Mutharika says National Service to give Malawi youth military training
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has disclosed plans by his government to establish a National Service -similar to the defunct Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) – where the youth will be given military training.
Mutharika said in Parliament on Tuesday that the military training will be “basic.”
“Mr. Speaker, Sir, Government is also planning to establish a National Service whereby young men and women will be enlisted to undergo basic military training,” said Mutharika during his State of the Nation Address.
But his statement was received with sceptics from critics on the element of military training fearing government wants to run another para-military wing like MYP.
Critics say Malawi was not at war to train school leavers in military skills.
But Leader of the House, Francis Kasaila said in an interview that government is only interested to prepare young people for the future through giving them the necessary survival skills.
He explained that the National Service will also help in entrepreneurial skills in fields such as carpentry, bricklaying and computers among others.
The MYP camps were also giving such trainings.
Government argues that disadvantaged young people who might otherwise be anticipating a life of jobless will be even better served by National Service training, which could be tailored to give them occupational skills that will serve them well when their period of service ends and that youth unemployment will be cut.
In his address, President Mutharika said his government is in the process of establishing community colleges across the country, saying 28 community colleges will be established, at least one in each district.
“Let me report, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that so far, 11 community colleges are already operational. Government will develop the remaining 17 colleges, which are expected to be opened by 2016,” said Mutharika.
The President said government will further expand and modernize the existing seven national technical colleges in order to provide technical skills required in the labour market.
He said government is developing the Employment and Labour Policy which seeks to place employment at the centre of national development by vigorously pursuing employment creation in all sectors of the economy.
- Read Mutharika full address here: State of the Nation Address
link it with community colleges. and muikenso iirigation Agriculture muma community colleges!
Tiwona ngati sakunama bodza
U r just replicating HITLER ADOLF sir…BEWARE. Those militarized youths will cause a menace to society. U want to create a PARAMILITIA group lyk the MYP or Hitlers SA? these things do backfire…The leaders of these militiaz would want to rule the POLICE & our beloved ARMY… & this would creat tension. HITLER had to kill and disolv his SA MILITIA to prevent it from swalowing the German Army and Police. Dont create another Colombia or Mexico.
This is very good idea – with the fast rate of crime, this boys and girls who will be disciplined enough will assist the country to gain its security and peaceful history. Go APM go, we are on you side, you r talking sense – this is the type of the leaders we are looking for now to curb the fear brought in by stupid’s few who are terrorising our country.
THIS IS GOOD IDEA MAYBE YOUTH CAN NOT MORE MOVING TO SA SEEKING JOBS
Zimenezi ndiye nzeru!Kamuzunso ankatero. APM, MORE FIRE!!!
National Youth Service does not mean Millitary Training. Go and learn from your friends in countries like Ghana. Any student from any training colleagues including Universities do National Services before getting into permanant employment. This means they are attached to various organizations including govermment departments and they do this one year without being paid a salary but the company pays them a some amount to cover for their incidentals. That is Youth Services. Do not be misled by Dausi
Munthu uyu ngati sasuta chamba kaya. Osangolemba achinyamata ambiri ku police bwanji? Kodi mukafikapo mumazimva kukoma eti?
Y gorvment cnt use tht money to recrut mre police instead westing tht mney
wayambitsa imeneyi ndi Dausi,,,MYP inali mmanja mwake paja,,,nkhope ngati chosema ndi APM wakoyo,,alomwe anyapala
NGATI MYP CHINASANDUKA CHIPYINJO MMALAWI MUNO NDI CHIFUKWA CHAMAGANIZO NGATI AMENEWA .TIDALUZA MA SKILLS AMBIRI AMENE A MYP ANAPHUZITSIDWA .OFUNA KU MILITARY AMAPANGA APPLY NGATI SAKUKWANA SINTHANI KALEMBEDWE KATSANKHO .
This is a disguised approach to start intimidating the opposition. Malawi cant afford another era of MYP in the country. If not employed these will turn into thieves terrorising innocent people
To do what?mwailawa zambuyomu kuti kunali M Y P inathamanga.ndiye izi kaya.
what are preparing for? APM be sensible, military training?what for?mukukhozekera ndani? I know alomwe inu mukufuna ndewu ndi mitundu ina komatu musamale, munya
This is a joke. You want to militarise a country which is already facing critical security breakdown. Have you run out of ideas or what?
this is high time to recruit more boys and girls into the army & police
not that military training- imeneyo ndiye kuputa boko harum in future
National Youth Service? Yes, for entrepreneurial skills acquisition but not military training. I fear DPP will abuse this or are they preparing for 2019 when we oust them from power? We all know they already have panga-wielding thugs in their camp. I am sure some chamba-smoking advisor must be advancing some hidden agenda here!
Agriculture should be the main component in that programme since this is where our economy life line is.Why am say so its becoz the resources needed such as fertile land water, human resource are readly available let there be more comecial farmers than armed robbers .I rest my case
Not good idea at all.
Shupit:-3
Childish and barbaric idea. What for? Stupid
What we are looking for is for the youth to be trained in tailoring, agriculture, brick laying etc what was being done in training baes during mcp rule. Dont train them in military ayi koma these things to make them busy and to look after themselves.
I am not supporting the idea of brining military training.
I don’t support this type of initiative. Why is my president trying to re-introduce the evil we fought and defeated while he was enjoying pizza in diaspora?
Once there was a man of vision in the name of Ngwazi Kamuzu Banda. The Muthalikas claimed they run away from Malawi because of this dictator. Everything he did was bad to them. Now they are copying the very same things the man they vilified did. They started with the name Ngwazi for the elder Muthalika. Next it was the cadets, mirroring the MCP youth league and now this National Service, modeled towards the notorious MYP. I wouldn’t be surprised if not long from now we start calling APM Ngwazi. Alot of money has been pumped into trying to help the youth have some sort of employment. I have in mind Youth Development Fund (yedef). Let us look at what is wrong with the current scheme before rushing to establish another one that will not only drain resources but may take long to bear fruits. I am reminded of the Late Bingu Muthalika who thought the solution to fuel shortages was to create another useless company draining the country’s resources even more. It took less than a month for JB to sort out the mess.
My free advice to APM is that he should be careful with the proposal as it may backfire. A good percentage of Malawian youth has never handled a gun. If not handled properly we may end up creating a country full of armed robbers. After military or survival skills training as you put it, what happens next? If these youths cannot be sustained by their proposed trades they will learn from the National Service, the only option available to them will be disastrous, more likely armed robbery.
Total Rubbish
He wants to train more youths to terrorize Malawians as thieves. Why did Muluzi disband MYP??? What he could have done was to maintain the MYP but burn them from military training.
NO TO MILITALY TRAINING.WE HAVE THE ARMY ALREADY
That’s great mr presidents. Kamuzu wazn’t a fool by introducing myp. Kamuzu anali dolo kumbali ya njala,chitetezo,etc. Thumb up sir! Enawa myp sanaione sakuidziwa. What they know mkung’amba kukamwa nkutsutsa mopanda nzeru. Educated foolz
maybe a development army? We need the youth to assist reforestation, land conservation, irrigation schemes, activities like that and then they learn lifeskills and we can improve Malawi fast
Ndikuvomeleza zimene muthalika akuganiza. we need it as youth, wosafuna asamuke
Thank you for one simple thing – we were spared of seing your wife. I was actually agonising over todays Nyasa Times
When you want to introduce something Mr President please do a research
Which survival tactics are these peoplei refering to in Basic Military Training that one can use to survive? Headless chickens. Will you provide them jobs after basic military training as messengers in police stations or in barracks? Or else you intend to recruit them as community police officers? Umbava uzafika poopsya kwambiri chifukwa ntchito zizatsowa. Take my concerns on you board.
Mr President, if you want to create more jobs for your people, please check below:
1. strive not to send raw materials outside Malawi but rather bring in factories to process them in Malawi. Why should cotton, tobacco be processed outside Malawi – just negotiate with the processing companies to bring their factories to Malawi – and more pple will be employed. Look at ILLOVO- the biggest private employer just because all the processing is done in Malawi.
2. Empower the construction industry – more pple will then be employed.
3. Take a serious step on mining industry – this will create a lot of employment – negotiate better with mining companies – this will take in more pple as well.
4. Empower new graduates (loans and technical skills) to open their businesses – while monitored by a professional body.
5. Enforce the Immigration Act – why foreigners are picking jobs that could be done by Malawians.
6. Support commercial farming as this will attract more processing companies.
7. Revive and open more irrigation schemes.
8. Reduce the retirement age.
Yes thats a brilliant idea of the survival skills!!! I wonder if military training would be survival skill. After military training then what……………….soldiers or armed robbers. Peruse.
Osatinamiza , siife ana osapola pa mchombo,
Military training ya chani, akufuna ayambitse MYP yake ameneyu , cholinga idzayambitse ziwawa 2019 nthawi ya Campaign.
MDF yomweyo yakwana.
No sence to hm ngat mwalephera go out leave for our friends to continue
Ana sukulu a m’muzi wanga pakali pano akunjenjemela pomva nkhani iyi. Akuti “ife ndiofooka, sitingathe zimenezo. Tikafera komweko!” Auzeni a bwana Mutharika kuti ife atisiye pambali; tikuopanso kukwapulidwa mwa usavegi, ngati anali kuchitila ana a Kamuzu aja, a MYP!
Asikananso akuoa kupitako: akuti akuopa ana amuna akawaononga.
Politicians! Why not just say MYP is back just like Mudzi Transformation. But changing names does not make any difference
dpp military wing to be introduced by dpp watch out going back to MALAWI WA DZANA KUDALIBETU MATCHONAWA.Asilikali mbwee achiani. RUBBISH!!!
good move Mr President,we could have had this program long ago, ife amene takhalapo kunja iyi ndi nkhani yokoma but kwa amene mumangozungulira mumalawi momuno you will never understand,so stop making negative statements these programmes i have seen them in Germany,US,UK and many more countries,Bravo APM uku ndiye kubwera.
Millitary training siyofunika apa. Koma panopa Self~employment ndiyofunika kwambiri koma ngati izi zitheke ndiye pakufunika:-
1. Kuphunzisa achinyamata ntchito za manja
2. Amene aphunzira ntchito za manja apasidwe zida + ma loan to boost their business. Not so Mr APM SIR?
Actually MYP should not have been abolished because of operation bwezani.
People were learning a lot from there in those days: ntchito za manja, malimidwe a makono, kulemekezana etc.
When Kamuzu came, he said he would improve on things that were working in the colonial government and change only those he perceived would not improve people’s lives.
When Muluzi came, he removed everything that was operating well as long as it was operating under Kamuzu, MYP was one of them. That was a big mistake, Lero we are in all this shit because of one stupid fool Bakili Elson Muluzi.
I support what APM is trying to because it is still the same things Kamuzu did just put in a different way.
No we are not going back to that time of terror!,,,…..who is advising this fool?? Has this been approved by parliament? Is this what he meant by job creation??? Militarizing the state!!!!
Instead of reintroducing MYP let us add more community colleges. If we say one community college per district then they don’t qualify to be community colleges but district colleges.
That’s not what we want. You said you will reduce the price of iron sheets and cement but today are you doing braa braa. Do you think we are Idiots? Answer me Mr. President0:->
That’s not what we want. You said you will reduce the price of iron sheets and cement but today are you doing braa braa. Do you think we are Idiots? Answere me Mr. President0:->
That’s not what we want. You said you will reduce the price of iron sheets and cement but today you doing braa braa. Do you think we are Idiots? Answere me Mr. President0:->
Yes that’s another Boko Harram. You said you will reduce the price of iron sheets and cement but today you doing braa braa. Do you think we are Idiots? Answere me Mr. President0:->
…Chotsani militaly yekhayo bwana tikhoza kukondwa nazo,amalawife tatopa mkupandidwa ndi anthu osasamba azipani. Pano thandizani kuthetsa umphawi osati kuonjeza!
I think this is just used as an escape-goat, since he has fail the show of job Creation as he promised…
shame on him. by gone are those days when we could be blinded by party mediocrity. we all know the consequences of having a paramilitaries in a country.
Skills development thats good idea but not military trainning, please we don’t need to form Book Haram in Malawi, Malawi is a poor country we don’t need more soldiers, we need more skilled people to increase industrial jobs.
He want to train our youth then sell them in the war country’s put money in his pockert.
We don’t need that, period. Superficial training is worse than no training at all. You want to give 11 Bongos and Soft Boys in Lilongwe and Boko Haram in Mchinji to some basic military training? Hahaha! Let’s be serious guys. Let’s be more concerned with issues of food security and entrepreneurship than militancy. I would be more confortable with training on partriotism and citizenship and not what is being proposed here.
Train Malawi Boko Haram.
not good idea at all,better focus on building collages.
Wakudzidzimutsanitu ZUMA ,munali kuti ana at hu akungomwa mowa kuba kumangoyendayenda, lero mwaonanji agulukunyinda inu.
Training Armed Robbers, Thats Why Dausi Ali Ku Za Secret.
There are better youth service programmes than focussing on military. Nigeria runs a mandatory national youth service program for one year, and the certificate is a prerequisite for employment in any institution, public or private. This service commences immediately upon a child’s graduation from university, which in our case may be at a lower education level.We can learn something from such countries before moving forward with the programme.
Good plans kupangira pa mmawa, a Malawi sitikuyenera kuzabwereza mistake yomwe anapanga Malemu John Chilembwe kukaba mfuti ku Mandala asakudziwa nkuomba komwe… tiphunzire zimenezi basi
Thanks APM we need this. Only fools dont want a NYS
I dot wot 2 see bribery,nepotism,racism,discrimination & many more. During recruiting/depo/intake coz we malawian r coped up wth de silly thngs as l mentioned in first sentence, u like dat conduct.there is many pple who r nt employed coz they dot ve de relative in front normally they ve gud points 4 m.s.c.e. In so doing discover dat those who taken 2 participate find dat they dot ve m.s.c.e bcoz thy ve get achance of their relatives who is in front
These are colleges you have been preaching during the campaign period.
Military bases never treats a person with rights, yet applying another aggressive generation, it will happen gain that these National services will be having powerful arms than the legitimate forces. Kaya titazionee!
National service is long overdue. It does not have to be military training only. Other options should be included like using skillsvafter college or university training in the rural areas. This would especially be applicable in teaching in primary or secondary schools, agriculture extension in rural areas, and in community mobilization for food production.
KUSOWA MFUNDO INU A DPP NANENSO NDIYAMBITSA GULU LANGA LOKUNTHA ANGULU ONSE
I am not supporting the plans
Izo nde mzeru za munthu wamkulu,imagine in Congo aliyense amapanga Millitaly training koma inu agalu a North mumangotsutsa basi
ngati akutivuta a polisi omwewa awa ndi kuba…what more akanganya mudza trainetse military? adzakufojera signature pa computer mmphwanga
Nigeria has been doing that. Look at her problems today.
I just feel sorry for my beloved country and the future generation! Youth military training,,again in Malawi?But,what for,my felllow Malawians?
A good proposal but disarm them
Development ya xenophobia imeneyo.
To even think about this this is dangerous why opposition don’t accept this kukuza mkango mnyumba
Nzoona A Bwana
Pitala Mathanyula kutha ma plan kumeneko wanva home iwe? Akuba ndizikwanje alipo kale okwana ku chimwankhunda kuno, galu iwe
Basic Military training will instill discipline and patriotism, things which are clearly missing in our society. Bloody good idea!
Ndizopanda Zelu Zimenezo Pano Zophuzila Maluso Zilipose Kuno Kwathu Chimene Chikuvuta Ndikutilemba Ntchito Anyamatafe Osati Zopusazo.
Kodi military training iathandiza chani achinyamata. The end result will be kuchulukitsa kuba ndi mfuti mmalawi muno.
Good one, though!
Military training? Dausi spearheading the initiative
That’s good one mr president go go go.
Don’t run away from the responaibility of creating jobs for these young people. Giving them miltary training will only breed aggresive criminals just like military veterans in Zimbabwe and Umukhondo we Sizwe in South Africa. The rate of crime in Malawi is already out of control and now you want to train more armed robbers. This is a poor strategy of combating unemployment among the youth. I see this as a deliberate move by Muthalika because he will only train the young cadets to protect Ndata and the Lomwe Empire.
simungachite chinthu choti MCP sinapangepo and zili mu manfesto awo akale kale, ma training collages, pioneer imene ,cholinga chake chinali chochepetsa ulova, koma munaononga zonsezo ,pano bvumbe research station ntchito yawo ndi kuyeza chamba basi, mwini MCP amafuna kuti anthu aziphunzira ulimi wabwino, mikolongwe lero ndi kuweta makoswe, mmalo momaweta nkhuku,mbuzi anthu nkumaphunzira ulimi wa ziweto, anthu opanda manyazi inu! Military training imeyeyi mukufuna, kuti mumphunzitse mbava, zizikaba, ndikuopsesa anthu azipani zina,ngati amachitira chisale ku state house, kumathentha manyumba, axa buses ndi petro Bomb .nthawi ya satanic ino, nthawi ya ana a mulungu ikwana , pamene Malawi adzapasuke
Very welcome move Petro
Mzabwino izi nthuni keep it up mr president
MAGANIZO ANZERU KOMANO ASINTHE DZINA MYP INATIKWANA.
Don’t be supprised if you see malawi’s own alshabab in future
Not a Bad idea if not politicised
i just like the mutharikas, they are men of vision.
APM I NOW UNDERSTAND YOU, THATS THE VISION KEEP IT UP. YES LOOK FOR LONG LASTING SOLUTIONS FOR THE NATION. MAY THE LORD GUIDE & BLESS YOU.
To prepare young people for the future through SURVIVAL SKILLS? Uyu ndiye Kamikaze weniweni. Just be open that we want to increase national security and protection of our territorial resources including Lake Malawi.
Tiye nazoni. Lets handle this with care lest we train people who will turn out to be armed robbers when we fail to recruit them after the training.
The Fearless Samurai (Jwampiriu)…
Is good ideas Mr presdent hence it will lower the number of youth to go out of malawi to face the challenges of xenophobia etc.Keep it Up
Malawi is sold to the dogs
So it is true that a picture can tell a thousand stories! Just take a careful look at the picture above: look at Chakwera, Munthalika, and the MPs surely you can tell a story………This reminds me of a biblical story of Essau and Jacob anaberana madaliso.
The introduction of youth military training is just perfect and recomended move by the gvnmnt since in these bases youth will also going to learn several skills which among other things ll comtribute to the development of the coutry n empower the youth economically hence decreasing the problem of job scarcity in malawi and a country which its youth are trained in military is always at safe side interms of external forces in the future as the world is growing together with technology and militants, i support the move
Tel us something that we in civil service can b happy
Copy and paste or Copycat call it whatever you want. They had this National Service in Zambia called Zambia National Service and students after completing Secondary School went for Military training.
The establishment was disbanded in 1987 by and it was reformed into an establisment not only for secondary school levers but for all with main emphasis on agriculture and military.