Mutharika blows K400m travel bill for US visit: 68 member delegation
The DPP Government is dead broke, yet President Peter Mutharika has endorsed a 68-man (and women) delegation to accompany him to New York where he will be attending the 69th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, blowing more than MK400 million in the process.
According to highly placed government sources at Capital Hill, the figure may rise as more officials are scheduled to leave the country this weekend for New York ahead of the General Debate that starts on September 24 when Heads of State and Government address the Assembly.
President Mutharika is scheduled to present his maiden address to the Assembly as Malawi’s Head of State on September 25, 2014.
“This large number of people (68) accompanying the President is unprecedented as it is irrational considering that as a country we’re going through tough economic times,” said an economic commentator in Blantyre, preferring anonymity.
He said before, civil society and the general public have been up in arms against previous Presidents for similar conduct but “this year’s figure far much eclipses previous figures of presidential entourages”.
The 68-member delegation or more people flying to New York on taxpayers’ money make a mockery of Malawi’s ailing economy and the impoverished communities in rural and urban areas, he added.
The entourage includes ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cadres, traditional chiefs, government ministers and top officials, security detail for the President, intelligence officers from the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) and the Malawi Defence Forces (MDF), journalists from both the public and private media, Presidential Personal Assistant, Ben Phiri, and his brother, Martin Nkasala, among others.
The sponsorship includes air travel, accommodation and thousands of dollars in allowances for each. Most of the members of the entourage will spend almost 15 days in New York while others will stay longer.
Return air tickets alone have cost not less than MK1.6 million each for Economy Class, MK2.1 million each for Business Class and MK4.2 million each for First Class. Allowances are in excess of MK15 million each for the VIPs and non-executiveshave received allowances ranging from Mk2.5 to MK5 million each.
Most members of the entourage left the country on Thursday, September 11, 2014 as an advance team, two weeks before the main events started. The President followed them with other members of the delegation on Sunday, September 14, 2014.
According to impeccable State House sources, at Waldorf Astoria New York Hotel where President Mutharika is lodging in an expensive Presidential Suite .
The Waldorf Astoria New York Hotel has set the standard worldwide for fine dining, lavish accommodations and 5-star events for many years. This landmark luxury New York City hotel is in the heart of Midtown, New York City, on the famous Park Avenue.
State House has also booked support staff in the same hotel at the minimum room rate of about US$4,500 (about MK2.5 million) per night. Other members of the entourage are lodging at the Double Tree on the same avenue where a minimum room rate is US$420 (MK189, 000)per night.
Malawi, largely an agricultural economy, is making efforts to overcome decades of underdevelopment and the more recent impact of a growing HIV-Aids problem. This year, Malawian traditional donors have chickened out; expressing no commitment to support the national budget for 2014/15 financial year.
Parliament is currently in session deliberating the budget, which Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe announced was estimated at MK742.8 billion.
Gondwe and company have been boxed into coming up with a budget, which they have involuntarily dubbed ‘zero-aid budget’ because the 40 percent donor contribution to the recurrent basket has been withheld.
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Koma ngati ma figure amenewa ndi oona ndiye kuti Boma limeneri ndi la nfiti okhaokha basi. Are these people and APM going to help Malawi and its people? Doubtful and shameful. Tilila mpaka liti kodi? Let’s do something before it is too late. How about impeachment?
Mukakhuta gaga osamatinamiza. Komanso tinagulitsa ndege ndiye mumafuna ndalamazo zichepe?
Ine ndikugona kuti bruuuuuuuuuuu
If its true kuti mwanyamula mbuzi 68,nkupita nazo ku new york,,,its a shame.imagine civil servants getting a meager 22%
If its true!,then the # z jst too much…there are pipo n sum parts of Malawi who do nt even take a single cup of clean water a day,babies being born at home using a Koloboyi,mothers walkn 4 long distances 2 sell masamba so dat dey sustain there families,fathers spendn de whole day doing manual works…sadly out of de lito dey earn,de tax eye will stl see dem…tiganizireni chonde…we no long depend on donors they hv all backout,were r we going 2 run 2?….this z de voice of de crying rural Malawian
nanunso atolankhani musamatinamize mwamva inu mbuzi eti,68 mwatenga kuti enawo ndi ambuyanu,osamasokoneza anthu mwamva ngati mwasowa cholemba just go and start farming
Dats 2 bad!
Chakula ndi nsanje! Apita anthu 8 osati 68. Kuthira gaga mdiwa bwanji!
at comment 130 you need to research first.Doulble tree is not the cheapest.Thats a Hilton chain and in New York thats the price.There are some hotels in New York that go foe $25 000 a night
kubowa zinazi!
Ndiyeno? Ndalamazo ndi za ambuyako afiti aja? Galu iwe
Ndi 38 osati 68, fools.
Now thats the Peter Muntharika i know and predicted.No austerity measures.I feel pity for Malawi nation!
FOR YOUR INFORMATION NO DOUBLETREE HOTEL IN THE U.S. CHANGES $400.00 PER NIGHT.
THE CHANGES FOR DOUBLE TREE ARE $78.00/$100.00 PER NIGHT. ITS ONE OF THE CHEAPEST HOTEL CHAINS IN THE U.S.
VIP HOTELS IN THE U.S. ARE $1,000.00 T0 $4,000.00 PER NIGHT. $17,000.00 PER NIGHT THUS NEWS TO ME.
68 basiiiii!!
Why does it seem like we are going on a downward spiral? Please advise the president rightly, we don’t want to lose him to stress and cardiac arrest when people start reacting. Please please God bless our president to desist these evil practices otherwise he will not handle the pressure when it begins
Ubwino ulipati apa. Gawanani ndalama zathu ife tizifa chifukwa muzipatala mankhwala akuchepa.
Zayamba kukuwawanitu REMEMBER KU U.S KULIBETU TIMAHOTEL NGATI TANUT TAMA K30.CHALA M’MWAMBA!
Nkhalamba Zimenezi Zitipweteketsa Zedi !! Iwowo Wana Wawo Ali ku U S A ! Sakuyiwona Kuwawa Kuwawa Malawi !! Akutisololeranso Timisonkhoti Topanda Madonati Kumakanjoyera Ndi Mahure awo Kumeneko !!! Pobwera Kumeneko Mabodza Wokha wokha Ife Eeeeee !!!
one thing i hate about northern malawi being part of malawi is,the non northeners like free things,when you chat with them ,they say ”i hate tumbuka bosses because they are very strict in dealings”,by this they mean tumbuka bosses are not flexible and coruptible,no wonder the mutharika’s are so cool with enrolling undeserving students to secondary school and universities , employing undeserving people in public service,they love freebies so much,and chances of malawi being out of poverty anutime soon are very slim,as long as the largest population that of the south dont stop the mentality of believing in free things,to them the only time they feel they are working is to cast a vote,and they think the rest will be provided by their presidents,they dont study in school cause they know their leaders shall provide them a secondary and university place.This behaviour makes me sick,this is one important factor that would make north malawi prosper faster if federal system of gvt is adopted.
Peter Mutharika does not appreciate that Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact Malawi is poorer than Lesotho.
There is absolutely no economic justification for Peter Mutharika to take 68 people. He does appreciate that Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world. I feel sorry as a Malawian. He is not different from his dead brother Bingu wa Mutharika. 64% of Malawians did not want him. If Malawi had the law requiring a person to have 50% plus 1 to be president this Peter Mutharika would not be ruling Malawi now. The lomwe people and other tribes from the southern region who do not want a person from the center and north to become president voted for Peter Mutharika. Judging from peter Mutharka’s inept and dismal performance in the past 3months the majority of Malawians who are very poor will continue to suffer abject poverty. The rich will continue to get richer while the poor will continue to get poorer.
We need money to have money,Without money we can’t have development
Another form of official cashgate.malawi has a problem with the type of politicians we tolerate.we need to barrel some of them to set an example of our frustration
Hahahahahaha JB anali woyipa amaba nanga zimenezi tiyeni nazo.
At 116 you dont show off your spending appetite when you go begging.
Koma Nyani ameneyu mulira nayo
sanamuvotere ndi ma MOYA AYI Koma MBENDERA
Thats Malawi may God have mercy.
ya kula ndi nsanje zamuwawa akakolope lake nyasa! athu apita ku akapange lobby kuti American should assist us with their money to developing our country and for your own information a certain company has already offer 2.1billion for construction of community colleges, and another 10million us dollar for boreholes zimenezi zikanatheka akanangokhala ku capital hill mukuona ngatI apita kukapanga shopping, APM ndi more if u dont know
Mukamva kuti ndale ndiye ndizimezo!!
Aba dollar yaife amenewo
I c nothing olo atapita anthu 100 or angati but my life style remain the same
Akumangotiputsitsa Ndikuti Tizilimbana Za Mpoto Eee Centre Eee South Pamene Iwowo Akusolora Koopsa Ife Timvekere Dziri Bwino !!! Atipweteketsa Ndithu anthu amenewa !!!
Zaoneka kuti mumangomuda jb musanafike pa udindowu,lerotu ndi izo.zimaphweka zili kwa ena
So thats why the govt has failed to pay some of us August salary. Anthu ndinu a satan inu. You carefully selected civil servants to be omitted on payroll to fund the travel of the whole village to Obamaland? September akamatha ndipeze mu account mwanga muli times 2 my salary apo bii
Trip gate, DPP
ena aatechita kutenga zibwenzi zawo ku newyork,paid by the state
ya kula ndi nsanje zamuwawa akakolope lake nyasa! athu apita ku akapange lobby kuti American should assist us with their money to developing our country and for your own information a certain company has already offer 2.1billion for construction of community colleges, and another 10million us dollar for boreholes zimenezi zikatheka akanangokhala ku capital hill mukuona ngatI apita kukapanga shopping, APM ndi more if u dont know
Mbendera voted for him
MK400M ???? NDIKUTHA KUONA MADEMO MTSOGOLOMU KUNGOTI NTHAWI SINAKWANE. ACB & FINANCE MINISTER WHERE ARE YOU?? IS THAT PRUDENT WAY OF SPENDING TAX PAYER MONEY??? VERY FEW BENEFITING. DZIKO LA MALAWI SILIZATUKUKA.
Musalire chifukwa mwayi osankha mwanzeru munali nawo pa 20May 2014..Koma simunawugwiritse bwino ntchito..Kwa MMalawi aliyense oganiza bwino kunali kosavuta kuona kuti the right choice on May 20 anali……………mupitiliza nokha kwinako
Malungo Fansidar and Eya, I strongly believe that it will protect your dignity and reputation if you don’t comment on the issues you are not conversant with than showing how empty your heads are.
You need to go through some schools corridors for you to understand some of these government trips mainly to important meetings like the UN General Assembly.
The State President doesn’t travel like you when you are in a minbus moving around in Malawi’s shabins, the president travels with security detail, staff from OPC, Media to cover the event, line ministers to help the president facilitates other meetings which at times takes place simingtaniously that a president can not manage to attend to all meetings and this happens to every country regardless of how poor or rich the nation is….
Stupid Iwe how many has the Botswana president taken to NY despite his country having lots of money? Most countries use embassy staff. What security can the Malawi buffoons give Peter? Stupid za a mako. If you are not careful I will marry your mother.
Have you already conducted cost-benefit analysis to conclude that this is a waste of resources? Learn this good people: if Malawi has to develop, it needs to spend. It’s like not funding Ministries heavily and hoping that they will perform. Forget development if this is the mentality you have.
THIS IS VERY SAD DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERING HOW DIRTY AND POOR OUR COUNRY IS, WE NEED MONEY AND RESOURCES FOR THE GOOD FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY WHICH IS ONE OF THE WORST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD, LET’S SEE TANGIBLE DEVELOPMENTS AS A RESULT OF THIS TRIP, OTHERWISE MANY MALAWIANS THAT ARE JUST SITTING IDLE SHOULD START TAKING ACTIONS BY DEMOSTRATING ON SUCH ISSUES, WE HAVE TO BE OPEN MINDED, WE GET CHARGED MUCH TAX AND IS BEING SPENT LIKE DONATIONS
Wasn’t it the DPP under Bingu that brought the country to its knees only three years ago? What did people expect when they voted them back in last May? ‘A leopard doesn’t change its spots.’ The DPP is the DPP. Why should AP Mutharika be any different from his brother BIngu? People get the government they deserve. Why complain? If the details of this article are true, then APM needs to be reminded of them every time he speaks about improving life in Malawi by improving the economy. The man cannot be trusted. You know he is lying when his mouth moves! He would not know the truth if it came up behind him and bit him on his bum! You have him for five more years. Better make the best of it.
Compare Malawians delegation to a few members of the British delegation. Malawi is full of corrupt people. What a waste of tax payers money
so what???????!!!!!
SLEEPY MALAWIANS! THIS GUY HAS NO INTEREST OF MALAWIANS. HIS LIFE IS IN THE STATES. HE CAME TO EAT, STEAL AND ENRICH HIMSELF BECAUSE NDINU OGONA. SUMANATI, MUDAKAVUTIKA, CHIFUKWA CHA BACKWARD MENTALITY , YOVOTERA MUNTHU CHIFUKWA MUCHOKERA NAYE KUMUDZI LIMODZI.
He continued from where his brother left. In 2010 Bingu had a 75 strong delegation. Nothing changed after that, Malawi remained the same even more poorer I dare say. Peter probably left out the chancers, so the team was probably the same.
VERY STUPID VOTERS vote 4 Stupid Leaders. Foolish voters vote 4 extremely foolish presidents. Where are u? Foolish leaders think 4 their friends & themselves not majority that sleep & wake up in poverty. Check around even their home stinking poverty. Foolish voters i mean extremely foolish leaders too!
A foolish nation that is hard to make meaningful progress. A nation that is good for regrets…a nation void of power to make right decisions..a malicious nation that elects wrong people at the expense of nationhood. That is what we are!! Do not shed crocodile tears as this is just the beginning…kenako mkatsutsa ayamba kumakukwapulani.
Your rejection of JB and choice of DPP has consequences. Musatibowe. DPP has been known for plunder all along, yet you voted for DPP, that party which created cashgate, and that party which knows best how to plunder the country’s economy and has no clue how to build it, has no clue how to win back donors to support our development efforts. Now, don’t cry.
pobwera mupangidwe Embarm. Mutibere ndalama muzazaziseso zimbuzi Kuno ayii kulani munyelethu konko
Cost benefit analysis sakuyidziwa anthuwa! what they are spending & the benefits 2 be yieded from this trip doesnt make any sense. all these people they are just going there to seat & eat nothin to say or present. There present there will not benefit malawi in any way. So as good leader, Mutharika should have thought a bout this…….. kutidyera masuku pamutu
By the way, even the very civil society organisations that claim to fight for the rights of the poor adopt the same strategy of travel and allowances to earn quick buck. We need to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the Malawian social consciousness (from bottom up) if we are to address the trend to abuse public funds. Ngati ndikunama munditsutse.
Nkhani anthu ambiri ndinu mbuli chifukwa choti Democracy simuidziwa mulimbana ndi boma,iweyo ukulephera kuyendesa banja lako ntchito, zibwenzi ndi kuba ungapange chani padziko,ano ndimasiku otsiliza mmalo mokonza moyo wako bizy fwefwe.
I think Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class, though dated, needs to be a prescribed text in our schools. Why did the Blantyre-based economic commentator prefer anonymity? Isn’t it a faint hope for future co-option in the “government” affairs so he can join the “eating” crew? In Malawi, the longevity of a politician’s career is directly proportional to the number of participants he or she co-opts in the activity of consumption. We are all on the “waiting list” for a possible “job” so we can travel to New York and spend donor- and tax-payer coins. Meanwhile, let’s continue our muckraking on the sidelines of history. Who knows, they might just notice us and invite us to the party!
Amaona kuchedwa. They said ulutsani zotsatila malawi is about to collapse. Now yah! Malawi is collapsing. How can a sensible person seeing how bad life is can accumulate a bill of 400million. Yet u r saying the healthcare budget was cut due to cashgate. At the same time u want donors to help. Is that sensible. We dont have proper hospitals here. People are dying coz of poor healthvare syestem. U pple one day ull stand be unswerable for these acts. It really angers me when pple lie during campaign. We are suffering here. Maternal death is high. Children dying. At 50yrs no proper roads and this is how we are being treated by the same pple we trusted. We can pray about it ofcourse but God is not a dictator. Malawians we need to do what we can and God will do what we cannot do. We have been loosing lives because of this.Malawians are peaceful and pliz dont provoke us. Just do what u r supposed to do.
Africa is rich koma moyo wotelewu ukubwezeletsa continent mbuyo.
Look at the rich countries. They do not have minerals, their climate is poor but they are rich. Africa is blessed with everything but poor beyond measure.PLIZ HELP US.
Most of these are civil servants and I assume they are on duty. Koma ngati ali a DPP ndiye zikulakwika chifukwa ulendowu si wa chipani. Ena paja amatenga mafumu and family members for a shopping spree going weeks before the general assembly and returning a month after the general assembly koma nonse kumangoti zii. Pano its APM with the right pple ndiye kunyoza. Mukhala choncho.
Fotseki
Kodi zitsiru inu mukungoti ng’wee ng’wee chiani apa. Even if he blows more than that amount is it out of budget?. Hw much has Jesebel blown in just 2yrs? Fotseki.
We already heard that these people are looting more than PP and UDF put together and they have just started.Ben Phiri has already made $100 million selling presidential meetings. How many secondary school blokes can this money build. What is the defference ndi amayi here. K400m people apa let’s wake up. That’s why taxes are going up. Be prepared my fellow Malawians as taxes are going up, also new ID and passports . Donors will not give this government funds so taxes on offals coming soon. You already witnessed the hikes at traffic department. Duty will also do the same. Get ready for a few shortages. Yang’anani zigubu zija munataya. We are going back to those days. As a chewa said madzi sayiwala khwawa.DPP in full effect. Tidya manyi under this government.
That is why I want independence for the Central Region. Southerners are known for their extravangance and wasteful trips are to be expected.
This is jst the beggining. We Malawians wl never never listen advice other ppo tel us. We were tod nt to vote for MOYA, but we stl chose to elect hm to the higher ofc lyk dis. Our money as tax payers z being mismanaged & we jst luk & hm. Sitinati ma donor ndiawa akutisalawa. Adzingotibera basi. Atengana Alomwe okha okha 95%.
Oh!! this explains why there is no money in circulation in Malawi these days businesses have grinded to a halt. People do not have money to spend. What will happen in November, Dec and January? We are going to die.
Kodi malawi idzakhalako ndi mtsogoleli wa ‘walk the talk’?Maybe after this generation. Eh,atsogoleli akuba,akangandiwamba.Imagine the whole village for atrip.Kodi nanga a TA wangawa mudzatengako liti pa ulendo wokadya mitsonkhoyi?400 mita for a so called debate.
Chimunthu choti chakula and chimwalira anytime behaving like this? kodi a Malawi timachita dyera ndi kunja bwanji? Tiyeni tikonze dziko lathu likhale losililika ngati mayiko enawa. Koma tawonani umve uli mu Lilongwe. Ndalama zimenezi zinakagwira ntchito yochotsa nyasi zonse and cleaning the city of vendors. Blantyre ikuwoneka bwino koma kwathu ku Lilongwe umve okhaokha ngati ku Limbe.
This is how they chew govt money, no different to cashgate only that this is like money laundering, hiding theft through trips by getting allowances for no work done. Thugs are in power watch out
Ananena kale, they will continue where they left off, K92b + K400m and counting. Now think of how much he will blow when he starts building his own state house
Hiiii! mmalo moti tizidyera therere kuti tikokere tikugulanso sausages, a Pitala shaaaaa!
Mukamaliza kutokota munene,tikufuna tigone.Mumafuna mukanakhala inu ?
Dont regret! The 36% voters from the southern Malawi made a grievious fault by voting for these crooks. Its a shame to the poor nation. Mbendera and the courts must give us a solution quicker before we take action.
It is the President who is an idiot. He should not have sanctioned the entourage if he was level headed.Sure, the blame should squarely be placed on Malawian Tax payers for just sitting Phwiiii. Sad indeed.
These pple have money dont support their budget.
GOING BY THE FIGURES PROVIDED IN THE ARTICLE,IT IS CLEAR PETER MUTHALIKA IS A PRESIDENT WHO HAS NO REGARD AT ALL TO THE AVOIDANCE OF WASTAGE OF OUR LIMITED PUBLIC RESOURCES.PETER MUTHALIKA IS EFFECTIVELY SETTING A VERY BAD PRECEDENCE WHEN IT COMES TO SPEARHEADING THE EFFECTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT BY GOVERNMENT IN LINE WITH THE PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2003.WITH THIS DEMONSTRATION OF WASTAGE OF PUBLIC RESOURCES, I WONDER WHERE THE PRESIDENT COULD GET HIS ENERGY TO FORCE HIS CABINET MINISTERS AND CONTROLLING OFFICERS TO FOLLOW THE PUBLIC FINANCE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS??????????
Musalire Lero ine ndakhala ndikukupemphani kuti Amalawi anzanga ngati tikufuna kuti dziko wathu asinthe tiyeni tivotele young blood in the name of Atupele Muluzi,instead
you called him sorts of names not befitting his status ,inexperienced,baby(etc)
and now is serving as a Minister to gain the experience you wanted all along` to my surprise some misguided individuals has already started talking ill about him calling him, an opportunists,rolling stone and stuff,to be precise
i understand not Malawians-the guy is striving to gain experience you thought is devoid of so as to come 2019 he should be the candidate matching your qualities
Bingu was right Malawians are like chickens!
He can take the whole cabinet plus chiefs/sub TA’s with him as I care it’s his decision to make!
Yes this is the time to repatriate forex like Bingu did and the country run out of forex. Fortunately the others may have done Cashgate but they kept the money in Malawi and invested in businesses which employed Malawians. I can’t believe if these DPP guys will not launch the forex repatriation train.
The question to ask is : have they made this money they are playing with after 100 days in office as they say they found no money?
Citizen
Osadandaula amalawi,some of those people in the 68 Delegation to UN General Assembly will import Chizonono into Malawi… 68 Member Delegation a Health Scare to Malawi…
Whether the trip is funded externally or not, but the amount is so huge. Why not trim size of the entourage and save part of the money???
Anthu opanda mutu okhaokha zowona pa gulu ra anthu 68 pangalephere ku pezeka munthu otsusana nazo zangati zimenezo hhehehede ingakhale a Apm metsa amati ndi ophunzira nanga school yawo ilipata? Nanga metsa amati amayi akumayenda kwambiri nanga izi ndi chani?
Whats why i hate dpp zedi izi sizikanachitika if only the courts didint get involved in our elections. Koma ayi ndithu kukonda ndalama reputation kuitaya apo. Sad i cry for mother malawi.
68 pepole is very high from our side for sure. Can Nyasa Team investigate how many people have accompanied Nigerian & Souh African presidents to UN? Because our economy is very sick and bedridden that it can manage to swallow this large lump of delegation. Of course we’re soveriegn state but our economy knees can not stand up nor walk tall up to USA with such large team. Our money is being spent mercilessly. Do we stand and watch this madness unfolding like that? No, lets show them that we’re in the know of their motives, exploitation and greedy. Its the same DPP that promised a lean cabinet but today its a lean cabinet and fat pool of advisors. Termination of contracts which govt will pay dearly up to 2019. Are we serious gentlemen and ladies? Why dont rise up and show them that we’re already tired if them? Our children are learning under trees, ambulances in govt hospitals have no tyres, low funding in govt departments,, th list goes and goes and u and i say ‘asiyeni Mulungu awalanga’ are we serious? This war must start with us and God will help us like we did with Bingu.
koma eee ziliko chaka chino ndizosaembekezereka.lets wait and see.
Iwe 34 aleke alomwe…apm ndi prezdent watonse mulira uku nkuyamba…inu mudavoteranj?
Malawi will never be the same, that’s what u voted for! U have to face it, because malawians u did choose Poverty, and u must learn how to vote wise, u need blame yourself and also u like to be ruled strangers.
KOMA ALOMWE AMATITOLA KWAMBIRI.
Chife Nacho Chisatitopetse
May I ask someone running a coffin Workshop to make coffins for all Malawians and bury us. I dont see any reason why we should be alive. This is a dead nation. We see our stupid leaders spending our money and clap hands for them. May the Almighty God forgive me for the statement “I cry for being a Malawian” because He never makes mistakes.
Helps God. We are suffering because of selfish leaders
It’s true Musiyeni umu ndi mmene Amai amachitira ndi a china wakawaka. Zingoonetsa kuti Mmalawi muno dollar ilimo. Amai amati anapeza mulibe koma chonsecho globe trotting. Moya amatinso anapeza economy itachita collapse lero ndi izi. Ndiye kuti dollar muno mulibe? Ayi ndithu, okumwa tea adzamwanso. Zimenezi ngakhale ma MP athu azipani zonse, I mean ndi otsutsa amene akudzidziwa. Nanga si aja apatsana ma 24 mita. Alipo wawafunsa kuti ma loan a ma 24 mitawo ndalama zake muzitenga kuti?
What the hell is the whole village going to do in America? And kupusa kwathu a Malawi, we tend to think kuti these idiots are doing this for those who did not vote for them into power. Kodi tidzayamba liti kumadzichita value and atleast kumadziganizira? Anthu 68 onsewo achani? What the hell is the agenda that requires the whole DPP village to come to the US for? This is our money and we are just sitting “phwiiiiii” as always, nkumati iyai lemerani Mulungu akuona? What about you who is right there, who is allowing this bullshit to be going on, what are you doing about it. God gave us mutu ndi brain yoti tidziganiza koma zimatikanika a Malawi chifukwa we dont value ourselves. Will you let wina wake ndithu using your money for you business kuti adziseweletsa choncho? How different is this from your tax money. Kodi tidzachangamuka liti a Malawi and stop being stupid with our reasoning?
We envisaged and told you Malawians how evil minded these creatures from DPP camp are but you couldn’t listen.
Musiyeni ndi nthawi yake….mwaiwala kuti inunxo munaononga ndalama more than this!!! Cashgate nkati.
Iwe ndiye CHITSIRU cha dzitsiru dzonse. How could you say kuti musiyeni ndi nthawi yake? Whose money is it? Do you know its “your” and “my” tax money that is blowing? How stupid are we Malawians to think that oh yeah ndi nthawi yawo yoononga ndalama? Anthu akuvutika in district hospitals and you are telling me kuti ndi nthawi yawo yoononga ndalama. How stupid and sad it is to hear and see a Malawi osaganizira za bwino za dziko lawo ngati iwe. This is the BS that has and still kiiling the economy and you are happy that akuononga ndalama. Shame on you!
Ulibe nzeru ise. You want plundering of tax payers money to continue? You are a useless DPP cadre
Don’t forget cashgate ya k 92 billion ndi ya D P P. inuyo povota mumafuna awononge kapena kukhonza Malawi?
Davido this mentality of saying popeza kuti wina anaononga therefore i khale trend for everyone coming after is very bad and foolish.We need to change our thinking. We need a government that has people at heart not few party loyalists at heart.This is a very shallow thinking. Malawians will never improve. Donors please do not release your peoples tax money to Malawi there is a lot of money in Malawi to play with.
it’s unfortunate. globe trotting again
ONEWAY OF STEALING PUBLIC MONEY IN THE GOVT, 2005 TO 2012 DPP DID THE SAME AND CORRUPTION WAS TOO HIGH. KUBA A MALAWI TIKUONA NDI MASO ATHU SORRY——— LEMERANI KOMA MLUNGU AKUWONA THE DAY WILL COME, BUT NOT TOO LONG——— VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
OUR TRUE GOD SAVE OUR SOULS +
What a dull writeup from a clearly half cooked writer who is typically not sophisticated enough. First of all just like the last trip, you have got the numbers wrong.
More importantly it takes a well sized team to take advantage of the many meetings and opportunities that avail themselves at this international gathering. It’s not how many will go, rather what will they be doing. It doesn’t matter at all to spend a few million of devalued Malawi currency if in return we get millions of US$ in investments.
Malawians, it’s high time we stopped being obsessed with trivia and start opening our minds and thinking big. Development is not about borehole, tarmac and half equipped health centers only, we can’t spend precious time focused on who has been selected to some secondary school in bwengu or fighting over the location of a cancer center.
Wake up! Stop barking, barking, barking and barking some more…..for nothing!
be realistic this is true this president is a joke to the nation,he knows he has lived his life and is here to just destroy.cashgate president
Wow, koma a pulesident awa, ndi nyatwa, sizocheza ai, eeeeee, ndalama ya Malawi ilipamvuto is this what we expected from the President of our poor country Malawi?
While we are all going through pains with zero budget, and punishing the poor women and men with heavy txes in order fund the government, millions of kwachas are being spent unwisely.
AI, ndizomwe a Malawi amafuna, kuvuta kwa matchona nkumeneku amafuna kukhala moyo umene analikukhala kunja kwa dziko lino, a Malawi munasiya kuvotela a Malawi anzanu amene umphawi amaudziwa, tiyeni nazoni tiwona zosaona ndipo akanganya amenewa.
If these figures are anything to go by, then `It’s very (much) unfortunate.’ Otherwise as a nation we may end up falling into a bottomless pit… That is if the figures reflect a kernel of truth.
Well said, the reporter is not even sure what the number is. “68 or more ” is it 68 is it mre?
Why not report when you have all the facts.
Besides, there is no mention whether this amount was budgeted for or not, whose vote is it? Is this money sourced as an emergency.
If it was budgeted for, then we need to wait and see if parliament thinks it is a reasonable amount.
Where do reporters do that. Silly fool can’t you see that this president is killing malawi. Does it matter whether the funds are budgeted for. Is it not the shocking extravagance of a president of a very poor country. Look around malawi is sliding into a failed state. Failure in service delivery, joblessness and insecurity are clear sings. What is more shocking is that people who have been to school are behaving like fools instead of leading the way to sound reasoning which can move our country forward. Paying $17000 for accommodation is by any measure total stupidity when you are crying for donor support and you have cut health budget due to lack of funds.
Malawi is where we are because of our own making. We choose leaders who reflect our thinking. But time is coming when enough will be enough and the only way to go will be to take matters in our own hands. Egyptians, Tunisians, Lybians and many other countries that are fighting for their future will continue to fight until they get it. But Malawians will keep on smiling at stupidity and get poorer as the leaders we make get richer and richer. What a shame. Wake up Malawians. Lets fight like our friends. Noone is above anybody for we are equal in the eyes of God Tiwonana kutsogolo kwandime. Mwatitopetsa.
Nosense… repeating the same mistakes.. koma Nyasaland sadzatheka. AAAAASSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
These are the typical Mutharika’s I know. When they see government money they go made until they finish it all. These Mutharika’s are the same. They will never change. They are not Malawians and never feel for us. This is good for the teachers. You helped rig and here we are. Where is the money he promised you, zero. Foolish teachers.
koma boma la apm ndi chipani chake, sakumvetsa ubwino, panyapanu ndithu, pamtumbo pomanu. umangosakaza ndalama chonchi??
Hahahaha tawelengeselani how much in total Peter has spent and what JB had spent by this time on travel? U will see that its less!
It is not about compairing who spent more at a certain period of time rather who is doing right to save the ailing kwacha. Got it?
tiyeni nayoni misokhoyathuyo mudzidyabasi,but remember paying back time will come.any way gud trip mr goliyati and your team.
Peter Mutharika is Bingu replica. This dude is there at the helm to steal and loot excutively.
Mafumu akukatani ku UN General Assembly? But district hospitals are given K30million for the entire month to cover all costs. And som gogo is there blowing K400million in 3 weeks? Really? Malawi unabetsa voti yako
This is constructive criticism, Nyasa Times! APM has shown hypocrisy here! Let him be taken to task for wasting tax payers money! What is Ben’s brother, Martin Nkasala doing in New York? This is UTTER NOSENSE and abuse of tax payers money! Mxiiiiiiiii!
A good report with adequate stats. Well done Nyasa Times. However, the news is quite discouraging. Sixty eight is too large for a delegation under any circumstances; whether we are in a deficit or surplus economy. Wisdom, caution, prudence and integrity are rare virtues amongst our politicians.
IRRESPONSIBLE STUPID REPORTING AS USUAL. SPAIN HAS ALREADY GIVEN MALAWI US$5 MILLION x MK340= MK 1,7 BILLION KWACHA. YOU GOTTA SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY. BRAVO APM FOR TH INTIATIVES YOU ARE TAKING TO UPLIF MALAWI. WHAT IS CLEAR IS THAT THE CONTRIBUTIRS OF NEWS AT NYASATIMES ARE PP ZEALOTS WHO SUPPORT JOYCE BANDA AND THE CALLS FOR SECESSION AND IN FACT YOU DELETE OUR POSTS WHEN THEY ARE NOT IN YOUR FAVOUR
DPP is Useless Government,a joke to Malawians! Very shortly we will heard to fresh polls…The Rule of Peter Mutharika is not what Malawians expected!
With this Unscheduled 68 Member Delegation to New York to the UN General Assembly don’t dare to think that you will drag International Donors to help Malawi in its 2014/15 Fiscal Budget…The UN Chief advised Peter Mutharika to exercise Financial Prudence and respect Human Rights in Malawi…
DPP Rule always has no respect for Malawians who are suffering socially,economically and politically…The Cost of Living for Ordinary Malawian is less than a Dollar a Day while Peter Mutharika is wasting K400 m on DPP Hand Clappers!
The UN needs to set up rules and measures to safeguard the UN General Assembly…Only Invited Heads of State, Ladies and Gentlemen must attend the UN General Assembly…The UN General Assembly is not the Arena of Showing Off as what we see with DPP Government!
Dr Joyce Banda has been invited to attend the UN General Assembly by the UN as Former Head of State of Malawi so as George W Bush,Bill Clinton among others…
The Aim of Ushering a 68 Member Delegation is to cheer and dance for Peter Mutharika and ashame Dr Joyce Banda as if she is not invited to attend the UN General Assembly…This is Bad Governance Gesture!
Iwe @38 (Makina): do NOT call Joisi Banda “Dr.”, please. (Zimandinyasa zimenezi (It’s an insult to those with legitimate doctorates, in various specialties).
What are the standards???
total mudness of this leadership
Tisadandaule ndizimene timafuna amalawi
Leader of dpp is caring for malawians. Malgwians should rise and work against this man b4 things go out of hand. Even alomwe who are wise and intelligent enough are able to see the weakness of their beloved pitala.
Koma!!!!
yes people can spend government money dont blame ndalama zavuta a hotel paying mk7.75 million per night yaaaaaaaaa anthuakuvutika kuti awone ndalama yoteleyi yooo lo
My Question is: Ndiye kuti Martin Nkasala wapita ku New York ( United Nations ) as Ben Phiri’s Brother kapena as on of the State house staff?
School me here……
Secession for the North WOYEEEEEE!!
Sabotage malawi good at that from 2010 always negative malawi will never develop
Ife timagona njala president alipo ku state house timadandaula? Ngati ine kukagona koyenda pa tsiku maononga more than k2 000. Nde mwati president kuononga k400 million ikhale nkhani. Pezani ina. Nsanje ndi mtsogoleli wanu sibwino ngakhale chauta salora.
Things we love to hear and. Hate to see happening. For God’s sake why voting for lavish president with appetite for classicals at tge expense of poor people?
Forex is depleting in coffers as evidenced by depreciating rate of a kwacha. Inflation is even sky rocketing.
God save Malawi.
These political leaders will not change on the part of economic rehabilitation until a bland new set of cabinet ministers is endorsed. Repeating the same faces in various governments ministerial positions will continue to spoil Malawi’s economic status. ‘WAKE UP MALAWI’
What’s next?
Demos’
Let the ministry of information provide list of people who have travelled to the USA as they did last time during the USA-AFRICA leaders summit. I choose to disagree with you on the cost of a return airticket to the USA in the economy class. It is not K1.6 million per ticket but not more than K800,000 per ticket be it SAA, Ethiopian or Kenyan. Tisawonjezele zinthu kuti tiyipise boma. As I’ve said, in order to rest the whole issue full list of all the people who have travelled with the president should be made public by the ministry of information.
This is the DPP that i know. We are yet to see more. Malawi is doomed at this rate.
Bwana president sakugniza? Seriously what role are chiefs going to play there? Even the party cadres akukatani kumeneko? DPP is quickly losing my support as the days go. Like who approves these things? It certainly can’t be the president but still it’s his fault because he’s the head of state.
Agwanso ndi mtimatu awa.
Does death make you horny? Why don’t you criticise his decisions without casting bad spells on his life? The problem which unfortunately you have no capacity to see is that you are exposing your intellectual limitations to millions of people on this popular cyber platform.
shocking and unexpected
He is being very stupid indeed , it means he has made himself a superstar richest head of state in less than three months. That’s being stupid.
Thats the DPP for you, with full executive arrogance. MPs are busy cracking heads in parliament on how we can manage the meagre resources as a country and the leader is busy on the other side squandering every coin available at Treasury. You may be shocked that APM may be the only african president staying at such a costly hotel despite our 3rd position on the log table of the poorest counries on earth.
Anthu 68 onsewo a chan,tikuvutika ndikale muno mziko nde munthu wina osankhidwanso ndi anthu nkumaononga chuma cha boma chomcho,we are the tax payer ndipo timamva kuwawa koma kulira kwathu tsikulina kuzayankhidwa,Mulungu simunthu
Idyani, imwani ndpo sangalalani kma dziwan kt tsiku lina mizimu ya anthu akufa muzipatala cifkwa chosowa mankhwala ikadzakwiya, ufumu udzakuvutan ndpo chikumbumtima chidzakusowetsani mtendere.
Koma mwawonjeza. Tindalama tochepa tomweti? Mimba zanu
Choka chitsiru munthu wabodza iwe! If you calculate, are you trying to say that on average, everyone is spending $1.5 million dollars? Machende ako. Atleast try to write some credible stories.
Oh yes. This is DPP. Very chIldish. Amalawi ndionesese anathesa nkhosa. Pamene anasiira nchimwene wake.
Kuti chani? Akutameni ndani? Amayi sanachose kanthu mmenemo inu mwati ooooo tapeza. Ok mudziona. Nchibwana ichi. Anthu mpaka 68. Oh yaa tidziona. Mbendera ndidzakudandaula mpaka kale
That’s exactly what you voted for !! Don’t cry foul now you still got 4 and half years more of this !! What goes around comes back and bite you !!!
Akungotiwombanitsa Mitu Amphawife Ndalama Akudya Ndiwowo !!!
its plain simple… its the 69 th session, right? and 68
member delegation and if you add 1 which is the
president himself you get 69 right?… Then that explains
the logic of our president here….’kkkkkk its a balanced
equation…”lol
THE TRUTH IS ON THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSED
Very very sad. Sorry Africa.
Suffering is the way of life.
Not any other continent is as bad as Africa.
Who has cursed Africa and it’s people? God?
Yes God.
The black man is the most despised man.
I am a proud black man, but the facts sadden me.
When civil servants are crying foul the President is blowing unbelievable millions. This country will not change becoz it has very Stupid Voters. Goodall told the nation that government doesn’t have money but the President is spending recklessly. Where are the Trade Unions? I mean MCTU & TUM. Akupasani chisikono? Let hope that this figure is not true. But if its true then this DPP government indeed is here 4 real Satanism as Liabunya says. No money 4 Ebola but 4 trivial party zealiots. Komadi Satana ndiye amalamuliro dziko lapansi eti! A Chakwera nthawi yakwana kuti muyankhule ku mtundu wa Malawi kuti Pitala wabwera kuzaononga dziko! Goodall is now named Badall Gondwe
Koma a galu amenewa tithamange basi. Mxxi
amalawi this is what we wanted. lets be braced for it. amalawi sitizatheka basi..how do you bote for dpp and yet just 3 years ago they made us suffer! aash!!
Name the 68 people please, i would not to comment and later be told they were less than 68.
Nyasatimes at its best! Now we know who is spending our Tax Payers money and how! The treason case was NOT stupid but APM and DPP are very STUPID!!
Go deeper Nyasa go deeper. We need more figures. Nanga ma allowance atenga zingati, nanga amene apita ngati ma delegates ndindani. A Lhomwe ndi angati, Chewa ananga a Tumbulka kapena a Yao. Kodi panali quota system kapena nepotism. Kodi federal government kapena secession ukuti bwanji. We are eager to hear more from you.
Ma ulendo otero amatha kubweretsa ma benefits ambiri oposa their cost.u told us that thru that same ulendo,ma community colleges aja akuwoneka kuti atha kutheka.Some development come at a cost.
Because we are not educated most of Malawians that is why we are saying ulendo otero mwina amatha kubweretsa ma benefits ambiri since when group of people like this 68 brought ma beneits ku Malawi open your eyes Malawi APM akuwononga Malawi as we are going through tough ECONOMIC TIMES here in Malawi.
Asaai! Sopano mukafuna aziyemda yekha?Anatokhala chiyendayekha?Ndiye mukatinso azikagona kwaniko?Ku Wenela yakonko?Kapena azikagona munsasa?ZITSIRU ZA ANTHU ATUMBUKA.Anzanu ajatu ku Sikotilande referendum yawavuta ndiye mwasala ndi inu tikuwonelani
Khani iliapa siya a TUMBUKA ayi please please please why are you diverting from the topic of APM please think before you post or comment as it shows that you have no input in this regard please don’t insult a TUMBUKA we are tired with word TUMBUKA please take your stress to APM as he took useless gamut of people to NEW YORK USA, APM doesn’t think about POVERTY and HUNGER that Malawians are facing now he is abusing our TAX money ok.
HE DIDN’T HAVE TO BE BOOKED AT WALDORF ASTORIA. HILDTON HAS SO MANY HOTELS THAT COULD HAVE ACCOMMODATION THAT MALAWI GOVERNMENT COULD AFORD. NOT THIS NONSENSE. $17,000.00 PER NIGHT IS APM OUT OF HIS MIND.
IF INDEED HE WORK IN THE U.S. AM SURE HIS WHITE FRIEND ARE LAUGHING AT HIM, AND US ALL, FOR VOTING HIM INTO THE HIGH OFFICE.
WHO EVER MADE THE BOOKING MAY HAVE BOOKED HIM ON THE PENTHOUSE,FOR HIS HONEYMOON. AND YOU WANT THE NATION TO PAY FOR THIS?