Bingu’s cabinet: 2014 succession master plan
Commentators have described the new cabinet appointed by President Bingu wa Mutharika as a political master plan aimed at consolidating his grip to power and preparing his brother Peter Arthur Mutharika for succession in 2014 if he fails to secure a third term of office.
In keeping with the true Bingu, full of intrigue and surprise the President on Wednesday unveiled the cabinet that has witnessed crushing out of senior colleagues in the NGC.
Henry Mussa the treasure general of the party, Henry Phoya the legal affairs director of the party who only last week was boasting as the longest serving minister of constitutional affairs, Davis Katsonga campaign director and heir apparent, Dr. Ken Lipenga the professional communications man; the maverick Symon Vuwa Kaunda, desertees of MCP Ted Kalebe and Bintoni Kutsaira, upstart homeboys Charles Mchacha and Roy Commsy; the Nyasa political gurus Henry Mumba, Mwerekete Kalua and Frank Mwenefumbo; and not forgetting the Kabula hill giant Rashid Gaffar.
These casualties were last week during an international football match upbeat about their automatic inclusion into the cabinet based on their contribution to the party in the name of financial, material and moral.
“We’re Bingu’s blue eyed boys, nothing can happen without us and there is no way we can be left out in the next cabinet,” charged one lawyer casualty from a rural constituency in Blantyre.
Phoya was on TVM boasting to have been the most efficient minister to have served longest in the same capacity.
Vuwa-Kaunda was also boasting at the High Court on Tuesday that he is rushing to Lilongwe to collect his ministerial limousine because he had been tipped that he is included in the new cabinet.
The cabinet appointment has seen Malawi’s star performer finance minister Goodall Gondwe demoted to the local government ministry sacrificed for late dictator Kamuzu Banda’s nephew Ken Kandodo.
The unexpected departure from the finance ministry of Gondwe has sent the country into panic mode because the successor is a novice in a trade that requires long experience and international connections which Gondwe had as former World Bank employee.
Kandodo on the other hand is a qualified young man but without international finance experience. Most people in Blantyre remember him as comrade to the underworld as evidenced by the loss of classy Mercedes company car to a money shark Rodgers Mwitha.
Probably he is now grown out of it, like all life experiences he may use the past to guide him into the future.
The movement of Dr George Chaponda to the education ministry is another surprise because Chaponda has spent a large cut of his life in refugee camps as an employee of UNHCR.
Conspicuously missing are the several individuals who registered new love for the DPP strategically timed to be considered into the new cabinet.
They include, former vice president Cassim Chilumpha, Uladi Mussa, Yusuf Matumula, Dr. Cornelius Mwalwanda, fired MCP publicist Ishmael Chafukira, former MBC employer Jolly Kalero, Dr. Paul Shaba, Dr. Allan Chiyembekeza, Rev. Ngwira, UDF’s Henry Shaba, Nicholas Dausi among several others.
Also left out are PhD holders Donton Mkandawire, David Mphande, Maggie Kalirani and Bofomo Nyirenda.
The President has not given any ministerial position to the vice president Joyce Banda despite the Head of State grabbing the portfolio of minister of agriculture.
The cabinet has also shut out hopes completely of former desertees of UDF from regrouping in readiness for 2014.
Tagged with: 2014 elections, Bingu, Cabinet, Peter Mutharika
Congrants to all newly appointed Ministers DPP WOYEEEEEEEE
a BINGU WOYEEEE BOMA ILO MPAKA 2014
Koma Kandodo Iyayi bola wina wache, even if its not Goodal. Wakatapila yayiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Mzozodo, thats too much. be honest!!!!!!!!!!!!
Munthuyu penapake ngodabwitsa. Sukulu imangochotsa umbulidi, sichotsa uchitsilu. taonera paakulu amenewa.
I can see that you have eyes but you cannot see, you have brains but you cannot think properly. Look arround and see the signs of times, Hon Gongwe has not been demoted, Bingu wants him to make a follow up of all the funds he has been giving out to the DCs, MPs etc nonse mumadya contituency development funds a master gondwe akupezani musati eeeh akutisaka, it’s all political with hunt. He will be everywhere meeting all the people DCs, conselors, chiefs,mpaka ku midzi, and we are going to vote for Hon Gonwe to the Highest office,though am from kumwera inu. We have seen his achievements and we will know that if our economy fails it is not Master Gondwe. Mukufuna zikavuta muziti a Gondwe anatailira timaziwa ife asaah. Tizavota ndife
Let’s wait and see. Tiyeni tisathe mau.
Hey guys,
Its true that the president has the mandate to appoint and disappoint people. I see little continuity in his new cabinet with lots of misplacements. Was the appointment based on merit with experience topping high? Guys, wwe should expect lots of firing of these people with no reasons at all. Another worry is on the size of the cabinet. It is bloated guys. Real woork in the ministries is done by the ministry officials and to have 43 pple packed cabinet cell is of little homework.May be The Big man has plans to groom some leaders and to fail others. P. Mwanza could do better in the education circle if I were the president. P. Mutharika can become the next president but we cant vote for him, Malawi is not a Mornachy mind you. I wonder sometimes the president, dubbed an economic engineer behaves extravagant by flushing out celebration parties only to party officials leaing out the real voter, the ordinary Edward, CHABWINO!
Edward
u people surprise me when you talk of demotion, etc….What Bingu wants now is Development…and the key ministry is no longer Finance, finance ministry was sorted out, the mess that was left by the chief thief, and the master-cleaner and star performer has to move to where there is a great need to develop the country…and that is Local Govt. u people dont see the main issues….ministry of fin no longer needs a star performer…its on track, PS and his team are set to continue from where Goodall stopped…now time to develop Malawi, the rural areas, the North, chitukuko….and Goodall is the man!!
Ehe!! Let us wait for 90 minutes of the regulation time for the President. 2014 will be another year of surprizes, Chafukila woyee!! Best wishes to the new cabinet.
what is demotion? please help me to understand this word. does it mean that these positions others are lower than the other? and i wish to know on what basis is this?
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi
Ngondo Amao
Shut up,give them chance to proof.Were you the ones which you were saying Bingu can not deliver.Mukhalira zomwezo basi.Bravo DPP.Mphwandiye!