JB appoints new Cabinet, Mkwezalamba is finance minister
Malawi President has appointed economist Maxwell Mkwezalamba as finance minister to replace Dr Ken Lipenga in a new Cabinet announced at lunch time today.
Mkwezalamba stepped down as AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs in March this year after serving the continental body for close to 8 years.
He was Commissioner for Economic Affairs since May 2004.
Mkwezalamba was highly praised by Carlos Lopes, Excutive Secretary of the United Nations Commission for Africa (Uneca) for his work at AU. Lopes described him as a man of integrity who will greatly be missed at AU.
Before being elected Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Mkwezalamba served in Malawi and the United States of America (USA) in various capacities, including Macroeconomist, World Bank, Malawi Country Office (between 2003 and 2004), as Principal Secretary at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Malawi from 2000 to2003); and Macroeconomist at the World Bank, Malawi Country Office from 1998 to 2000 and Country Economist, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA in 1999.
Congrats. We are proud of you. Please continue to be professional and the Lord will bless you and mother Malawi.
How can you include Kanyumba in the cabinet with such a fraud at Andiamo? Do you want to steal more at the education? Disolve the cabinet again.
we can deduce two things
1. the fact that Anita Kalinda who is being mentioned in cashgate is still in cabinet, we can conclude the firm she is allegedly connected to which is involved in cash gate must have had the blessing of PP and State House
2. Putting Khumbo Kachali as minister responsible for stores has hallmarks of being used as a conduit for funds from government to PP. KK has inexplicably acquired a lot of wealth. a person with sch tainted image cannot be in charge of government stores.
The efforts are an unsuccessful attempt to hoodwink voters. Well they may succeed in doing so taking into account anthu ovota ambiri omwe sazindikila ali kumudzi