Dzuka Malawi: Your Excellency, Mtambo is becoming a liability
I had to take a break due to Covid-19. I could not write or think properly. Thank God we are still surviving. For how long, that is a K6.2 billion question which Government of the Republic of Malawi is trying all hard to hide.
Forget what President Lazarus Chakwera promised, a report within 48 hours or you will be fired. Well the unlucky nobody’s got fired instantly, Co-Chairperson of the Task Force John Phuka and a few other sacrificial lambs.
I was interested in the fate of Deputy Director at the Department of Disaster , Fyabupi Mwafongo, whose position was filled less than seven days after he was arrested by an MCP operative. It seems the cleansing has names of the northerners to be replaced quickly.
The week had enough bad stories, a few party operatives without any public service experience were appointed as deputy in public bodies. The President words mean something.
As someone commented on the picture of President and his deputy assessing Ministers literally translated “Osawadziwa awiriwa nkumati ali serious” hit the right mode. Nobody thinks the President is serious nor his vice. This feeling is fast becoming everyday narrative.
I asked someone what it meant, she told after having photos of two discussing cabinet in 2020 the Cabinet that came out was worse than Peter Mutharika’s. It was a Family and Lilongwe Affair. I agreed with the observation, perhaps the President need not to hype his cabinet before announcing it, again his word and action are far apart.
Amid such a serious national crisis and embarrassment to a government that promised a clean beginning, the President decided to spread the inquiry into K6,2 billion to something like review of allowances, hide the initial report and pretend to have an audit for months.
All the signs are that the Government wants Malawians to move on. It wants Malawians to stop asking it to account. They want Malawians to talk of something else other than K6.2 billion which is a deep scar on Tonse Administration credentials.
Guess how they do it, they set Timothy Mtambo to play jokes with the public. For starters Timothy Mtambo is excess baggage in Cabinet. Gospel Kazako can handle the element of civic education as a department in the information Ministry. Malawians don’t need an extra expensive to keep cartoon.
Mtambo has been whining that Northerners hate him or are pulling him down. It’s sad to see the man we feted as our revolutionary leader now desperately looking like a cartoon, his story is incoherent and his responses lacking.
Government should have never hired PROs for the Ministers. In trying to convince their poor imaged bosses of good work, they are now causing extensive damage to the already soiled reputations.
Mtambo’s script was badly written, hospital pharmacies don’t sale drugs at night to non-patients, normal thieves would try to get to the next exit and not drive 500km inland in a stolen car, a porthole cannot cause a damage to door or side mirror and the alleged beaten driver pictures were never released.
Looking at the silence from the Presidency when a Cabinet Members is involved in such issues, two things come in mind, his script was approved by his authorities. The only reason one can think of its K6.2 billion narrative.
By June 23 when President Chakwera will be one year in office, most of his Cabinet will be soiled by corruption or by being childish as Mtambo is doing. Instead of uniting Malawians he is becoming toxic and divisive. He singled out northerners as those people fighting him.
Nobody is fighting Mtambo. It’s his quest for cheap publicity and baby cries that makes him a waste of our taxes. He does not speak for Northern Region, neither does he represent views of the people there. He lost his clout to politics. He can’t speak while he is eating.
Tonse Government has been systematically removing Northerners in crucial positions and leave a few as token ones. If Mtambo wants to speak, let him get notes from those in the know and stop playing fake kidnapping games.
The worst part for President Chakwera and his Minister of Homes Affairs Richard Chimwendo, Mtambo’s foolish stunts projects Malawi as insecure for business or any right-thinking investor. Coming days after SKCs office was broken to. Deputy Defence Minister Sendeza house was robbed, citizens are being hacked, Police reported on looting spree, it’s time for the President to show some muscle and fire at least a Minister for misconduct. What Mtambo did was a national embarrassment, per culinary embarrassment, to the President, Cabinet and the whole Nation. Dr. Kamuzu Banda, the only President with a spine could have not only arrested him but fired him.
Government image is already in tatters, theft by Ministers (See MAREP, Fuel deal and Covid 19 funds) it does not need Mtambo to add to these bad stories. The horror stories of current corruption will all break out soon, keeping people like Mtambo won’t help the President. I would suggest he be appointed to a diplomatic post like Ambassador to Russia.
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Mtambo remains a hero. DPP operatives failed to kill him so many times during their brutal rule. They are still at pains. Mtambo is going nowhere. He is ours, your is Namiwa.
Mtambo is been mentioned bcoz of his foorishness scandles but to say the chakwera he doesn’t have enough good cabinet all are thieves chipinda mtambo chimwendo mkaka eish the president is on fire
If you deemed this guy your revolutionary leader,shame to you! Okumbila nzake dzenje anagwelamo yekha.Sizimenezi? Enjoy my fwendo ur revolutionary leader in M’busa canaan
you are a shameless tribalist. Ukhaula uwona. Your northern friends are getting happily married in the centre and south whilst you wallow in tribalistic bitterness.
Mtumbuka wochitisa manyazi iwe. Why this archaic, nepotistic thinking?
Please remind timothy mtumbo kuti the property he smashed are still in ruins. The traffic light he smashed in Lilongwe are still in sorry state. The glass house which he smashed at Nchesi in Lilongwe is still in disrepair. Karonga offices which he burnt are still in ashes. Tell mtumbo to repent and apologize to Malawians whom he empoverished by smashing their cars, businesses and capital. Chakwera must know that his ascension to power was so brutal and left many Malawians in tears . Your curse is coming you timothy mtumbo and pedegu Chakwera!!!
It seems Mtambo knows some of the secrets that Chakwera and Chilima used to snatch government from DPP Ndiye olo atanyura chotani he can not be fired because he will spill the beans ….lets wait and see 2025 is fast approaching
Mtambo is only good on the streets. Having been appointed Minister, he realised it’s easy to amass wealth and was convinced theft of his official vehicle was just the beginning in making millions. After all, he would be allocated another one after the current one crossed borders.
He has never impressed me other than marching on the streets. Too talkative for me.
Yes the dude is just too loud.Politically he adds absolutely nothing to the nation
Most of these people talking nonsense about Honn matambo have never saton down with mtambo one on oneto hear from him. Everything being spoken about him is just out of bitterness, hatred, and jealousy. By the way, we know which machinery is advancing all this propaganda against Hon Mtambo. We know you hate mtambo because without Hon Mtambo DPP would have never been booted out of Government. We know that the pain from the election wounds is real. But remember the person you write so much dirt about, is still rising and will rise to the level that God wants him to be.
Every face tells a story!
Imagine if mtambo was still a human rights activist he would have been a formidable force and would still be popular by demanding answers and transparency from the tonse government. There is so much wrong going on in regards to corruption and looting but he made a wrong decision going into politics. Bwana minister you could have still served Malawians from hrdc post and not necessarily from a ministerial position.
Mutu mwa mtambo munazaza mamina. He should have been fired last week. I wonder chakwera owes this guy? He is more than Useless and arrogant. Infact should be jailed for not taking care of government vehicles.
They thought management of the country’s affairs is as simple as hoodwinking an unsuspecting congregation.
Vradmir. Putin would reject him,because “Mtambo” is a very rude word in Russian.#:-)%*
Oyankhala amayankhala 6.2b shaaa!
Mmalawi sazatheka
Not even a diplomatic post. Just fire him.
WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS CASE OF MTAMBO IS FAKE. THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS THAT HE IS POCKETING COVID 19 FUNDS.
Northerers pulling him down? They must have realised that he is useless. We already saw this
Mwangodana naye Mtambo. This story is not credible at all.
The story lacks factual issues. It is based on hatred and guess.
Where were you when Chisale was accumulating billions through dubious means? Ooooh you were there but you did not sniff a thing. There are reports that some ministers have already started accumulating millions of our tax-money and no story with cogent evidence is being written about it. When this government goes that’s when someone will come and pretend to be clever. How I miss Tim Russert, the Buffalo bull!
Sadly nation newspaper from which the story appeared first is fast becoming a DPP propaganda machine. I guess they figured out that with MCP (as part of Tonse alliance government) at the helm they cannot compete with daily times and decided to be hostile to the Tonse alliance government.
1. Give the list of the Northerners who have been removed for no reason. The AG is from the North, Minister of Justice is from the North, Reserve bank of Malawi governor is a Northerner. These are top government jobs or kapena mukufuna zonse zikhale zanu like the DPP regime imene imafuna zonse zikhale za a Lhomwe?
2. Write a story regarding MAREP you are just mentioning in passing for us readers to appreciate about what is happening there.
3. Write a story regarding the fuel deal. Tell us with cogent evidence who did what and how if you can.
Malawi has no single qualified investigative journalist and no wonder when they try to do sting operation or any investigation it comes out half baked such that no one benefits from it. A case in point is a sting operation on charcoal business. What the hell was that?
4. In Lilongwe there are pharmacies that closes at midnight or beyond and if you suspect that what Mtambo told the nation is a total lie then why can’t you dig deep to unearth the truth and write a story on it? Is it that you know how hand-capped and pathetic you are that you have given up without even trying? Oooh pathetic journalists…
Mutu wanu unauma kalekale pitansoni ku sukulu
So you think what we get from the Nation newspaper is the best of journalism the world can offer? Mmene a traffic police akubera ndalama zama drivers day in day out ndi newspaper iti imene yapanga investigate mmene syndicate imeneyi ikugwirira ntchito and kumene kukupita ndalama zimene amatengazo? Kunjaku journalism si course imene kumapita ma dunderheads okhaokha ayi koma kumapita anthu odziwa chimene akuchita. If you had time to watch “meet the press pa NBC with Tim Russert” unakadziwa kuti journalism ndichiyani.
Newspapers always side with the opposition, so that the government is held accountable. Thumbs up
Mau
Rudo Tariro inuyo anakonza, machine okonzera chitsulo cha njanji, kuchikweza… Hitting the issues at heart… Za quality of writing ndee we don’t need to comment, sanely written!
Mtambo is a complete misfit for the position of minister.
1. Kandodo Chiponda stole the cancelled independence money and shared with Chakwera hence no report.
2kapondamgaga stole money through cross roads hotel and shared with Chakwera and no report will be made.
3. The chief secretary and Nkaka are stealing money from NOCMa by awarding contracts to companies that give them bribes which they share with Chakwera.
4. 17.5 and 6.2 billion covid funds have been misappropriated by Chiponda and shared with Chakwera and no report will come .
5. Chakwera has created a criminal enterprise comprising relatives and friends at state house where they have formed stealing cartels.
How can he be fired nor arrested while the referee is a player in the game he is officiating
This socalled reporter has totally nothing to justify the balderdash he is heaping on Tim Mtambo.
Tim Mtambo from the reports has an ailing father in his house you have a driver beaten up the reporter has drifted into a regionalistic slime -kidnap & support from the north he can’t link the matters coherently. A press attack hound terming Tim Mtambo as excess baggage for the Tonse Alliance Government creating an impression that the writer is well informed about the Tonse cabinet ministers yet too many words amounting to drivel. Come back after five years the Tonse shelf won’t offload the ministers from the reporter’s whining can’t you write about the impounded assets of the palace sweepers now trillionaires.
Mtambo anakumvetsani kunyung’unya ma cadet. Mukulimbana name zedi.