A significant obstacle to improving civil service and the country wide work ethic in Malawi is the punitive way in which employers are treated when trying to discipline or fire nonperforming employees. Generally these employees have an easy time extorting large sums of money from their employers through Labor Board suits, even if they confess themselves guilty of such things as abuse of position, theft, gross negligence, etc. As a result, almost no one is ever fired, just shifted around endlessly to the detriment of the organization and Malawi.

Interesting if high places will start walking the talk. Cut convoys. Retire excess executives in government service. Right size the civic service executive. No sacred cows connected to cash gate, sweep clean according to available evidence. Let the wheels of justice move without undue interference from politicians. To clean up Malawi is to sort out the malaise about concluding cases involving citizens connected to fellow country men in high places. It is about sharing the burden of hard choices and hardship. It is about cleaning up government and financial governance. It is about an accountable financial market. Banks are now… Read more »

Start changing civil servants’ mindset by punishing or dismissing those who are not trying to change. Coming to work very late, knocking off very early, every activity they do they need allowance, corruption. Why can’t u start biting indeed. Change will starting coming when such is started. Secondly, government procedures last long to b implemented. Start by chopping those who block swift procedures and lay off old timers otherwise this is not their time they must go now now. Chief secretary is the first to go coz he is long overdue to retire. Start implementing osamangolankhula, ikumva Chilima iwee?

Vuto lake a chilima mungonena za reforms koma on the ground palibe cha nzeru chikuchitika, take it for me zaka five zikamatha kupezeka kut palibe chimene chachitika, runing a gvt z a serious bzness u cant compare it with running a company, ndiye mukamati ma reform aaaaaa mr veep it wont succeed coz u’ll b shot down by ur own dpp, mind u many in dpp dont consider u as wa dpp weniweni tiyeni nazo as go towards 2019 muzasova bambo, jb anaziona kumeneko mlomwe ndi munthu oipa u’ll agree this in the near future

I Think This Change Of Mindset Should Start From Your Party,otherwise You Are Just Loosing Your Energy.You Seem Getting Assimilated To Dpp Style. Yes! For Your Own Security You Are. May Be You First Teach This So Called Transiformation In Your House(dpp). Not, “Do What I Say Not What I Do”.