Africa-Press – Malawi. President Lazarus Chakwera has promised to construct Mausoleum and Airport for freedom fighter Orton Chirwa that will bear his name. Chakwera disclosed on Thursday March 3,2022 at Maganga Ground in Nkhata-Bay where he was attending this year’s Martyrs Day Memorial Worship Service.
The Malawi leader said the legend of Orton Chirwa was selfless freedom fighter, whose contribution to Malawi’s Independence and formative years of the Republic remains indelible up to now.
He said, not only that he was the founder of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) but Chirwa also a fine barrister and vociferous activist who was driven by urge for quality among people.
He added that late Chirwa always believed that for people to develop, they must be emancipated socially, economically and politically in equal measures.
“His necessary agitation for change is what transformed this country from Nyasaland, a nation of subjects into Malawi, a nation of Citizens.
It is for this reason that my administration will construct a benefiting Mausoleum to fully preserve the history that that accompanies his compliments,” said Chakwera.
Orton Chirwa the former Attorney General of Malawi died in Prison in Zomba on October 20, 1992. Aged 73, he had been imprisoned for nearly 11 years for non-violent opposition to the single-party government of life President Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
He was the oldest and with his wife Vera, the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in Africa. At various times during his imprisonment, he had been kept in leg irons and much of his imprisonment was spent in confinement. The prison diet was inadequate and he did not appear to have received proper medical care.
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