{"id":57126,"date":"2017-12-04T10:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=57126"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:40:42","slug":"pac-is-a-bunch-of-confusionists-dpp-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/pac-is-a-bunch-of-confusionists-dpp-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac is a bunch of confusionists\u2014 DPP minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Civic Education and Culture, Grace Chiumia, on Saturday took a swipe at the quasi-religious group, Public Affairs Committee (Pac), for advancing the cause of the proposed electoral and Local Government reforms.<br \/>\nChiumia took to the podium at Mpherembe in Mzimba where she called Pac officials \u201cconfusionists\u201d.<br \/>\nShe, together with Minister of Transport and Public works, Jappie Mhango, addressed a political rally.<br \/>\n\u201cDo not buy into whatever you are hearing on the radio, especially on the 50 [percent] + electoral reforms agenda which Pac is advancing. Let me tell Pac [that it] is a group of confused religious leaders and they are going to town to confuse the nation on how elections are run in this country,\u201d Chiumia told the gathering.<br \/>\nShe also accused Pac of being impatient.<br \/>\nPac is organising mass demonstrations slated for December 13 which have so far been endorsed by the Episcopal Conference of Malawi and the Anglican Diocese of Northern Malawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Civic Education and Culture, Grace Chiumia, on Saturday took a swipe at the quasi-religious group, Public Affairs Committee (Pac), for advancing the cause of the proposed electoral and Local Government reforms. Chiumia took to the podium at Mpherembe in Mzimba where she called Pac officials \u201cconfusionists\u201d. She, together with Minister of Transport and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57126","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\/57126","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=57126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57134,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57126\/revisions\/57134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}