Small scale business operators in Blantyre have shifted to next week, planned demonstrations against the influx of foreign nationals running illegal businesses in the city.
Initially, the grouping along with the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives, were supposed to hold the protests on Friday in the commercial city.
According to Tennson Mulimbula, representative of the business operators in Blantyre said they have not been cleared yet by the city council to proceed with the demonstrations.
According to Mulimbula, the demonstrations are meant to show discontentment with the conduct by foreign nationals to run various businesses without legal requirements.
By Watipaso Mzungu
Cdedi, Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators’ press briefing in progress
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators have filed a fresh application for permission to the Blantyre City Council to hold peaceful demonstration on January 13 2021.
CDEDI and the business operators had initially planned to hold the protests on January 8 2021.
But according to CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, the city authorities used some archaic and draconian tactics to deny the citizens their constitutional right to peaceful demonstrations by sitting on the letter up to date.
Namiwa, in a statement issued on Friday morning, discloses that they were informed verbally by the personal secretary for Blantyre City Council Chief Executive Officer on January 6 2021, that the CEO had travelled to Lilongwe on official duties, and that there was still no official acknowledgement of CDEDI’s notice of t
By Watipaso Mzungu
Under fire
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has questioned the decision by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dr. Wilson Banda, to keep quiet while officials at the central bank are leaking results of the forensic audit at the central bank.
Malawi Voice understands that the central bank has been conducing a forensic audit whose report is supposed to be released in February 2021.
However, some bits and pieces of the findings have already found their way to the social media.
This has raised the eyebrows of the CDEDI executive director, Sylvester Namiwa, who suspects that this could be a calculated move targeting specific individuals from one region and tribe.
December 28, 2020 Watipaso Mzungu – Nyasa Times 43 Comments
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has questioned the decision by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dr. Wilson Banda, to keep quiet while officials at the central bank are leaking results of the forensic audit at the central bank.
Dr Wilson Banda Reserve Bank of Malawi Governor
Nyasa Times understands that the central bank has been conducing a forensic audit whose report is supposed to be released in February 2021.
However, some bits and pieces of the findings have already found their way to the social media. This has raised the eyebrows of the CDEDI executive director, Sylvester Namiwa, who suspects that this could be a calculated move targeting specific individuals from one region and tribe.
December 25, 2020 Watipaso Mzungu – Nyasa Times 41 Comments
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has protested the decision by the Tonse Alliance-led government to change the fiscal year from July June cycle, arguing it was made without a nod from the people who put the administration in government.
Namiwa and Cdedi officials
However, CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, who addressed journalists in Lilongwe on Thursday, acknowledged that President Lazarus Chakwera has not violated any law by making such a paradigm shift in policy direction.
Namiwa made the remarks when he address the media in Lilongwe a day after the Tonse government announced the change to the fiscal year.