Contributing factors for Rumphi District Council to have very high vacancy level is that when it comes to flow of monetary terms they receive very little as a result very few officers are unwilling to go and work there. Correction of facts on what the MP said in Parliament, actually a part from the DC there is only one Director and that is Director of Public Works otherwise the rest of Directorate are being held by other people in acting capacity.

Get the money kept by DPP ministers in their homes for recruitment. The whole civil service is actually paralyzed by this freeze which has come because govt has run out of money – this govt is failing to woe donors back to help because a lot of its ministers are stealing and do not want to stop stealing. This DPP ikudzunza anthu m’Malawi muno. We have nurses and doctors who have been trained and cannot be employed while patients are dying on ques because their is no one to attend to them.

Nankhumwa said he shared the concern of MP Kouwenhoven “and as government we are looking into that. ”

That is the standard response from the authorities, pretending to agree with us, but stalling while we think that something will be done about an issue when if fact nothing whatsoever will happen.