Lawmakers on Monday started the meeting for the mid-term budget review accusing the main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) of trying to impeach Speaker of the National Assembly, Richard Msowoya<\/p>\n
Msowoya, who is MCP vice president, is at daggers drawn with his president Lazarous Chakwera and the party\u2019s National Executive Committee, which has labelled him a confusionist<\/p>\n
Last week, the party\u2019s politburo suspended Msowoya alongside party secretary general Gustav Kaliwo, spokesperson Jessie Kabwila and others. But within 24 hours, they obtained an injunction stopping the suspension.<\/p>\n
People\u2019s party Member of Parliament (MP) for Chitipa South, Werani Chilenga, accused MCP lawmakers of plotting to impeach Msowoya as Speaker of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Blantyre City Centre Constituency MP, Themba Mkandawire, backed Chilenga, saying the MCP is against the Northern Region and Salima as evidenced by the suspensions and dismissals within the party show.<\/p>\n
Msowoya is from the northern region.<\/p>\n
Government spokesperson, Nicholas Dausi, joined the fray and exchanged bitter words with two MCP MPs\u2014 Richard Chimwendo Banda and Khumbize Chiponda.<\/p>\n
Dausi had reacted after Chiponda\u2019s attack on \u2018bad ministers\u2019 who dented MCP image but are now pretending to be good people just because they are in the DPP.<\/p>\n
Dausi said that the MCP has not changed, adding that Msowoya\u2019s suspension is a manifestation that the oldest party in the country has not changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of those ministers are murderers but they are cheating Malawians that they are good people. MCP, under the leadership of Reverend Lazarus Chakwera, is the only party with good people,\u201d Chimwendo Banda said.<\/p>\n
The Speaker, however, advised the lawmakers that it was too early for them to start attacking each other.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just the first day of the meeting and it is not proper for us to start with attacks on each other,\u201d Msowoya said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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