My brother Joshua Chisa Mbele you did not need to come social media to question circumstances surrounding my appointment as Board Chair .
You have brought in issues of morality and integrity in this appointment .
Let me begin by informing you and your audience that this is not my first public appointment , especially in the statutory corporation . In 2010 The Bingu administration did appoint me as Board Chair of the same NRWB . The appointment was announced both on print and electronic media platforms . I turned down the appointment. The same administration offered me a very strategic diplomatic post and I turned it down too . I turned down these two offers because one influential business in the DPP fold , labelled me as “Tumbuka” .
I bitterly complained about this to late President Bingu wa Mutharika . Verify this with Goodall Gondwe and with a decorated & veteran public servant now a member of Parliament , Hon Bright Msaka , SC , MP who was then the chief secretary of Government who personally phoned me for these appointments .
This is to show you that I am never carried away with such appointments.
I took this appointment with great honour to serve the people of Malawi.
My departure from UTM was never a caveat for this appointment.
My departure from UTM was amicable and voluntary. It was one made out of choice , just as I had done when I chose to join UTM over other political parties .
Saulos Chilima is a fine man whom I have respected and admired over time for the gift of leadership, academics and as an accomplished corporate executive . Nothing and no one shall change my holding of him .
Rt Hon Saulos Chilima knows why I left UTM because I shared with him all the ridicule and the emotional suffering I endured during my membership from my fellow members I felt were compatriots. The worst was when I and the people of the North were tribally profiled by very few senior individuals in the Party who felt threatened by my presence in UTM . With the avoidance of doubt , I forgive you and many others who come up with all kinds of theories regarding my withdrawal of membership from UTM party and my subsequent appointment as a Board Chair, because I have avoided to explain this deliberately .
If I explain this to the public especially to those who live in the Northern part of Malawi , who have over the years borne and endured the scars of segregation and deprivation , then I doubt if any single voter out there will have the appetite to vote for them in 2025. For the love of chilima who has already gone through a lot from the days of the DPP , to date I have chosen to fathom my grievances . Chilimas enemies are not from outside as you assert but from within . He is completely captured by them , only time will tell .
There has never been a day when I and President chakwera discussed any public appointments including this particular one of a Board Chair. It is wrong therefore , to assert that I was appointed Board Chair because I resigned from UTM . With this kind of attitude towards each other as citizens, this will scare many to call it a day in politics .
It makes me crave for an appetite to come back to active politics in future , otherwise history shall record my legacy wrongly because of people like you who chose to twist facts .
I have the right and duty to put the facts right . My surname is spelt Mwenifumbo and not Mwenefumbo.
