{"id":68579,"date":"2018-07-24T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68579"},"modified":"2018-07-24T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T08:18:23","slug":"malawis-most-influential-ethnic-grouping-angry-with-kaliati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/malawis-most-influential-ethnic-grouping-angry-with-kaliati\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi&#8217;s most influential ethnic grouping angry with Kaliati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Feston Malekezo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[dropcap]M[\/dropcap]ulhako wa Alhomwe, an influential grouping of the Lhomwe tribe, is demanding an apology from one of its own,\u00a0 lawmaker for Mulanje West Patricia Kaliati.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68582\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68582\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1311-95x64.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Kaliati speaks during the UTM launch on Saturday<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The grouping is angry with Kaliati because she did not mention the title of Paramount Chief Ngolongoliwa when she spoke during the launch of a new party, United Transformation Movement (UTM)<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the group, Leston Mulli, told the press in Blantyre that \u201cif she fails to<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0apologise, we will organise vigils at her home until she does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nDuring the launch of UTM in Lilongwe last Saturday, Kaliati said the Lhomwe chief and its chairman Mulli were the first people that came up with the suggestion that vice president Saulos Chilima should be the DPP&#8217;s 2019 presidential candidate next year and not President Peter Mutharika.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nBut apparently, Kaliati did not include the chief\u2019s title when she made reference to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\n<em>\u201cIf she does not apologise within this given period, we will organise a vigil at her place until she tells us what she wants from us,\u201d Mulli said.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nBut Kaliati on Monday said she cannot apology because she did nothing wrong.<br \/>\nShe is one of the founding members of the country\u2019s most powerful grouping whose patron is President Peter Mutharika<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feston Malekezo [dropcap]M[\/dropcap]ulhako wa Alhomwe, an influential grouping of the Lhomwe tribe, is demanding an apology from one of its own,\u00a0 lawmaker for Mulanje West Patricia Kaliati. The grouping is angry with Kaliati because she did not mention the title of Paramount Chief Ngolongoliwa when she spoke during the launch of a new party, United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68579","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\/68579","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=68579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68583,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68579\/revisions\/68583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}