Macra boss Itaye panics over stinking rot: Blows K20m on junior staff retreat at Hapuwani
Beleaguered Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (Macra) Director General Godfrey Itaye is in a panic mode as Nyasa Times understands that he has sent all his junior staff to a retreat in Mulanje where they will pocket allowances amounting to K12.9 million.
Nyasa Times can reveal that all Macra junior staff have left Friday)for Hapuwani Lodge in Mulanje and will be there till Sunday but will collect allowances for four nights.
The junior staff from Grade M5 are 75 in total and will be getting K43,000 per day translating to K172,000 for the four nights allowances.
“They are going there under the disguise of ‘Macra Service Charter’ training but there is nothing like Macra service charter training. Our boss is clearly in a panic mode, he is looking for sympathy,” said an inside source at Macra.
This means the 75 junior staff will share a cool K12.9 million in allowances.
“The standard practice is that these people will not sleep there, they will be transported in rented coasters to and from Hapuwani from today to Sunday but they will be given allowances equivalent to four nights,” said the source.
Sources said the bill will hit K20 million as a result of the food and teas and also transportation of staff and other logistics.
“If this is not looting, then tell me what it is,” wondered one staff member.
This training is coming just a few days before the country goes to the watershed May 21 elections and there are fears that the retreat is to soften the junior staff to carry out some unorthodox instructions they may be given by Itaye during the elections period.
Macra is responsible for regulating communication and there are fears that it can order shutdown of some radio stations and even social media sites under the new “Cyber Transactions’ law.
Itaye is never short of controversy at Macra as he is implicated in corruption scandals at Macra worth millions of Kwachas but has been spared prosecution due to his political connections to the ruling party.
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life imprisonment
The face befits a prisoner. Just wait for next week about your fate you thief
Like Boss like Junior. He gets orders from above (below heaven). Both, and several others, to Maula on 22nd May.
This Itaye is addicted to looting and mantha anatha kale just like his boss at statehouse, he thinks he is untouchable so first things first my fellow malawians let’s give Dpp a boot during the polls so that all tax payers money looters are exposed then this itaye can be touched!
Awa next week ncthito itha
Itaye practises satanism –albino eater –kwake kwayipa kale —
2 late
Jodi Irate anakudyelani zazikulu inu a nyasa times. The type of stories you bring here about him are very nonsensical.
Ka tonde aka ukhluku ngati taye wake.
Ufa ndi ntima ngati suufa ndi matenda
Though am a Lhomwe but I can tell fellow Malawians that I am really ashamed by the level of looting orchestrated by some Lhomwes under the watch of APM who has been fooled by Chisale and Co. I pray to God that DPP should not come back into power for Mother Malawi to recover and prosper.
I am very ashamed to be Lhomwe and be associated with DPP! Malawi is number four on the list from the bottom as the poorest country in the world,. By virtue of this position Malawi is in the league of countries that have been at war or are in civil wars such as Yemen and Somalia. WHY APM????!
However, my plea to felllow Malawians is not put all Lhomwes in this bracket of looters. It is a handful group of few greedy and very corrupt individuals who have been spoofed by a security guy from Ntcheu called Chisale to loot with impunity and include Muhara, Itaye, Mukhito, Botolo, Malata, Namarika, Kaupa, Chimota, Kabambe at RBM, Chiunda, Mulakho Ministers, CEOs, PSs e..g Madura and Directors in Government.
These guys have stolen money, fuel, cars, and computers,. Taken fake allowances for trips in the country as well as external travel, pensions of deceased as well as retired people, fake salaries, bribes for people from Mulakho to be employed in government, fake contracts such as from Medical Stores where they have been paid but not supplied and not to mention inflated priced- contracts such as the one at Police from which APM pocketed some change at the tune of K145 million.
But that Asian Karim pocketed free moneys in excess of K300 million. Malawians can we see how we are impoverished by greedy leaders who chose to enrich Asians at any cost so long as they get a cut? No wonder the whole land in Malawi is fast being sold to Asians who buy it using our own money they get for free and then render the rest of us landless. These are fake leaders who are so myopic and very selfish and include APM. The big question now is ‘how many such dubious supply contracts has APM been involved in and how many Asians have walked away with such vast amounts of free monies?’ . Malawians let’s admit that we are a very docile lot and time has come to wake up before we are consigned homeless to the Indian Ocean! What these Asians do in Malawi no Malawian can be allowed to do in China or India before you get torched or beheaded. If you make lots of money in an Asian country and you happen to be Malawian then you are a drug dealer!! We do not need Asians for Malawi to develop as they are opportunists. Malawi need astute leaders with a heart to uplift the masses out of poverty. It is wrong for a few Lhomwes to think that the whole Malawi is their estate and asset!
The looters are the Lhomwes with money’s stashed in off shore accounts while Malawi has nothing and people are wallowing in abject poverty. People like Itaye and Chisale should be watched after 21st May before they jump the border into Mozambique! They a too much of a disgrace to the human race of Malawi and deserve to be locked up without trial!!
God please save Malawi!!
Palibe issue apa inu. Nyasatimes. People at capital hill receive hefty allowance while in office and not 43000 per night. This is peanut. Asiyeni ma juniors anjoye. Mukulumbana naye Itaye chifukwa amadana ndi Saulosi kuchokera kale.
in whatever circumstances DPP is going out NEXT YEAR.
DON’T CHEAT YOURSELF dpp guyz
WE HAVE KNOWN YOUR INTENTIONS!!!!
gone are the days where you can fool MALAWI.
THANKS WE HAVE KNOWN IN ADVANCE
mumangidwa next week beranitu ndalamazo