{"id":26798,"date":"2016-06-24T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26798"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:10:31","slug":"dpp-warns-chiefs-against-supporting-political-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/24\/dpp-warns-chiefs-against-supporting-political-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"DPP warns chiefs against supporting political parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has warned chiefs not to be used by politicians rather than support the government in order to help develop the country.<\/p>\n<p>DPP Secretary General, Ecklen Kudontoni, made the remarks on Wednesday in Mangochi when he addressed a political rally at Sauya Trading Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Kudontoni said the DPP will not tolerate incidences where a chief will be found supporting a political party in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs DPP we will not spare any chief who will be found supporting political parties including the ruling DPP. Chiefs should work with government because they are part of government and not any other political party,\u201d said Kundontoni.<\/p>\n<p>During the same rally, DPP welcomed former secretary general for United Independent Party, Linus Jelenje, and Businessman Julius Pipe into the party.<\/p>\n<p>Kudontoni explained that the DPP has an open door policy but he said the party is currently scrutinising some membership applications in order to sieve fortune seekers from those who have genuine interest to build the party.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the country\u2019s food shortage, Kudontoni asked local leaders to form committees which, among other things, will be responsible in monitoring maize sales in Admarc depots to ensure that there are no abuses of the commodity by vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has warned chiefs not to be used by politicians rather than support the government in order to help develop the country. DPP Secretary General, Ecklen Kudontoni, made the remarks on Wednesday in Mangochi when he addressed a political rally at Sauya Trading Centre. Kudontoni said the DPP will not tolerate incidences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26798","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\/26798","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=26798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26803,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26798\/revisions\/26803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}