On Thursday 27 February launched a project of planting trees at kalonga primary school in salima.

This is done in order to teach youth and pulpls on importance of trees to environment , Gift phiri staff at salima environmental office is the who took part at the launch.

This is the one step that we can do to teach youth on how they can protect environment, we have told them how tree are important to the environment as well as human beings that’s why we launched our project here at kalonga primary school because we know that when we teach these children here they will have the knowledge even when they grow up and also they will use it and teach there parents in their homes ”phiri said,

On his remarks headteacher of kalonga primary school Jonas Jana says he is very happy with the project because at their school there was no trees now that learner’s has an idea on important of trees and how they can take care of the trees he believes that the school now will have trees or a school forest because they have been given trees to plant at the school .

By mervis chayaka

Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) is yet to start preparations of fresh elections about nine days after the five judges of high court of Malawi sitting as a constitutional court nullified tje elections and directed that new polls be held within 150 days.

Mec commissioner Dr Moffat Banda disclosed this in Lilongwe when he appeared before the Parliamentary Appointment Committe (PAC) equally which review the competence of the commission on holding elections.

Asked what steps Mec is taking in preparation to the fresh elections, banda said ” to be honest, we are yet to start preparations because we were waiting to appear before this honorable committe as well as the surpreme court rulling on the appeal” during the hearing, Banda partly contracted fellow commissioner Bishop Mary Nkosi who said Mec chairperson Justice Jane Ansah made some decisions without consulting the commissioners.

“I was part of all the resolutions that the commission made after critically discussing them. In all the meetings that i attended, i was part of the decisions, ” he said adding that all the commissioners responded postiveto the release of rhe presidential electoral results.

He further said that rhe decisions to sign presidential results after announcement of results was reached after the commissioners agreed. ” we commissioners signed results sheets after announcement of the results. We failed to sign on the day because it was very late as such we had to sign the papers the following morning. We had discussed before and the chair said it was late and did not want to labour us. So we agreed to sign in the morning after results were annouced,” he said

He also said that the decisions to use tippex was made to avoid infringing rights of presidential candidates as the issue of the tipex was realised when one of the presidential candidayes was leading.

” I took part in all decisions that the commission took. I at some point questioned why tippex was used and duplicate sheets were used. I told my fellow commisioners that we were being cheated. I asked that we should not continue receiving those results. ” said Banda adding that all commissioners had no access to the results management system as they were going through the tally sheets manually.

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