THE Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has told some party members to stop being jealous of people who are joining the party. Speaking during a political rally at Nkhotakota Old Airdrome yesterday, Chakwera said instead of being angry, such members should concentrate on working for both the party\u2019s and country\u2019s unity and development.<\/p>\n
He used the Biblical parable of a prodigal son who was welcomed by the father even after moving out of the home disgracefully.<\/p>\n
While emphasising on the need for the father\u00a0 to unite the family, Chakwera said some people moved out of the MCP due to different reasons and there is no need for some members to be unhappy with their \u2018homecoming.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnger eats your body, anger will leave your body devastated, it will leave you in pain,\u201d Chakwera said. He said the party is welcoming everyone who is against nepotism, regionalism and will be happy to see Malawi move out of poverty.<\/p>\n
MCP vice president Richard Msowoya and the new MCP member Sidik Mia attended the rally and were given the platform to address the crowd. Mia described Msowoya as his friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are saying I am talking bad about Richard Msowoya but Richard Msowoya is my friend. He is the Speaker of the National Assembly but to me he is a friend. If we are to battle then we will be battling in our family,\u201d Mia said amidst laughter from party members.<\/p>\n
Msowoya welcomed Mia and others joining the MCP but did not directly comment on his relationship with Mia. Msowoya then told the gathering not to vote for the people who are currently stealing from them during the 2019 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
THE Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has told some party members to stop being jealous of people who are joining the party. Speaking during a political rally at Nkhotakota Old Airdrome yesterday, Chakwera said instead of being angry, such members should concentrate on working for both the party\u2019s and country\u2019s unity and development. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51171","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\/51171","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=51171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51177,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51171\/revisions\/51177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}