs, they said it was high time the party was led by a Tumbuka.<\/p>\n The two camps emerged in June this year after Ngwira endorsed Kachali as party leader in the absence of Banda. Ngwira\u2019s camp comprises Director of Women Kondowe, Deputy Director of Youth Lapken Thindwa, National Governing Council Member Brown Soko and other regional executive members and Mzuzu City Constituency committee members.<\/p>\n The JB camp comprises Acting Regional Secretary Violet Chituzu Nyirenda, Director of Youth Lackson Stambuli, Director of Research Ziffer Mumba and his deputy Oscar Kaunda, Deputy Director of Women Jane Msiska, Deputy Organising Secretary Ipyana Nthakomwa and eight other regional committee members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some members of People\u2019s Party in the Northern Region, sympathising with the party\u2019s president Joyce Banda, are living in fear following threats issued by the party\u2019s Provincial Chairperson Mzomera Ngwira that he would \u201cfinish\u201d all those regional members opposing his agenda to have former vice president Khumbo Kachali lead the party. The threats, made by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13866,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions\/13866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}