Tony Blair to work as adviser to Malawi’s president again: To set up governance office at State House
The former United Kingdom (UK) prime minister Tony Blair wants to set up an advisory office on governance results delivery at Malawi State House and the Office of the President and Cabinet, a return to the country years after Blair and his team pulled out as official consultants to the then president Joyce Banda.
According to Tony Blair’s website, the Blair Institute is looking to set up a new project to support the government of Malawi to strengthen its delivery and implementation mechanisms.
“This is likely to include a delivery function in State House, but also potentially support other parts of the presidency such as communications and international affairs,” says the website.
TheTony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a charity set up by the former prime minister, opened the same office in Malawi during the Joyce Banda administration but closed down soon after the K30 billion ‘cashgate’ corruption scandal emerged.
The AGI had been working closely with Mrs Banda and stepped up its “Malawi project” when it sent four advisers to the capital Lilongwe since July 2012 and the agreement was to support President Banda up to the presidential election in 2014.
Banda lost the elections but helped to propel the incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera to power through the Tonse Alliance and is a close ally to the Head of State.
The institute says will seek to strengthen connections with other key ministries and agencies both in the centre (the vice president’s office and the ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.
Others include ministry of Energy, the ministry of Agriculture, the ministry of Industry, the ministry of Trade, the Malawi Investment and Trade Centre and the ministries covering infrastructure.
The statement says the Malawi team may extend to include advisors in these or other ministries, depending on the sectoral priorities of the presidency.
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666, the macho laws, and new world order has landed in Malawi.
Chonde a Chakwera, musavomere Tony Blair, or any Western world to manipulate and subjugate you in the ways to run our country.
Tony Blair is an evil man, and please, ndapota nanu, chonde cancel those plans in the name of Jesus.
Kodi mudzamva liti, kapena kuzindikira kuti azunguwa siyali mbali yathu, si abale athu?
Everything a white person does, is a by product of timely planning. White people are very calculative and manipulative.
Boris Johnson is currently busy taking the liberties of citizenry here in the UK, with the intention to introduce the new world order (666) by next year (2021).
Please, musasekerere any evil plans a white man may come with.
Should you need advice, please go to Rais Magufuli, or Professor Lumumba, and fellow African statesmen.
Blair is evil, evil, evil. On other words, the devil incarnate.
Apa ndiye palibe tinachita bola munakati the Chinese. Not these pipo Tony Blair was once here during JB time
Advisors will out number the many dull cabinet ministers already plundering out resources. I have a feeling this administration will go down a disappointment
Kagame kapena anzathu apafupi yapa pa TZ,Magufuli,zikwathekela popanda kutsogoleredwa ndi muzungu.
Eish!Zikadalipo zakuti popanda azungu sotingathe.
KOMA NDIYE TIKUMAKHALA NDI NDI ZINYALALA ZAMA PREZIDENT kumalawi.Buleya alindi milandu yaku Iraq.
They taught joyce cashgate and want to teach chakwera. Chakwera is coy of jb.imaginw he hired Banda and others.
Instead of asking Britain to compensate Malawi for the land grab during the colonial era,you allow this dude to dupe our country by stealing our tax payers money in broad day light under the garb of governance advisors
Wake up Mr president this kleptocracy.
Plz my prezident, Africa doesn’t need European advisors, these yellow people know nothing about my village, they only know lake Malawi and its chambo fish. Remember the late Idi Amin (MHRIP) of Uganda, had a british born advisor by the name of Bob Astles,and what was the result? Killing his own people. So plz my prezident think twice
Kkkkk ine ngati idiot expert ntapanga kafukufuku zaonetsa kuti Malawi government imamvabwino ndi kafungo ka mkhwapa mwa azungu nchifukwachake sitifuna kuchokamo. Now it start to make sence ti mfundo mumatulutsa pakatipa ta ma abortion, ma same sex marrieges ndi zina zopusa. U r under mzungu salakwitsa.
Ife anamathodwa tatopa ndi ukapolo oyendera
Kkkkk mzungu sadzathekaso. Ask your self first whats in it for Him/them?
They alredy know that we have huge plots of lands where they can build their london style offices but above all they choose to create an office at the state house? Hhhmm some thing is rotten here i can smell fucheche from far far away.
Kkkk kale atambwali amenewa anatibela minyanga ya njovu ndi timinyala tina ndi tina ta mtengo wapatali kuwapusitsa makolo athu pomawapatsa mchere ndi mikanda tinsalu ndi sofiya.
Mzungu sadzathekaso ndikuti. Ife bwezi pano ti Singapole.
Any way poti ulendo uno akutilowa ndi yofuna kuthandiza akuti timaunduna tina ndi tina but malawi wa lero si watulo. Any move you can make we will be watching like a hawk!
If not fake, its a wrong move, for ,,,sakes, we have people / experts for such right here. Why go for Tony?
Even Israel, Japan and China has these type of friends from developed World. This world requires wisdom and at times these relationships help open doors. I would welcome Tony Blair’s support
Hail the man who brought peace to the middle East. The Mid east is indebted to him and George Bush for creating a world that was a butchery. He is a lawyer but he never got to grips with the international affairs except to hang on the Bush coattails British foreign affair had the American complexion just to revamp the Reagan-Thatcher era. Blair will just siphon our forex this is a heist staged by Blair
Things that happen when the President is a headless chicken. This guy will end up like Joyce Banda. Too many obvious, layman mistakes. Zero direction. One term President
In my view, The English would think we’re still dosing on Valliam pill if this pulls through, would one blame them?
So we are back to 1964/2012 (The Banda’s/Azungu andiuza era)????
Colonialism, we don’t need this crap. You have ministries full of trained people with degrees, masters, phd’s from British Universities and they know Malawi inside out. So why bring their British classmates to advise them? Let them advise from Britain, not statehouse. Inferiority complex! Mindset change.
He is irrelevant
Our taxes to England now
Why does the president want to be advised by a war criminal ?
Another cashgate to follow
Before Malawians are made to pay hefty “consultancy fees” towards Tony Blair’s “advice” to our President on matters of “governance”, they’d like to know what kind of advice our leader will be getting from UK’s former PM! We don’t think services from Blair’s AGI come cheap!
We hope that Malawi Government is not paying a dime for these services as this is a charity and presumed to offer the services for free. Otherwise it is a waste of tax payers money to have a consultant on governance.
mr tony blair… please leave the Tonse alliance alone
why do you like money so much
we have brains here that can make things work
you messed up Joyce Banda and run away at first sign of trouble
sort out UK labour party and trump first
zotha ndalama.
Very good development.Oir presidents is wise,intelligent & handsome
With the coming in of Tony&the other wise Dr.JB, definitely, Malawi will be painted white.
I strongly well the idea.
Let me take advantage to advise the President &Min.of Agriculture: Please the fertilizer issue must be looked into seriously.Start convincing people now,to smoothly pass 2025.Your adminstration must priotise food sima first, mbwenu,mwamalana nawo was Malawi.Vinyakhe vizenge pasinda… Mwapulika Bwana HE&Minister??
Regards, you
Nixon Mzakwacha,
Mzakwacha Village
Bolero-Rumphi.
Is Malawi really an independent state?
With more than 40% of the national budget coming from abroad, Malawi is certainly not an independent country.
The devil is in the details. This is not free lunch. Find out how much our government is footing the bill of this consultancy.