Month: December 2023 Posts

Some ex-MYP members demand suspension of payments over irregularities

Dec 20, 2023 Synd Kalimbuka 0 &

Some former members of Malawi Young Pioneers have asked the Office of the President and Cabinet to suspend payments of their benefits because some names are missing on the list of beneficiaries. In an interview… ...

Ex-MYP holds vigils in Lilongwe

Nov 17, 2023 Synd Kalimbuka 0 &

Former Malawi Young Pioneers on Friday conducted a vigil at Kamuzu Mausoleum in Lilongwe as one way to force government to pay their benefits. In an interview before presenting the petition to Secretary to Treasury,… ...

Former Malawi Young Pioneers demand K70 billion from Govt

Jun 07, 2021 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Former members of the Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) – a paramilitary wing of the Malawi Congress Party disbanded in 1994 – want government to give them K70 billion. According to the grouping, the money is… ...

Malawi Young Pioneers was a wonderful enterprise – Chakwera

Aug 13, 2020 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera says there is need to learn from the Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) programme which he has described as a wonderful enterprise that had its positives. Chakwera made the remarks when he met… ...

Ex-MYPs removed from memorial tower

Nov 02, 2018 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Police have removed former Malawi Young Pioneers (MYPs) from the memorial tower at Area 18 in Lilongwe where they had been camping. The ex-MYPs built shacks and were living at the pillar to force government… ...

Compensate victims not ex-MYPs, Govt told

Sep 13, 2017 Mwayi Mkandawire 95 &

Malawi government has been urged not to compensate former Malawi Young Pioneers (MYPs) as the issue continues to attract massive debate in the country. The call has been made by a grouping bound by miscellaneous… ...

MCP should compensate ex-MYPs – Mwakasungula

Sep 05, 2017 Richard Jimu 4 &

Human rights activist Undule Mwakasungula has said the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) is responsible for compensating former members of Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP). Mwakasungula has asked the opposition party to pay the young pioneers because… ...