Malawi Congress Party Dowa East legislator Richard Williams Chimwendo-Banda is currently stranded with hundreds of used car tyres that he took from local market sellers in Dowa in preparation for HRDC demos that were slated for 28 to 30 August 2019. Cables have uncovered communication between Chimwendo and Dowa East vendors who have since begun to demand payment for the used tyres from the MP.

The MCP Youth Director’s plan was to distribute the tyres to violent young villagers so that they can be used to mount illegal roadblocks across the Central region. They were meant to be paid for immediately after the UTM and MCP thugs would bring together items they would loot from privately-owned shops.

Unfortunately, the planned HRDC violent demos have been been foiled by the Supreme Court decision to place a moratorium on any demos till after 14 days.

This has left Chimwendo stranded with the tyres and also rounded up by owners of the commodities who are saying that according to them, the tires must be paid for whether demos happened or not.

Originally born as Richard Chimwendo the Dowa East MP was raised in Blantyre and migrated to Mvera in Dowa together with his parents when they bought land in the district. When Chimwendo miserably failed to pass his MSCE, he was enrolled as a messenger at World Vision using his Junior Certificate (JCE) qualification.

Due to the requirements of Parliament when Chimwendo first contested for the Parliamentary seat in 2014, he inherited an MSCE certificate belonging to his deceased relation by the name of Williams Banda — which forced him to illegally change his name to Richard Williams Chimwendo Banda in order to be using the stolen education credentials. To date, Richard Chimwendo uses the MSCE certificate bearing the name ‘Williams Banda’.

Former opposition UDF Balaka North MP Lucius Banda (now UTM) was convicted in 2006 for presenting a fake MSCE to a person employed in public service.