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We are a God fearing nation-that is a fact, depending on which side of any debate you are. We have as many churches as many pubs across the country. Five famous places in Malawi are Lunzu and Kamba in Blantyre, Bwandilo and Biwi in Lilongwe and Paris (whether Luwinga or near Mataifa) in Mzuzu. Of course nothing holy happens at these churches oops these famous gathering places.
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Some people's money budget[/caption]
At Biwi alone, I mean lower Biwi you have not less than 20 pubs lining up side by side. Go there any day, the car park is full and business is thriving. Even if it is January. Then there are enterprising foreign nationals like Ma China and Mogasa and Riverside in Salima, they know how a beer-loving-God fearing nation we are, they are expanding fast. Mogasa now has three outlets, Game Shopping Mall, Devil Street and the Wakawaka Hotel.
Add Chigwirizano, Devil Street and Machance in Lilongwe. Pa Station, Chez Ntemba and Grand Grill in Blantyre and Mzuzu Hotel and Villa Kagwentha in Mzuzu. Wow, the picture merges how we are a great fun-loving-beer-loving nation. Millions are invested, again oops, spent in these places everyday.
The fun is unlimited, long and short stay rooms are available. At Ma China the room has hit MWK3, 000.00. (Don’t ask me how I know). At Biwi the resthouse behind the pubs is reasonable around MWK2000 compared to the two famous lodges in 47 who have hit MWK5,000-MWK6000. In Blantyre the car park is convenient, in Mzuzu the rooms are cheap from MWK500 to MWK1,000 only.
Hold on, we have a thriving industry. Beer and sex. We have even braais in Churches and we call them fundraisings every other Sunday afternoon, just an excuse to drink, eat and socialise. But on the sad part of the chain we go home to darkness, no water and most of times even no money for personal development.
My writing is basically on personal development.
Dzuka Malawi is not about the mob or crowd. Its about you as a Malawian to wake up and do something about your situation. Its not about politics, we have all been politicians from 1953, we were all card carrying members of the Mighty MCP, we all sang and contributed “gifts” to His Excellency the Life President Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda. Then came
Achalume, Kuntunda, Mwini multiparty Dr. Bakili Muluzi, Agama. Of course we went berserk on standards in his
gaffament. The Late Professor Bingu wa Mutharika,
Chitsulo cha Njanje walked the talk before he too went bonkers and stopped listening. We had an interlude of
Chiwongolero, Amai Joyce Banda of
Kukhala Mzimayi Sichifukwa and
Mpanvuu rhythm and of course cashgate bundled her out and we now have the Professor Aurther Peter Mutharika, or APM….eeeh comment later.
So we have done politics, we are still poor after 52 years the whiteman left us. We are still crying for the whiteman’s pockets in terms of aid. You see, so lets reduce politics and political thinking. By the way its simply foolish for all professionals to think of joining politics to be rich, everyone who went into politics came back poor and those innocent businesses came back cashgated and now some are in jail. If possible in your life, stay away from the curse of politics, focus on what you can do well. That, of course, will be subject for another day.
We go back to the beer industry. Now if I drink at least 10 bottles a night on average, or half Malawi gin at least on average night at my pub. Even if its five packets of Chibuku, plus
Kanyenya and what I buy my friends, the minimum cost of drinking is pegged at MWK5,000 per day. In five of the seven days a week that I am likely to drink, as Sunday we go to pray and Monday is normally quite, I spend anything between 20,000 to 25,000 on beer alone. Add the cost of going out those “kanyenya” whether
zinziri, nkhumba, full chickens or
mang’ina a cool MWK30,000-MWK35,000.00 is spent.
In ten weeks an average beer drinking male spends not less than MWK100,000.00 in those pubs in famous places, if the sisters-of-the-night (I am scared of being lynched by Human Rights groups if I call them prostitutes as the Bible calls them) are included as part of entertainment and nothing evil, they add Savannah or Amarulah shots, wow you do the maths.
Now for someone like me who has been drinking (until a Prophet told me to drink half and give the rest to him) in the 50 weeks of a year, at least MWK500,000.00 to MWK1 million annually is invested again oops in alcohol and entertainment. Add Busy Signal, Sand Festival, Carlsberg Bash and Morgan Heritage and the CD shows, you do the maths.
Its not only the beer partakers, even smokers. One packet, the cheapest is around MWK300.00. Most of us we share and some out a packet a day. This translates to MWK2,100 a week, MWK8,400 a month and a whooping MWK109,200 annual bill of puffing out kwachas.
If you have been doing this, add the dear wife, MG2 and that school girlfriend buying from dead peoples hair to everything, you surely are spending millions annually on your lifestyle. You are a millionaire in any sense.
Now lest go back to Biwi, on average at Vatican chicken and banana seller sales 10 chickens a day, and double that on weekends. At Bwandilo the meat mints money for the boys there. You know now why you are a foolish millionaire.
In 2016, if you cut off number of days of drinking and drink from home, you could buy with MWK200,000 a full solar electricity set that powers your Fridge, TV and you will never be in the dark, add a 5,000 litre water tank so you don’t swear at Waterboards on Facebook, or buy 10 local chickens and breed them home for eating and selling. Of course there is no substitute for a “quickie” yet with a prostitute save for the threat of HIV and Aids or being “caught” with pictures of a high school girl by mother of the house and seeing your “goods” “church elder position” out on the window.
Dzuka Malawi, while we talk everyday of cutting costs by Government, cutting personal costs can go a long way to help us mitigate the economic quagmire we are facing with no hope of mzungu aid. Next time you see me at Biwi, my favourate place, buy me a beer, lets do the cost cutting at home.
By the way, we are still a porn-sharing-nation ooops I mean God fearing, lets congregate again next week.
- My Malawian of the week: Marie Chikuni or Maries hot sauce, the new all Kambuzi hot chilli. Lets all rush and buy and take it to these drinking and eating places.
Some people's money budget[/caption]
At Biwi alone, I mean lower Biwi you have not less than 20 pubs lining up side by side. Go there any day, the car park is full and business is thriving. Even if it is January. Then there are enterprising foreign nationals like Ma China and Mogasa and Riverside in Salima, they know how a beer-loving-God fearing nation we are, they are expanding fast. Mogasa now has three outlets, Game Shopping Mall, Devil Street and the Wakawaka Hotel.
Add Chigwirizano, Devil Street and Machance in Lilongwe. Pa Station, Chez Ntemba and Grand Grill in Blantyre and Mzuzu Hotel and Villa Kagwentha in Mzuzu. Wow, the picture merges how we are a great fun-loving-beer-loving nation. Millions are invested, again oops, spent in these places everyday.
The fun is unlimited, long and short stay rooms are available. At Ma China the room has hit MWK3, 000.00. (Don’t ask me how I know). At Biwi the resthouse behind the pubs is reasonable around MWK2000 compared to the two famous lodges in 47 who have hit MWK5,000-MWK6000. In Blantyre the car park is convenient, in Mzuzu the rooms are cheap from MWK500 to MWK1,000 only.
Hold on, we have a thriving industry. Beer and sex. We have even braais in Churches and we call them fundraisings every other Sunday afternoon, just an excuse to drink, eat and socialise. But on the sad part of the chain we go home to darkness, no water and most of times even no money for personal development.
My writing is basically on personal development. Dzuka Malawi is not about the mob or crowd. Its about you as a Malawian to wake up and do something about your situation. Its not about politics, we have all been politicians from 1953, we were all card carrying members of the Mighty MCP, we all sang and contributed “gifts” to His Excellency the Life President Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda. Then came Achalume, Kuntunda, Mwini multiparty Dr. Bakili Muluzi, Agama. Of course we went berserk on standards in his gaffament. The Late Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, Chitsulo cha Njanje walked the talk before he too went bonkers and stopped listening. We had an interlude of Chiwongolero, Amai Joyce Banda of Kukhala Mzimayi Sichifukwa and Mpanvuu rhythm and of course cashgate bundled her out and we now have the Professor Aurther Peter Mutharika, or APM….eeeh comment later.
So we have done politics, we are still poor after 52 years the whiteman left us. We are still crying for the whiteman’s pockets in terms of aid. You see, so lets reduce politics and political thinking. By the way its simply foolish for all professionals to think of joining politics to be rich, everyone who went into politics came back poor and those innocent businesses came back cashgated and now some are in jail. If possible in your life, stay away from the curse of politics, focus on what you can do well. That, of course, will be subject for another day.
We go back to the beer industry. Now if I drink at least 10 bottles a night on average, or half Malawi gin at least on average night at my pub. Even if its five packets of Chibuku, plus Kanyenya and what I buy my friends, the minimum cost of drinking is pegged at MWK5,000 per day. In five of the seven days a week that I am likely to drink, as Sunday we go to pray and Monday is normally quite, I spend anything between 20,000 to 25,000 on beer alone. Add the cost of going out those “kanyenya” whether zinziri, nkhumba, full chickens or mang’ina a cool MWK30,000-MWK35,000.00 is spent.
In ten weeks an average beer drinking male spends not less than MWK100,000.00 in those pubs in famous places, if the sisters-of-the-night (I am scared of being lynched by Human Rights groups if I call them prostitutes as the Bible calls them) are included as part of entertainment and nothing evil, they add Savannah or Amarulah shots, wow you do the maths.
Now for someone like me who has been drinking (until a Prophet told me to drink half and give the rest to him) in the 50 weeks of a year, at least MWK500,000.00 to MWK1 million annually is invested again oops in alcohol and entertainment. Add Busy Signal, Sand Festival, Carlsberg Bash and Morgan Heritage and the CD shows, you do the maths.
Its not only the beer partakers, even smokers. One packet, the cheapest is around MWK300.00. Most of us we share and some out a packet a day. This translates to MWK2,100 a week, MWK8,400 a month and a whooping MWK109,200 annual bill of puffing out kwachas.
If you have been doing this, add the dear wife, MG2 and that school girlfriend buying from dead peoples hair to everything, you surely are spending millions annually on your lifestyle. You are a millionaire in any sense.
Now lest go back to Biwi, on average at Vatican chicken and banana seller sales 10 chickens a day, and double that on weekends. At Bwandilo the meat mints money for the boys there. You know now why you are a foolish millionaire.
In 2016, if you cut off number of days of drinking and drink from home, you could buy with MWK200,000 a full solar electricity set that powers your Fridge, TV and you will never be in the dark, add a 5,000 litre water tank so you don’t swear at Waterboards on Facebook, or buy 10 local chickens and breed them home for eating and selling. Of course there is no substitute for a “quickie” yet with a prostitute save for the threat of HIV and Aids or being “caught” with pictures of a high school girl by mother of the house and seeing your “goods” “church elder position” out on the window.
Dzuka Malawi, while we talk everyday of cutting costs by Government, cutting personal costs can go a long way to help us mitigate the economic quagmire we are facing with no hope of mzungu aid. Next time you see me at Biwi, my favourate place, buy me a beer, lets do the cost cutting at home.
By the way, we are still a porn-sharing-nation ooops I mean God fearing, lets congregate again next week.
Skeffa: I am not a Satanist[/caption]
The leader of Real Sounds band and also an ambassador for youths, rejected reports that he gave a radio interview where he claimed that he used to be a Satanist alongside other musicians.
Skeffa said such reports are “false”.
“I have never been a Satanist, never,” said Skeffa.
The artist took to Facebook to express his displeasure to the rumours and blamed people who do not wish him well for spreading them.
“Let me say thank you to all the people that have shown interest to know the truth about the radio programme that other people are saying I had with one of the radio stations in Blantyre. The truth is; I haven’t been to any radio station in the past ten months or so.
“The last radio programme I had been at Galaxy FM in Lilongwe and it was a phone in programme during the time of floods last year when musicians organised a show at Lilongwe Golf Club and I was one of the artists that were chosen to promote the show.
“So, everything you are hearing is totally fake, for what reason I don’t know. If you want to know the truth about this, ask those who have listened to it and ask them which radio station was it. You can go to that radio and ask them if I once had such a programme with them. It has never been my wish to please everybody in my works because I know that is never possible. I know that when some people somewhere hate me, there are also many that love my work,” he said.
He added: “I don’t wish anything bad to all those who always dream bad about me and my work. If anything, I pray to God that he reminds them that it’s a sin to tarnish an innocent person’s image.”
Bishop Mtumbuka: Citizens deserve dignity[/caption]
Bishop Mtumbuka, one of vocal voices of the church for the poor, made the comment following a stampede at Karonga Admarc market.
"It is demeaning to human beings that they queue for maize for days," said Mtumbuka.
He said the government has an obligation to ensure it brings to human beings by not subjecting them to such degrading treatment.
His comments came just a day after minister of Information Jappie Mhango addressed a political rally at the boma where he said there was adequate maize at the Admarc depot.
A day later on Monday, police struggled to quell a stampede and the market was prematurely closed in the morning following fracas that erupted as people fought to buy maize.
Vendors are blamed for conniving with Admarc clerks to buy maize in bulks other than the prescribed 20kg.
Mtumbuka said it was sad people are to wait for days just to buy a 20kg maize.
Admarc maize is selling at K110 per kg while vendors sell the same weight at K900.
Mwanza border[/caption]
This, according to Mwanza Border Immigration Public Relations Officer, Pasqually Zulu is part of the on-going government’s reforms.
Zulu asserted that the transition from manual to digital operations will assist the border in curbing illegal entry of people and prohibited goods, which for a long time has been posing a threat to
national security.
He indicated that for a long time the facility has been struggling to control illegal entry and exit of people, a situation which has been putting the country at risk of entertaining criminals and other people of questionable habits.
“You can agree with me that the world is now becoming sophisticated with crime and for us to continue vetting people and goods manually is a big risk to the country. This is perhaps why Malawi has been listedamong countries which ‘drug traffickers’ have been using to get to their other destination,” said Zulu.
He also revealed that last week, the border has managed to send back 22 Malawians from Mangochi district who were travelling without proper document; some of them were using borrowed passports but were detected before crossing the border.
“An additional 30 Malawians from the northern region have also been deported by the Mozambican Authorities after they were caught using unchartered routes on their way to South Africa. Despite having proper documents, these people were trying to avoid borders because they did not have the minimum required money for one to have when travelling to a foreign country,” said Zulu.
On this note, the immigration spokesperson advised the general public to make sure that they have necessary documents before travelling, explaining that there job is neither to receive illegal immigrants nor send people back, but rather to assist and verify those exiting and entering the country.
Fatjet stops Malawi route[/caption]
Kasaira was responding to FastJet's assertion that it was leaving the skies of Malawi because of the fast nose diving of the kwacha and government failure to grant the airliner a licence to land at Chileka airport in Blantyre.
"They should just say they have failed in business instead of finding the government as scapegoat. Their fares were too low to sustain in the airline business. They had very few passengers. They thought by offering low fares they would attract more passengers but this never happened," said the blunt talking Kasaira.
The airline offered K40000 as fare from Kamuzu international airport in Lilongwe to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, over K100000 normal price.
"We wondered how the company would survive with such low fares and few passengers but as government we would not tell them to raise the fares," said the minister.
He parried away reports that the government refused the airliner permission to land at Chileka as way of protecting Malawians airlines where government has a substantial stake.
He said few airlines land at Chileka because of the bad condition of the airport.
"The airport is not in good condition, that is why we allow a few airlines to land there. We need to improve the runways and terminal buildings," said Kasaira.
He said the government is simply abiding to aviation laws not protecting the interests of Malawian airlines formerly Air Malawi, the pride of Africa.
The minister ruled out granting permission to land at Chileka even if it rescinds its decision to suspend flying in the skies of Malawi.
Rev Nyondo: Homosexuality is 100 percent sin[/caption]
Manarela executive director Bruce Tushave said for two to three weeks running, religious leaders have been making homophobic speeches against gays.
"This is wrong. There is no where in the world where gays are killed. There is no religion in the world that preaches the killing of gays, what the religious leaders and some individuals are doing by promoting the hate speech against the gays is infringement of human rights,” he said.
Religious leaders, including Catholic bishops, have asked the government not to bow down to donor demand to legalise homosexuality.
They say the government should not be desperate because of donor money, saying Malawi would rather be poor than embrace homosexuality which they described as an abomination in the Bible.
Synod of Livingstonia general secretary Reverend Levi Nyondo has said President Peter Mutharika should know that homosexuality is 100 percent sin.
“The Bible is above human rights. It is better donors should stop and Malawians should die with Jesus while poor. The synod is crying for our country,” said Nyondo at the funeral of first female member of Cabinet Rose Chibambo last Saturday.
However, the Manerela boss said this was all wrong.
"Religious leaders have no powers to judge a person over sin. It is only God that can pronounce a person sinful. What the religious leaders are doing is sinful," he said.
Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) executive director Gift Trapence said Malawi is a secular State and religious beliefs and culture should not be used as catalysts for oppressing others, especially gays.
This is the first time that a religious body has criticised church clerics as the issue of gays gets heated up.
According to Presidential press secretary Gerald Viola and Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education Jappie Mhango, President Mutharika will let Malawian decide on whether homosexuality should be legalised.
Gaba: I was frustrated[/caption]
Mhango, who has left Celtic controversially for another top league outfit Bidvest University, claimed his salary was cut while recuperating the injury.
He also said after getting back on his feet Celtic were not cooperative on the renewal of his contract which made him to fear for his future as the transfer window period draws to a close.
"I was committed to Celtic but there were a lot of things which have been happening. For example the team had no regard for my welfare as they reduced my salary during the time of my injury,'' Mhango said.
"I was also frustrated to see that they were dilly-dallying to come in the open to indicate whether they will offer me a contract or not," he said.
He said while he was facing a gloomy future at Celtic a window of opportunity opened to join Bidvest University in June as he entered a pre-contract agreement.
He emphasised that he had no intention to leave his compatriot team manager John Maduka in that fashion.
"It’s sad that this is the way I have parted ways with the Celtic. I enjoyed my time," he said, sounding emotional.
But the former Bullets FC prolific striker ruled out a move back home as he awaits his new lease of life at Bidvests to link up with compatriots Atusaye Nyondo, Robin Ngalande and Gerald Phiri Jr.
He said his manager was looking for club to enable him play in South Africa.
"My manager is working hard for me to get a club right here in South Africa. I cannot come home because I am optimistic," he said.
Gabadinho joined Celtic in a controversial move as he joined the team as a free agent barely a few days after terminating his contract.
Meeting in progress...Photo Jeromy Kadewere[/caption]
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Bullets top fan Stone Mwamadi...Photo Jeromy Kadewere[/caption]
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Nyasa Brands manager Chimwemwe Chikwana: Win win partnership...Photo Jeromy Kadewere[/caption]
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Nyasa Big Bullets die hard fan Juliet....Photo Jeromy Kadewere[/caption]
The cigarette manufacturing company, who are the sponsors of the Peoples team signed a sponsorship deal with Bullets which will see them pumping K500 million (about $748 111) over a five-year period.
The company’s brands manager Chimwemwe Chikwana told the media on Thursday when he met Bullets supporters at their club house in Mandala during a special ceremony where zone supporters chairmen for the team made a commitment to sale some of the company’s products.
“Our sales have jumped since we entered into partnership with Bullets and we are looking for more good things to come. As of now we cannot specify how much we have made but what we can confirm is that we are going in the right direction in as far as our agreement is concerned,” said Chikwana.
For instance, he said they were encouraged this week when the supporters committee approached them to buy ten cartons of cigarette worth K1.5 million, which they will be selling in their zones.
“They have given us confidence that this is really a win-win situation. We promise them many good things to come because we want Bullets to be a strong side not only in Malawi but Africa,” said Chikwana.
In his remarks, Big Bullets top fan Stone Mwamadi advised the chairmen from the zones to be transparent and accountable when selling the products.
“We have given you these products on trust that you will bring the money once sold the cigarettes. These are the some money our players will be banking on, so my only appeal to you is that be transparent and accountable,” said Mwamadi.
Mwamadi also took time to warn the fans that come 2016 season they will not allow any supporter to enter for free during matches.
“It is high time that each and every one of us we start paying during games. We want our players to enjoy yet at the same time you refuse to pay at the gates. I do not want anybody to cause havoc in the 2016 soccer season in as far as paying on the gates in concerned,” said Mwamadi.
Another Bullets diehard fan, Julliet Chinyama applauded their sponsors and their executive for this business partnership.
“As supporters from zones we assure them of total commitment when selling the products,” she said.
Mutharika posing with media managers[/caption]
Leader of the media owners and managers, Professor Chijere Chirwa, who is also the chairman of Media Council of Malawi said he was surprised with the stance taken by the President.
Chijere Chirwa, a professor at the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College, stressed to the President the importance of ATI legislation in fostering accountability, reducing corruption and removing mistrust between government and its citizens.
“The right of access to information protects and promotes the collective good in a country. It is an integral part of human rights. We, therefore, request you as custodian of the Constitution to ensure that this bill is tabled during this March sitting of Parliament.”
But Mutharika said he was against two sections in the bill, a section that prohibits the repealing of the would be law in future and another one that would allow people access information even before the law became into effect.
"I am against Section 6 paragraph 2 that restricts future parliaments from changing it. This is unacceptable. I will not sign this bill into law if this section is maintained. I can’t accept it. Future parliaments can even repeal the Republican Constitution as long as procedures are followed," Mutharika said.
He also said it was wrong to pass the law that would allow people access information which happened before the law came into effect, saying retrospective action does not happen.
"This provision does not make sense. This kind of legislation is wrong under Common Law. If this passes in parliament, I will veto the bill," said the President.
Mutharika said this is what cabinet agreed and he has no powers to reverse a cabinet decision because, he said, it is a collective responsibility.
Chijere Chirwa asked Mutharika to clearly explain to Malawians and various stakeholders his reservations with the bill in its draft form and reject any attempts at adulterating it, especially on the establishment of an Independent Information Commission which would be responsible for oversight of the legislation.
Mutharika said Malawians should decide if the law is good and not to be pushed by international community.
“Malawians should decide what is good for them,” he said, adding that if Malawians feel ATI is good for the country, it will be passed into law.
Minister of Justice Samuel Tembenu said the draft bill has been circulated to relevant bodies for scrutiny ahead of a cabinet legal affairs committee meeting on Monday on the same.
Chijere Chirwa said later the media owners and managers will continue engaging Mutharika and his government on the matter.
Media watchdog Miss Malawi legal advisor Mandala Mambulasa and Tembenu clashed on a point of law several times in the presence of Mutharika and reporters who were allowed to sit in during the closed door session and the recording was aired on MBC.
Mutharika’s administration has come under fire from various stakeholders, including media owners, managers, civil society and donors, for failing to table the ATI Bill.
Calm was restored after clashes between police and akabanza[/caption]
Nyasa Times correspondent in Mzuzu, Chancy Gondwe, says there was “chaos.”
He said the “operators blocked the road with logs of wood to express their anger following an operation by the police that aims at confiscating any bicycle taxi seen around the city’s central business district.”
There was a traffic standstill on the Karonga-Mzuzu M1 road [next to St John of God College of Health Sciences] for about forty five minutes until police came to the scene to quell the situation, Nyasa Times correspondent says.
“But the operators were militant such that the police were about to use teargas when they dispersed,” he added.
A man in civilian clothes, believed to be a police officer, –probably minding and doing his own things and off duty –has been badly beaten, an eye witness told Nyasa Times.
It is not yet clear whether or not the man in question was indeed a police officer.
Mzuzu Police Publicist Martin Bwanali and northern region police publicist Maurice Chapola could not immediately comment.
The bicycles are confiscated to quell traffic congestion in Mzuzu CBD. But the operators, most of who live below the breadline, have no choice.
JB: Left the PP leadership to Uladi[/caption]
Spokesman for Banda, Andekuche Chamnthunya said in a radio interview Friday that the former Malawi leader is focussed and visionary and would not be deterred by a few individuals whom he said have sinister agenda.
"These people have their own agendas to cause confusion. Salim Bagus is a senior party official, as organising secretary he might be fourth or fifth in the party structure and he knows where to go when he feels there is a problem," said Chamthunya.
This is the first time that the office of the former president Banda has spoken on the matter after Salim Bagus and four regional governors obtained an injunction restraining Uladi Mussa and Kamlepo Kalua from taking office of acting president and third vice president respectively.
Uladi blamed former party vice president Khumbo Kachali for sponsoring the court injunction whilst Kalua said it was Democratic Progressive Party that sponsored Bagus and his colleagues to go to court.
Both Kachali and the DPP have dismissed the sponsorship allegations.
Chamthunya did not however say if Bagus and the four district governors are likely to face disciplinary action, however he said this was against party constitution.
Banda has been in self imposed exile since she lost the election in 2014 exposing her party to infighting and internal problems which political scientists say is a result of power vacuum in the once mighty party.
Charles Mhango making maize donation[/caption]
Party spokesman Francis Kasaira said the party has been buying the maize from private traders.
Minister of Information Jappie Mhango and party official Charles Mhango have been distributing K5 million worth of maize to district hospitals in the past weeks heightening reports that the party was taking Admarc maize.
Kasaira said: "We have been sourcing the maize from private traders. You and me can stand on queue for maize but patients cannot, this is why as a party we sourced the maize and give it to hospitals."
Chancellor College political scientist Mustafa Hussein said in the absence of the access to Information law, Malawians would never know if indeed the DPP was sourcing the maize from private traders.
Another political scientist Joseph Chunga said it was wrong for the ruling party to donate the maize to score a political point.
Chairman of parliamentary committee on Agriculture Felix Jumbe said he was surprised that there were no maize in most Admarc depots yet his committee checked and confirmed the availability of the grain.
He blamed some Admarc officials for conniving with vendors to buy in bulks and also transportation problems.
Minister of Agriculture Allan Chiyembekeza said apart from the vendors, there are serious transportation problems as same transporters are also involved in transporting farm inputs fertilizer and also World Food Programme relief maize.