Macra new boss Shamu abuses position

July 16, 2020 James Nthondo -Nyasa Times 29 Comments

Newly-appointed director general for Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) Henry Shamu is clinging to an executive vehicle from Malawi Posts Corporation (MPC) and demanding a new one from the new employer.

Shamu: New Macra boss

MPC bought a Toyota Prado TX less than two years ago registration number BV 6767 which Shamu has grabbed and is using it as a personal vehicle and is pushing Macra to buy him a brand new Toyota Prado VXL.

Shamu has not qualified to buy the official vehicle he was using at MPC according to conditions of service as the vehicle needs to clock 4 years before it can be offered to the officer who was using for purchase.

“Mr. Shamu afika ndi ululu…he is pressurizing the Finance Director Ben Chitsonga to buy him a new vehicle just like the one that his predecessor Godfrey Itaye was using. But he has been told that only the board of directors can approve that expenditure and at the moment the board has been dissolved. But he is having none of it,” said an insider at Macra.

It has also been revealed that Shamu has a loan of up to K23 million which he took whilst at MPC and his former employers are demanding settlement of the loan by Macra.

According to a letter from MPC dated 25 June 2020 signed by Noel Fole MPC Directr of Finance and Administration to Macra, Shamu had an outstanding loan amount totaling to K23, 856,509.98.

“However, the Corporation has pension arrears of K7,572,647.25 payable to Old Mutual. The net amount payable to us is therefore K16,283,862.73,” reads the letter in part.

Insiders at MPC wondered why Shamu got the huge loan amount when other employees were denied ‘small’ loans saying the organization was going through cashflow problems.

Shamu could not pick  phone calls and neither could he respond to  messages left on his phone soliciting a comment.

Meanwhile, compromised Comptroller of Statutory Corporations, Stuart Ligomeka is bulldozing Macra to continue paying beleaguered Director General Godfrey Redson Itaye.

Ligomeka has directed Macra to continue paying Salary and benefits for Itaye despite him being posted out to Lilongwe Water Board arguing that Macra should be claiming the expenses from Lilongwe Water Board.

Insiders also revealed that contrary to conditions of service, Itaye took with him a Toyota Landcruiser Prado VXL registration number CA3672, belonging to Macra.

“This is a clear violation to vehicle entitlement for Chief Executive Officers of parastatals,” said a top high ranking government official at Capital Hill.

According to records we have seen, Chief Executive Officers of parastatals are allowed to drive a Toyota Landcruiser Prado TX a condition that was waived for Macra but not for Lilongwe Water Board.

We can also confirm that Itaye through Macra Procurement Specialist, Joseph Galawa and Finance Manager Phillip Nakoma are trying to alter information in the authority’s accounting system ACCPAc. We can confirm that Nakoma has been busy throughout the weekend to convince an expert from ACCPac Ajay Misheer to assit him with the plans.

On the other hand Ngalawa was last week busy trying to call for a management meeting to lobby his senior colleagues to help him come up with an explanation on the illegal procurements that have recently been exposed.

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29 replies on “Macra new boss Shamu abuses position”

  1. Eh eh, ma propaganda? Why do people rush into talking. ndipo nyasatimes post this, comment yanga ina simunayike, don’t be biased, we all have the freedom of expression.

  2. 56 years and still towing Western line of management! Please incorporate and blend our ancient controls with global versions if you just invent your own

  6. Y pple doing this to innocent malawians then somebody will say y putting in custody these pple as if they are blind Mr chilima hurry up plx clean all ceo from parastatals

  7. The president is taking a lot of time to appoint boards for these state owned companies , delaying will cause a lot of information to be altered. Our president & VP please wake up delay will cost us alot. Remember that these people are mafias.

    1. Board members do not oversee daily operations of the parastatals. Okuba ndi okuba basi

  9. Uyu Shamu ndi cadet, he was redeployed there to assist the DPP to rig the fresh presidential elections but the move failed coz the MEC chair insisted on manual tabulation of results as speculated in the constitution. Shamu ndi anyamata a Dausi. Only time will tell, he will be removed from MACRA.

  12. Toyota Prados are so dear to government and parastatals yet they are they are a huge drain on Malawians’ resources. They chew fuel like no one’s business. The engines are 4-litres and above. Malawians are told that the government has no money but these monsters are burning Malawi kwachas every day on our roads.
    The tendency of selling government cars to ministers/directors/CEOs/PSs after 4 years of a vehicle’s life is counterproductive. It puts strain on government finances. It means every 4 years a new vehicle has to be bought. At 5 years a vehicle, if well maintained, is like new. This tendency promotes a bad tendency of entitlement among bosses which Shamu is showing Malawians now. Kick this culture of plunder!

  13. I fail to understand why Malawi companies act like banks. You should be getting loans from banks.

  15. Advice to HE: Corruption in Malawi is not necessarily a DPP trait, nope. It is an evil rooted in our systems. Its more rewarding to extract economic rent than it is to invest or labour for normal returns in ventures of different types. Your civil service is rotten with corrupt officials and these are not DPP cadres. Your timing of arresting DPP officials, much as it helped you shift public attention from the detestable cabinet, was ill timed as it has tipped off most of these thieves. They will clear the rot before u get hold of them and arresting and torturing folks without evidence of wrongdoing will be so costly to our finances.

    Way forward… call me

  16. Please new government act fast and set an example! How can people with such attitudes lead public entities? Time has come to set appropriate standards for leaders in our public sector, considering the economic situation we are in. There is no need for a public CEO, to drive around in a highly consuming 4×4 vehicle,
    when 90 % of their use is inside our cities or on tarmac! Please LMC, SKC plus your whole new Cabinet, with our hugh deficits and very limited resources we have to set our priorities right!

  18. Komatu these people akuonjezatu. The law must take its course. Chilungamo chiyende ngati madzi pamenepa ndithu.

  20. Eish koma anthu mukusamba mumakobili.. Loan ya 23 meter basi sakukudura? Ikulipilie Macra? So it’s not a loan, it’s a bonus!

  21. All this points to one thing: Despite all talk Tonse alliance leadership is as clueless as Mutharika leadership. Its all talk with nothing on the ground to show off. Why should we, the tax payers, be held at ransom by the same system we booted out on June 23? We don’t want anything to do with DPP and its agents please. Fire all the cadets immediately because they are good for nothing thieves and imbeciles.

  25. This guy is rotten, I tell you. The government made a mistake to appoint hi.. They were supposed to do Due Diligence. Shame on us Malawi leaders. We make same mistakes as the previous government

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