Prophets Summit Preaches Unity Among Prophets

Prophets Summit Preaches Unity Among Prophets 

Prophet  Hara (Left)

The Malawi Prophets Summit held in Lilongwe on Friday has resolved that Prophets should unite and help one another in their day to day life as well as their Ministries.

Some of the speakers at the Summit Apostle Sipi Magawa of Living Environment Church Ministries, Senior Prophet Justice Hara for Ambassador for Christ Ministries International Church and Major Prophet Shepherd Bushiri for Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) spoke highly on the need to unite as Men of God and stop castigating one another.

“Nowadays everyone wants to stand own their own but as an apostle I would like to encourage that Prophets should stand together to have one voice” said Apostle Magawa while referring to Bible that from the Unity God’s Power manifest.

The apostle said lack of unity among prophets has greatly disappointed Christians and in many times Christians have lost their trust in Prophets and left their church ministries.

“In togetherness we can make the deference, in unity we will move forward” said Senior Prophet Hara “We need each other in our lives including in our callings”

Hara, who also described their grouping in Lilongwe as  a meeting which has sharpening each other “like an iron sharpening an iron” said their meeting will also benefit Malawi as a country because prophets in the summit have discussed a lot of development issues including on good governance and not only on spiritual matters.

Prophet Bushiri 

According to Major Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, Malawi was lag behind on unity of prophets as prophets from other countries begun long time ago to meet. 

Bushiri one of the organizers for the summit said the reason prophets met in Lilongwe was because God asked him to unite prophets. He said “One day God said to me, what you are passing through now is a mistake which spiritual fathers who came before you did and did not prepare the way for the next future generation. So he told me prepare a way not for yourself but for the future and the way you are going to do it talk with fellow prophets meet together….” 

He encouraged fellow prophets to unite and be open to speak to one another and share their problems “Our Nation has for so long fault prophets sometimes because of the mistakes prophets have done and sometimes because we did not respect ourselves and we have opened a loophole of the enemy to attack us. But we are not going to go down no matter how opposition we face”

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The prophet said their group will now be a platform to help one another ending mistakes being made by prophets on their prophesies as “most prophecies are being done without wisdom”. He said some prophesies are becoming threat to the nation or individuals “which is not biblical” and if that is left unchecked it will continue dent image of prophets in the country.

“This unity will help all prophets to be of discipline and help sorting out some mistakes happening in the prophetic body.” He said

Bushiri also shared with fellow prophets on topics of secret of success, his prophetic journey particularly how he endured the castigations from the public, purity and order in the body of Christ, expanding ministries, giving and empowering others, relationships between people of Malawi and the prophets and the importance of assisting Malawians affected by floods.

It was known in the summit that other prophets were against the summit and did not avail themselves in the summit. Prophet Bushiri, Prophet Hara and Apostle Magawa both said there is need to pray for those prophets so that they understand the importance of togetherness.

The summit was attended by more than 30 prophets across the nation and some few church leaders who lead various church ministries. 

Proper Legislation Needed to Resolve Public Sector Industrial Strikes -Chakwera

Proper Legislation Needed to Resolve Public Sector Industrial Strikes -Chakwera

Chakwera 

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president and Leader of Opposition in Parliament suggests that a proper legislation is needed to take care issues of workers in the civil service in order to end numerous industrial strikes that have been happening recently.

Chakwera was reacting to the just ended strike by the workers at parliament. The strike halted national assembly business for two days a development which opposition parties described it as an embarrassing moment for Malawi government for letting such a thing happen.

Striking Worker carrying banner of salary demand 

"We were informed by the honorable  speaker before we rose on Monday that there had been notice on impending industrial action by the staff of parliament and that necessary procedure had been followed and negotiations have been taking place."

Part of Striking workers 

"These issues were supposed to be resolved even before this 3rd Meeting of 45 Session began." He said

"Obviously the programme that had been outlined for this meeting obviously there would be some delay"

Striking Workers carrying banners 

"Issues of this nature needs to be resolved as most expeditiously as possible" he said and suggested "if we go deeper into situation of this nature there is need for legislation that takes care of workers generally because the understanding has been  policy on salary harmonisation and some quarters have questioned that because different entities have had legislation that takes care of their remuneration and until that legislation is changed you do not apply policy over law."

Leonard Tilingamawa President for
Parliamentary Workers Union speaking to Press 

For two sitting days (Tuesday and Wednesday) national assembly was at a stand still as workers downed their tools demanding government to accept full implementation of 24% salary increment 

Sentenced Criminals Furious at Police Prosecutors for Asking Court to impose Stiff Punishment

Sentenced Criminals Furious at Police Prosecutors for Asking Court to impose Stiff Punishment 

There was chaos at Salima First Grade Magistrate Court on Thursday when His Worship First Grade Magistrate Alex Kamtiki pronounced 14 year jail term to two armed robbers.

When the verdict was passed the two armed robbers Mizeki Jekapu aged 30 and Vesiyamu Chitenje aged 29 got furious and attempted to fight the prosecutors for pleading with the court to give stiffer penalties.

Public Prosecutor Sergeant Morgan Kabango told the court that the two had on 21st July while in company of others invaded Katelera Trading Centre armed with a muzzle loader gun and panga knives, stole cash and cellphones from Katelera ADMARC, Kadam'manja bar, Afrasian Cotton Company and from Mrs Chateka's grocery all valued at K850,000.

First Grade Magistrate Alex Kamtiki when passing the sentence made emphasis that conduct of the two convicted men lowers the development of an individual and a the nation as a whole and that the punishment should serve a lesson to others.    

Malawi Prophets Reaching to the Flood Victims; Raises K1.2 Million

Malawi Prophets Reaching to the Flood Victims; Raises K1.2 Million 

Prophet Hara addressing fellow Prophets 

The Malawi Prophets Summit held in Lilongwe on Friday evening has contributed over K1 million towards the victims of the floods across the country.

The Summit attended by over 30 Prophets from Central, South and Northern regions of Malawi made pledges to support the flood victims.

From the pledges prophets have raised K1.2 million which and their churches will this Sunday be raising money and items to help the flood victims. 

We have agreed, all the prophets from south, central and north we will be moving on Tuesday going to help these people who are in needy” said Prophet Shepherd Bushiri in an interview, ”They don’t need much of what we will give them but they need our love, so what we are giving them is from our love.

Prophet Bushiri talking to delegated team
To donate items to flood victims 

He added “There is this saying that I love to tell people, that there is no one who is too rich that he can’t receive and there is no one too poor that he can’t give. So whether we have or we don’t have but we have ability to go and give out because giving is not availability of resources but availability of the love that we have and we want to show them” Said Prophet Bushiri.

Earlier during the conference Prophet Bushiri suggested that all prophets should be together and support the victims of floods because their presence alone will be of a great significance to the victims. He emphasized that there is a big problem in Malawi which he believes there is no one who is going to be a much help than prophets. He also expressed how he was touched by the reports on the impact of these floods and announced that he is planning to visit and support the flood victims. 

Dowa Court Convicts 16 Ethiopians On Illegal Entry, Man Arrested for Possession of Indian Hemp

Dowa Court Convicts 16  Ethiopians On Illegal Entry, Man Arrested for Possession of Indian Hemp

16 Ethiopian nationals have been convicted by Dowa Magistrate Court after an arrested last week, when they were about to enter Dzaleka refugee camp.

The 16 have been sentenced to pay a fine of K5,000 each in default to save three months of imprisonment and hard labour then to be deported back to their country.

The arrests of the 16 Ethiopians last week by Dowa Police brings the total number Ethiopians arrested on illegal entry to 87 this year alone.

Police in the same district of Dowa have arrested Grecian Soko aged 42 for being found with two travelling bags containing Indian hemp. 

Dowa Police Public Relations Officer Sergeant Richard Kaponda says police officers manning Dowa turn off road block on Monday this week intercepted the bags packed in a min bus enroute to Lilongwe. The hemp estimated about 50kgs is to be taken to Chitedze Research station for testing. 

Soko comes from Kasonda village Traditional Authority Tambala in Dedza District. 

National Assembly Workers Accept 24% Increment; To receive 18% in this budget year, outstanding arrear of 6% to be paid next budget year

National Assembly Workers Accept 24% Increment; To receive 18% in this budget year, outstanding arrear of 6% to be paid next budget year

The National Assembly workers have resumed work on Thursday having accepted 24% salary increment which part of it will be outstanding arrears to be paid in in the next budget year.

Government has put on table the demanded 24% salary increment which its full implementation shall be in the next budget year. In this 2014-2015 budget year effective October 2014 workers have accepted to receive 18% and the remaining 6% will be paid in arrears in the next budget year in July.

President for the Parliamentary Workers Union Leonard Tilingamawa said in an interview that they have accepted the offer on Wednesday evening when the official communication reached them at around 16:00 hours.

He said workers accepted to go back to work because there is a signed document of  assurance from government to pay 6% arrear in next budget year.

"We decided to accept the offer" he said, "the offer has not been made on principle, but we have a signed document by Deputy Chief Secretary Willie Samute assuring us that these arrears will indeed be paid"

National Assembly deliberations were halted for two sitting days due to the strike. 

Parliamentary Workers Declines 24% in Installments; As Govt Says Ready to pay 18%, remaining 6% i next budget Year.

Parliamentary Workers Declines 24% in Installments; As Govt Says Ready to pay 18%, remaining 6% i next budget Year.

The striking parliamentary workers have declined an offer that government has put on table as a way of listening to their 24% pay increment.

Government says is ready to offer them 24% increase as per their demands but will be paying in installments. 18% will be paid now and the raining 6% shall be paid in the next budget year in July as outstanding arrears.

Leonard Tilingamawa President for Parliamentary Workers Union in a telephone interview said the offer has been declined by the workers because this may cause uncertainty in future where the outstanding funds may not be paid.

"They have approved our 24% demand in principal but the implementation is that they will be paying us 18% now but in the next budget they will fully implement the 24% by including payment of the outstanding arrears of 6% in July" 

"In our Wednesday meeting as  Parliamentary staff we have stuck to our demands that the increase be in full" he said 

'In our calculations the six percent government say can not pay us at this moment translates close to K2.7 million per month for about 150 workers. We believe government cannot fail paying us this little money" he said. 

He added "If nothing happens then we are not going back to work"

The negotiations between government and parliamentary workers began following salary adjustment government made to various departments and Ministries effective October 2014.

Government maintains that workers from other departments and ministries have been receiving higher wages as compared to other workers of compared position and education level. And government has been explaining that the increment made to civil service was not salary increment but a salary harmonisation.