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Luhana Z
7 years ago

Just Imagine Govt coming up with such a bill.
Am of the view that problems we have in the country are not as a result of lack of planning but priorties.
When we put these people into office they assume more powers than us , stop listening to us think of the next election and hence resort to embezzlement of public funds.
Examples are vivid!

yanjira
yanjira
7 years ago

Good show opposition,y

Qwerty
Qwerty
7 years ago

Creating this Commission is nothing short of isomorphic mimicry. This is our enduring curse: Form without functionality. What we need is a regulatory framework that will demand execution and continuity of strategic plans. One that fosters accountability, perfomance measurement and disincentivices political shorttermism. We need to elect visionary leaders and stop stealing public money. Planning in itself is meaningless if not anchored in the right institutional milieu. We are in fact not short of plans (Vision 2020; MGDS, ERP, SWAPs, etc) including a deluge of technical advice from donors, IMF, World bank and our own technocrats. Our public service probably… Read more »

kaka
kaka
7 years ago

Bravo Oppositions MPs untill tiphwese tube chopopa tokhachi.

Papa Chalo
Papa Chalo
7 years ago

Keep on Kusosola Nthenga. Mphamvu zichepebe. Mwina checks and balances ya three arms of Govt zingayambe kuyenda bwino.

Nastc
Nastc
7 years ago

The President not be the appointing authority of the Commissioners? How will they be appointed, then? This will be a parastatal, and how likely is it that its Board will not have to be appointed by the president? Perhaps, we could allow the president appoint (of course to be followed by parliament’s vetting). To control political manipulations, the control should be on the term of office and removal from office. The president should not have powers to dismiss the the Commissioners, but parliament shoukld have, and the Commissioners should have longer terms, say SEVEN YEARS, as oppossed to the president’s… Read more »

Karrim
Karrim
7 years ago

Unfortunately, I don’t think that what we lack in Malawi for prosperity is this Commission. It will just be a duplication of roles within governement departments and Ministries. What’s the Economic Planning and Development, Ministry of Finance, and RBM there for? What will their other roles pertaining to research, and development planning become with the inception of this Commission? I see this as another way of bloatening governement expenditure. If the aim is employment creation, fine and good, it’ll be a success. As if that is not enough, I wonder how the said Commission will be framed so that its… Read more »

Zinenani Zoona
Zinenani Zoona
7 years ago

This will obviously not benefit Malawi. The way the govt wants HE to appoint the commissioners, the opposition says no. Already there is another white elephant on the horizon. There is Department of Economic Planning (EPD) which simply changes from a dept to a full ministry. Then there is Ministry of Finance. Then all the departments, including Works, Fisheries, Defence have got economists. Our problems do not come from failure to plan. They come from failure to implement. And as long as we can’t implement anything, our nation is doomed to more suffering.

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