Congoma boss toVoice Mhone in NIC
Council for Non-Governmental Organisations in Malawi (Congoma) board chairperson Voice Mhone has turned down his appointment to the National Integrity Committee (NIC) saying his plate is full.
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday appointed Mhone, one of his fierce critics in recent months, to the committee as a representative of the civil society.
Mhone confirmed in an interview on Tuesday that he would not be taking up the position as NIC member because he is already engaged in a number of activities.
Said Mhone: “I have a full-time job. I am chairperson of Congoma and Civil Society Grand Coalition. I also sit on two boards: Local Development Fund [LDF] and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). I think that’s enough already.”
He said Congoma has already written government advising that Ronald Mtonga, its executive director, should be a replacement.
“After all, Mr Mtonga was in the previous committee and there was no problem. We think continuity is necessary,” said Mhone.
Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) spokesperson Arthur Chipenda on Tuesday said government is yet to receive Congoma’s letter.
In the statement announcing the new committee, OPC said the committee also comprises Chief Secretary to the Government Hawa Ndilowe representing the Executive, registrar of the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Joseph Chigona, acting clerk of Parliament Roosevelt Gondwe, Matthews Chikankheni from the private sector and the Reverend Patrick Semphere representing the media.
Others are traditional leaders Paramount Chief Kyungu, Senior Chief Kalumbu and Traditional Authority Chikumbu. Evangelical Association of Malawi chairperson Francis Mkandawire and Muslim Association of Malawi chairperson Sheikh Idrissa Muhammad, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Judge Rezine Mzikamanda and Wezi Kayira, principal secretary in the OPC responsible for good governance are also in the committee.
According to Chapter 5 (5.1) of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy of 2008, NIC’s role is to promote institutionalism of the fight against corruption in government sectors.
However, the country is reeling from the Capital Hill cashgate scandal where billions of kwacha was looted from government coffers.
In 2011, former committee chairperson Bishop Joseph Bvumbwe complained that progress in implementing the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (Nacs) remained slow due to inadequate funding.
He mentioned the challenges as including human and financial capacity within the ACB to roll out Nacs implementation, transfer people from one department to another.
CASHGATE AT BUNDA COLLEGE A.K.A LUANAR
Many people have not heard what I am writing in this article unless you are a student, a lecturer or a parent to a Bunda student. This college has been in transition from University of Malawi council into LUANAR council in June last year. Before the transition Bunda college had Professor Kwampata as the college principal, ever before bunda only had problems that were there in all constituent colleges of UNIMA but during the transition Professor Kanyama phiri was appointed as the Vice Chancellor for the LUANAR Council people thought that the college will be in safe hands because kanyama was at bunda college and held different positions including that of the college principal. But to say the truth the college isn’t in safe hands, I have been at Bunda College for four years now as a animal science student, I was in the Bunda student union in the last academic year executive and I know what I am talking about, to begin with last academic year the college weeded 200 students something that has never happened before , after the results were out the principal was called to the parliament to explain reasons behind the results and he said that the reasons is that there is an increase in immorality at bunda college hence the poor results but he was wrong in his justification the following are the reasons for the unbelievable results. Mr kanyama together with the finance officers are siphoning money that were meant for student’s allowances , he cornered to the ministry of education about the results and he indicated that the college only weeded 50 government sponsored students and 150 self sponsored students but the opposite is true , 150 government are the one that were weeded and it means that the finance officers and Mr. kanyama phiri are pocketing MK 6 000 000 per month into his account and MK 36 000 000 per semester , this is the tax payers money , people are struggling in the hospitals because of the shortage of drugs but he is busy siphoning money that could help the country. 150 students that were weeded were from first year of 2012/2013 academic year and he did that deliberately because he will be pocketing MK 288 000 000 for four years because the ministry of education will be thinking that these students are still there while in reality these are called ghost students, there is a speculation that the last academic year’s examination were leaked , and the students were punished because of that but I overheard Mrs Chisoni from Development Department, Dr nyamanda the dean of students from Human Nutrition Department at the car park on 28 august 2013 around 2:30pm saying that the Lectures from basic science: Prof Mumba , Dr Kakota and Dr mwijilo and also lectures from Economics and applied science department (Dr mapemba) and others from other departments are the one that are giving the examination to the students because they have sexual affairs with the students but they punished innocent students, Imagine a parent paying MK 250 000 per year only to have his/her child being weeded because of these lecturers and this corrupt administration, Bunda college is collapsing if we are not careful. Imagine the project of building LUANAR structures had its funding from CHINA , and it was fully funded project but now the project has stopped because they say they have run out of funds but two month ago Prof Knayama and his team bought Four Chevrolet worth millions from tax payers money, and information from the trusted inside source it is revealed that it’s the money from the same project that was used to purchase those porch cars for the high office of LUANAR and now they are persuading NORWAY to give them funding so that they should finish the project, but is this reasonable my fellow Malawians, whosoever appointed Pro Kanyama Phiri, he/she should know that was the first step to fully collapse bunda, the learning environment is pathetic, no resources, Imagine that there is only one book of physics for the first year in the library written by Titcomb AND EVEN THE SYSTEM THAT THERE USING FOR GRADES CALCULATION (G.P.A) IT HAS A LOT OF FAULTS AND ERRORS ITS NOT EVEN THE SAME SYSTEM THAT OTHER COLLEGES AT UNIMA USES, MRS SEKANAWO KASIYA( COMMUNICATION LECTURER) SAID THAT DURING HER FIRST DEGREE PERIOD IN ECONOMICS AT BUNDA NO ONE WAS WEEDED NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SUPERNATURAL BEINGS BUT THE SYSTEM THEY WERE USING AT THAT TIME WAS GOOD, THEY DISORGANISED MANY GRADES FOR THE STUDENTS INCLUDING MINE, I WAS PUT ON THE LIST TO REPEAT IN THIRD YEAR BUT I PASSED WHEN I CHECKED WITH THE REGISTAR AND EXAMINERS IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THEY GAVE ME THE WRONG GRADES, BUT IMAGINE IF I DIDN’T ASK, AND HOW MANY DISCOVERED THIS ERROR but this man called kanyama is busy castigating students , portraying a bad picture of students and he is putting the future of children at stake, during this year orientation he said the first year that I am looking forward to 200 students to be weeded from this college , how can the VC say that to the students???? , this man is unbearable. there is a man who know this guy so much he says that his behaviour, he has been in many organisations but he is aimed at collapsing the organisation by weakening it financially, Malawians boast that agriculture is the back bone of Malawian economy and bunda college is the institution that will be producing cream of agriculture but now that’s not the case because bunda will be collapsing very soon in the hands of this guy. I believe Bingu Wamutharika had a good vision of LUANAR but kanyama will kill that dream very soon, thank God that NRC and Mwimba institute of agriculture refused to join the wagon of LUANAR because they could have been in the same boat of collapsing together with Bunda. Bunda can only change if this man is out and the staff in the administration being changed.
Lastly I my advising all parents and guardians who are sending their children to learn at bunda, think twice before you do so because you will waste the very little money you have, wait for this guy to go or else you will regret I your education because he is ready to weed more this year
CASHGATE AT BUNDA COLLEGE A.K.A LUANAR
Many people have not heard what I am writing in this article unless you are a student, a lecturer or a parent to a Bunda student. This college has been in transition from University of Malawi council into LUANAR council in June last year. Before the transition Bunda college had Professor Kwampata as the college principal, ever before bunda only had problems that were there in all constituent colleges of UNIMA but during the transition Professor Kanyama phiri was appointed as the Vice Chancellor for the LUANAR Council people thought that the college will be in safe hands because kanyama was at bunda college and held different positions including that of the college principal. But to say the truth the college isn’t in safe hands, I have been at Bunda College for four years now as a animal science student, I was in the Bunda student union in the last academic year executive and I know what I am talking about, to begin with last academic year the college weeded 200 students something that has never happened before , after the results were out the principal was called to the parliament to explain reasons behind the results and he said that the reasons is that there is an increase in immorality at bunda college hence the poor results but he was wrong in his justification the following are the reasons for the unbelievable results. Mr kanyama together with the finance officers are siphoning money that were meant for student’s allowances , he cornered to the ministry of education about the results and he indicated that the college only weeded 50 government sponsored students and 150 self sponsored students but the opposite is true , 150 government are the one that were weeded and it means that the finance officers and Mr. kanyama phiri are pocketing MK 6 000 000 per month into his account and MK 36 000 000 per semester , this is the tax payers money , people are struggling in the hospitals because of the shortage of drugs but he is busy siphoning money that could help the country. 150 students that were weeded were from first year of 2012/2013 academic year and he did that deliberately because he will be pocketing MK 288 000 000 for four years because the ministry of education will be thinking that these students are still there while in reality these are called ghost students, there is a speculation that the last academic year’s examination were leaked , and the students were punished because of that but I overheard Mrs Chisoni from Development Department, Dr nyamanda the dean of students from Human Nutrition Department at the car park on 28 august 2013 around 2:30pm saying that the Lectures from basic science: Prof Mumba , Dr Kakota and Dr mwijilo and also lectures from Economics and applied science department (Dr mapemba) and others from other departments are the one that are giving the examination to the students because they have sexual affairs with the students but they punished innocent students, Imagine a parent paying MK 250 000 per year only to have his/her child being weeded because of these lecturers and this corrupt administration, Bunda college is collapsing if we are not careful. Imagine the project of building LUANAR structures had its funding from CHINA , and it was fully funded project but now the project has stopped because they say they have run out of funds but two month ago Prof Knayama and his team bought Four Chevrolet worth millions from tax payers money, and information from the trusted inside source it is revealed that it’s the money from the same project that was used to purchase those porch cars for the high office of LUANAR and now they are persuading NORWAY to give them funding so that they should finish the project, but is this reasonable my fellow Malawians, whosoever appointed Pro Kanyama Phiri, he/she should know that was the first step to fully collapse bunda, the learning environment is pathetic, no resources, Imagine that there is only one book of physics for the first year in the library written by Titcomb AND EVEN THE SYSTEM THAT THERE USING FOR GRADES CALCULATION (G.P.A) IT HAS A LOT OF FAULTS AND ERRORS ITS NOT EVEN THE SAME SYSTEM THAT OTHER COLLEGES AT UNIMA USES, MRS SEKANAWO KASIYA( COMMUNICATION LECTURER) SAID THAT DURING HER FIRST DEGREE PERIOD IN ECONOMICS AT BUNDA NO ONE WAS WEEDED NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SUPERNATURAL BEINGS BUT THE SYSTEM THEY WERE USING AT THAT TIME WAS GOOD, THEY DISORGANISED MANY GRADES FOR THE STUDENTS INCLUDING MINE, I WAS PUT ON THE LIST TO REPEAT IN THIRD YEAR BUT I PASSED WHEN I CHECKED WITH THE REGISTAR AND EXAMINERS IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THEY GAVE ME THE WRONG GRADES, BUT IMAGINE IF I DIDN’T ASK, AND HOW MANY DISCOVERED THIS ERROR but this man called kanyama is busy castigating students , portraying a bad picture of students and he is putting the future of children at stake, during this year orientation he said the first year that I am looking forward to 200 students to be weeded from this college , how can the VC say that to the students???? , this man is unbearable. there is a man who know this guy so much he says that his behaviour, he has been in many organisations but he is aimed at collapsing the organisation by weakening it financially, Malawians boast that agriculture is the back bone of Malawian economy and bunda college is the institution that will be producing cream of agriculture but now that’s not the case because bunda will be collapsing very soon in the hands of this guy. I believe Bingu Wamutharika had a good vision of LUANAR but kanyama will kill that dream very soon, thank God that NRC and Mwimba institute of agriculture refused to join the wagon of LUANAR because they could have been in the same boat of collapsing together with Bunda. Bunda can only change if this man is out and the staff in the administration being changed.
Lastly I my advising all parents and guardians who are sending their children to learn at bunda, think twice before you do so because you will waste the very little money you have, wait for this guy to go or else you will regret I your education because he is ready to weed more this year
CASHGATE AT BUNDA COLLEGE A.K.A LUANAR
Many people have not heard what I am writing in this article unless you are a student, a lecturer or a parent to a Bunda student. This college has been in transition from University of Malawi council into LUANAR council in June last year. Before the transition Bunda college had Professor Kwampata as the college principal, ever before bunda only had problems that were there in all constituent colleges of UNIMA but during the transition Professor Kanyama phiri was appointed as the Vice Chancellor for the LUANAR Council people thought that the college will be in safe hands because kanyama was at bunda college and held different positions including that of the college principal. But to say the truth the college isn’t in safe hands, I have been at Bunda College for four years now as a animal science student, I was in the Bunda student union in the last academic year executive and I know what I am talking about, to begin with last academic year the college weeded 200 students something that has never happened before , after the results were out the principal was called to the parliament to explain reasons behind the results and he said that the reasons is that there is an increase in immorality at bunda college hence the poor results but he was wrong in his justification the following are the reasons for the unbelievable results. Mr kanyama together with the finance officers are siphoning money that were meant for student’s allowances , he cornered to the ministry of education about the results and he indicated that the college only weeded 50 government sponsored students and 150 self sponsored students but the opposite is true , 150 government are the one that were weeded and it means that the finance officers and Mr. kanyama phiri are pocketing MK 6 000 000 per month into his account and MK 36 000 000 per semester , this is the tax payers money , people are struggling in the hospitals because of the shortage of drugs but he is busy siphoning money that could help the country. 150 students that were weeded were from first year of 2012/2013 academic year and he did that deliberately because he will be pocketing MK 288 000 000 for four years because the ministry of education will be thinking that these students are still there while in reality these are called ghost students, there is a speculation that the last academic year’s examination were leaked , and the students were punished because of that but I overheard Mrs Chisoni from Development Department, Dr nyamanda the dean of students from Human Nutrition Department at the car park on 28 august 2013 around 2:30pm saying that the Lectures from basic science: Prof Mumba , Dr Kakota and Dr mwijilo and also lectures from Economics and applied science department (Dr mapemba) and others from other departments are the one that are giving the examination to the students because they have sexual affairs with the students but they punished innocent students, Imagine a parent paying MK 250 000 per year only to have his/her child being weeded because of these lecturers and this corrupt administration, Bunda college is collapsing if we are not careful. Imagine the project of building LUANAR structures had its funding from CHINA , and it was fully funded project but now the project has stopped because they say they have run out of funds but two month ago Prof Knayama and his team bought Four Chevrolet worth millions from tax payers money, and information from the trusted inside source it is revealed that it’s the money from the same project that was used to purchase those porch cars for the high office of LUANAR and now they are persuading NORWAY to give them funding so that they should finish the project, but is this reasonable my fellow Malawians, whosoever appointed Pro Kanyama Phiri, he/she should know that was the first step to fully collapse bunda, the learning environment is pathetic, no resources, Imagine that there is only one book of physics for the first year in the library written by Titcomb AND EVEN THE SYSTEM THAT THERE USING FOR GRADES CALCULATION (G.P.A) IT HAS A LOT OF FAULTS AND ERRORS ITS NOT EVEN THE SAME SYSTEM THAT OTHER COLLEGES AT UNIMA USES, MRS SEKANAWO KASIYA( COMMUNICATION LECTURER) SAID THAT DURING HER FIRST DEGREE PERIOD IN ECONOMICS AT BUNDA NO ONE WAS WEEDED NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SUPERNATURAL BEINGS BUT THE SYSTEM THEY WERE USING AT THAT TIME WAS GOOD, THEY DISORGANISED MANY GRADES FOR THE STUDENTS INCLUDING MINE, I WAS PUT ON THE LIST TO REPEAT IN THIRD YEAR BUT I PASSED WHEN I CHECKED WITH THE REGISTAR AND EXAMINERS IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THEY GAVE ME THE WRONG GRADES, BUT IMAGINE IF I DIDN’T ASK, AND HOW MANY DISCOVERED THIS ERROR but this man called kanyama is busy castigating students , portraying a bad picture of students and he is putting the future of children at stake, during this year orientation he said the first year that I am looking forward to 200 students to be weeded from this college , how can the VC say that to the students???? , this man is unbearable. there is a man who know this guy so much he says that his behaviour, he has been in many organisations but he is aimed at collapsing the organisation by weakening it financially, Malawians boast that agriculture is the back bone of Malawian economy and bunda college is the institution that will be producing cream of agriculture but now that’s not the case because bunda will be collapsing very soon in the hands of this guy. I believe Bingu Wamutharika had a good vision of LUANAR but kanyama will kill that dream very soon, thank God that NRC and Mwimba institute of agriculture refused to join the wagon of LUANAR because they could have been in the same boat of collapsing together with Bunda. Bunda can only change if this man is out and the staff in the administration being changed.
Lastly I my advising all parents and guardians who are sending their children to learn at bunda, think twice before you do so because you will waste the very little money you have, wait for this guy to go or else you will regret I your education because he is ready to weed more this year
please see comment below.
This what we call integrity. We do not know the motive behind NIC. Cash-gate is a baby of Joyce Banda to fund her campaign and we now hear this nonsense. Thumbs up Voice Mhone for rejecting an orange or vomiting it.
@graly banda, your lack of integrity is matched only by your complete deficit of critical thinking skills. you make numerous accusations stated as fact, yet completely omit any ACTUAL data to support your claims. additionally, your need to spam your “opinion” repeatedly places you squarely in the domain of “troll.” enjoy your life. i am sure that it will be a perfect reflection of your complete lack of character.