Mutharika approves Malawi police IG Jose retirement: Mwapasa set to be promoted

August 4, 2019 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 49 Comments

President Peter Mutharika approved the Inspector General of Malawi Police Rodney Jose to retire having reached the mandatory retirement age of 60.

Jose and Mwapasa (l): Police brass

According to a letter signed by government chief secretary Lloyd Muhara, Jose will retire in November but will proceed on leave this month pending the retirement.

“I write to convey approval from His Excellency the President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika to retire from the civil service on 21st November, 2019, being the date when you will have attained the mandatory retirement age in the civil service of sixty years (60) years,” reads part of the letter.

As the opposition and human rights activists are celebrating his departure, there are concerns that that Mutharika might replace him with what the opposition call  “worse DPP cadet”, Duncan Mwapasa.

Mwapasa has risen through the police ranks very fast, reaching the position of deputy Inspector General of police because of what the opposition say his connection to the ruling party.

Jose has had very bad relationship with both the opposition and the rights activists because of his failure to probe the torching of opposition property including UTM vehicles, residences of UTM officials, Malawi Congress Party offices as well as offices of Timothy Mtambo, the leading anti-Jane Ansah demos organisers.

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49 replies on “Mutharika approves Malawi police IG Jose retirement: Mwapasa set to be promoted”

  2. If Duncan Mwapasa get the job , he is fit for the post. Very humble young man. He is always smiles . He has done well in his career and surely let him be the man Ito handle the mantle.

    3. Kkkkkkkkk the degree of illiteracy in these lomwez. He has reached 60 and chigogo chinzake chili busy ati kuchita approve, aprrove what? You still want to show that you have mphamvu tippex president?

  9. So, the detractors’ logic goes something like this: Anybody from the Lhomwe belt need not apply for top leadership positions as long the President is from the same are; and those who are interviewed should be rejected on the same basis. Unwarranted proposition indeed.
    So, is the other side of the coin valid, that the applicants from the non-Lhomwe belts should be treated with kids’ gloves?
    When and if we start applying certain filters for these influential positions, then we are going down a slippery slope.
    Let Mwapasa get the job, if he’s up to it, regardless of his home base or cultural affiliations. If he rise has been meteoric, chances are there is something solid between his ears. It’s not just nepotism: begs the question, did he also jump through the same nepotism hoops throughout his formal schooling? Give the guy some credit, jealous down.
    Winners chart the course of the administration, and APM and DPP won this time (again); and can’t take away their prerogative of appointing heads of certain institutions. And, it’s not Parliament has no say in this.

    1. NDIYE MPATSENI JOHN NYONDO FROM CHITIPA. ONLY THEN WILL WE APPLAUD THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY. NOT A LOMWE REPLACING ANOTHER LOMWE. WINA FROM ANOTHER TRIBE SANGAKWANITSE PA UDINDO UMENEWU????

      1. John Nyondo, is it that senior police officer who ordered the arrests of cadets that took the law in their hands to beat up police officers in Lilongwe several months ago?

  11. I hate tribalism and everyone who advances it. Tumbukas get promoted. Ngonis get promoted. No one says anything but when it is someone from the Lomwe belt it is an issue.

    2. SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA, LIZARDS WERE REMOVED FROM STATE RESIDENCES AND REPLACED WITH ALLIGATORS!!
      THE ALLIGATORS MOVED OUT VOLUNTARILY AND THEY WERE REPALCED BY CROCODILES!!!

    5. Amfumu i agree with you. But i know the reason. people look down the Lhomwes thinking they are illiterate, but mmmm Lhomwes have the capacity. Let them talk mpaka kawachera mulomwe zake zikuyenda kkkkkkkkk woyeeeeeee Akulamulanso.

    6. TELL US WHICH TUMBUKA HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO INFLUENTIAL POSITION IN THIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT. DONT JUST TALK WHEN YOU HAVE GOT NOTHING TO SAY. WHO FROM ANOTHER TRIBE HAS BEEN PROMOTED APART FROM THE FAVOURED TRIBE FROM MPTC??

      1. Vincent Nundwe has just been promoted to Army Commander. He is from Rumphi. We are all Malawians at the end of the day. Do not think tribalism please.

  12. mmmmayo matumbo anga atulukamo. sooo jose 60 yah! served
    pitala 80 ndekuti kwatsala zingati zaka kuti acite retire after serving!!!
    sizikuvekapo apa

  13. MWAPASA IS NOT ONLY CONNECTED TO DPP BUT HE IS ALSO A DIRECT RELATION TO PRESIDENT PETER MUTHALIKA.
    UNLIKE HER SISTER EVELYN MWAPASA WHO HAPPENS TO CONDUCT HERSELF PROFESSIONALLY, THIS MWAPASA GUY HAS CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN UNETHICAL AND IMMATURE MANNER AT TIMES, HE HAS BEEN PROMOTING THE DPP CADETISM WITHIN THE MALAWI POLICE SERVICE. MY FELLOW MALAWIANS! PUTTING PEOPLE INTO GOVERNMENT TOP POSITIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE RELATED TO THE PRESIDENCY IS AGAINST PRINCIPLES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE OF WHICH PETER BEING A PROFESSOR AT LAW MUST BE AWARE OF. IT IS THESE TYPES OF SALVAGE POLITICAL TACTICS THAT LED TO THE CURRENT POLITICAL TROUBLES AND WHAT TIMOTHY MTAMBO HAS BEEN FIGHTING AGAINST.IF DPP WANTS TIMOTHY MTAMBO TO CONTINUE BEING A HERO IN MALAWI, GO AHEAD APPOINTING MWAPASA AS IG. COMMISSIONER KAINJA CAN BE A BETTER CHOICE DESPITE COMING FROM CENTRAL REGION AND NOT RELATED TO THE PRESIDENCY.

  14. Pulezidenti wazaka eyite kupanga apuluvu litayamenti ya munthu wazska sikisite,
    Abale dziko ndilokondera ndithu
    Africa,my africa eshh

  15. Retirement has to be approved? In any rule based organisation, the system automatically purges you once you attain the retirement age. Or was this a case of early retirement?

    1. Ndiwe mbuli yaku madzulo. You can’t really teach common sense. Who said there’s age limit when it comes to education?

  22. Go and rest. We wish you all the best. This is tedious job especially with clueless Commander in chief at the helm

  23. Patriotic you are right…mwapasa heis his home boy he rose fast than ever in his promotion.. same as ngolongoliwa from group villagehead man to paramount within 3 but it was due kondani nankhumwa while he was minister of local government. Everything angoti alhomwe .. kodi tikalowapo tidza tchetche alomwe?

    Malawi needs to according to laws or merits… wosati poti ndiwe mbale wa chimulirenji NO…. lets start justice.. mwapasa yo if he has to pass through parliament we are asking parliamentarians to reject him.

    They need appoint munthu wopanda mbali.. Secondly jose was supposed to go last year November now they are talking of November again WHY?

    He has to go that’s it

  24. I welcom his departure,thou idont put much blame on him,,Malawi police service needs abig change,it’s afailed police when it comes to thier response to so many cases out there

    2. Cause those were quickly investigated and arrested some people unlike the UTM and MCP other innocent people who were terrorised in front of the police dumb ass!

  28. Duncan Mwapasa has risen the same way as the late Ngolongoliwa, mainly because they are Lhomwes! These are the kind of people that will try to keep DPP in governmennt at all cost because they know if DPP got out of government they are doomed as well!!

    1. Don’t worry it will be short lived, this mess will be over as soon as deliberations/arguments start in court

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