Cabinet appointment to come with shake-up in Malawi civil service: 2 convicted PSs face chop

July 6, 2020 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 37 Comments

President Lazarus Chakwera is expected to name a full  Cabinet this week which will be followed with a shake-up of  the civil service as he ring changes to top technocrats, Nyasa Times understands.

Dr Dan Namarika, principal secretary for the Ministry of Health: Likely to be moved

Chakwera hinted on Saturday that as he appoint a new Minister of Health, there will also be new Principal Secretary at the ministry.

The current PS at ministry of health is Dan Namarika but is set to be redeployed elsewhere.

The shake-up mayb also affect convicted principal secretaries (PS) Cliff Chiunda and Grey Nyandule-Phiri .

The two remain in the civil service despite  a court ruling recommending their removal.

Chiunda, a former Secretary to Treasury, was  relocated to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC)  where he was  Deputy Chief Secretary while  Nyandule-Phiri  is PS at Ministry of Agriculture.

But President Chakwera has hired former principal secretary Zangazanga Chikhosi as the new Chief Secretary to replace Lloyd Muhara, a judge who has returned to the Judiciary and face colleagues he was accused of trying to intimidate when he headed the civil service.

The President has also picked former Solicitor General and director of the Government Contracting Unit Janet Banda as Deputy Chief Secretary replacing Chiunda.

Vice-President Saulos Chilima , who has a ministerial portfolio covering economic planning, development and public sector reforms will also see a private sector-centric formula to the country’s civil service.

Chilima was the architect of immediate past president Peter Mutharika’s public sector reform agenda whose implementation floundered when he fell out of favour with his then boss and lost the portfolio. Thus, he is likely to pick from where he left on the reforms.

Chilima,  a trained marketer and an economist, is now the line Minister for the National Planning Commission—a powerful new government agency that overseas not just implementation of long-term vision and strategy, but is also responsible for formulation of the country’s flagship projects and programmes for implementation.

Through the commission’s grip on the Public Sector Investment Programme, Chilima could have sway on which projects proceeds and which ones fall by the way side.

That also goes for the national budget that the Minister of Finance formulates as it has to be vetted by the commission to see whether it reflects the national vision as well as medium-term plans.

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37 replies on “Cabinet appointment to come with shake-up in Malawi civil service: 2 convicted PSs face chop”

  3. Namalika disowned the sick in the hospital , basi kumakasamala nkhalamba zopanda mano mkamwazi kuba ndalama za covid19 , nanga lero ziri pati? kodi abwereranso ku Partners in Hope kuja? shame Dan shame on you. Kumakathandiza Jappie ndi Dausi (opanda paper ili yonse ya school aja) kumaba ndithu Dan zoona? ine ndakudandaulani ndithu, becoz I know your good works when you are in hospital with patients, you do wonders, we have been helped by your expartism, cry the beloved country Malawi

  4. Namalika is not intelligent. Nkhope zokhala intelligent zimaoneka choncho kupusa. Look at our VP. when you say is intellegent, it is not deniable. you trace him , you will find things he has achieved and even mwana can tell.

    What has Namalika achieved since he got into posts, only lomwelisation………………………you can finish

  5. How and why did Namilka replace Dr. Charles Mwansambo as PS? Was it not part of Lomwelization scheme by evil APM? That aside the whole civil service is rotten. There is a lot of abuse of cars and fuel from the Directors to PSs. These guys are allocated fuel which they don’t use but collaborate with filling stations to exchange it with cash. All this must be stopped. We pay tax. The civil service runs on tax payers money and they are supposed to give the services back to the people. Muluzi ruined this country and things got worse with APM. We have corrupt PSs and Directors that must be investigated and removed. Did you know that 95% of the PSs and Directors are from one region? Chakwera and Chilima have a lot of rubble to clear. The civil service commission and human resources department is rotten with cadets.

    1. Akulu yambani kuganiza mwatsopano. Mtsogoleri wa dziko komanso wotsatira wake ndi a chigawo chapakati, izi zikutanthauza kugawana zigawo kapena mitundu? Tiyeni tigwire ntchito molimbika basi. Ndiye zomati ma PS ndi a chigawo chimodzi zitanthauza chani?

  7. I know politics is a dirty game. Dr Dan Namarika is an asset. Having interacted with this guy eeish, politics aside this is a Brilliant guy

    1. The new president must avoid working with compromised and too lomwelized professionals at all cost no matter how brilliant they may be, after all we have much more brilliant professionals from North and Centre compared to these selfish and greedy lomwes who pulled down the JB Government way back in 2012 to 2014. LMC must avoid the repeat of the JB mistake. This is the time to give chance to all those professionals that were discriminated over the passed years of the DPP rule.

      1. Let’s not employ technocrats based on regional lines. That is the reason why DPP was booted out. Any qualified professional from whichever region must be considered for any he/she has applied for.

    3. The problem is that he is an opportunist. He compromises integrity for rewards, that’s stupid. We don’t want stupid technocrats

    4. Namarika the guy who lied about Bingu’s death. My foot. Lomwe asset maybe not Malawi

  11. Chakwera: full cabinet to be named before 6th July.
    Today is 6th July and we are still waiting

    1. Kikikik Chakwera zikumuvutatu. He has changed goal posts many many times already. From universal to targeted fertilizer; from 20000 to 100 guests ku inauguration; from 1000000 jobs to
      a call for self employment etc etc. Abusa onyenga awa . kuyendetsa boma siphadatu.

      1. Paja a gogo ana aja chikhalire mu boma 6 years osamiliza kumanga nyumba ali kuti pano.Amangopanga matama kuti Dad, dad mumalo mumanga nyumba yowoneka ngati mumene anachitila mchimwene wawo Bingu or Atcheya.

    4. Mukuthamangira kuti? Ndibwino kuchedwerapo zinthu nkusiyana ndikupanga zinthu zosalongosoka zogawa dziko ngati za agagnga aja alikuMangochi. Anganga samavutika kusankha anthu amene amawafuna chifukwa m’mutu mwake amangowona alomwe okha ku Lomwe area basi – Mulanje, Thyolo, phalombe, Chiladzulo. Chakwera akuyang’ana maboma wanse kuchokera ku Chitipa mpaka Nsanje.

  12. Let’s have people who can support the current govt agendas in positions. Maintaining the crookied leaders would definitely frustrate the govt agendas. We want people who can perform.

    1. Muona ma gay and abortion activists Ali mmenemo. Amwene III ndi dziko. Tione kuti abusawa atani m

  14. Much as we appreciate he new President. Please act quickly in appointing your full cabinet we all know that you had ample time from then to wining you should have had a shadow cabinet and then where necessary makesmall small changes. Covid as you said is now a serious issue but the ministry though very crucial to malawi if the buetary allocation is taken into contexstill has no head please do something. Health and esucation ministers shouls have been the priority ana atopa mumakomomu there must be in school. Most of our schools are open air paja tikutelo so the rate maybe a good as where there are staying. Chonde do something

    3. Umbuli ndi matenda. Ngakhale mumaonojga zinthu you think you can match people like the Namarikas? Iyi ndi mitunda Ina. Ikhodza kukudyetsa banja lako lonse more than three times a day mpaka moyo wako onse

    4. Very true. Schools are not yet open but in a true sense, they are open since more teachers are teaching children on part time in the cities. What is the difference anyway?

  15. Namarika has to go to Nthalire Health Centre in Chitipa as a clinician. there sis no post for doctor kkkkkkkkkk

    2. Namarika is a proper doctor who was working for a private health service provider before. He wouldn’t go where he doesn’t want. Hatred imeneyo ndiye tikuyiana mu Malawi watsopano. Message ya President akuti Tonse titukule Malawi. If Namarika did anything wrong, the law will convict him, otherwise musaiwaletu even alhomwe kummwera voted a lot for Tonse Alliance, without which Chakwera sakanakhala president. Lilumeni lilime lanu akulu.

  16. you seem to be overpraising these people too much. they are not going to invent people to work for them, it is the same people

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