New Malawi government urged to blitz corruption

1. Lets wait and see later guys.

2. Corruption starts with salary disparities. It starts as a need, then a norm. And this is Muluzis making.

3. Federal system of government it’s a way to go as far as ending corruption is to be achieved. Account No 1 it’s where politicians find milk and honey, abolish this account first

4. The issue of corruption should be taken seriously by the MCP Govt. Yes we know that amongst the alliance leaders there are many who were involved in the plunder of Govt resources. The DPP Govt in which Chilima was it’s VP put Malawians in misery. We can not talk of Joice Banda’s which was the most stinking. Chilima and JB needed to be held responsible by the MCP Govt.

   1. Kick out the ‘old’ and bring in the ‘new’. The new must stick to the key principles they sold to Malawians. As time goes, the corrupts will be uncovered. I personally worry about this big alliance and pray that the new President will have the leadership needed to lead the country from North, South, Center and Eastern. I also worry and pray that the President will know how to handle the corrupt power of our Asian friends. Many of them are my friends but some of them are really bad to this country. The SHIRAZ KARIM, SHIRAZ YUSUF, FAIZAL and other must be asked to account for their deeds so that peaceful Malawians of Asian descent can enjoy their life in this great and beautiful country.

      1. This is a very important point. The new government will be infiltrated by the Indo-Paks but Malawi must try to clean up to offer a peaceful place for all citizens. Those who have been at the forefront of corruption must be given a very hard time. Those named above (Shiraz, Karim, Yusuf, Faizal and other) must lean their lessons the hardest possible way. I must add ERNST YOUNG to this list.

         1. Whenever someone mentions the name of Shiraz Yusuf or Ernst Young, there is a lot of anger flashing. This man in definitely a major enabler who uses the good name of an international firm to sponsor side businesses and hide revenue away from MRA. He who sows to please his sinful nature will reap destruction. There is no doubt that this YUSUF man will reap hardship and hell. Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked

            We hope that the new president will not fall into the traps of these nasty sweet talkers.

            Hopefully Ernst Young will wake up and ask for account to his rep in Malawi.

            1. Kick Ernst Young out of Malawi. Other audit firms such as Deloitte, KPMG, PWC etc do not have such a bad name. This Shiraz Yusuf man is just truly awful. He is the Ambassador in Malawi of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW). Does ICAEW know who this man is to be appointed as an ambassador? How can an accountant also be a business man, owner of a major hotel while Ernst Young audits other hotels or owners of other hotels? This major conflict of interest is despicable. Shame on Ernst Young and shame on ICAEW for hiring this bad character

            2. So Shiraz Yusuf is an ambassador? Since when did he manage to become an ambassador? How much did he pay ICAEW to be appointed as an ambassador? Everything for about Shiraz Yususf is related to money. He would sell his father and mother if he has to. My advice to ICAEW is to cut this man loose. Frankly Shiraz Yusuf is too much of a liability to have him as an ICAEW ambassador in Malawi. He is a nuisance. In Malawi we have many talented accountants who can serve as ambassador with dignity, ethics and class. The same advice goes to Ernst Young who must cut Shiraz Yusuf off as well. This man cannot be a premier business man and owner of the best hotel in Blantyre and as the same time be the accountant of businesses that he is competing against. In my book, this is highly highly unethical. But with Shiraz Yusuf, anything is possible and ethics is not part of his vocab. Mphepo ya kasintha imuchotsa mwamunayo

            3. Comments on shiraz yusuf always make me laugh. kkkk! Everyone hates him. Wofesa mphepo amatutakamvulvulu, kkkk! Shiraz sows the whirlwind. Ernest young and ICAEW will be left holding his bag while shiraz will be eating and sleeping in his 5 star hotel in Blantyre. A bad character, you said it right

            4. Shiraz is my cousin. I know him well. He is certainly using the ICAEW title to drum up clients and beef up his resume. He probably does not care about this organisation. But walking around town with an ambassadorial title sounds exactly right to my cousin. If ICAEW sits him down to test him, he may actually fail a test despite his 25 year experience. I know my cousin very well. I have more information about him than anyone. He has a nasty attitude and does not care about anything else but money. His goal is to amass 100 million dollars by the time he is 60. He is well on his way to get there. Malawi is good to some

            5. What is ICAEW doing in Malawi? Malawi is independent and we have our own institute of chartered accountants in Malawi that is very active and have a good leadership made of Malawians proper. My friend Francis Gondwe is doing a great job and the institute has stressed transparency, accountability and integrity.The fact that ICAEW chose Shiraz Yusuf as his representative in Malawi tells me that ICAEW is no good and has no place coming to Malawi. ICAEW is suspect by association, just like Ernest Young is suspect by association. They should follow ICAM’s lead

   2. @ Phwisa I totally agree with you. Chilima was one of the lead figures in plundering state resources for four years. He never raised an alarmthat there was free for all looting in government because he too was involved in the malpractices. He only started talking bad of DPP after he knew he will not get the presidency. He left DPP with a chain of crooks like Masangwe, Kaliyati, Makonde, Ben Chidyaonga, Khwesi Msusa, sesasesa etc.

5. Fighting corruption has to start with strengthening institutions by closing all the weak points to deter those with corrupt intent.

   1. This is call institutional reforms. The week points are pretty well known. In Malawi here, the issue is more about implementation. The president must also strengthen the capacity to ensure corruption is properly fought. In this vain, it will be important that our capacity be at par if not better than that of the corrupts. These corrupt uses professional services. In this chat room people have pointed fingers at Shiraz Yusuf as an enablers. While I concur, the process goes well beyond him and Ernst Young even though the government must look into whatever nasty role Yusuf and his firm have in facilitating tax evasion. It is a complicate issue for sure.

      1. Oh boy, Shiraz Yusuf will be in serious trouble. He will fall from his Ernest’s throne like his friend Professor APM fell and had to pack up in one day to vacate the people’s palace. Shiraz Yusuf will be accountable to his deeds. Shiraz Kareem will be accountable to his deeds. All the corrupts and facilitators of corruption will be accountable to their deeds

6. The in-coming Chakwera govt should curtail hand-outs programmes to minimize opportunities for wholesale corruption. It should tell supporters of the hand-outs programmes the economy is not in a state to support these wholesale hand-outs programmes and instead laser-focus on growing the economy and implementing infrastructural programmes with long-lasting value and multiple spin-offs to create a lot of employment that can allow the citizenry to create their own wealth instead of depending on government hand-outs programmes!!!!

7. And why are Fyson Chodzi and Kamangira not lendering their voice in this? Busy with their court case of trying to stop the election?

8. Active Youth for Social Enhancement (AYISE). What does the ‘I’ in this abbreviation stand for?

9. Yes, they will be hugely loved if they can uproot corruption, tribalism and nepotism in Malawi.

10. Good move. This should not be selective but inclusive of every Malawian suspects some of those well known figures that found refuge in Tonse Alliance. They are not rinsed!

    1. This is it! The Alliance will have a lot of bad bed fellows sneaking in to join them. We the people, we are watching things very carefully. I am personally looking at the Indo-Paks and how they will renew themselves. On particular interest to me are what I call the ENABLERS. Enables are those among them who make fake transactions happen, either by cleaning the books (accounting firms like Ernst Young) or lawyers. The new government must cut ties with anyone who is not cleaned. I have had the honor of speaking to the new leadership and this matter is very clear in their mind. Let’s see if they can deliver and if they will be able to cut ties with these enablers, highway robbers

       1. Enerst and young is an English audit firm which Shiraz is one of the worker

          1. Shiraz is the managing partner of Enerst and young in Malawi. He is not a worker but rather he is the big boss. It is well know in Malawi that Shiraz uses this title to help asian businesses cook up their books and avoid taxes by presenting separate one book to banks to siphon loans and another one to MRA to evade taxes. I agree with the earlier comment that Shiraz is an enablers. He makes these illegal activities possible using the prestige of enerst and young. This is not a secret and everyone knows this in Malawi. My brother worked with him and was sickened by Shiraz’ amazingly nasty attitude toward local malawians. Shiraz is a racist man. After milking Mutharika and his ministers, he must be very busy now trying to boost his connection with our new president. President Chakwera is holy and the like of Shiraz shall not prosper under his administration.

11. President Chakwera watch out now on corruption ,this is my humble word of advice my beloved man of God,
    There are some corrupt business families that shall be visiting you and greeting you at your premises, home or office
    to show allegiance to you.
    Sir be careful most of them are corrupt and are involved in corrupt practices .what they want from you are favors and protection in case of being found with the corrupt cases.
    I have given my piece of advice before its too late.
    Please sir watch out some have already started visiting you and your image may soon be tainted .

    keep these people at a distance , I have seen them and I know them and I know they are corrupt.

    Dr Chakwera I love you and please take my word and you shall not regret.
    Sir be careful ,I repeat be careful of some business men trying to befriend you,
    I urge you to pray and am praying for you as well that you sir shall figure out yourself to know about these wolves in sheep skin, ,the HINT I give to you sir is that they have already visisted you..
    I leave it to you to figure out who they are

    My words here shall be remembered
    .

    1. New Malawi. It is important that we keep praying for Malawi and for the president. The corrupt business families will work very hard to make him change. This is what worries me. The corrupt Indo-Paks will double that. The corrupt enablers (bankers, accountants, etc) will get pay to lobby and try to maintain the status quo. Already some of them are saying that they control the new president. Just as they say before. If the president can succeed in bring ethic to the indo-paks, the other will follow. He must not let the Kareems, Yusufs, and other control Malawi the way they are doing today.

       1. We will be looking at the relationships that these kareems, yusufs, shiraz will have with the new government. They are friends with many of them. But lets see how opens the doors of this government will be to these rascals. Five years in not a long time for we the people to turn our back on this new government to. I am personally going to be measuring the extend of which these people will penetrate our government this time around. We are sick and tired of how much power these people have been able to hijack in this country.

12. Tonse Alliance please be different. I have never seen a corrupt Government like DPP. Check all MDAs.

13. If the new government is serious about fighting corruption, there should be no amnesty. All corruption barons should face the arm of the law.

    1. No amnesty for corruption barons. No amnesty for civil servants who accept bribes. No amnesty for politicians who cover corruption. No amnesty for professional services who help engineer corruption, bribe and tax evasion (account firms or lawyers). An earlier chat provided detailed information on what shiraz yusuf does with ernest young in Malawi. He is certainly the biggest facilitator of corruption, bribe and tax evasion in Malawi. No amnesty for him and his partners too. Malawi will revive under the new government

       1. I have been very active in anti-corruption in Malawi and Africa. I agree with all that have been said above. I also agree about your view of Shiraz Yusuf who I know well. This said, it is best to make a distinction between SHIRAZ YUSUF and ERNST YOUNG. Shiraz is the managing partner of Ernst Young in Malawi as well as the manager, director, owner and investor in many other well known companies and not so well known. He is a big business man in this country. Ernst Young has nothing to do with Shiraz’s other businesses. If anything, Ernst Young does not like to see his managing partner in Malawi be so involved in industries in which they too work as adviser, accountant, or auditor (hotels, bank, insurance, malls, commercial real estate, residences, industries, etc). Shiraz is in serious conflict of interest and my humble view is that Ernst Young must get rid of him as soon as possible. No other managing partner of a big 5 accounting firm behaves like Shiraz in this country. The partners of Deloitte, PWC, GT and others are very reasonable and ethical. In Malawi here, there are too many people who take serious exception for Shiraz’s ethical character. His side accounting business outside of Ernst Young is well known in the country. I am confident that despite the fact that some top ministers are his close friends (if Shiraz can really have close friends), he will be treated at arm-length. ACB is watching Shiraz very carefully. Some of his friends in government must be very careful when they transact with Shiraz. They must consider Shiraz as a truly hot potato, not to be touched. President Chakwera is above all these silly and illegal activities. Thank you.

          1. Very very well said. Mr. Shiraz Yusuf is my boss at Ernst Young. My company needs to rebuild and rebrand from ground zero. We are all so ashamed because of one person

          2. It is so depressing to hear about these Shiraz Yusuf’s illegal activities. What a pest! May God help Malawi

             1. I know Shiraz. Shiraz is a good friend with whom I enjoy having a good drink, although I do so in moderation. Shiraz is not a bad person but like all of us, he needs to grow up a little. I wish he had a good mentor to guide him in is raw instinct. I understand what commentators are talking about. I pray that Shiraz will read these reactions and try to become wiser. I also pray that my asian friends be more and more integrated in our community. I will miss Abdul Gaffar Aboo Jakhura who really understood this. May he rest in peace. Amine

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