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Chimunthu
7 years ago

What is more, as well as spending/wasting all that money on his trip for a meaningless degree, APM was supposedly given the degree in recognition of all that he has achieved since becoming President!! Try looking for these achievements; you might as well look for a needle in a haystack. Name just ONE of these achievements, if you can.

tess
tess
7 years ago

It is an insult for the president of poor country to fly way too far to Addis to receive honorary degree from university which has no academic freedom and infested with ruling party cadres and spies.Recently ,Addis Ababa University fired two well known academicians simply because they exercised their freedom of expression .

Mika Kumbire
Mika Kumbire
7 years ago

Honeycomb; I know it’s not your real name. I reckon that’s why we Malawians will never develop. So you mean it is fine to spend money recklessly like what Joyce Banda did simply because Malawi was getting donations from International partners. I for one feels that resources should always be utilized prudently irrespective of where the funds are coming from. Malawians should simply learn to use resources prudently and sparingly for the good of everyone. Both Joyce Banda and Peter Mutharika should have thought of the poor man or poor state of our health systems before embarking on such expensive… Read more »

Nyima
Nyima
7 years ago

Nyasatimes and those who keep accusing Mutharika,only shows how jealousy you ,if we can compare the current president and your favorite JB,you will discover that Mutharika is better of than JB.We saw jb moving on daily basis from nsanje to chitipa ,spending more than 20 million daily ,from monday to friday she was spending more than 100 million ,Malawians cried ,but nothing was done.I understand you were silent because by that time the chiumias were benefiting from jb,s frequent travels .To day because is Mutharika ,now you want to sound like you love ,the country.If Malawi has witnessed a president… Read more »

Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo
7 years ago
Reply to  Nyima

Well done Steve. “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government”; supposedly a quote by Thomas Paine. ” A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his Government”; Edward Abbey. People like Nyima are not Patriots. They are ready to defend the indefensible exclusively due to their political inclination. A wrong will always be a wrong regardless of who does it. Just because JB did something wrong isn’t justification to commit the same ill. Isn’t it said we learn from past mistakes? Are we not stupid if we keep doing the same… Read more »

Nginde
Nginde
7 years ago
Reply to  Nyima

Mbutuma iwe wa DPP

Honeycomb Chidyaudzu
Honeycomb Chidyaudzu
7 years ago

At lease during JB’s time the economy was on a sound footing than now because donors wre assisting in our budget but now things are different. The issue here is not the honorary degree but the timing. Our economy cannot aford that useless spending. Wake up Nyo.

nyo
nyo
7 years ago

But you Steven your Mother JOYCE BANDA was worse when it came to useless trips. Why it that you dint stop her then to bring sanity. Now you see you are not the right person to say this. was it because you were part of the entourage and got allowances then? SHUT UP

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