Mutharika challenges nepotism narrative, gives out statistics: North Malawi has key jobs in govt
Malawian President Peter Mutharika on Thursday stunned thousands of people at Bolero in Rumphi when he gave out statistics which contrary to civil society organisations (CSOs) assertions, proves that regardless of having bigger populations the Central region and the Southern region are in some cases the least represented in terms of senior government positions.
Mutharika made the comment after Minister of Transport Jappie Mhango raised the issue at a rally in Rumphi.
Mhango said that as a person from the northern region in Malawi he was concerned that some activist and critics accuse President Mutharika of nepotism when his appointments pattern and the situation on the ground in the civil society proves otherwise.
The Minister said it was sad that while President Mutharika has appointed four senior Cabinet Ministers from the northern region in his lean Cabinet of 20 out of four regions and distributes public appointments fairly ,some organisation’s like to paint a differenr picture all together.
Taking his turn, President Mutharika said he has always avoided to comment on the issue of nepotism hoping that objective Malawians will see that the accusations have no merit.
President Mutharika said the issue is “divisive”.
It was at this point that Mutharika gave statistics about senior government positions in relation to the region the holders come from.
According to the statictics on the ground show that positions in government are fairly distributed. For instance, in the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal and High Court of Malawi, he said the Northern Region has 13 judges, the South has 10, Central Region has four and Eastern Region has nine.
He specifically said Supreme Court of Appeal has nine judges with eight from the North, one from Centre while Southern Region has none on the bench.
In terms of senior servants, he said the Central Region has the most officers occupying grades A to E at 179 followed by the Southern Region with 158, Eastern Region—including Ntcheu District which in terms of administration is regarded as in the Central Region—has 144 and the North has 116.
The statistics provided by President Mutharika are in agreement to the ones given by the Chief Secretary to the government Lloyd Muhara a week ago in response to a petition delivered to government in April 2018 by CSOs .
The issue of nepotism was one of the issues raised in the petition.
The two civil society organisation’s Centre for Human Rights &, Rehabilitation CHRR and the Centre for Development of a People CEDEP that raised the issue are yet to challenge the statictics provided by the Government and now echoed by President Mutharika.
In response to the challenge presented by the statictics against the nepotism assertions, Human Rights Defenders (HRD) chairperson Timothy Mtambo described the response as an insult to Malawians.
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Thanks for good roads Prof.APM. Thanks in advance for Hewe road. Timavutika tikamakatenga tenants. it will be fast now. plz do it fast Chakwera asanatenge……Train other Lomwezi to be cadets otsalawo tidzatenga.
Ife kaya u win or not we don’t care yathu ndi business and work and employ lomwe garden boys, maids and tenants. this won’t change…….
Nepotism means “the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs”. It doesn’t really matter whether Northern, Central Eastern or indeed Southern regions are well represented or overrepresented, in the senior and/or influential roles; the issue being challenged is that Peter Mutharika has favoured Lhomwes for senior and influential positions. They may only be 4 or 5 Lhomwes but these are relatives or friends occupying very senior and influential positions. Nepotism isn’t about representation but favouritism and the two shouldn’t be confused to mean the other. Cronyism on the hand means “the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications”. Peter Mutharika is also accused of Cronyism and it is a valid concern. There are just too many of Peter Mutharika friends and associates examples of which are too numerous to list.
The so called CSO’s just want to attract peoples attention they must bring out their statistics too to prove their noise.Professor ndi Professor basi doesn’t talk without figures.
Lies, damned lies and statistics!! So goes the popular refrain. Who has vouchsafed the veracity of these stats? What’s their provenance? Knowing how economic the DPP machinery is in churning out truth, taking these stats at face value can only be at ones own peril!!!
Go home plz we are sick and tired of you
Pure statistical cherry picking by these dpp thugs. Produce the statistics from each ministry where top employees come from, you cannot just choose statistics that you like from very tiny portion of the whole govt. After all, can we really believe where these figures are coming from? Who verified them and how?
The president has fallen victim to confirmation bias. He is busy trying to get statics that supports his views, ignoring the whole picture. He needs to differentiate positions that are subjected to fair recruitment and selection processes from those he has the power to just wake up one day and appoint the person he likes. Even if some of those positions require confirmation by parliament, we cannot rely on our money hungry law makers whose allegiance can easily be bought. Furthermore, the law makers choice is limited to what the president has put forward for them to confirm.
He cannot start telling us about statistics of Northerners in senior government positions and the judiciary when most of them joined as junior officers and have risen up the ranks through hard work and attaining higher qualifications whilst working. Did He appoint them? He has to appoint the judges from the pool of legal minds that the country has and if many happens to be from the North, where else is he going to appoint from? I thought the whole idea of quota was to allow people from other regions have access to higher education which was perceived as a monopoly of Northerners. With time this should even the merit based hiring process.
The statistics he needs to provide us is the number of appointments he has made since assuming the presidency which should include board members of parastatals, and how many of these are from the North, Centre and South. By the way, I thought Eastern Region is part of Southern Region. Why split the numbers.
I can see now, there are some Malawians who can analyze things as human beings; thank you Charlie Hebdo, don’t just dance to a noise because it’s the president who is singing.
I like this. In boxing it means he is defending from real punches. Sunati. Let the southerners vote and we enjoy good jobs. You dominate politics we dominate economic gains.
You could have also brought statistics of tenants in Rumphi.kkkkkkkkkk.
kumwera muzivota tidzatengako lomwee tenants………
Is the quota system of selecting students into public universities good? That’s a bad system which DPP introduced because the selection has to be on merit not taking into account where one comes from. It was introduced to favour lomwes who instead of working hard in class to pass well in exams, busy zisembwere, look at what happens at mlakho wa alomwe, another platform of encouraging tribalism not promoting culture as they put it, spending millions on a gathering which does not add value at all. Mtundu wa alomwe was very behind in almost everything before Bingu came in and now wants to promote itself through backdoor.
A warning to my fellow Malawians. This APM and his operatives had sat down to come up with a smokescreen to the nitty gritty component of nepotism. Consider the following:
1. The CSOs are not talking about the quantity, but the nepotistic conduct of this APM and the progressive diminishing of those who are non-Lhomwes while there is a gradual increase in those who are Lhomwes. If at one point, the Centre had 170 and the South had 100, then the Centre gets 179 and the South gets 158, would you say this is fair statistics? Consider the percentage at which you are gaining ground while causing others to weaken and diminish. It is a matter of time, this statistics of quantity does not add up. If someone deservedly gets MK100, 000.00 and his salary is adjusted to MK110, 000.00 while another one who gets MK40, 000.00 gets the salary adjusted to MK109, 000.00, would you justify your statistics as being fair because it is MK110, 000.00 vs MK109, 000.00? You can fool your fellow Lhomwes, give us a break please.
2. In Malawi, there are 3 official regions, The Northern, Central and Southern. Don’t bluff us with your pseudo Eastern Region. Eastern Region does not exist. It is part of south. You may choose to have 60 regions within your region for administrative purposes. So, you need to add the numbers for both South and East as one block. In short, there are 9 supreme court of appeal judges in the south, 302 senior servants in the south against 179 in the centre.
3. NEPOTISM stinks worse in other institutions than the cherry-picked ones. NOCMA is full of nepotistic beings. Lhomwes have dominated NOCMA. Cast your eyes wide open than concentrating on this statistics.
4. George Chaponda openly declared that “we can do without the north”.
5. APM and Lhomwes are playing dilution theory. Slowly the test of Mulhakho will obscure the real test of fairness.
I think there many Malawians who do not know the meaning of NEPOTISM, check its meaning before you start defending your statistics. Check whose children get scholarships to go and study abroad, check who gets to be sent to embassies. It is not about being a judge. Ma judge sitichita kutola.
How can we have the Supreme Court of Appeal dominated by 8 judges, ONLY 1 from the central region and NONE from the south. Shame on CSOs leaders who most of them are from the north.
The North dominates the judiciary, private sector and CSO leadership. But none of these activists talk about these. APM has done well to give these statistics.
This is an insult to Malawians Muthalika is doing. Surely this is very bad for a sitting president speaking like a monkey. We have to chase this old man gogo who has run out of ideas 2019 is just far please.
Problems with CSO is that they generate
cash by opposing and twisting facts.
My advice to APM: from these figures it look like Southern region is far under represented in proportion to population. Probably its now time to correct this. Kindly appoint few more people in the South to balance up the equation.
Komatu anthuwo amawerenga mabukhu kuti afike pamenepo, inu mukuwawerenga? Zoona Malawi yafika pamenepa?
ndi angati ma chief executive ali ochokera pakati kapena kumpoto mu ma parastatals ngati akunena zoona?akunamiza ndani?
The whole central region that is the hub of the economy of Malawi has 4 judges. No minister from Kasungu, Dedza, Mchinji and the whole Lilongwe. Tembenu is not from Salima. Number two economy is the north and supplies academicians or educated people but is being marginalized by the quota system of education. Thyolo and Mulanje supplies most of the thieves (prisoners), domestic workers, prostitutes, murderers etc are controlling us. Kudyerana masuku pamutu uku.
Big up APM….2019 Boma
Now, perhaps, is the time for the President to squeeze these habitual and lying complainants. The stats are not lying.
Afinyidwe basi.
How can these bodies have the South so underrepresented, when it contributes most to everything in this country? It has the most educated, most advanced infrastructure and education institutions. Even it’s citizens are the most enlightened.
Time for APM to change course. Asawerepo apa.
And, these CSOs should check out Kenya if they want to see nepotism or tribalism at work. The environment in Malawi is, probably, one of the fairest in this part of Africa.
Kodi mesa anthuwo ankawerenga mabukhu kuti afike pamenepo?Pali munthu wa kumpoto amene anakagwira mutu wa munthu wa kummwera kuti iyayi musawerenge bukhu lirilonse?Koma ngati dziko liri ndi anthu ngati inu, ndikumayembekezera kuti one day lidzatukuka, then iwalani, musakhalenso ndi hope iliyonse pa moyo wanu.
Most Malawians are very stupid and politicians knows this hence the reason twisting the truth because we believe in every nosense that comes from them. Do you honestly think putting more court judges from the north means anything to talk home about? Are you really being proud because of court judges who on daily basis miscarry our justice system? What about those influential positions occupied by people mostly from Thyolo, then Mlanje, Phalombe, and Chiladzuru? ( give me your whatsapp numbers and i will send you proof how nepotistic dpp is) I’m talking about positions that affects every Malawian’s daily life than court judges who doesn’t know the meaning of the word JUSTICE. What Peter and his gurus are doing is like giving an orphan a basin full of bones and give your child a plate full of meat. Kapena tinene kuti kudya nyama ya nkhumba nkupaka mwana mafuta pakamwa – mwana wakenso akhala wachiyawo kuti anthu awone ngati wadya. And how long is this nosense going to end when presidents tells us ‘ndikutukura dziko’ like he use money from his pocket yet it’s our money and he is just a presiding officer. Even the rough Donald Trump or the uneducated Jacob Zuma never use the word” i ‘instead of’ we”, that points to one thing; Malawi is full of stupidity.
Timanena ife kuti a chewa alibe nzeru, mwaonotu nokha, majaji folo okha. Ntchito kuvinagule basi. Anthu akumpoto ndi pakati sazalamulanso dziko ili.
Facts, figures, and stats have one thing in common, they don’t lie. Malawi has a mob mentality, we cant think on our own. We believe any bullcrap that these so-called gay defenders spew out. There are no free thinkers in Malawi
The are waiting for Mtambo and the CSos to present contrary statistics. This is a simple matter only addressed by statistics. Mtambo don’t bother making too many arguments just bring your statistics to the contrary. Failing which Pitala has exposed you here
Ndiye bwanji tikati tikufuna federalism, aliyense adzidya zake mumakana? Ife sitikufuna zowerengana kuti office yakutiyakuti muli anthu angati, iyayi, aliyense amapita ku school yekha. Tikufuna dziko litukuke. Ngati ena samapita ku school, mpaka kudzidzimuka quota system itabwera likhale vuto la mtumbuka?
Its here on Nasatimes where you see how shallow many Malawians are. What are these statistics telling you? Have you asked yourself why the central region has four judges when the northern region has 13 judges?
Indeed, many Malawians are shallow minds. there was Mzuzu corner at university of Malawi where northern lectures and northern students connived to share exams among them. its all finished now, great Bingu brought liberty indeed
Nepotism in Malawi is part of life coming from the Lomwe tribe that has enslaved our people in the North. People’s Movement For Democracy recognize only three provinces in Malawi, Northern region, Central region, and Southern region. We don’t recognize Eastern region. The Eastern region came with the Mutharica brothers. It is like dividing Carlifornia into many states. Malawi need a FEDERAL system where the presidency will be rotated among the three provinces. Why there can’t be a president from the North? It is better you let us go and be on our own. This is like Serbia clinging to Kosovo regardless of wanting to peel off from their oppressors, the Serbs. It is time Peter Hitler Mutharika know that the people of the North want to be on their own and develop their Republic of Nyika by themselves. Why do you force us to be in a union where your tribe and family must be the rulers of other tribes in Malawi? You and your late brother have butchered our people mercilessly. It is time you let us go since to you the Northerners are the skunk of the world. LET MY PEOPLE GOOOOOO!!!!!!
If the presidency has to rotate then the capital city should be rotating too. Zisakomele mbuzi kugunda galu.
A northerner like you are shallow minded indeed. you mean you should be let go for the sake of presidency that you govern yourself. you can be let go and all the northerners to go to north and make your own government. Kamuzu said this before and you cried loud, now you want that to happen now. Chindere chakufikapo. indeed northerners and central will never rule this country, just full of selfishness alas
A mtambo ndi anzanu give us ur statistics, to prove that u r not the one fooling & insulting malawians.
Meaningful STATISTICS is when one derives logical inferences on it rather than just vague, empty and illogical rhetoric.
For example what’s the percentage of directors who are from Lhomwe belt in ministries A,B,C? What’s the proportion of Lhomwes in key positions in government sectors and parastatals? The ratio of Lhomwes to all other tribes combined who have attained executive positions since APM assumed office? Assuming the trend continues at the same what’s the projection in 5yrs, 10yrs time?
Otherwise such narratives are STUPID and RHETORICAL NONSENSE!
SHAME on MBAVA!!!
Tell them. so many silly people in Malawi who do not understand who politicians can manipulate statistics.
This analysis will be too hard to understand by the blue brained blind followers. This is stuff for those with grey matter in their brains. Analyzing stats you need pretty a lot. For example, of the appointments he had made as president, how many are from each region? In appointing the people mentioned in the stats he has provided, what was the overriding requirement? Did they meet this requirement or were favoured in some way? Were there other considerations that were made in appointing these people? If I want to hire a doctor for example and I receive three applications all from one region, should I go for those who did not apply and do not qualify?
With this statistics, may be its time for you two guys or gays on CSO who always claim that there is nepotism to be ashamed. Data is not by your side. The problem with you is that you are unemployable as you are dull. Shame on you two guys or gays.
It is this statistics that the Muthalikas have been trying to obliterate – the statistics that came with merit. Now produce statistics since the reign of the Muthalikas. It’s all lomwe lomwe lomwe and more lomwe.
With this statistics, may be its time for you guys or gays in the CSO who always claim that there is nepotism to be ashamed. Data is not by your side. The problem with you is you ate in un-employable as you are dull. Shame on you two gays.
This is what we call stupidity. You have given your statistics, now can you justify why centra region has four judges only? is it because it is the stronghold of MCP? Why is this government trying hard to explain things? The good thing is that even people from where the president comes from have said about nepotism. It is there for everyone to see unless you are a bat.
dpp is bady very bady peter so very bady Dausi so very bady nanga caponda very badiest
NDIFE ATSANKHO
This is fake. He should have named the judges he is talking about from these regions. Cheap propaganda
I think Mr Cognitive, you really are dull and stupid. Have you seen that there is zero supreme Court judge in the South? Why ate you not mentioning that? Why not mention the senior civil servants who are in majority in central? Why putting under shelf all these facts. I think you’re really dull and stupid.
Dull and Stupid indeed, but at least I use my stupid and dull brain to think and make an intelligent person like you to argue with a dull and stupid person like me.
Speaking about nepotism & practicing nepotism r two different things, people like you will always speak of nepotism becoz of bitterness & also becoz it is the only song you can seeing in trying to paint wrong image to the current gvt as well as the hate that you have on lomwe belt. So matter how convincing facts can be on the ground you will still turn a blind eye & keep on talking about nepotism. I think in this case you are the ones practicing nepotism & not APM & his administration.
I can’t agree more with you Comrade. A big region like central region being underrepresented in the distribution of the posts can’t be described as a fair distribution of the public positions. It is just unfortunate that it is the Northerner who are already over represented instead of the Centralers who make noise about the vice. I think it is high time the Central Region started speaking strongly against the vice as it appears that there is a silent conspiracy against its population.
Northerners are over represented in all sectors with regard to the population they hold. its high time for central and southern to take charge as they are underrepresented in most distribution compared to their population