Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Secretary General Eisenhower Mkaka has come under heavy criticisms for allegedly blocking regional committees from filling vacant positions ahead of the party’s elective conference in August this year.

On April 16 2024, Mkaka through a memo ordered that filling of vacancies at regional level should be sanctioned by his office.

“Delegates to the forthcoming convention are only those in your records as of the date of my memo dated April 8 2024.

“Should there be vacancies in the regional committees, my office will sanction filling of the same in accordance with the constitution,” reads part of the memo.

But the order has angered some MCP top officials led by MCP Central Region chairperson Patrick Zebron Chilondola who said: “Check Article 25, it is clear that as regions, we can fill the vacancies. All what the constitution says is that when we have filled, the NEC [National Executive Committee] only recognises the names. So, it is not true that such orders come from the NEC, no!”

Some have also went further to question Mkaka’s move to block Peter Mumba from contesting in any post at the elective conference.

Effort to talk to Mkaka proved futile.