Presidential Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, on Saturday removed Malawi Congress Party president, Lazarus Chakwera, from the list of speakers at a funeral ceremony of Traditional Authority (T\/A) Malengamzoma in Nkhata Bay District.<\/p>\n
Chakwera was scheduled to speak but Kaunda demanded the list from the family, removed Chakwera\u2019s name and put himself on the list of speakers.<\/p>\n
This irked Reverend Levi Nyondo, General Secretary of Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, who openly rebuked Kaunda and asked him to desist from such conduct in future.<\/p>\n
Chakwera was supposed to speak after Nkhata Bay District Chairperson, who was supposed to be followed by the District Commissioner and, then, followed by Director of Chiefs in the Ministry of Local Government, Charles Thombozi.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, as a synod, want to condemn this programme and especially you, Vuwa. Why have you made amendments to the programme without consulting us? Why is it that some people have spoken and others have not? This is CCAP Synod of Livingstonia\u2019s funeral service and not a political rally,\u201d Nyondo said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny programme of the synod\u2019s funeral is made by the bereaved families in consultation with the government and the church. Next time, never dare to make the same mistake,\u201d Nyondo said, attracting ululations and applause from the gathering.<\/p>\n
Kaunda admitted his mistake and apologised in a separate interview with The Daily Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n Thombozi said chiefs play a key role in complementing government\u2019s efforts in implementing development projects.<\/p>\n He then said T\/A Malengamzoma was committed to ensuring that the area developed.<\/p>\n After the ceremony, people who attended the funeral blocked Chakwera\u2019s motorcade and demanded that they be addressed.<\/p>\n Chakwera alighted from his vehicle and stood in a pick-up vehicle to engage the multitude. He said Malengamzoma\u2019s chieftaincy is known in the history of Malawi because it was the one that welcomed missionaries who brought education to the area and shaped famous politicians such as the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda and the late Aleke Banda who benefited from Bandawe Secondary School.<\/p>\n Malengamzoma, whose real name was Nice Manda, died on Tuesday at the age of 92. She was the only female chief in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Presidential Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, on Saturday removed Malawi Congress Party president, Lazarus Chakwera, from the list of speakers at a funeral ceremony of Traditional Authority (T\/A) Malengamzoma in Nkhata Bay District. Chakwera was scheduled to speak but Kaunda demanded the list from the family, removed Chakwera\u2019s name and put himself on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62920","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\/62920","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=62920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62923,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62920\/revisions\/62923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}