‘Malawi parastatals riddled with sycophants’: MCCCI demands merit based appointments
Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) has demanded merit-based appointments in official positions as well as parastatals.
MCCCI chief executive officer Chancellor Kaferapanjira said this would ensure efficiency in the use of resources put in the K1.7 trillion national budget.
He said efficiency can be achieved with the right personnel in the right places.
“Most boards of parastatals are riddled with sycophants who do not add value to value creation objectives of their organisations,” said Kaferapanjira.
He said there are numerous cases where individuals are given positions as a reward for personal loyalty or other non-professional connections.
This comes at a time when President Peter Mutharika continues to appoint ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadres in top government positions, most of them without right academic and professional qualifications.
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These endless stories of nepotism and abuse of power are too much. Those of us who are very hard working as cadets for the glory of DPP as well as the country are becoming concerned about the situation. We now realise that this is not the way to run the country. Mr President “A Dad” its high time you look around you and see that you are being misled and also being taken advantage of! Your legacy is being destroyed while your eyes are fully open. A Dad please change this situation for the sake of a better Malawi! We have stolen enough and at this time of political tension change the guys that are misleading you and stealing more. I do not trust the likes of Muhara, Chisale, Mukhito, Magalasi, Mchacha, Daisi, Ben PHIRI, Kasaila, Chizungu, Some over selfish PSs in Government such as Botolo, Namarika, Maganga, and Mwandidya as they are the ones seen my all of us cadets and the party at large as people misleading you for their enrichments. This mighty party will be finished because of the greed of a few individuals who are too powerful and nepotistic to contribute to the good name of DPP. My last plea is that A Dad we want you to build Malawi and not Mulakho wa Lomwe that is temporary and tomorrow when you are gone will pay very heavily for these abuses of power!!
In short I very much agree with the outcry from MCCCI. Enough is enough Mr President. Start running Malawi and not Southern Region of DPP! As cadets we wonder that you are needed to campaign as a national party but when it is using power to develop Malawi you seem to send signals that it’s about Southern Region DPP! We cadets come from all regions but for a start your favoured picks for positions in government and parastatals only come from Lomwes or South. But worse still is that these people are chosen as friends or relatives to those surrounding you Mr President without applying for the jobs and also being interviewed! Mr President can you not see that this is wrong to tolerate in your status as father of a nation? It’s shameful as a party and as a country to have a President who seems not to care about his responsibilities. Good examples of mischievous and recent appointments include Bulima as Harod Mussa Director of Operations to Post Office, Deputy CEO to NOCMA, Viola as deputy CEO to NFRA and Chisale as CEO to Pharmacy Board atthe age of 65 years. All these without interviews and competition with others who might be bettter than them! WHY?
The very worst of these picks is one of Chisale who is well above the mandatory retirement age of 60 in public service and we have countless number of people retired from parastatals on the grounds of reaching age of 60. Should we say that this Chisale is so special because he is a brother of your Head of Security? This selective application of government mandates and policies is troubling even to those of us in the party. Nepotism that even transcends the norms of the government policies should not be condoned Mr President! We as some proud cadets ask you to correct these appointments for the better image of the DPP Party and also the Country in which all of us are Malawians with temporary affiliations to political parties.
Thank you MCCCI for making our President aware of the abuses going on and also destroying Malawi. We see all parastatals going down in performance and include: Post Office, Macra, Escom, ADMARC, Egenco, NFRA, NOCMA, LWB, BWB and many more chiefly because wrong people have been put in the jobs Bt design to steal and also employ relatives of those putting them in those positions. It’s a complicated system of machinations of nepotism! Wake up Malawi. Mr Muhara you are the worst Chief Secretary and you are making A Dad look bad for your own abuses including womanising together with the zealots mentioned above. Mr Muhara favours promoting women especially from Longwe belt after sleeping with them. END!
Kodi inu simunakhale anduna? Nanga ma qualifications anu ife tidafunsa? Nthawi imene ija zinkakoma! Eyaaaaa!
Kafelapanjira likes making noise to be seen like he is a star performer, on the contrary he is very useless. MCCCI is failing to manage it’s affairs because of him. Instead of managing the chamber he is ever out of office to attend board meetings of other companies. He is failing to convene board meeting for the chamber for fear of being exposed of his inefficiency. Where in the world has government not rewarded those that can drive it’s programs?
Too much Politics in everything we do as Malawians and less on development, you could have good policies but if you do the right people to implement then it becomes problem after another
Such appointments are called ‘Jobs for the boys/girls’. It is all part of APM’s attempt to strengthen his hold on power. It is also just another aspect of DPP corruption. It emphasises once again that APM’s chief concern is himself and his position rather than the good of the country.
Uyu ndi wa League of Malawi Youth of MCP. When MCP was in Government it had people not well qualified but were leading organisations like ESCOM, MALAWI RAILWAYS, MALAWI HOUSING as Executive Chairmens, so whats the issue here. Just stick to your work, if you want politics just join mainline politics not kuchuluka mzeru apa