Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has paid special tribute to Orton Chirwa, the country's first attorney general after independence, as the founding father of the Malawi nation but died as a political prisoner during the MCP dictatorship.
Chakwera speaking at Maganga Ground in Nkhata Bay where he held a political rally together with former president Joyce Banda, former vice-president Khumbo Kachali and other leaders in Tonse alliance.
"Orton was and remains the founding father of Malawi nation because it is him who formed the MCP and invited Kamuzu Banda from England to come and lead this country.
Orton came from here [Nkhata Bay District]," said Chakwear at Maganga Ground in Nkhata Bay where he held a political rally together with former president Joyce Banda, former vice-president Khumbo Kachali and other leaders in the opposition Tonse alliance.
Chakwera, who quit the pulpit as head of Malawi Assemblies of God in 2013 to join frontline politics, said it is time to heal about the past atrocities and have a new Malawi that has bound together nine political parties in an electoral ticket branded Tonse Alliance.
