Malawi veep Chilima to forgo full salary to help Covid-19 fight
Malawi vice-president Saulos Chilima has said he will forgo his entire salary of K1.7 million monthly towards efforts to mobilise resources for the coronavirus (Covid-19) fight.
Chilima’s spokesperson Pilirani Phiri confirmed that the State Vice-President has committed all his salato ro the Covid-fight.
“I can confirm that Chilima is giving up three months salary to contribute to the state of public health emergency to help in efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus,” Phiri said.
“This is from now up to three months, Thereafter, he will continue his promises to give 50 percent of his salary to charity,” he said.
Phiri said the Office of the Vice-President will be communicating to the Chief Secretary and Cabinet to channel Chilima’s salary to Covid-19 fight.
Chilima surrendering of his salary comes barely a day President Peter Mutharika ordered Treasury to cut his own salary and the wages of his ministers and deputy ministers by 10% for three months to augment the government’s funds in responding and containing the spread of the viral disease.
The money saved would be directed towards the fight against the novel coronavirus, he added.
Malawi has so far recorded four cases of the virus but Lilongwe District Health Office says it has traced 60 people believed to have had contact with the index patient of the virus.
Mutharika declared a state of emergency on March 23 to combat the virus.There is no lockdown but schools are closed and the government says it is urging people to work from home and follow hand-washing and social-distancing guidelines.
All social gatherings of more than 100 people, such as funerals, church services and political rallies, have been banned.
Just call him a thief. Why does he get paid salary when he does not actually work? Basi busy kupenta ndevu ndikumeta mmbali munthu mkulukulu. Shatapu zake chilima, VP wamuyaya.
Mumakhwana Big Man, we need u to lead Malawi not Nyenkhwe zi..mbava.. hiding behind coronavirus to postpone elections.
Zinazi zikuti simumagwira ntchito zi ndi ubulutu chabe, actually that’s what you expect cadets to say….a cadet is a cadet…
This guy needs to be arrested….for stealing public money….u mean all along he who was receiving salary for free while not working….arafat mtima uwuwu ndiwakuba sungalamulire dziko gwira korona wachimwa
mulibe mzeru phiri
well done
Sichipongwe koma kunena zoona. Mai Chilima mwaonjeza kuzichita bleech nkhopeyo. Zokhazokhazo zobweza salary,?
Mungooneka kuposa mzungu.
Zinazi chonde zisiyeni mudwala nazo cancer
Better than just watching people suffering with the virus
Make up mama mukuonjedza. Mukuoneka ngati chintuwisa
Aaarrr kodi ndiye all along amalandila salary for doing what??? Already he was not supposed to be paid. He literally does nothing positive for this country. If anything he should be saluted for the looting, damaging other people’s properties and killing of a police officer at Nsundwe with his Violent demonstrations.
exactly
Chilima is lazy sponger who has been getting a salary without working.
Osamangolubwa apa. Do u know office of the VP is a deligate one? did your president give him tasks?. Osamangolubwa apa, if he is not working let government challenge him and remove him from office
Tell your president to assign him duties.
President wake ndi chakwera nde amuuze zoyenera kupanga. APM has got alot to do than this
Njoka ya VP. You are copying APM and trying to show you can do better.
And APM is copying Joyce Banda. What is 10% of APM’s salary when just one kickback from Karim amounts MWK145 million.
Following – kutsanzira poti APM has taken 10% pay-cut.
Anthu a nsanje Mayi Chilimawo alakwa chani simukuwona kuti iwowo ndi woyera kale. inuyo mumangofila nkhope yokha basi mikono ndi myendo ili biiii ngati kuseri kwa mphika tawonani nkonowo ndi nkhopeyo amwyo waphoda kwambiri?
kkkkkkkk is this pay cut out of his own free will or he outright know that his pay boss is not happy with paying someone who is not working?
mwachita bwino kupereka salary yanu ku nkhondo ya corona chifukwa palibe ntchito yomwe mukugwira kuti mukalandire salary , munangobvekedwa udindowo ndi concourt osati kutsata ndondomeko yake m’mene imayenera kukhalira
Thank you sir
inu musiyeni uyu achite donate amagwira ntchito yanji iyeyu Saulosi fotseki
Kkkkkkkk. In Malawi we have a half president and a full vice president. At least we are assured that this funny state of affairs will be corrected on 2nd July 2020. This is Malawi, the hot heart of Africa.
Kkkkk. Looking at the comments below it seems some people have selective memory. I am not a fan of Chilima nor any other politician for that matter. But if people remember correctly, Chilima already committed 50% of his salary to charity. This was even before the Covid-19 issue at hand. What he is trying to do (IMHO) is just augment what he already did. Why don’t the already overpaid president, ministers and MPs do the same? They earn huge allowances for just appearance at a ribbon cutting ceremony – they won’t starve! Ha ha ha ha
SKC is a huge asset to this nation. He is full of innovations quite digestible in touch with the masses
He is still energetic
You will realise later that he is an crook
But wouldn’t be as crooked as the toothless bulldog at state house.
Palibe nkhani apa. Ife timanya muchimbudzi chokumba. Mulibe pepala. Timangwiritsa ntchito zi – sonokho. Madzi? Kaya! Vairasi? Cha!
I knew it that with this pandemic some pea-sized politicians would desperately do things just to get sympathy from the none suspecting Malawians. You should be ashamed of yourself. I go office daily, work hard and sweat for my small salary. If I chose to donate whole of it, it would be worthy it, rather than someone who just sits phwiiii and gets a free salary. Even if he donates it, its all same thing, giving back something that aint yours, something that you did not work for, something that you have been stealing all along
i agree with you. this guy is not working at all and i wonder why he is even getting 50% salary,, where is he working.
Mwachita bwino chifukwa palibe ntchito yomwe mukugwira ngati vice-president kuti mubadya salaryyo nokha. By the way, can you plz use part of K75 billion you said you have sourced from unknown sources so that you can give soft loans to some people who are struggling to feed themselves?
Yap Exactly yidzatuluka liti?
Vuto la kalionela you end up overdoing copied things. So chilima had to wait for president to announce 10% cut to his salary before chilima cut 100% of his?
Ndiposo everyone knows chilima has not worked a day, to earn his salary, so why bother telling us your nonsense sacrifice. In fact you were not supposed to be paid monthly useless fool
You work when Supervisor assigns you tasks. If he doesn’t and you are in bad terms, that’s what happens. Don’t blame SKC, let’s blame his boss. Instead of assigning him duties, he gives those duties to other elected politicians even if it means juniors to him. SKC is a hard-worker but nothing is delegated to him. Don’t accuse him. He has done the right thing.
Wosangosiya ntchotoyo bwanji?
Wakuuzani kuti sakumampasa zochita? Bwanji mukumpangila zinthu? No work no Salary. Komanso winawu ndi mwano chabe
Mwana ndi Mwanadi Eeeeeh KKKKKKKK
My fellow malawians this is no time to outdo each other with English. Instead let is all kneel down and pray to God to have mercy on us and the whole world. This pandemic is no joke and only God not salary cuts can save Malawi. This is time for war not castigating each other. We all must look at the cross for our salvation. Poor as we are we cannot survive this plague. The coronavirus will kill without looking at which party we belong to. We need ventilators. We need mask. We need gloves . We need sanitizers. Above all we need God almighty.
Servant leadership. Bravo Bwana VP
Andeneuli, nkhani ya Chakwera ikubwera bwanji apa? ubakha udzakupwetekani. anthu awiri mukuwatchulawo anagwirizana kale akudziwa chochita iwe ndi ubulutu wakowo khala pheee
Chilima 1.7 million while full President is 270,000 and making a lot of noise ViVA Chilima we live you Sir May Almighty God always bless you and your family.
zalowa mpikisano kkkk
Chilima is just in office by the law but he is not working at all. Just eating money for free. So thats good for your salary to go to charity. Sweet after sweat. Nothing for mahara. U dont even deserve getting paid because u are not working anymore
Well done Chilima. Sizotsitsa ndi 10% zo. 10% is 80,000 kwacha of a minister’s salary. Nonsense
This is politics masked in charity. Where were you before new measures were announced by the president? Now you want Malawians to look at you as an angel yet you are the same person who wanted Malawians to perish and later say DPP has failed. Ndimayesa a opposition mukuti coronavirus kulibe kumalawi kuno? Ndiye mukupereka Ndalama kuti ndi yachiani? Mukudzitsutsa nokhatu ankolo.
Our president SKC osati Chakwera
Mutharika should do the same since he cares a lot about Malawians.
Its a shame you people are politicizing this pandemic. Now we know the failures of DPP were magnified by the propangandist who would do anything possible to be in power. So shallow.
@Knight. That’s what we call politics. You outbid the other. In addition, Chilima committed his 50% of salary to charity way back right after the court ruling. Now who is the copycat? Your president, who has no teeth. How did he live in the US 40 years and came back with no teeth? The US has some of the best dentists in the world. He could have at least gotten some dentures good enough for his old age.