Dausi attacks SKC on ‘one million jobs’: Chilima says DPP lacking vision
Malawi’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) publicity secretary Nicholous Dausi, who is also Minister of Information and Communication Technology, has dismissed Vice-President Saulos Klaus Chilima (SKC) pledge to create one million jobs if elected president in the 2019 Tripartite Elections.

President Peter Mutharika already dismissed Chilima on the issue but Dausi added his voice during the DPP’s rally on Sunday in Bangwe township, Blantyre which was televised on privately-owned Times TV.
Dausi said Malawians should be swayed by Chilima’s job creation pledge, arguing the UTM leader is making impractical promises which he cannot fulfil.
“His promises are mere political rubble rousing,” said Dausi.
But addressing his United Transformation Movement (UTM) rally at Chankhanga School ground in Kasungu Municipality, Chilima maintained the pledge is practical.
In his speech beamed live on privately owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), Chilima described his critics of lacking ambition and vision; hence, they see it as not doable.
Chilima hinted on how he would execute the plan by, among others, introducing processing factories, infrastructure development as well as developing Kasungu Municipality and upgrade it into a city council to create jobs.
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dpp ikuchita zinthu ngati an opposition party to utm which is behaving like they are in government!! Nickie osamangonena zanu bwanji?
Kodi abale nickie anali ku chanco kapena ku poly?
The kind of bootlickers DPP has amazes me. Dausi and company are quick to discredit SKC’s vision but applaud APM’s of turning Malawi into Europe. Use your brains Mr Dausi to appraise issues. Knowledge is not only about memorizing bombastic words. If you feel SKC’s vision is not doable, why not question APM’s vision as well? It looks like you are the kind of person that will swallow every shit coming from Muthalika as long as he accommodates you in his cabinet.
Let me simplify issues for you Mr Dausi. Turning Malawi into Europe will require creating jobs, even more than the 1,000,000 SKC promises. As a country we will need to build infrastructure, both in quantity and quality comparable to Europe. We will have to construct roads, hospitals, schools, railways etc etc. Will these construct themselves? Will they not require people to build them? Think about materials infrastructure development requires. What does this mean to suppliers of those materials? May be APM has a magic wand which he will use to command infrastructure to create itself.
If we are to make Malawi like Europe we will have to reduce unemployment rate to the levels of Europe. This means creating jobs to absorb the high numbers of the unemployed in Malawi. So Mr Dausi, when you open your mouth think before you do so. Don’t support every rubbish coming from APM’s mouth. If a million jobs are impossible, then turning Malawi into Europe is unthinkable. You should have pointed out this to APM, before rushing to dismiss SKC vision. Which sane mind will take APM’s promises seriously if he is quick to dismiss his opponents’ less difficult ambitions but promises the nation the moon.
The fact that DPP has failed to create jobs in the past four years or so does not mean others can’t. Please don’t trivialize others vision.
Chilima has been part of this failure
Its easy to create 1 million jobs in one year. The government will lead with good policies to allow us to grow. I used to employ 54 people last year but am now remaining with 33 because of economy hardships. If interest rates are low and if we could hv investments bank right now giving loans to indegineous how many immediate jobs can be created . Its very possible . Lets debate with sober minds
Chilima is a very good politician because he knows that the only way to become a President of this poor of poor country is by lying. Politics of truth will not get any one to the state house but lies. Malawians as stupid as we will vote for Chilima like we did with Muluzi. As intelligent as Chilima is he will tell us why the million jobs are not being created and we will believe him while the country graduates into the poorest nation in the world. Chil.ima is politician and knows what to say to win cheap votes poor of Malawians. I will vote for Chilima because he is a good liar, at least.
Mukungofuna muziba basi osati chinanso ayi mwauponda agulukunyinda! Chilima will create 1million jobs in one year! Inu ndi a Pumbwa akuba nkaona mukutsutsa!
Anzanga a DPP, let us not embarrasse ourselves. It is possible to create a million plus jobs within a year with careful planning and determination. The key question should however be the quality of the said jobs not numbers
When I was in primary school, I learnt this motto of my school and it really did yield something: “I’ll try, I’ll try I’ll try; Does great things everyday! I can’t, I can’t, I can’t; Gets nothing done! This is the motto of…..!” (mentioning the name of the school). So whosoever says, “I can’t” will not be able to do or achieve anything in life.
The Vice-President is right. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Proverbs 29: 18.)
I think people in Malawi are happy to be unemployed, ulova umakusangalatsani eti…….we are happy to be poor. Saudi is not ur type guys, he has money now and u r happy when he dismisses Chilimas good plans……..
Chilima is definitely a liar. He is talking of creating factories which will employ one million people within a year. We are not your fellow babies to be cheated like that.
You should be too old, just like the gogos you are supporting, to understand some intelligent thinking of young people of Chilima’s calibre. Get a life!!
Ohoo no don’t insult me. I am a gogo and not dump like Peter. In a poor country like ours it is possible to creat more than a million jobs in a year. Infact the reason i will not vote DPP is because they have failed to create jobs for the youth of this country despite huge opportunities to do so. I am not surprised Dausi is talking like that. DPP is a party of clueless people including Chilima himself. He told us that Peter is too old he should step down. Now if Peter had accepted that Chilima would have been presidential candidate for DPP now. What would be his message to Malawians. So he would be telling Malawians that DPP is a party of thieves when he is the president of DPP. Not at all. He would be telling us that DPP is a great party. He is dump he thinks we are all dump like him.
@ Ptrick Phiri
You know Patrick the tragedy with malawi is that it has ta leader who is inept, thieving and has no ambitions. This is a deadly combination that amounts to a disaster. This is exactly what mutharika is . He is too ordinary and basic. A country without ambitions and visions is simply doomed. I pitty you so much because you are so basic and ordinary just like your president. With such kind of mentality Pepani Mavuto mulinawo Bambo. It’s people with chicken brain like you who making this country a sorry country. You are so pathetic and limited in your horizon . I pitty you
If the government of today or tomorrow would get one of my plans for the capital it might employ between 65 and 75.
Chech this space. It will all depend on political will
Ameneyi ngwabodza. He was the one who fired all drivers at Airtel yet he wants to lie that he can create jobs.
For all I know Chilima is a salesman, he can sell water to the well, he can sell fire in hell. I pray that he becomes a president so that as a country we can take a lesson from listening to frauds. He is the biggest fraud after Bakili Muluzi, he is selling dreams and Malawians with their low IQ I bet they will buy such dreams with no blankets.
Indeed this is poverty of vision by the DPP. Chilima is spot on in terms of how easy it is to create 1 million+ jobs within a year. China and India today have designed and have built machines that can produce/manufacture match sticks, process juice, make bricks, cloths, glass etc. All that needs to be done is for the government or private sector to import these machines to create manufacturing capability in Malawi. Thousands upon thousands of Malawians can be employed in these factories and with it a whole chain of industries can be created. That will be the beginning of creating a middle class society. Its as simple as that Mr Dausi; nothing complicated. However, I am not surprised that DPP visionless leaders can’t see it even if they open their eyes. Remember Mr Dausi that any action starts with a dream and a vision.
Iwe nawe kodi machinewo ndi a solar kapena ofuna magetsi?
Solar bambo Bullshit. Look at Illovo in Nchalo factory generating its own power from waste. Factories can produce their own renewable energy without having to rely on power from the main grid. This is what I would call lack of vision on your side Bullshit. This is why Malawi isn’t going anywhere because the country is full of people with “its impossible” mentality. Eave the country to those who have bright ideas to run it. As of you Bullshit, please focus on kudya msima ndi mphalabungu.
Bullshit, unfortunately can’t understand this at all because he is a numbskull and bullshit!!!
@ Bullshit
Sinanga Magetsi munabaso . Paja inu tu simusowa chakuba a DPP.
So all the factories will be operational to hire 0ne million people within one year? All the factories you are talking about are already within DPP’s agenda dating back to Bingu’s time but we have already seen years passing by and now we have the Malawi mangos and the Rice Processing in Nkhotakota but this has taken close to 10 years,so one year surely bwana VP for your factories ? We all are ambitious and we want these done as early as yesterday but lets be practical,development takes time as Bingu used to say,mtengo wa malalanje sungadye nthawi yomweyo.
I did an analysis on Malawi’s private sector and employments statistics and my quick analysis shows that all the private companies combined so far employ less than 100,000 people,.You are talking of Press Corporation (NBM,Carlsberg,TNM,MTL,Madeco,Limbe Leaf etc),FDH Bank,STD Bank,Airtel,Mulli brothers,Illovo,PTC,Sana,Alliance one,etc,
So to create 10 times of the current status quo within a year is a tall order. I would have expected the VP to say he will divert the K41.5billion subsidy program funds and the may be triple this allocation into the existing companies like Press Cane and Limbe Leaf, Press Agriculture (resuscitation) and then these can create jobs instantly and at the same time produce maize and other crops for sale at subsidized prices to the whole nation thereby meeting the food needs as well as labour needs of the citizens.
@Chris Kho
hahahaha kagweleni uko a Chris…analysis yake iti…mukungowonetsapo umbuli wanu. Do you know there are four quadrants in every socio-ecominc environment- E(Employee), S(Self-Employeed) ,B(Business Owner) and I(Investor). What UTM is saying is that in the first year people will be empowered to move from quadrant to the other hence creating jobs…not only from the sectors that you did your small minded analysis on. Rural farming where locales employ fellow locales is also one of the biggest employment sectors in Malawi. You have not lived in a village during the times of Kamuzu – where I have seen villagers employing fellow villagers with descent wages. THINK BIG AND OUTSIDE THE BOX MAN.
WHEN PETER SAID HE WILL BUILD MALAWI TO THE STANDARD OF EUROPE IN HIS LAST TERM…What’s your position on that point???? HOW TRUE AND HOW THAT POSSIBLE????
THINK BEFORE YOU PRESENT SOMETHING HERE, OTHERWISE YOU’RE WASTING SPACE.
My dear the question we are analyzing here is the HOW within the specified time frame? So I expect any right thinking CRITIQUE to show facts and not EMOTIONAL oubursts.We are the OUTSIDE the box Thinkers hence my simple analysis on what can be done with the Subsidy funds.I know the quadrants in and out -Robert Kiyosaki and Trump have mentored me greatly on these,so before rubbishing the 1 million jobs pledged I waited to hear the how and that’s what I find not having sufficient backing.I for one know and believe ALL THINGS are possible (including getting Malawi into the Europe standard -Mzuzu Nkhatabay Road is a start on this Journey-I hope you have driven on this road of late.? Also the GRAND PARK on the Lilongwe Bypass road is another start-I hope you know what it’s gonna look like?)
So in a nutshell,Yes Jobs can be created but the new factories backing,does not add up hence come up with another SMART backing explaination. For your infon,I was dissapointe dto leran that the whole NBM employees only 825 employees the whole country, Standard bank slightly less than NBM and Illovo at least 12000 plus,so it is in that reasoning that we need to analyse these issues and not just argue based on political affiliation.We know SKC is a bigger thinker and risk taker (no doubt about that) and so is the DPP’s vision-who thought of going back to Kamuzu’s dream of technical colleges before APM came in with a bigger drive on this?
In summary tionetseni the HOW and we say THUMBS UP.Osangolubwalubwa!
With good government policies and political will.
Serious investors will certainly come in the country.
Think of how many companies have shut down, for those existing too much redundancy. Just an example.
I will employ not less than 20 in my small business. And about 20 in my small farm next year…..
With my small capital
SKC is talking about factory employment, not olima ganyu kumunda kwanu. He is a disappointment, to say the least.
If you include aganyu then let’s talk about 50plus. Think big. if environment is good utilise it. If there is a serious will from any gvt I will utilise that. Forget about statistics.
If they manage to create 100000 jobs you will still say a failure. Have optimistic thinking
With DPP everything is IMpossible!!!
Olo ganyu ikusowa kumene. People have lost jobs under this DPP administration. Mu zipatala mukusowa ndi Aspirin amene.
Ndiye nanjinanji creating 1 million jobs, it’s a non-starter.
This is what Chilima is talking about….small minds which can’t comprehend the enormity of possibilities for Malawi. Its a world that you Chris Who can’t imagine. You just can’t see it with your eyes. It requires someone with a gift for visualising and it ain’t in you. We can all agree that Malawi economy is moving at bicycle speed whilst our neighbours are moving at “sports car” speed. Why, its because the leaders are driven by very powerful dreams. In fact wise people would tell you that, if people laugh at your dreams, then you know you’re on the right track. Chris Kho, don’t be in the way of a good dream and vision; relax and watch miracles unfolding right in front of your eyes.
At Pathfinder even if we give your gogo Muntharika 100years to create 1million jobs he won’t do it because he lacks Vision .
U can not stand on the Podium and detracting other people’s Vision , that shows we have clueless leader DPP.
Tell Malawians what is your Solution to unemployment level in the country as it is so high compared to other countries in SADC region than making empty noise .
Those who think it cannot be done do not deserve the mandate to govern the country for they totally have no idea of what they want. Plain and straight
He has been in the govt for four plus years and he is still there. Where was he instead of creating the jobs all this time. Only prostitutes will benefit from Chilima paja amakonda kugulira mahule magalimoto.
Look chilima i don’t think your head is operating quiet well. You are totally missing the point of argument here. People are not saying one million jobs can not be created, yes they can be created in a long run and it’s possible but not in a year. And this in a year thing you’re saying it now after many questions from people. I still have your audio at masintha and you said you’ll create one million jobs in first six months. Are you fucking kidding me?
mind set change!! its possible if you have a plan!! And you have to have a benchmark to work towards to! If you can hit a million atleast you fallback around 800,000 jobs creation. better than having no vision or we will create 10 jobs for our relatives in malawi diplomatic missions. Dream big and let people hold you accountable.
Baby Chilima is kidding everybody as if they are also babies. He is now talking of an airport at Kasungu, which is only 95 km from KIA. Is his head moving well? Not my vote.
Kenyatta airport from Wilson airport is 12.75 km apart
And many others in the world
We already had an airstrip in Kasungu. All he has to do is rehabilitate it and enlarge it. Yes he can. And that idea is positive thinking. It means people should use air transport eventually.
DPP lack vision. All successful people think big. Rule number 1, Put God first. Rule number 2, think big. Rule 3, Ignore the naysayers like Dausi and APM. Rule number 4: work hard.
SKC has all these in him.