President Lazarus Chakwera has gagged all the political commentators from Chancellor College by appointing them as board members in various parastatal organisations.
The appointment is one way of shutting them down from criticizing his administration; bringing back dictatorial rule in the process, which characterizes MCP leadership.
The newly released list has almost ten vocal and renowned political analysts from Chanco.
Some of them are Edge Kanyongolo, Henry Chingaipe, Blessings Chinsinga, Boniface Dulani, Justin Dzonzi and Sunduzwayo Madise.
Dulani of Afro-barometre fame has been awarded as a board member for Macra while Henry Chingaipe has been drifted into Higher Education Student Loans and Grants Board (HESLGB), Kanyongolo has been incorporated in the board of Competition and Fair Trade Commission (CFTC) while Dr Blessings Chinsinga is in Malawi Institute of Management (MIM) board.
Dzonzi is now the chairperson of Malawi Housing Corporation while Madise chairs Malawi National Council of Sports.
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These guys are already required in their fields of expertise. Now piling more jobs on top of what they already have is unthinkable, hence the assertions that that is aimed at gagging them. If anything, this should have given Chakwera a stepping-stone on his dreams of creating 1 million jobs in the first 12 months; or is this now thrown out of the window because it was suggested by your colleague, Saulosi Chilima? This is what normally occurs when you do not think through your plans and possibly float it for professional inputs. Umaganiza ngati nchetche, mapeto ache umaphinjidwa ndi ……….. chifukwa chopupuluma!!