Chief Mbenje Laid to Rest People described Senior Chief Mbenje as a person who advanced development in the district - pic by Christopher Sande
The body of Senior Chief Mbenje of Nsanje has been buried at his headquarters with cries and tears from hundred villagers in disbelief.
The burial took place last evening at around 7 PM where scores of people flocked to pay their last respects to the late Senior Chief Mbenje who died in Lilongwe Wednesday morning after succumbing to Covid-19.
Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje, Gladys Ganda, said the area has lost a leader with high integrity who had the welfare of his subjects at heart by championing development without greed.
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Two senior Malawian cabinet ministers and two other senior political figures died on Tuesday from COVID-19, the government said.
The deaths followed a cabinet meeting and other gatherings attended by politicians over the Christmas period, but officials did not say where the victims were infected.
Local Government Minister Lingson Berekanyama and Transport Minister Sidik Mia both succumbed to the disease in the early hours of Tuesday, the government spokesman said.
They were senior members of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the main partner in an alliance that unseated ex-leader Peter Mutharika in a second round election in June last year, delivering victory to President Lazarus Chakwera. Mia had been tipped as a possible successor to Chakwera.
DPP South Visits Ngabu, Condoles Mia Family
DPP Regional Committee (South) at Mia’s house
Democratic Progressive Party (DDP) regional committee for the south on Wednesday, January 27 condoled the family of late Muhammad Sidik Mia at Ngabu in Chikwawa.
Sidik Mia who until his death was serving as Transport and Public Works Minister and MCP 1st vice president passed on after succumbing to Covid 19.
In his eulogy DPP Governor for the South Charles Mchacha who was accompanied by Regional Secretary Hannah Chatheka, Organizing Secretary Rudo Chimbalanga and other senior officials described late Sidik Mia as a true Patriot who was putting interest of the country at first.
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Government closes campuses amid COVID’s second wave
Malawi universities and colleges have been closed for three weeks, following a second wave of COVID-19 that has taken a heavy toll, with daily reports of increasing infections and deaths.
This includes two cabinet ministers who died earlier this month – Transport and Public Works Minister Sidik Mia and Local Government Minister Lingson Belekanyama.
The pandemic has also been ripping through universities and colleges that were reopened in September after being closed under a national lockdown since COVID-19 hit the country last March.
Mzuzu University, in northern Malawi, is one institution that has taken a major hit, with two forest faculty teachers dying from the disease, senior lecturer Dominic Gondwe and Professor Chimuleke Munthali.