DPP MP defends Malawian Parliament Speaker amid religious controversy
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Nyasa Times
Malawian MP Kalitendere Shukran Richard defended Speaker Sameer Suleman amid controversy over his religious remarks. He said Suleman’s calls to fight corruption and officials’ enrichment should transcend party divisions, Nyasa Times reports.
Progressive Democratic Party (DPP) MP Kalitendere Shukran Richard has publicly defended Sameer Suleman, Speaker of the Malawian Parliament, amid controversy over religious remarks attributed to him. In a Facebook post, Richard called on political leaders to also take note of Suleman’s message against personal enrichment and corruption, Nyasa Times reports.
Civil society group Mbadwa Dzokhudzidwa is calling for Suleman’s resignation. Its president, Billy Malata, described his remarks as “misleading and dangerously divisive” at a press conference held on Tuesday in Lilongwe. The controversy concerns a statement Suleman is alleged to have made on 17 October at a preaching event organised by the Muslim Association of Malawi, saying that no Muslims served in President Arthur Peter Mutharika’s government.
Malata recalled that government appointments are the president’s responsibility under Article 88 of the Constitution. Richard’s intervention comes amid the debate that followed Suleman’s call to dismantle Malawi’s corruption system, published on 18 October 2026.
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