Ex-Minister campaigns for ’benefits’: Malawi retired political holders should have pension
Former cabinet minister and legislator Moses Dossi is in a crusade to convince government to start paying pension for retired political office holders.
He told Capital Radio that he has already written the Presidency, Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya, leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera, cabinet ministers and all members of parliament to consider his proposal.
“Look, former cabinet ministers and MPs die like chickens once they leave office. They are used and dumped. Late John Zingale had to put up advertisements in newspapers soliciting support to pay hospital bills yet he had been MP for five years,” he said.
His proposal is unlikely going to be considered by the government because of the current down turn economic situation and legislators and cabinet ministers are put on lucrative contracts with high monthly pay, handsome allowances, attractive medical scheme and other mouth watering benefits.
But Dossi claimed all the money that cabinet ministers and MPs make while in office are used for political campaigns and helping constituents who demand coffins and vehicles to ferry the sick.
“I am not fighting this for myself but for other people. Imagine Gwanda Chakuamba had to go on television to tell the nation that he is living in chronic poverty. The President (Peter Mutharika) felt pity and sent him a fat envelope (of money). Do we expect JZU, Robson Chirwa, and Louis Chimango to do the same?” asked Dossi rhetorically.
The once party presidential pretender who challenged Bakili Muluzi at UDF party polls said it is sad former cabinet ministers and MPs are humiliated once they leave office, saying their diplomatic passports are snatched away and kicked out of the VIP airport lounges.
“We are talking of a person who just days, weeks or months ago was chauffer driven. They can’t just snatch away our diplomatic passports as if we are thieves. We need to be respected. We once made crucial decisions for the nation,” said Dossi.
He said there was need to change the Constitution to include thus, saying the life state benefits should not be extended to former head of states and former vice presidents only.
Dossi insisted Malawi can afford this extravagant venture, arguing Malawi is not poor but Malawians are.
He said no one has so far responded to his letters.
Asked if he was too broke that he needed to be put on state welfare, he answered back, “no.”
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Polticians are so selfish. Mw will never develop coz of selfshness of these pple
zachamba basi were you civil servant? what contribution tnwards nation development did you make? maallowance aja atha.
mp’s r not employed nor have contract with Malawi government zaka 5 mukufuna pension mwanama dyera ma mp
This is coming from a sena who is greedy, wants everything to himself even his sisters. I am privedged to have stayed and closely interracted with most politicians and they believe to be immortal. They can do anything including killing, practising satanic rituals, like John Bande who sleeps with his sisters in order to keep themselves into power. When all that falls apart they seek the same people to feed them.
These fools have stolen much from us, if they cant save n invest they shud not waste our precious time with their nonsense
Inu bwanji simumadzikonzera nokha retirement home and package with some businesses here and there? Mumakomedwa ndi ndale m’malo moti bwenzi mukugwira ntchito zokonza tsogolo lanu. Ndiye pano mukufuna boma likupangireni chani? masewera eti…pano boma ma priotrities ali thoo ndiye alimbane ndi inu? Inunomwe muli m’boma mumasakaza ndalama pa zinthu za zii, pano ndiye mwati ndalama zake azitenga kutiko?..Pepani akuluakulu..
PLEASE LIAISE WITH OLD MUTUAL AND WORK ON A CONTRIBUTORY PENSION FUND!! AAAAH!!!!
ZAUTSIRU ZIMENEZO, M’MENE ANALI PA MAUDINDO AMAPANGA ZOTUMBWA ANTHU AKUMUDZI WOSAWERENGERA, TSONO LERO ZAKUVUTANI MUKUTI CHANI? IFE A PANTCHITO TIMADULIDWA NDALAMA YA PENSION, INU ZANU MUMANGOCHINDIRA AKAZI NDIKUMWA MOWA TSONO MUKUFUNA A MALAWI AZIKUTHANDIZANI PAMENE INU SIMUNKALIPILIRAKO NGAKHALE NDI WANI TAMBALA YOMWE. VUTIKANI KUMENE, MUKUKOLORA ZIMENE MUNAFESA NDIBWINONSO CHIFUKWA KUMUDZIKONSO SIMUMATHANDIZA ANTHU NDIYE LERO MUKUFUNA ANTHU AKUMUDZI WOMWEWO AZIKUGULIRANI NIMA?
No wonder no one could respond to such selfish motive.U ar th very few people behind poor economy and u stil want to continue betrayng malawians.Do u politicians think God watches u? Ulibe chison ndi anthu akuvutikiramu?Iwe waumphawi?Che-Dosssiiiiihhh
I only agree with the cabinet crisis families part. Zinazo nde ayi
Doss, marhoko a mayoo namanyepwanapwa wee!!ufuna uzipitilizabe kulandira ndalama? pa malawi pano ukupaona bwinobwino? munadya ndiye mufuna muzidyabe koma pankholo pako ndi onse akutumawo uwauze kuti panyo pawo
Koma pena pake a Dossi mumayenera kutenga phunziro why not making some savings while in office? Mumangokwera galimoto kumayendetsedwa koma inu osagula nyumba kuti mudzaikemo a rent mudzidzadyela when out of office? Masewela amenewo.
My advise to APM, Chakwera nnd Speaker is that throw Dossi Proposal in your respective dust bins. Do not read it. It is nonsense.
You have so many Privileges once in Office than Ordinary Malawians. Moving in very Poshy Cars, House,Hospital Allowances.
Those are Tax Payers from us the Ordinary. Man be serious.
This is why its advisable to be saving, and those Savings use at your Stage
Instead of fighting for the old, better start educating your children and grand children to regularly reserve something for their old age or rather to invest in something that will give them something their entire life.
Lecture me on this one; Where else in this capitalists world is such a thing happening? Maybe we can borrow a leaf
Just Concentrate in running your Chitawira Superrete Mr Dossi, zinazi muyaluka nazo.
zimenezo ayi, munadya kale ndalama za boma, ngati munkangochindira mahure ndiye ife zitikhudze????
Why bothering themselves,politics is a dirty game,when something is dirty nothing good from there.Politics is full of gossiping, stealing, killing, kidnappings diversions.So no wonder this is what we returns.See my name.
Dossi the docile!!
There could be no madeya below this stupendousness.
Kupusa,Gaul, minister ndi ganyu.u don’t apply likewise mp.
Kupusakumeneko.kusasamba.a dosi
Its time Dossi started stopped making fun of himself and he should grow up.He is not going to get a dime from my tax.We are all find it tough in these economical hard times.You had your time with the chakwambas.It is not the responsibility of the tax payers to look after you.If you were chewing money,like if there is no tomorrow then it is your problem.
Why should parliamentarians be special? we live our lives totally and fully in Malawi paying tax but are not rescued. thats why you have to plan your finances, who forces politicians to spend the way they do. Choices, live with boss.
This thing you call Dossi seems to have totally lost its head now.Its not the responsibilty of tax payer to look after you when you leave politics.After all what have these politicians contributed in Malawi.51 years of poverty?Go in villages start doing farming if you don’t have anything to do in town.We are all finding tough in town these days.Who cheated Dossi that Politician’s life is the most important life in Malawi?So if you were chauffeur driven one time so what?How many people have been chauffeur driven and are retired now and driving themselves.If you kept some money,employ one to drive you.A Dossi musatitopetse ndi nkhani za Chakwamba apa.Ngati town yavuta kakhaleni ku mudzi.Malawi yavuta kwa wina aliyense.What you should know that politics is not a career.There is life after politics.
I can understand the feelings people have for Dossi’s proposals or requests but he is right. Some of you have given very good advice as to how these politicians should behave when in power and how they should look after their heavily bloated salaries and benefits.
For me his request is very reasonable for the simple reason that they served the country and were near the top most position in the land, being a cabinet minister, you are very near to the president. So there is no reason why the president should have so many benefits when he leaves office while his cabinets ministers have absolutely nothing. Something is not right here.
No where in the world do politicians such as ministers and MPs go out without a pension. The difference is that politicians in other countries are treated as civil servants and therefore contribute towards their pensions from their salaries in the same way civil servants do. This should be introduced in Malawi for their own benefit and to avoid what is happening to people like Gwanda and others.
These politicians also need proper professional advice on money while they are still in power, a seminar or conference to such effect could help them make sensible money decisions for their very short career. They just need proper education or reeducation on the use of money while they are still in plenty.
Dossi ndiwe M’dala oyipa maganizo wamva.
Some of us borrowed money for investments fromfmb, we are now suffering pay back huge interests and principal. Mind youthat fmb owners are crooked.when there was 59% devaluation byJB our monthly paymenta went up by the same percentage unlike nb.fmb thieve
Dosi and idipts. Borrow money from any bank and invest.
Please do not trouble us
Analyst on point! And as a current, are we surprised that we poor? What else should we have benefited from such people as Dossi as cabinet ministers? Eish koma Malawi!!!
I dont think Louis Chimango will be destitute but as for Chakuwamba he deserves all the suffering he is experiencing. He did a lot of bad things towards other people especialy other politicians|
This is a big NO No. Mps and Ministers get too much money by Malawian standards and they ought to invest for the future and not spend recklessly. Am happy that some politicians who were plundering our money are now suffering, that is karma for them.
For the current Ministers, my message is simple: spend wisely so that when you get booted out of govt you should not cry for pension. Mudzabvutika ngati a Dossi ndi Chakuamba!! After politics there are no free fuel, chaffeur driven cars, beautiful mistresses . They are all gone and reality of Malawian life sinks in!
A Dossi nabola inu moyo mwauona pano, kuyambila 1994 life has been this hard. Welcome to Malawi.
Dosi is bringing another dimension of cashgate. No wonder the country didnt benefit from him. He can’t think beyond his nose.
Ex ministers deserve no retirement page. They only helped to destroy our economy. Most of them deserve arrests. Dossi is one of them.
They should look for jobs that provide retirement packages. Unfortunately most of them were too intelligent so they completed their studies within twelve years or less. What contributions can such minister make when they can’t understand basic governance issues.
Ex president, too, do not deserve benefits after retirement. They have countless benefits thats why they buy hundreds of duty free cars. This is another dimension of certified theft. They already have a km long free fleet of cars. Fuel etc provided by us.
We may support these ex presidents for three years only and withdraw everything. Note that everything is free when they are in office. What they earn go to their investments. Why burden us further.
If a minister can’t save for a rainy day then they can’t serve our country. They are dull.
Dosi and his crymates didn’t, don’t and will not deserve ministerial posts. A messenger saves for a rainyday. He saved for the next term of office that’s why he claims he was funding political rallies.
JZU was funding rallies but he is OK. Chakuamba sold two estates in Mchinji and one in BT. Uchitsiru. Thosevwerw his investments.
Chakuamba has a beautiful five bedroom house at chinyanje in nsanje. He should go there to stay. He has children in US. Tell them to support him.
Do not burden us further through taxes so that we support idiots like Dosi. We want good disposable income so that we can save part of it.
Go to hell Dosi and your dull colleagues.
Why getting pension ndi ganyu imeneyo don’t think its a permanent poision to get pension.
True join SACCO
I totally disagree with Hon. Dossi. Is politics a career or a game? Politicians in Malawi steal too much. I remember when UDF was just a pressure group, their leaders that time were very poor. Even the way they dressed, you could see their poverty. I remember when Bakili Muluzi came to Kasungu, he was driving an old old 735 BMW. Just 6 months after elections, all UDF leaders were very rich. So what Hon. Dossi is trying to say here is totally nonsense. What about someone who was a farmer and had been heavily taxed by government and today he is leaving in poverty, will he also receive pension. What about someone who was selling in Malawi market centres and contributed to the local government and now he leaves in poverty, will he/she also receive pension? I don’t think so.
This is silly. If you want a pension then get a decent job or do business. Nobody forces anyone to start politics, it is your greed to get rich. Elsewhere people who start politics are already rich. Perhaps its time to bar people who have nothing to show from becoming politicians if the aim is rob Malawians. Such brains, small brains like Mr Dossi’s are what is killing this country. Have you seen how these people still call themselves honorable this or this even after they are out of office? They do this decades after being booted out. And now they don’t want the diplomatic passports withdrawn! My foot.
Zingale ukumunenayo anali ndi construction company koma kukonda kuchinda mpaka company kugwa. Anapereka Mimba kwa born again mxiii
Bwana Dossi, if the crucial decisions that these MPs make have led us to our current state of economic turmoil, I will never justify a penny of public resources being spent on them. Let’s face it, we are still very much in a nation-building stage as a country, and making such sacrifices is part of the game – let alone doing the right things. How can we start rewarding for life people who have squandered from government coffers? The reason many of our politicians die poor is simply that they only know how to live on money that does not belong to them.
ZAUCHITSILU. FUNSANI ANA ANU ANJA AMAPITA KU KAMUZU ACADAMY, ST. ANDREWS….ETC AKUTHANDIZENI. YOU CHOSE TO BE A POLITICIANS. THAT WAS YOUR PROFESSION. IF THERE ARE PEOPLE IN MALAWI WHO ENJOYED LIFE ARE POLITITIANS. IF YOU DID NOT THINK FOR YOURSELF TOMORROW SO WHAT DID YOU CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY. CHAKWAMBA HAD ALL THE POWERS TO ACQUIRE FARMS IN MALAWI. I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS AT DHARAP PRIMAARY SCHOOL IN 1974 HE WAS A MINISTER. HE COULD NOT HAVE INVESTMENTS SUCH AS HOUSES, LAND, FARMS? THIS IS A JOKE.
Zatudzi ife aii.taphempha mankwala muzipatala iwe
I just felt pity with the way the late Amuna Ndife Mkumba died. His son could bring him mpunga wa phala without krimora and I remember that Manase based patient could give him a packet of sugar for extinguishing his phala la mchele.
but this should simply give a lesson to all current members of parliament, they should register for SACCO and save a little money than being enjoying their current temporarily sweets.
For me “Former political crew members should not get anything from government after being kicked out of their office unless if they start contributing pension”
And you say such people would develop Malawi. A big joke. This means people just want to squander and eat free money
Addiction to free money. They want it even after office.
why? anthu mwaba kale ndalama then you want pension kodi mapolitician akumalawi bwanji?
you have been syphoning money… your children are doing fine some abroad then still you want tax payers money .. use that money for other developments …
I thought ur son moses junior does help u.koma he is afool.how van he let share stupit idea lyk this.nonse machende anu mwamva.ife tanzunzika kukudyetsani muli nduna ndiye mpaka pano tizipangabe zomwezo.r u serious?mbole zanu mwamva.never ever say something stupid lyk that again u idiot.kuchokera nthawi ya kamuzu mpaka leeo hw many retired mps do we have?mpaka a joseph tembo tiziwapatsa ndalama za chani.a gwengwe,sidik mia.lapozo.vazvi.koma ngati nzeru zinatha ndiye mwaonjeza mwamva.I have never seen an idiot lyk in my life.u fool
I totally agree with Hon Dossi, can’t Malawians also consider compensating the families of the ex ministers of the infamous cabinet crisis? Families of the late Murray Kanyama Chiume, Henry Blessius Masauko Chipembere, the Chisiza brothers among others, these people were true patriots betrayed by Kamkhwala Ackim Mphonongo.
it make sense dosi,koma vuto limakhala chani osaganizila za mawa.olo business yamandasi osayizawa zoona koma ex minister.basi ntchito ufiti basi.shame on you pipo.
za usilu eti, tisunge ana amasiye, tisungenso inu ?
there are lots of people who contributed towards their pension benefits yet they are destitute today what more ministers and MPs who never contributed anything? similarly there are people who used their earnings wisely and though retired can still afford to live a decent life today. i dont think we should waste the meagre resources this country has on retired ministers and MPs when we cant give a child good education, medical care etcgggģ if we are to do so then make it a benefit for all old people in the country, mavuto ndi amodzi!
Hon Dosi,
I think there is sense in your proposal, Head of states who are politicians are paid and MPs should also be considered
You want state funerals and now you request for pensions which you did not contribute to.
Have you discussed the matter with your aid providers and what do they think about it?
If the government has any money to spare, do you not think that it would be wise to support
our needy in the villages as you had your chance to live the high life but forgot to look into
the future.
Some comments are so disappointing. I think what Malawians are saying is that when you are a politician you must steal gvnt money to prepare for retirement. So why are we crying for Cash gate when politicians are preparing for good retirement by stealing? Malawians will never stop amazing me. Generally our minds are so corrupt.
My friend, you are a fool. Politicians in Malawi already steal from us whilst in power. Now they want to get a pension for that
ADosi musatinyase mukufuna kupanga cashgate bwanji? Bwanji!?. iya!!tazingolimani ndikusuta chamba basis zikuthandini. Nawonso A gwanda chiakwamba Ali ndi magazi mmanja asowetsa okwanila my nthawi yawo Ali pa MIPANDO IKULU-IKULU munthawi ya A kamuzu
Were you contributing pension when you were MP/Minister? If not, government will pay you pension based on what? Being MP/Minister is not a permanent job, and you know better than I that only those who have been confirmed in their employment are put on pensionable terms. You were never a civil servant and neither did we hear that your constituents confirmed you as their MP, but rather you were voted out! Mr. Dossi this is a joke of the century!! We taxpayers cannot pay you for your stupidity. Why didn’t you try to raise this issue when you were in government? Why now? Such mindsets shouldn’t be tolerated in our society and take this message to your friend Gwanda Chakuamba as well.
PLEASE SCRAP THE SPEAKERS AND SPCs FROM THE LIST OF PEOPLE TO RECEIVE BENEFITS AFTER RETIREMENT. PUPILS ARE LEARNING UNDER TREES AND SHRKS FIFTY YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE? WHY HONOUR PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED HEFTY PERKS BUT DID NOT INVEST. IMAGINE HONOURABLE CHIMUNTHU BANDA INHERITED ALL TOYOTA VXs. wHAT THE HELL IS MOSES DOSSI TALKING ABOUT
This is by far, the most stupid idea I have ever heard coming out of Malawi. Ministers and their friends are the highest paid people in the country. They want to rip us off even more until they die, why? They should plan their lives like everybody else.
How do tobacco farmers survive when they retire? How do tomato vendors survive when they retire? Do they ask for money from Government? No!!!. Why should it be any different with these politicians? After all they enjoyed fuel allowances, night allowances, dog allowance, cook and garden boy allowance when they were in power, what did they do with all that money? Purchase shoes for their concubines, eh?
This is a none starter
a dosi mulibe zo chita mp is a not apermanent service infact ngati so kuthandiza pambali yachitukuko nikuma enda nima hule ndalama zata muzilila make hay when there is sunshine let be lesson to all mumayelekedwa mukakhala pamipando yanu yo bola tizifanana
KUZOLOWERA ZA ULERE BASI !!!!!!!!! COME WITH PROPOSAL THAT WILL HELP MALAWI GENERATE MORE INCOME AND NOT THIS WASTEFUL PROPOSAL. WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THIS DONE BWANA DOSSI? ARE YOU NOT ENCOURAGING LAZINESS HERE? MP’s TERM IS FIVE YEARS AND NOT WAMUYAYA AS YOU ARE PROPOSING, TIMAKUONANI NDALAMA MUMATHERA MAHULE, MUSOVA!
Let them just try to give benefits to former MPs and former ministers, this country will see fire. Who do they think they are that the country owe them something in return for being parliamentarians or ministers? Did we ask them to apply as MPs or Ministers? If they have good qualifications let me find meaningful jobs after their political careers are over. This is nosense at its very best to imagine that tax payers should foot the living cost of these people. Chakwamba has himself to blame, he had all the resources to keep for his future life but because he thought he would become a president and steal his pension he squandered all his money on campaigns. This should be a lesson to the current politicians as well. No one should join politics with the aim of getting freebies or rich. I think its high time we inserted a clause in the constitution on who can join politics, they should have a certain amount of money not any other person. That’s why we have ministers stealing, MPs demanding loans the first day of their presence in parliament. No it should not be like this.
Idiot!
Aaaa palibe zimenezo guys,mwatibela zochuluka nde mufuna muzitibelanso from the back door? Izi sizowona ndipo ine pandekha sindikugwizana nazo ndipo sindingagwirizane nazonso olo pang’ono.Mwatibela mwatiphela mwatipusitsa kokwana.
Look at your eyes, what do you smoke? Look, politics is dirty and short lived so you need to save your money. Secondly, don’t just live on politics only cos that is putting all your eggs in one basket. Get other jobs or be some entrepreneur of some sort otherwise you will be a beggar the rest of your life. Life goes on after politics you have got to have a good saving strategy. People must also be civilized and realise that it’s not an mp’s job to buy coffins for every Jim and jack who happens to die in their constituencies but they can chip in to help if they have their way but you give a person a hand he will ask for your whole arm.politicians are a very greedy and desperate bunch of people no wonder they rig votes and extend their terms limits in offices and when they are out of government they behave and try to buy sympathy from ordinary people …welcome to the real world you retired idiots and feel the pinch of poverty.
Life is about making choices.We all know that some point we will retire and subsequently die.If you are a politician and does not prepare for what will happen after you have left, dont burden the country with your bad choices and stupidity for the tax payer to pay for retirement benefits.Did you think that you would be in power forever?Politicians must stop this habit of handouts.Teach your constituents to be self dependent so that you can pla well for your after life beyond politics.This is the most senseless requestto government and Iam not happy that it is getting the coverage and probably the airtime such stupidity does not deserve.
Visionless ex-minister must die!! Period.
Why now, you were there just because zakuvutani nde these useless proposals shupit, mumayelekedwa mukakhala mumipando ngati ndinu amuyaya simuzachokapo kumalankhula ndi kupanga zopusa, zanu izo. mumvetsetsenge ndi umphawi wapa MALAWI.
U siily pipo u r given everything for free fuel,no duty,food and even sesond wives and u still want the money of a hospital ward attendant panya panu ndithu.
Considering this kind of idiot was an MP, a Mininster and once a presidential candidate, its not amazing Malawi is poor. We choose idiots to rule us. Why can he not get involved in something productive to earn money? Take a load and invest, lots of cattle in lower shire you can start a butchery. Usually there is shortage of Maize in the lower shire you can start a farm, maize, rice etc. But you would rather be feed by tax payers money. Idiot!!!!
people like you need not to be given attention .when you are in power you punish the ones in the civil service by approving 2% salary increase yet u ask for yourself hefty packages. shame just do farming chuma chili mu nthaka
No wonder things don’t progress in all ministry because of ministers like you who dismally fail to manage their personal finances. How do we expect the ministries to succeed if the ministers themselves fail to manage themselves!!!
in any organisation people are given pension when they retire, let them use the pension they were given on retirement, otherwise we will be paying a lot of money to lazy ministers who had no vision,
Unfortunately in Malawi there is not ba single MP or Minister who have ever declared that they are retiring. The information available indicates that these former MPs and Ministers were fired from their position through election loss. I have never seen anybody being paid a pension after he has been fired from the position!
I don’t know what face cream ‘Honourable’ Moses Dossi is using on his face….. but I want some of it. hahaha
Bwana Rossi is forgetting that MPs and or cabinet Ministers make a conscious decision to play that role. They are not the responsibility of the government or electorate as soon as they stop playing that role. It is a simple contractual agreement that pays for the duration of the contract. Government has no further obligation beyond the end date of the “contract”. It is thus the responsibility of the incumbent to serve and invest for a rainy day. Either way “dethroned” MPs or cabinet Ministers should prepare to face the consequences of the attendant financial prudence or lack of it
if dossi had guts, he could advised curren office to learn from their predecessors mistake of not investing for their future…#PERIOD
The job is not a permanent job. The Job is politically biased. you can not take it as a carrier. Possibly this is why their salaries and benefits are very high. Ndi a tidyerethu. Chachiwiri dziko lathu silingakwanitse zimenezi komanso tiyambira pati? uku ndikufuna kudzetsa mpungwe pungwe. Chifukwa ngakhale makansala.
DOSSI HAD SO MANY GIRL FRIENDS. ONE OF THEM WAS VERY FAT AND USED TO COME TO OFFICE WHEN AT 5PM WHEN EVERYBODY WAS KNOCKING OFF. UHULE UNAKUSAUKITSANI. PANOPA MKAZIYO KUMUONA, WATHERATU. OSATINYASA IFE.
Learn to save. Mukabaiba ndalama za boma zonse, save some for rainy days…!
Dossi and other greedy politicians listen, and listen well, the reason why you become poor and wretched after getting of of government is that you steal from the poor and the spirits of those inflicted because of you financial malpractices always haunt you,
Even the face of a MINISTER looks broke! Mungoziyalusapo apa! Apongozi athawatu!
Pliz I apeal to Government, DONT DARE implement what Dossi is advocating. if one does not prepare for retirement while he/she is working that his problem. Ma MP ndalama zawo amangochindira akazi basi amayiwala kuti ntchito yawo izatha tsiku lina
I don’t sympathise with people like Chakuamba. This guy is reaping what he sew during his time with MCP. He was one of the first few powerful young oppressive politicians, during his time he never developed his people in Nsanje and Chikwawa, there were young intelligent teachers in the 60 and 70’s that Kamuzu wanted to train in UK , USA and Australia. Chakuamba instead of supporting this project was jelousy and got some of the teachers arrested,Killed or banished. He had most of the graduates arrested and killed, he was very jelousy with his own people he really oppressed the Senas during his time. It is because of this that most lower shire elites have nothing to do with Chakuamba because some had their fathers Grandfather’s I’ll treated by this man, let him enjoy ntchito za management ache oyipa and he will live to suff until he apologises to the Senas.
Politics is not career. Asena you have failed. Killers like Tembo , chakuwamba, should not have any sympathesy.
Dossi, why cant you just ask your son to assist you! You pple called Ministers or MPs; I don’t have good words for YOU!
What Dossi is saying is a complete nonsense and I hope no reasonable person will dare to even touch or consider such selfish proposals. Politicians receive money much more beyond than what the technocrats and educated people receive. If they suffer after office is a result of their complete foolishness and lack of proper financial management. Whilst in office, they should consider investing such huge sums of money which they don’t even deserve so that they don’t suffer once kicked out of office.
Dosi’s argument that the money received by politicians is used for such things as buying coffins and ferrying the sick to the hospital is very unfortunate and should not have been spoken by a person like him. Ask him how many coffins he bought during his tenure for his people and also ask him how much fuel was used for the purposes of carrying the sick to the hospital. Was the money he used even tally with what he was getting as his salary and allowances for a single month?
If Mr Dosi, needs some assistance then I think he should ask MBC to bring back Reach Out and Touch so that well wishers can get to him before he dies a miserable and shameful man. How much more do you want the tax payers to suffer at the expense of politicians. If you want pensions then get employed as a civil servant. There are no pensions for politicians so become a technocrat and be guaranteed of getting your pension.
If you spend your monies like a Chicken, then you will die like a Chicken
“If you cant afford a bare existence now having failed to build up wealth in the years since you were youth or working as an MP or a minister; it is because you either failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth or else you did not observe them.” – George Clason
“The best way to prepare for the future is to create it.” – Peter Druker. And the best way to create this future is to save and invest. And you (MPs n Ministers) have very strange habits.
Most Malawian MPs are a sorry, unmannered n uncultured savages! They terrorise villages like an unleashed beast with oodles of untold lust from 10 years of starvation of . . . . And pounce on each and every woman or unsuspecting girls who chance to innocently wonder close by. As such, are other 2 to 3 women he feeds, pays rentals n other bills for; besides their stay-home wife. In addition is a string of girlfriends he frequents out with! And a village of friends he buys n drinks beers for/with. Just how does one save for the future with this kind of lustful lavish living? No way! And who can forget how the Ministers do quickly move to Nyambadwe, area 10 or 43; not to occupy their house but rent one. And in the end lose all their increased income on rentals; in the name of acquiring some status. We people quickly forget that . . .
“What each one of us calls our necessary expenses shall always grow to equal our income, unless we protest to the contrary.” – George Clason
Check your manners; control your expenditures (by not confusing wants and needs) and save; invest the savings and re-invest the proceeds. Basitu! That way probability yoti munthu ungasauke is almost non-existent.
Look at you now! You guys are a sorry lot indeed and an embarrassment not only to yourselves and your families but also Malawi as a country.
Now to the rest of us: Awa asiyeni; after all they never contributed not even a single tambala to the money they need now.
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself” – Groucho Marx.
Let us start building up wealth now by saving and investing; even the little we have . . .
“Wealth like a tree grows from a tiny seed. The first Kwacha you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed, the sooner shall the tree grow” – Geroge Clason (The Richest Man in Babylon)
Zawo zimenezo ,anazolowera kudya ndalama ngati za tomato,ndiwomwewa amene samatiyesa ngati kanthu akakhala pa mpando, kodi pa pension kapena ma benfits mupatsa anthu angati, musanamizire kugulira anthu mabokosi, ndalama zanu mumangothela uhule kumangolimbana ndi akazi a eni ake , taziona ife zikuchitika.
I was amazed to see that the car that killed the late Mtafu was a vitts. Really?somebody of his calibre who deserves a land cruiser v8?
Am telling you Malawians that if he was driving a suvi that time,we couldn’t have lost him in that accident.
Politicians use money wisely,
You shouldn`t expect freebies by virtue of the fact that you were (are) a politicians. By Malawian standards what you earn whilst in office is above average. Most of you splash money around unnecessarily through politicking and womanising .
Rather you should discuss the possibility of a contributory pension scheme for yourselves. Not only will the funds raised therein help in national development. You will also be assured of something upon retirement.
U don’t pay tax and you want pension? fotseki
I expected Moses Dossi to propose that retired State Presidents and their vice Presidents should have their terminal benefits stripped off. Looking at the way we change presidents in Malawi, feeding a myriad of them will soon be a burden to a poor Malawian tax payer. After all some of them are well off before they ascended to the throne. Examples include Kamuzu Banda, Bakili Muluzi and Peter Mutharika. I am not sure about how much Chakwera will be worthy when he will be elected to the high office assuming he will ever be elected.
What really happens to these politicians once they are out of power?
I was amazed one day in Chitawira Super Market to see Moses Dossi on the till counter helping me loading my groceries in jumbos only to learn later that he was employed by Phekani as a keeper of that store. Eeeish!
The problem is that the majority of these guys join politics before they learn how to earn a decent living on Malawian soils. Learn how to earn money in Malawi brethren and life will be simple wherever you go.
You know you can not be successful with that proposal regarding the current economic crisis and I dought even after any near recovery unless if you join the ruling party and be counted an asset.
Moyo ndi ovuta a Dossi. Kusunga ndalama pamene ukuyipeza ndichinthu chomwe ambiri timakanika. Nanjinanji kupanga invest iiii, ndichifukwa umawona munthu akulandira ndalama zambiri koma ndi osawukabe ngakhale akukalambira pa ntchito pompo. Kuwopa kupanga invest.
Moses Dossi has a good moral point only that with our current economic situation we can’t afford that,please forgive us for now,we will consider your proposal in the future when our economy improves.
Thanks for your concern and kindness.
Moses Dossi is sick both physically and mentally. Physically because he thinks being rich is what makes one feel good after accumulating the undeserved money when one becomes an MP. Mentally because Dossi cannot tell the world Gwanda Chakuamba does not have his own sons who cannot feel ashamed should take responsibility of looking after the one MCP guru as if the sons are not there.
Refer to Pension Act and you will get the answers period. Were you contributing?
Dossi has a point on the welfare of EX-Politician only that he is missing a point on the solution. The best way forward is to introduce a mandatory contributory Pesion Schem for all our politicians to be accessed after retiring from active politics. Almost all companies put their staff on this schem why not them. Kuzolowera Ma handouts basi.
STUPIDITY, FOOLISHNESS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
What Honourable Dossi is speaking is truth. These honourable men and women should be on pension. It doesn’t make anything sense to pay pension to retired president or vice president and yet ex ministers and ex Mps do not get pension. Revisit the laws and we can as well appreciate the good part they contribute unlike always seeing the bad part.
True Moses Dossi, I support you. Gwanda, Robison Watayachanga Chirwa, John Zenus Ungapake Tembo, Loiuse Chimango etc can not be suffering as if they did not contribute to this country’s development. We are not talking of austerity and economic turmoil here then Presidents and vice could also not get benifits.
YOU MUST KNOW LUCKY COMES ONCE IN LIFE IF YOU HAD A CHANCE OF BEING A MINISTER YOU WOULD HAVE USED YOUR MONEY WISELY BY SAVING SOME OF IT ITS NOT THE GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY IF YOUR POOR NOW ITS YOUR OWN FAULT BECAUSE YOU DIDNT SAVE YOUR MONEY WHILE YOU WERE IN GOVERNMENT.
I voted this dude, is my former MP in Chikwawa west but is talking horse crap, why is he sympathising late Mr Zingale yet they had a cat and rat companionship, they couldn’t speak to each other. Shame on you Dossi, a selfish hypocrite.
Kukwata too much mukakhala pa u Minister. Use that money for life insurance and you will enjoy forever. Actually those suffering are a good-riddance since they are giving a good lesson to the incumbent MP’s and ministers
Shame mr Dossi!
5 years is a long period for an MP. From what they get, government payroll can deduct 10% and save it through pension fund account. They can also contribute much over and above the%. Pension does not come free; it is planned. If any MP or Caninet Minister was so stupid to ignore this, then they deserve to suffer.
Total rubbish, l do not think it is only politicians who matters in the society. Let them use money wisely not in polygamy. Invest in educating their children. Zaziiiiii izi zamkutu ndisadzamvenso mbwerera imeneyi wamva Dossi. Mwabayiba apa zakuthera ndi kunjoya
Give us a break, Dossi. Those are the requirements for the job (job description), that is why you have lots of exemptions so that you can use your money wisely. To do this would be total day light theft.
Nonsense! Mukamapanga ma campaign mumadzitenga ngati zikhwaya koma chonsecho muli mbuuu!!! Ndizimenezotu! Do you have a heart for Civil Servants mumawapatsa tindalama tochepa inu anthu andale inu?! Muzilangika pansi pompano mukamaeyerekedwa kuzunza anzanu mukakhala pamipando.
I dont believe he meant it. And for him to say much of his money was used for constituency development is an insult to the people coz if he was able to support them he could win back the seat and retire voluntarily like Chakuamba and Tembo. This shame. What good examples can u give to young political aspirants? Become a politician, receive more money, fail to invest and die a very poor man??? Yes indeed all is vanity!!!
Susan my friend, please remember to share your monthly salary with your father Mr. Dosi it seems he doesn’t have money these days.
fight to remain with diplomatic passports once one is out of political office dossi,but to for pension when gets a high salary,mouth watering allowances and other benefit when a cabinet and an mp only to be squandering it on booze and bitches not thinking you not likely to return your seat means your a dickhead,once you join politics know that you have taken a gamble so if you lucky to be a cabinet minister or mp invest a business you are knowledgable coz never be comfortable of the likehood of returning your mpando wonona.
You want a life pension from a 5yr part-time overpaid job? Get serious. I could do that job for free. You do not really retire, do you? You wouldn’t!
Use your money properly while in office. mumangonyengela eti.
Kodi a Dossi akudzola mafuta amtundu wanji? Ayi kankhope kakuwala boo
Dossi, you are an idiot. You mean every one who was in politics is poor? Poverty or riches is not how much you receive into your hands but what your brain conceives. The fact that someone is poor after being a politician, that doesnt mean all former politicians are poor. there are some who were able to use their brain the time they were in power.
What you are saying is nosense Dossi to say the least because if we are to put all the former greedy politicians on pay roll, what benefit will Malawi as a Nation have? These former politicians are not working in the governement now and what justification will you have for their pay? Just because they are poor? Are you sick Dossi? That would be like feeding a cow that is not giving you any milk.
Just imagine, how much money will Malwi loose each month if we are to give these retired politicians some fat salaries or whatever you call it? Malawi is already poor, then you want to burden the government with new pay rolls?
Those politicians were extravagant when in power, let them pay for their carelessness now and this applies to all the people in this world. The more you spend the without thinking the time you have money, the more you will suffer when the income source is cut. Fact about life!!!!
For it is written that, “time shall come that even the little you have shall be taken away from you” Malawi never stops amazing me.
Complete rubbish from Mr. Dossi, again. Are the so called retired politicians the only ones that live in poverty after retirement? At least they had a chance to earn undeserved salary perks and steal to enable them prepare for retirement. In fact its only dunderheads like him who unashamedly continue to cry for freebies for poor malawians to use his own words. Many wise former politicians some form of livelihoods to see out their lives. My advice is for Mr Dossi and and others like him to go to hell and burn there.
Moses Dossi seriously needs a psychiatrist
That’s rubbish! Ministers and MPs get a lot of money in their tenure, including soft loans, big salaries, hefty sitting allowances, foreign denominated allowances when they travel, etc. And they get constituency fund, most of it goes to personal accounts. These guy get thousands of Kwacha in fuel allowances, medical benefits, etc. They cannot be paid extra. These guys get rich in their first two months in office, no wonder the political stampede for election. If you pay these people, get ready to pay every Malawian across the nation – young or old, working or loffing.