Several injured as job-seekers stampede in Mzuzu

June 9, 2020 Judith Moyo - Nyasa Times 55 Comments

Several people mostly youth were injured after thousands of panicked job-seekers stampeded during a government recruitment drive at Katoto Secondary School in Mzuzu as they pushed their way into the premises for interviews.

The young woman,who had lost consciousness at the venue
Stampede victim: The sheer size of the crowds was a testament to the vast numbers of unemployed in
young citizens who were at the exercise not only to secure jobs but to be allowed the opportunity to contribute towards the development of the nation

The Ministry of Health is currently recruiting healthcare workers at Mzuzu Central Hospital.

Applicants are expected to undergo interviews for the posts of health surveillance assistant at Katoto Secondary School.

One witness Glory Kibao said the stampede broke out as applicants surged towards  the gate which authorities delayed opening, prompting the job seekers to start pushing their way into the premises.

Other applicants jumped over the fence and got injured in the process.

It was feared that one of the applicants lost her life, but Mzuzu Central Hospital spokesperson Arnold Kayira refused to confirm or deny the death.

But Kayira confirmed numerous injured people were  rushed to the hospital, with some requiring x-rays and operations.

“Indeed we received patients that came from Katoto and the number could be over 80. Most of the patients have sustained mild injuries that’s why they have been treated as outpatients.

“But as we have no case admitted in ICU [Intensive Care Unit] and no patient has gone for major surgery and also noone has died,” says Kayira.

There is a high level of unemployment in Malawi  especially among young people most of whose 17 million citizens live on less than two dollars a day, while the country lags behind in key development indicators such as health.

 

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55 replies on “Several injured as job-seekers stampede in Mzuzu”

  2. Ine nkhawa kwenekuku and wanthu awa nkhawaona with my naked eyes kuti amwalira ndi awiri, winayo mzimayi anapondedwa mpaka maso kuthuzuka, bibi kutulukilathu pompo nde akamati sipanamwalire munthu nzabodza mpaka chamma 3 masana makolo/azibalae a mzimayi omwalirayo anabwera nkuzalanda microfone nkuyamba kushatapula akulu akulu powadzuladzula kuti bwanji akupiliza kupangitsa ma interview while anthu ena amwalira….. ndipo zoti inali interview ya ministry of health munthu sungakhulupilire,,, ine ver since siinapangepo interview yoti question paper anyhu nkumakhalapo 10, 15 ena mpaka 20 nkumapanga ma discussions pompo, ena ku gugula pompo….. in short anali masanje not interviews

  3. DPP trying to get identity cards to rig the elections yet again.Why employ the whole country just before the election?

  4. Budget yake ndiye otiyo tsapano. there has been lots of doddy adverts of jrecruitment
    job interviews
    promotions heyyyyyyy uga please stop mocking us for your greediness.
    lots of youth with proper certiticates are just staying at home depressed after all years of learning and money spent. shit small sausage pitala you see!!!
    you have all those crooks
    mchacha
    nankhumwa
    beni
    with fake certificates and spree spending these youths tax money from their small businesses heyyy.
    we got some
    mps
    chief
    leaders in different sectors enticing violence ena awa akutukwana ati panyo pano panyo pano to the passing convoy
    akunenayo iye matako ake akuyenda pa ntunda ana ake abale ake alibe cocita meaning no jobs!!!
    INSANITY YENI YENI.
    MAY GOD JELP US

  6. The writing is on the wall. God is not on the side of DPP whether they like it or not. It is only those who are pretending to be myopic that can not be able to see the writing. This incident is a campaign tool in favour of Tonse Alliance. Whatever DPP gurus lay their hands on will not prosper at all this year. In fact it will backfire because God is not on their side. These people are so wicked and the cry of the people have reached heaven and God has come down to rescue His people from the jaws of DPP. Soon they will see what Pharaoh saw many years ago.

  7. pliz opposition be alert im told there is something happening here with national identity cards with the aim of rigging the elections again… DPP is trying every move possible to win the elections again no wonder ma interviews osapanga apply kungofuna kuononga miyoyo ya anthu. Next week iliposo ina ya mboma amzathu a IT tikudalira inu

  8. 🤣😂😂😂Amalawi ndianthu omvesa chisoni heavy chilichonse they put blame on government 🤣😂😂😂😂😂.Amalawi anzanga can’t yu see kuti kupanga business ndikulembedwa ntchito ndizinthu zosiyana?basi pamalawi pano chomwe tikuziwa ndikulembedwa ntchito basi ?😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣ziphaniranani ntchitozo ife pheeeee kutakata tochepa tomweti nchifukwa atsogoleli andale nawo akufuna kuphanilana utsogoleli🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂Malawi on FIREEEEEEE

    1. Poor mentality Tasiyana, no way we can all be businessmen/women….. ngati inuyo zikuyenda just give thanks the almighty. If we all think of business, who will attend to the patients at the hospital? Who will be a bank teller? Who will be a policeman for our safety? Everyone has different opportunities, just say sorry to our fellow young ones who got injured for trying to make a living

    2. Business imafuna kapitolo amwene………… all these people are not stupid kuti sanaganizeko zopanga business koma amafuna poyambira. iweyo ndiwe telala, machine ukusokerawo unangopatsidwa nde usalodze zala anzako

  9. DPP government needs to feel shy as this VOTE-CHASING ploy won’t work.
    Proper planning should’ve been done. You don’t just call people to drop in like that. They need to apply first and successful ones attend interviews by appointment as it’s been happening before time immemorial. People will get killed for no apparent reason due to stupid ideologies.
    Government please don’t take people for granted 😡😠🇲🇼

    1. There is no way a government can employ everyone. We need to improve ourselves. A lot of Malawians are lazy

  10. Violent spirits of Chakwela, Chilim and Mtambo torturing innocent malawians. This could be avoided if Chakwela bloodshed spirit was not among these people. Spiritually blind people can not see that. Mtambo politian / sing’anga charms at work also.

    1. No you are not being realistic here.
      Who started all this fuss? I thought it’s the present government 😲

    2. No sense in what u are spiting here Cadet, the truth of the matter is the failure by your DPP administration to look out side the box and see what it’s Citizen are lacking ie employment .

      Even u Cadet u are among these unemployed individuals but u just rely upon cadetism

    4. Ndiwe galu kwabasi. was it Chakwera who made the decision to conduct walk in interviews? Just shut up your mouth if you have nothing sensible to say you dirty cadet, how much do they pay you pamwezi kuti udziyankhula nyasi ngat zimenezi?munya muona pa 23 June pano nonse pamodzi ndi gogo wanuyo mukupakira wautali ku Ndata, tione ngati udzapite nawo iweyo…mbuzi

    5. Oh even when you were writing this, you were deleting and write again because your heart was telling you that what you are saying is not true, now look, you are very very stupid than your President

  11. Senseless govt each year over 50,000 students got msce so in three years 150,000 can ypu interview 150,000 people only to employee 2000.Stop this nonses.Boma limenero la DPP.God is on the side of Chakwera and Malawians,Olo mukoze ziwembu sizigwira.olo mumphe anthu chakwera akhalabe pulezident wa Dziko lino chifukwa cha mphamvu ya mulungu.APM cannot ge president,if there is God in heaven.The one that fights Gods chosen and annointed people are rewarded with death this is in the Bible.When Soje Israelites fight Moses.Nthaka inangambika ndipo inawameza.Wina ndithu amezedwa ndi nthaka akapitirira kulimvana ndi Gods annointed 6th president of the republic of Malawi Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera.Amen

  12. Do you expect these young men and women to vote for DPP/UDF alliance in the coming fresh election? God indeed works wonders. This is free campaign for MCP/UTM Alliance. Regrettably poor APM can’t see the writing on the wall.

  13. How could they invite over 1000 people for interviews when they were only looking for Much less than that number.

    This is incompetence of those who planned these interviews at the ministry of health.

    Every sensible HR does prescreening of the applicants by looking at their cvs and just invite a few of those with high potential to meet the criteria of the job role….

    1. That is myopic thinking. The issue has nothing to do with government, but the behaviour of the people. What was wrong if they were to wait patiently. The problem is no morals , hence people like you kambewa pointing fingers at wrong people. The people has to exercise patience, not rushing and pushing the gate. Mtambo spirt of violence, hence to patient at all.

      1. In a undeveloped country like Malawi it’s laughable to have such large numbers being unemployed. It’s a sign of a government that has no clue as to what to do with it’s people So many dambos low laying land and river for irrigation. Good quality coffee being left undeveloped so much mineral resources left to thieves without control. Such much fruit rotting without processing into juices and yet we continue to import juices. I can mention so many opportunities for our young to be involved had the government chose to help just like Kamuzu established General Farming . Mulanje Peak products Sucoma Dwasco David Whitehead and many other operations. Yes Mr Kambewa is right. We don’t have a government in Malawi. Just a bunch of scavenging dogs in government offices.

    3. indeed. nchito anapatsa a ma setifiketi ogula acina
      mchacha
      beni phili
      nankhumwa
      etc
      .anthu ambili conciwa ali ndi ma pepala odziwika

    1. What planning? This is a DDP strategy to rig the votes, through deleting their IDs in the electoral system. Unfortunately, God has seen what they are trying to do. These people are so desperate to cling to power. The evil minister of Health will account for all these deaths, not long from now. The government should be ashamed to have so many young people unemployed when at the same time so much money is being wanted on bribery and theft by those government and political leadership. It is sad. Hopefully, Malawians will vote wisely in 2 weeks’ time and get lid of these evils in Malawi.

  18. Achinyamata, do you need any further advice that this DPP govt has nothing to offer but to kill Malawians. Do you vote for the same killing leadership? And you DPP, is this the actions of the opposition?, muyalukatu ndithu.

    1. @monosile no government will solve all the problems at once. don’t be cheated. I pray that we should change the government so that pple should know that politicians are the same.

    1. Mulirabe olo mutasintha Boma.Ine ndinalira ndi MCP yomweyo 31 years. Today, I don’t depend on the government, ndimapanga zanga. Chaboma chaulere ndiribe nacho ntchito.

  20. The problem is that most Malawians lack the patience to wait for things in an orderly manner by standing in a line and waiting for their turn. That is why they were jumping over the fence, entering through the windows and pushing and shoving What kind of future Health Surveillance Assistance are these people? Stampeding themselves to get in first. Have the patience to wait and let things flow smoothly. The organizers of these shameful interviews should be disciplined for failing to take appropriate measures before hand. I know unemployment is high and this should not happen with proper planning. I believe the idea for this walk in interviews was to save on time and resource to all parties involved but it should have been done with a lot of careful planning. Sorry to those who are injured.

  21. Professor wanted to employ 1 million youth in a day but Almighty God has refused his style instead He has given him deaths injuries insults and miserly to other families. Fresh Presidential Votes yasolobana. Pfupa lokakamiza limaswa mphika zisiyeni masala mwakula

  22. Ena pamenepo after going through such hell will go and vote for the evil regime. Malawians malawians wake up. Alembana kale ntchito awa. Izi zotipusitsa

    1. This recruitment is suspicious Malawians wake up its politically motivated.
      The Chakwera Chirima government should come and investigate this FRAUD,
      Why all of a sudden??
      where are the Funds to pay their salaries.
      what they know is that they have lost elections already and want to come and accuse the new government of failure to sustain the new recruits.
      WAKE UP MALAWI WAKE UP TONSE ALIANCE.
      THIS IS FRAUD

  23. My only comment is that this was poorly organised. How can you interview such a big crowd in one goal? I thought such crowds would have been split after shortlisting the candidates. I stand to be corrected but I fault the organizers who have gone away with allowances.

  25. The sad thing is that some people have already been offered positions, this was just to fool these young men and women that an interview was conducted. Shame

  26. Abale a malawi tinangozolowera khalidwe lonyasa. Kodi apa sizikanatheka kulowa pa gate bwino bwino

    1. You live in a different Malawi my friend. There is desperation out there. Malawi government has turned us into animals where survival is for the fittest. Just keep quiet and enjoy your Malawi. We will vote wisely this time.

    1. Stupid thinking after failing to mitigate their suffering through your stupid campaign promises, DPP, MUTHARIKA are a big shame

    2. Government has failed us……the DPP know it very well of what is happening in this country…why?the office of National ststistical office is within the OPC deliberately for planning purposes.

  29. Komatu Chimunthalikacho chili duuu kuchipinda ku Sanjika chosecho kuno anthu akufa. Dont start things you cannot finish. I know you are trying to copy Tonse Alliance strategy but you cant make it coz you don’t even know the source of that idea.

    Come out of that hell and see what is happening in this world!!!!

    1. I guess this kind of act is the results of failure of leadership, no where under the universe i heard of recruiting 1+m people at the same time , shame to our leaders

  30. This is a Gov that has failed to provide even the basics to its Malawians. If legitimacy is gained through service delivery, this Gov has failed. It does not have the legitimacy to govern this country either through the ballot box or service delivery. this was a deliberate strategy by a gov in the wake of Covid-19 to kill its own people. Surely if they truly care about Covid-19 in Malawi they could have adopted better employment strategies. But maybe those who are asserting that they wanted to collect ID and then delete people names on NRB database so when people go to vote should be told they are not on the list are justified.

  32. Are you sure there is a President? a Health Minister, a PS, a Director responsible for recruitment in this country? I doubt it very much. They are all asleep at the wheel, busy finding ways to increase covid cases and rig the election.

  33. This is pathetic for mother Malawi, a very good barometer of the state of Malawi at the moment….Get well soon young dreamers…

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