{"id":33579,"date":"2022-10-27T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah"},"modified":"2022-10-27T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:08:41","slug":"meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMeeting Chakwera will not suffocate CSOs work\u201d-Kamangirah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Some of the country\u2019s civil rights group leaders have disputed claims that their meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera was to suffocate civil society organisations (CSOs) work.<\/p>\n<p>The rights groups\u2019 leaders told the news conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 that engagement with President Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance administration was a right decision for moving the nation forward.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Kamangirah of Center for Mindset Change (CMC) hinted that directly continuous engaging the country\u2019s leadership will have great impact on serious issues affecting Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemonstration, vigils are not helping to solve prevailing social economic challenges but direct engagement with the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want always to face country\u2019s leadership directly on what are doing on challenges instead of going to streets. This does not mean we cant have demonstration. Demos should be the last resort,\u201d says Kamangirah.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing on the same, the group\u2019s leader Oliva Nakoma said after meeting Chakwera there was a call for including some CSOs in government parastatals to address nepotism, politicking,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about 66 parastatal board that most appointments are political that create unfavorable conditions for the agencies to deliver. With including of CSOs will act as oversight inside the boards than operating outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you see some of CSOs leaders are included in boards, don\u2019t be surprised that\u2019s want we asked president Chakwera to do,\u201d says Nakoma.<\/p>\n<p>He however disclosed that the grouping has already engage Agriculture Minister Robin Lowe on key issues including Affordable Inputs Program (AIP), Admarc retrenchment of junior staff, progress on the tractor-gate for action. This comes barely a day after another demos by Brian Longwe and Redson Mnulo flopped in Lilongwe on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Some of the country\u2019s civil rights group leaders have disputed claims that their meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera was to suffocate civil society organisations (CSOs) work. The rights groups\u2019 leaders told the news conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 that engagement with President Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance administration was a right decision for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-33579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201cMeeting Chakwera will not suffocate CSOs work\u201d-Kamangirah - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some of the country\u2019s civil rights group leaders have disputed claims that their meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera ...\" \/>\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\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cMeeting Chakwera will not suffocate CSOs work\u201d-Kamangirah\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some of the country\u2019s civil rights group leaders have disputed claims that their meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\" \/>\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=\"2022-10-27T21:24:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-27T22:08:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_7-635b014502726.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"296\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cMeeting Chakwera will not suffocate CSOs work\u201d-Kamangirah\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-27T21:24:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-27T22:08:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_7-635b014502726.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/meeting-chakwera-will-not-suffocate-csos-work-kamangirah\",\"name\":\"\u201cMeeting Chakwera will not suffocate CSOs work\u201d-Kamangirah - 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