{"id":38904,"date":"2023-01-18T23:05:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika"},"modified":"2023-01-18T23:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T23:24:54","slug":"npc-awards-mutharika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika","title":{"rendered":"NPC awards Mutharika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Some Malawians have taken up on various social media platforms to question the criteria the National Planning Commission (NPC) used to identify former President Professor Peter Mutharika as one of the recipients of an award.<\/p>\n<p>NPC on Thursday presented certificates of recognition to Mutharika and posthumously to late President Bingu wa Mutharika for the \u201cnotable inter-generational development efforts, they both championed for the country during their tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But some people feel Processor Peter Mutharika did nothing while in office worth recognition. During his tenure of office from 2014 to 2020, the country registered little development progress.<\/p>\n<p>But NPC Board Chairperson, Richard Mkandawire, said the two former Presidents cannot miss the history of the commission hence NPC\u2019s consideration to present the Malawi 2063 recognition awards.<\/p>\n<p>Mkandawire said the efforts include their strong belief in long-term planning of developments, belief in youth empowerment and taking development to rural areas among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the certificates at his Page House in Mangochi, Professor Mutharika said he was thrilled to be recognised by the NPC and that he still believes that development does not happen by accident, but by proper planning. He also pledged continued support to the Commission.<\/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 Malawians have taken up on various social media platforms to question the criteria the National Planning Commission (NPC) used to identify former President Professor Peter Mutharika as one of the recipients of an award. NPC on Thursday presented certificates of recognition to Mutharika and posthumously to late President Bingu wa Mutharika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-38904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>NPC awards Mutharika - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some Malawians have taken up on various social media platforms to question the criteria the National Planning Commission ...\" \/>\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\/npc-awards-mutharika\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPC awards Mutharika\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some Malawians have taken up on various social media platforms to question the criteria the National Planning Commission ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika\" \/>\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=\"2023-01-18T23:05:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-18T23:24:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674070562.26.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"499\" \/>\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\/npc-awards-mutharika#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NPC awards Mutharika\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-18T23:05:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-18T23:24:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674070562.26.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/npc-awards-mutharika\",\"name\":\"NPC awards Mutharika - 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