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Africa-Press<\/a> – Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s daughter, Violet Chakwera, has been hired as a personal assistant, Government has confirmed. According to Minister of Information Gospel Kazako, Violet is the personal assistant to First Lady Monica Chakwera.<\/p>\n

Kazako revealed this in a statement today in which he was defending Chakwera\u2019s decision to fly with three family members to the United Kingdom. He argued that the three will play various roles during the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, Mr Kampondeni is the President\u2019s Executive Assistant and Director of Communications, Ms Violet Chakwera is the Personal Assistant to the First Lady while it is traditional worldwide that the First Lady accompanies the President on his travels,\u201d said Kazako.<\/p>\n

There had been reports that Violet was appointed as third secretary to the Malawi Mission to the European Union in Brussels. But President Chakwera, in an interview with the BBC yesterday, denied appointing his daughter to the role and challenged those making allegations to check on their facts.<\/p>\n

Still, it is expected that Violet will be receiving a higher salary wile working as Personal Assistant to the First Lady which is Grade 3. The position of third secretary at the Malawi is on Grade 7. Breaking: Chakwera hires daughter as Personal Assistant<\/p>\n

Govt. has revealed that President Lazarus Chakwera has hired his daughter Violet as a Personal Assistant to his wife Monica. The daughter is currently in the UK with her parents on taxpayers’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s daughter, Violet Chakwera, has been hired as a personal assistant, Government has confirmed. According to Minister of Information Gospel Kazako, Violet is the personal assistant to First Lady Monica Chakwera. Kazako revealed this in a statement today in which he was defending Chakwera\u2019s decision to fly with three family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1387,306,234,949],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-gospel-kazako","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-violet-chakwera"],"yoast_head":"\nChakwera hires daughter as Personal Assistant - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s daughter, Violet Chakwera, has been hired as a personal assistant, Government has confirmed ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera hires daughter as Personal Assistant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s daughter, Violet Chakwera, has been hired as a personal assistant, Government has confirmed ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-29T07:06:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-610252426e9d5.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1114\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"895\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera hires daughter as Personal Assistant\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-29T07:06:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/07\/img-610252426e9d5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Gospel Kazako\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"Violet Chakwera\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-hires-daughter-as-personal-assistant\",\"name\":\"Chakwera hires daughter as Personal Assistant - 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