Malawi government to start giving jobs to refugees – PS
Government says it will soon start giving jobs to refugees with exceptional skills and qualifications to help develop the country.
Principal Secretary for Homeland Security Sam Madula says the government is considering issuing work permits to expatriate migrants.
“We already carried out profiling exercise for the migrants and we discovered that there are 9000 migrants with exceptional skills and qualifications which Malawians do not have,” he said.
He said such migrants with outstanding skills and qualifications will be employed in the country as migrant expatriates.
The International Organisation for Migration’s regional director Charles Kwenin said Malawi should start using the migrant skills to cut on government and donor spending on refugees.
He said this will be good in view of funding fatigue.
Kwenin said this on Tuesday in Blantyre during a regional capacity building on migration management.
Thanks everyone for contributing and sharing your opinion. There is no reason to take this personal but rational thinking is needed.
Malawi being one of the country forming Africa and the World has conformed to what other African Countries are Doing. Malawian who lives outside of the country Will understand this better.
What is your definition of a refugee or migrant? And above all no one will take your job . But they will have a chance to compete with us if we think they are not well educated enough because they are migrants we will see. The experts working with In every side and coner of our economy we do no say anything ( indians, americans, lebaneese,English) but we hate ourself because our fellow African we call them names . Shame on us!
This is nonsense, what skills are you talking about?
Its only MCP & hrdc supporters who can disagree with this due to nyau fabric/Inside the box vision. Everywhere in the world people with exception skills get favourable visa regimes in different countries. That won’t be the first time or last time it will happen in the world. Right now South Africa has changed its immigration Act to let people with exception skills be given jobs as way of boosting the economy. Does that make sense gule people?
We are talking of refugees here, get it right dude.
..so refugees are not humans?
This is utter nonsense, rubbish and madness of the highest order. If Malawians do not have those skills, can’t they be trained? It now shows we have leaders who are expired upstairs if they can start thinking such rubbish staff as this one. So many Malawian graduates are loitering in the streets searching for the same employment. How can one get courage to even think about the nonsense of employing refugees? I should be made to believe that this is not a true story.
Rubbish, Malawi has all skills needed but less job market, so giving to foreigners job is not in good faith.
We font even have enough oncologists etc. What skills are you talking about
2018-2019 statistics has shown that Malawi has high levels of unemployment rate up to 60%, so why Malawi government would consider offering jobs opportunities to foreigners chikhale chifukwa choti ali ndi mapepala, kodi ife @malawi tilibenso mapepalawo?.in my entire life i have never hear politicians manifesting that they will employ people of foreign nations. koma bomali silidzatheka
@madula ndinu munthu modzi opereka uphungu olakwira kwa @president athu check if in DDP manifesto their that issue of offering jobs to foreigners
this fucker again with his coackroach l9king like head. zamutopetsa zopatsa azimai pano apeleke kwa ma refugees.
policy yake ndw oti ma refuge ayamba kubwela dzana lomwelili
Good move I remember was a time when the only doctor serving a lot of people at one hospital was a refugee. lives were saved coz of that selfless fellow.
While Magufuli is urging refugees to go back to their home country some government with the a very high unemployment rate of it’s own citizens is planning on offering them jobs. What a contrast. Chamba chomwe mwasuta ndi chaukali. Ever heard of the adage that says charity begins at home?? That is because it must really begin at home.
A Madula ngati mwadya za ma refugees mungonena. The outstanding skills and qualifications which Malawians don`t have are which ones? Maybe you are talking of oil extraction from Lake Malawi. We have foreigners working as guards but their papers with the Immigration Department show that they are engineers and this is what Madula is also telling us.
Stupid PS and it’s gvt, you are telling people that you have employed all the skills and there is shortfall… Inu ndi amene mumatukwanitsa Peter Munthalika ndithu, inu a PS paja ndinu a opposition ndiye musationongele boma lathu tinavugika nalo kugawa tippex mmawindo a amakalasi
I absolutely agree with this if indeed the skills are exceptional. A great example to Malawi is DR Batumba Nkume who has restored sight to thousands of Malawians, whilst our own Malawian Drs left the country. Had he not been taken from the camp and allowed to practise it would have been a great shame. So I absolutely support it where it’s exceptional.
This is stupidity at its best. The Malawi job market is already small and you are busy trying to employ other people while your own population which you have failed to develop are just rotting in Malawi.
This is very unthinkable. Who are these refugees who still claims that they cannot stay in their countries now? Where do you have wars in Africa worth of displacing the refugees you want to start giving jobs to? Stupidity
Let th first job that will be given to the foreigners be your Job because you seem not to understand the situation in which we are
Some are specialised doctors
Unemployment rate in Malawi is at 70% or more. Which jobs is the government planning on giving to refugees when millions of Malawians with degrees and post secondary school diplomas are not employed? This country is really run by chicken heads!
A Madula…..mwanyenga kokwanira…basi kapumeni…retire please
No offense to my immigrant brothers And sisters but how does the government plan on employing them when it can not even employ its own citizens?
Exceptional skills
What is the unemployment rate in Malawi? This PS is out of touch with reality. What exceptional skills that we do not have? Please lretire before you run mad
Tikamati zaugalu ndiye izi akunena natty PS uyu. Giving jobs to refugees when most of our people are living like refugees in their own country. Shame on you! And you tell us you did profiling of the skills of the refugees when you cant even tell of any skills audit of your own people at home or Diaspora. Ngati nzeru zatha kapumeni baba!
Our own children are jobless and you are coming with this idea of employing refugees —- why how ??
ur own children are skilled in what? stoning other people’s cars? Read the passage again, it is exceptional skills
Kikkkkk eni a dziko opanda lunso komaso maphunziro otsika, what will happen after? The country will be ruled by……………tikamanena kuti school inatha kuno ndi zimenezo, qualification ya Ana athu timaidziwira pa ma comment amene amapezeka pano. Kikkkkkkkk very bad. Kuteroko wina wa school imene ndikunenayi akuganiza zoti alembe kuti mudziwe zoti school yake ndiyofoila.
Do not do it Sam!! I have told you. Do you debates wherever you people meet?
“exceptional skills and qualifications” which can’t be found in Malawi after 55 years of peace and tranquility yet they are found in someone who has seen war(s) in his/her country. Where did he/she acquire the so called “exceptional skills and qualifications”…..
Malawian citizens don’t have jobs and they will make sure that foreigners gets jobs. No wonder they beat us in our own country when we break there mugs
koma ngati mukukanika kutilemba ife, mukwanitsa kuwalemba obwelawo?
So many unemployed graduates of Malawian origin, and you are telling us this?
That is a recipe for trouble. If you do not debate thoroughly it will backfire on you. Ngati ili advise from the so called donors take it carefully otherwise I smell trouble for you. Many Malawians are hoofing the streets unemployed and you describe someone as having exceptional skills from a refugee camp who has his/her homeland to return to. Some of these so called refugees how outlived their welcome. Their countries are now at peace but you cannot repatriate them, why??? They receive monthly upkeep in dollars way above the average Malawian and you want to add salt to the injured Malawian brother and sister by employing them as “migrant expatriates” to pocket even more money as the local Malawians. Sam Madula if you are asking for trouble for Malawians then go ahead.
Are you a medical Dr?. I’m sure this is the skill being referred to.
My professional background is no consequence to this discourse. Many Malawian Medical officers already qualified are not yet employed just doing locums in private hospitals and you talk of employing expatriate immigrant workers. So if you think Malawi should succumb to the so called donor pressure we are watching and at the level of tiredness and discontent of being unemployed yet our sons and daughters do not be surprised if Malawians will not be as warm as they used to be.