BLANTYRE (MaraviPost) – Latest casualties to the list of those fired from their jobs is Benson Tembo and Presidential Press Secretary, Frederick Ndala. Oh my bad these two were not actually fired but were redeployed to a less visible position in society.
Ndala was fired, no sorry redeployed on allegations that President Peter Mutharika got irked when it emerged that he had embezzled close to MK10 million which President Peter Mutharika had set aside for journalists who attended the media interface held in November last year at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre.
If embezzlement is not reason enough to get fired, what can one do in our country to actually merit being fired from a job?
The Media Institute of Southern Africa – Malawi Chapter (MISA) has advised President Peter Mutharika to rescind government’s decision to redeploy Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director General, Benson Tembo, saying the transfer is “retrogressive and a sign of continued political interference by the government in the operations of MBC”.
Benson Tembo has been at MBC for years. Many of you have complained that MBC is a government tool including our friends at MISA. All this stuff you were complaining about was happening when Tembo was running the show. I would expect that change would bring a change in Policies of MBC and thus many of you should be celebrating for an independently run MBC. But no, no one gets fired in our Malawi! What a country.
In our Utopia government employees on strike still draw a salary. When Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe who knows a thing or two about how strikers are treated in the West, Threatens to withhold payroll. The outcry from Civil Society organizations boo ranged around the world. So let me ask you, if I am on strike and not working but I am getting paid a full wage, what is my incentive to go back to work?
I am just saying we are really leaving in Utopia
