Just a week after Senior Chief Mwankhunikira in Rumphi told Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Lazarus Chakwera, that chiefs have goodwill for
\nChakwera, on Saturday, the chiefs, ordered his subordinate chiefs to stop patronizing Chakwera\u2019s rallies.
\nHe argued that chiefs work with the government of the day and further asked other chiefs not to speak in their capacity as chiefs at any opposition party\u2019s gathering within his jurisdiction.
\nMwankhunikira said chiefs should give total support to President Peter Mutharika and his Cabinet.
\nThe chief was speaking at a rally DPP conducted at Mkombezi in the district over the weekend.
\n\u201cI am saying if chiefs are going there [party rallies], they are attending without my consent. What will they speak because they are under somebody
\n[Mwankhunikira]?
\nChiefs are under Local Government. They are supposed not to be attending those rallies,\u201d Mwankhunikira argued.
\nBut one of the country\u2019s social commentators, Charles Kajaloweka, has described Mwankhunikira\u2019s conduct as \u201cpolitical corruption\u201d.
\nKajoweka said the chief has no right to ban his juniors from attending other parties\u2019 rallies apart from DPP.
\n\u201cChiefs are supposed to be neutral, and Mwankhunikira\u2019s sentiments should not be condoned in the country.
\nChiefs should welcome all parties in the areas because they belong to everybody. Malawians must never tolerate political corruption like this order symbolises,\u201d Kajoweka said.
\nMwankhuniki ra\u2019s order comes hot on the heels of sentiments made by one of his subordinates Group Village Head Vunda who demanded that chiefs have political freedom and not be forced to side with the party in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just a week after Senior Chief Mwankhunikira in Rumphi told Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Lazarus Chakwera, that chiefs have goodwill for Chakwera, on Saturday, the chiefs, ordered his subordinate chiefs to stop patronizing Chakwera\u2019s rallies. He argued that chiefs work with the government of the day and further asked other chiefs not to speak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58781","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\/58781","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=58781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58786,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58781\/revisions\/58786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}