Malawi govt recalls Kaliati’s daughter from High Commission in London
Malawi government has recalled Carolyne Kaliati, a trained legal practitioer, from diplomatic service in the United Kingdom following her mother’s scathing remarks against President Peter Mutharika that she made at the Chilima movement news conference held in Lilongwe on Thursday, May 31 2018.
Carolyne Kaliati was second secretary responsible for political affairs at the Malawi High Commission in London.
Patricia Kaliati, mother to Carolyne, belongs to the ruling DPP faction that is agitating for Saulos Klaus Chilima, state Vice President, to be presidential candidate of the party at the 2019 presidential polls against incumbent President Arthur Peter Mutharika.
At the press conference, Kaliati argued Mutharika is not a suitable and winning candidate owing to his “inept” leadership.
She said Chilima is the most suitable candidate because during the time he has been second in command, he has demonstrated impeccable leadership qualities.
Kaliati, one of the few long serving parliamentarian said it was illogical to recall her daughter.
“Those who work in our foreign missions do not practise politics. My daughter has nothing to do with our local politics. After all, I am not supporting Chakwera or the MCP, am supporting Chilima of the Democratic Progressive Party,” said Kaliati.
She said it was shocking though not surprising that the DPP was now removing relatives of the DPP members when the embassies are full of supporters of the opposition Malawi Congress Party.
Social media reports posted by aides to President Peter Mutharika have hinted Kaliati faces further targeted harrassment if a former senior cabinet minister in both Bingu and Peter administrations does not abandon the Chilima movement, a political crusade campaining for Chilima to take over the DPP presidency.
“This is funny and ridiculous, the President should know what I have done and am still doing for my beloved party, the DPP before punishing my innocent daughter. She is there because of the hard work I do for the DPP,” Kaliati said.
Chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Lloyd Muhara refused to comment, saying he does not know anything on the matter.
Mutharika last week appointed his niece to High Commission in South Africa.
At press Thursday, Kaliati said the DPP is getting back party vehicles from the Chilima movement officials who are also getting death threats.
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Ife zisatikhuze anthu atsankho inu.Amalawi amitundu yina mumaona ngati Salipira Misonkho yomwe mumagawana nokha nokhayo.Tikufuna boma loziwa kuti Tonse ndife Amalawi.
Trust is the key word!!! That’s why MCP’s NEC is Lilongwelised and also Mia’s trusted PP friends. Palibe nkhani apa. Magalimoto a kongilesi anagawanidwa ndi mabanja angati? Banja la a Chakwera lokha laphangira magalimoto onse a chipani. Ngati kumeneku sikuzikonda, ndiuzeni. Kaliatiyo sanalakwitse kukwikwinyiza mwana wake ku embase; vuto lake ndi mwano akugeyawo.
All Ican see ndi dyera. This woman and her family kuphangira too much. Iye MP, her husband MP, her daughter ku embassy and now she also wants a ministerial post…zonsezi yekha. Akagwere ndi phada wakeyo. Malawi is for all of us not just for a few greedy selfish individuals. All you are looking for is pa vunda nkhola mudzazamuuza chochita, but forget it with chilima because he won’t allow zopusa ndipo akhoza kudzakutulukirani nchipani chanucho…za Bingu ndi UDF. Ku Mulanje ndi KuMalawi ndiye mwakuonerera, one family 3 in 1.ndiye lero muzibisalira kuyankhulira anthu osauka…anthu mmidzimi akuvutika, ndiliti munayamba kukhala MP and what have done as a lawmaker to bring change. Amnzanu abwera ndi ya macommunity colleges inu ntchito kumangopangitsa osaukaqo adzisaukirabe mudziadyera masuku pa mutu. ZOPUSAAA!!
This woman and her friends turned against APM because of selfishness and she is not satisfied. Just imagine, her husband an MP, herself an MP and his son was also to become an MP. Now she is fearlessly fighting APM because of her nepotistic attack she made on Geoff wa Geoff that costed her ministerial post. She also wants to be a minister. M’malawi mmuno alimo yekha chani? All these guys guys rallying behind Chilima they have motives behind it, starting from Callista, masangwi to ngalande. Komanso choosing comedians into parliament is a bad idea, they turn it into a drama stage. Anthu one azisuzo, oyimba and ma player tisamale nawo because it is the same story, they want appeasements if not offered lol they bring confusion.
Malawians a very big hypocrites.
You are commenting as if you have just known that these things happen?
Muluzi had his standard 8 relatives in Washington, it was no secret, so what noise are you making here.
Do you think if you change government it will stop? This has nothing to do with because it was DPP.
Kamuzu did the same. Put all Chewas in key positions in the civil service and diplomatic missions.
IT IS ONLY AN IDIOT WHO CAN BELIEVE THAT ALL THOSE YOU SEE IN BIG POSITIONS IN GOVERNMENT , PARASTATAL, EMBASSIES ETC ARE THERE ON MERIT. EVEN SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE SELECTED TO PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND BENEFICIARIES OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS WHICH KALIATI ONE OF KALIATI’S DAUGHTER BENEFITED FROM ARE ARE ON MERIT. NO. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MERIT IN MALAWI
This friend of mine was studying in the UK and after finishing and with zero experience, she was given a job at the embassy because mommy was a Minister in DPP during the time when Chaponda was Minister of Foreign Affairs and they were buddies.
TIMAKUUZANI IFE KUTI CHIPANI ICHI NDI CHA ALOMWE, DUWA MUTHARIKA WAPITA KU EMBASSY
So Patricia, since it seems you are the leader of the Chilima movement, you are also Nepostic. Why didnt you tell APM not to appoint your daughter and appoint someone more qualified and experienced. So if SKC wins it means to appease you this girl is going back to the embassy right.
This is why this is a disgruntled movement not a Chilima movement. Chilima is VP but none of his relatives or friends have enjoyed the privileges the Lhomwes are enjoying. Apparently Henry Mussas daughter is also at some embassy, not forgetting Henry Mussas wife too.
Am assuming Callistas relatives have also been sidelined. Masangwi apart from using Elvis freight to evade MRA taxes hasn’t benefited much. Ngalande tried to be mayor failed. And being youth leader, he is what the cadets are all about. He is the one who taught them violence and Panga sharpening skills but he hasn’t been rewarded as much. So its just a question of its time for us to eat.
Masanje masanje ku DPP for there isn’t any meritocracy sad day for Mama Pattie cronyism and nepotism are stale commodities on our DPP market. You can’t sell these filthy pillars of ethnicity wins alira!!
Does anyone else see the irony here? Kaliati is actually admitting that her daughter did not get the job on merit, but was appointed due to favoritism, because of her mother’s DPP affiliation. Kaliati says “She is there because of the hard work I do for DPP”. You would think she would instead emphasize the daughter’s merit. She really lost me there.
Chickens are coming home to roost finally. At some point you supported Muthalika’s politics of tribalism, nepotism, regionalism, cronyism and patronage. We’re you not the same people who supported this unfit president as you have observed now defeat electoral bill proposing 50+1 votes for the president? I am happy sanity is prevailing at last, albeit late. Remember you shall be gauged by the same measure you gauge others. When government was sending DPP synthesizers and their kins to embassies, you never raised this as an anomaly. Does this become evil just because your daughter is involved? Remember sane Malawians have been crying all along for reduction of presidential powers fearing too much power will be abused by inconsiderate presidents like the one we currently have. Now that you have suddenly become wiser, it is my wish that team Chilima will listen to the wishes of the majority by being on their side not practice politics of patronage.
Koma timva zinthu, so she is recalled because her mother talked ill of the DPP, you mean she was employed because of her mother not because of her competence and yet so many of competent Malawians are jobless. Who is to blame here? This is lomwelisation at its peak…. Zantiiii
What naivety! Ms. Kaliati actually admits that her daughter was appointed as a political favour-what a disgrace. She should migrate to the US and serve under the current GOP Administration where such favours are abundant.
” My daughter is at the embassy because of my hard work at the party ”
With no shame or what so ever. My country is really doomed.
Question: Would Kaliati say what she is saying now if she had remained a cabinet minister? Why does she think she should always be in the cabinet?
Hahahahaaa worry not Kaliati. Next year makape onse ali ku ma embassies are coming back home.
and we will replace them with our own gulewankulu and senas haaha. Somebody should profile all embassy personal and government scholarship beneficiaries. You will see that its full of DPP hence that is why our embassies do no perform and once they have an education they want their parents to get them jobs. Stupid
So people are deployed to foregn missions because of their allegiance or that of the parents to DPP?
Isn’t this the NEPOTISM and LHOMWELISATION of public service people talk about?
SHAME on mediocrity!!!
IT SHOULDN’T BE ALWAYS SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF NGONGOLIWA; NANKHUMWA ;GOODAL; KALIATI; CHAPONDA; ENJOYING THE CAKE NO NO! ! CHANGES NEEDED !!!
Goodall has no children that have ever been given Job by any Malawi Government. All his children, brothers children sister children, are where they are on merit.
Some also complain that he has never used his political influence to help them.
If you must know he has helped a lot of people on merit to better jobs, none are related to him.
Ncheche ya changu imaphizidwa ndi mchimba. At times people need to take full stock of their actions in advance rather than to be seen as pace setters. It is always important to take manageable risks only.
I am fully aware kuti Mulungu amakhoza kulanga ana chifukwa cha mphulupulu za makolo awo. If indeed mwanayu akubwelera Ku mudzi chifukwa cha kholo lakeli, chonde muganizireni mwanayu apitilize ntchito yake chifukwa mau a Mulungu amatiuza kuti “….. Tisabwezele choipa ndi choipa koma ndi chabwino tigonjetse choipa……..”
Mai ake a mwanayu ndi ozungulira mutu. Zifukwa zomwe apeleka zoti mwana wao ali Ku London chifukwa Mai akewa ndi olimbikira ntchito Ku DPP ndi zopanda pake. Tamva kuti mwanayu ali ndi maphunziro a za malamulo. Tiyeni tiyendere zimenezo osati zolubwalubwa za amachezo.
Victimized ? The first question is did she deserve to be there or she went coz she is the daughter of a politician?
So these embassy jobs, mungopatsana pachibale eti? That’s NEPOTISM. Zitheretu zimenezi. Next government has to advertise these job positions to the public.
Ndewu samauzana pomenya mama.
DPP ya Bingu inali yeniyeni simalimanba ndi mwana wa munthu tonse imatitenga ngati ana amodzi ndikuona mwana wa BJ ndi former first gentleman (Richard Banda) amagwila ntchito Boma opanda vuto liri lonse izi zayambikazi ndi chiyamba chopita pansi kwa APM
Wapadzala adaulula wapadenga. Kani zidali chonchi? Tamva nawo. Beston Banda
Anthu womwe mukuti APM apitilize muziyang’ana pa mtsogolo just imagine can APM manage to go to Chitipa and Nsanje by road 5 times during campaign period, limenelo ndi boza azakhala watopa. Take note panopa malawi anatsogola pa zowonela pa kenema most people watch Times Tv and Zodiac compared to Tvm ndipofunikaso pamenepa osadelerapo chifukwa amalawi pano anachangamuka. Take not apart from lomwe belt APM camp cannot compete with ASK camp across the country. APM camp mukanangokambilanapo apa ndi SKC camp otherwise mupwetekana nokhanokha by the end of the day what most malawian want is to vote for president from any party apart from MCP ndiye SKC camp musayidelere ili ndi anthu oti akukusata kwambiri ku malawi kuno
Anthu ngati Akweni sakuti DPP ndi chipani choipa iwo chomwe amufuna ndi munthu wina woti apitise chipani pa mtsogolo ngati Bingu Wamuthalika kunena chilungamo Bingu anali katundu most of us we have stoped tune in MBC radio or TVM chifukwa cha momwe DPP ikupangala zinthu. Take not DPP of APM won elections because of having quite a number of sympathy voters not because it had alot of supporters ndiye muchenjele ma vote amenewo apita kwa SKC ulendo uno.
What did you expect when you waged war against the government?
Kkkkkk nkhuyu zodya mwana zapotanso mwana. Nanga Kaliati ndi mkulu ngati?
Don’t worry she will go back when Chilima gets power. She can’t serve the government which her mum says is incompetent. Wait for the competent government of Chilima. By fighting government there are consequences and this is just the beginning. Munali ndi mwana ku embassy ti hatikadziwatu. Mutotukwana Pitala mukudya naye bwino eti?
Kufuna u minister kokha-kokhako. Kutereko your daughter was given a diplomatic post koma inu osayamikabe. I don’t blame government for recalling your daughter – she can’t be trusted ndi m’mene mukunyozera the current DPP administration.
Kaliati, you are overdoing things with your dirty mouth. Mukanabweza moto mayi. APM has beve6n calm but it reaches a point where government will have doubts about your relatives working m’boma and diplomatic positions. Even your husband who was given the opportunity to contest as MP (just because you were minister and senior DPP) official) will end up being purged. All because muli ndi pakamwa powola mayi.
DPP acts as a brutal and primitive administration.What has Kaliati’s daughter done to deserve such treatment? How would the mother’s crime makes a daughter the victim? SHAME!!!! Malawians,when are we going to grow up politically and otherwise? So Muthalika’s PHd has not elevated his intelligence to differentiate between good and bad? He has brutally become a shame of our country and turned into another Hastings Banda of our era.This indicates that,in his second term administration,Malawi will be thrown into a molten-lava which will be dangerous to our political dispensation.Malawians do not want another form of Banda’s MCP regime and afterall,Muthalika and his thief brother did not join Malawians in their fight for freedom and multi-party struggle.ONCE BEATEN,TWICE SHY!!!!!!!!
Mostly MPs and Ministers mislead Presidents. Why should people be MPs for 20 years or 30 years? What new ideas can they bring to the new presidents apart from confusing /misleading them? If an MP has failed to develop her/his area for 10 years, what new ideas can she bring for the additional years. Come on, we are over 17 million MPs give chance to others. As for the current President, leave him alone; we do not vote through TVs, radios, whatsapp, newspapers or churches; people will vote in 2019 and nobody has the right to stop the current President to contest in 2019.
Ok tanva nawo… kuti ma wudindo aku embassy amakhala wokondera komaso kudziwana…
Poor Malawians we’re stupid.
Peter is scared.
Ukakwatira kwa mphezi suopa kung’anima. DPP is a party of thugs so anyone joining the party should do so In the knowledge that at some point it will rise against them
This is what we to end when we take government “She is there because of the hard work I do for the DPP,” really your daughter is there because you work hard for the party not merit? Eeeish !!!
Kaliati like bon kalindo and callista chimombo are too arrogant and primitive in their attacks against president Peter mutharika. Its not about supporting chilima that has costed kaliati’s daughter job. Though we disagree in politics but as experienced politician she ought to be more restraint and courteous to our head of state Mutharika. Chilima must reprimand the chilima movement against using foul language.
Respect who? This headless chicken who does not know what to do and is being dragged here and there by these bunch of thieves around him.
Peter Bububu Mr Ibu Muthalirika is the nightmare of a President that Malawi will ever have; thus Past, present and future. When l observe him closely, he seems even gets surprised with himself. What a waste of time for Malawi.
Vuto, kuzolowera kutukwana ndi kulalata. Leadership and politics is not about kutukwana ndi kulalata. For a change enafe amene sitikonda zotukwana we are happy.
This is punishment for calling Peter inept and her unwavering support for Chilima movement
Mufunillanji umboni wina, when we say politicians abuse their power by putting their relatives, party zealots in positions. Duwa has just been sent to SA on a diplomatic mission. 2019 DPP must fall or Mutharika must fall. another five years with DPP will be hell
All politician do that. They choose people they trust. Don’t pretend you don’t know.