Henry Dama Phoya is a former Member of Parliament for

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

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, Minister of Lands and Housing and Minister of Justice and Attorney General of

. He was kicked out of the

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(DPP) after opposing the "Injunctions Bill", which he said was a bad piece of legislation that would remove human rights and not protect the people. Phoya was also the chairperson for the

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's Legal Affairs Committee (LAC); a post that went to

Goodall Gondwe Goodall Edward Gondwe (born 1 December 1936) is a Malawian economist who served in the cabinet of Malawi as Minister of Finance from 2014 to 2019. Previously he was Minister of Finance from 2004 to 2009, Minister of Local Government from 2009 to 2 ...

in August 2011. He lost his seat in January 2014.

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