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January 29, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 2 Comments
Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsanje Lalanje constituency Gladys Ganda has said the country has lost a very good person and steward of development in T/A Mbenje of Nsanje.
Ganda giving her eulogy
Mbeje no more
She was speaking when she gave a tearful and lurid eulogy for the fallen chief who succumbed to Covid-19 earlier in the morning of the same day at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe.
Ganda described Gogo Mbenje as a visionary chief who was full of development plans for Nsanje Lalanje constituency and the whole Nsanje District.
“As MP, my job was always easy, and I have been performing wonderfully because of the guidance that I received from Gogo Mbenje. The late Mbenje was a very prayerful family man who loved his wife and children; he also loved his people and his country, Malawi. He was visionary, corrupt-free, passionate, selfless empathetic; development conscious and a man of high integrity,” lamented
Khupe in Parliament
Leader of Opposition in Parliament Thokozani Khupe has refused to vacate the position to pave way for MDC-T’s newly elected president Douglas Mwonzora ,triggering a fresh row in Zimbabwe’s second largest opposition political formation, insiders said this week.
A leader of Opposition in Parliament enjoys the same perks as of a cabinet minister.
Last week, Business Times reported that top MDC-T leaders Mwonzora, deputy president Elias Mudzuri, Khupe (who was also appointed deputy president but is yet to publicly accept that position) and the party’s national chairman, Morgan Komichi were supposed to meet to fast track Mwonzora’s elevation as the official Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
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Douglas Mwonzora
MDC-T’s newly elected president, Douglas Mwonzora, is set to a meeting with Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, amid indications that this has something to do with Mwonzora’s assumption of the role of Leader of Opposition in Parliament.
The role will give Mwonzora the direct interface with and access to top Zanu-PF leaders and President Mnangagwa, as well as enable Mwonzora to make changes to the structures controlled by the opposition in the August House such as Portfolio Committees.
The assumption of the new role by Mwonzora, who is also a Senator, followed an extraordinary congress of the MDC-T which saw him trounce then acting president, Thokozani Khupe, Elias Mudzuri and Morgan Komichi, in a hotly disputed election.