Ndau comments on his fall from grace
Former minister of Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) Malison Ndau says odd events happened prior to losing his Cabinet post on Monday.
The minister said the odd events included learning that he had been fired through a crawler news brief on the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Television station.
Ndau was the only Cabinet minister fired by President Peter Mutharika and has since been replaced by former chief of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) Nicholas Dausi.
In the reshuffle, High Court Judge Lloyd Muhara was elevated from Deputy Chief Secretary of the Government to Chief Secretary while his former boss, George Mkondiwa, was demoted to the position of High Commissioner to India.
Isaac Munlo has been recalled from Malawi’s High Commission in India and is Chief Director in the Ministry of Foreign and International Cooperation.
In an interview with The Nation, Ndau said he had had no prior notification that he would lose his job until when he saw the bottom-of-the television screen footnote announcement at a time he was about to switch off his office television screen and head home for lunch.
“I then just said ‘bye’ to my secretary, then I went downstairs, because it [the office] was on the second floor, and I found my driver. My driver had already removed the [ministerial] flag. So, he just took me home,” he said of his last ride in a ministerial vehicle.
And in an interview with Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) Ndau says it was strange that some people had fabricated rumours twice about him resigning from his post as Information minister, once when there was an outcry on information on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) visit by Mutharika a few months ago and lately, a few days to losing his job.
“Honestly, that was not true. There was never any time I had resigned during the UNGA saga. Even this time around, some people are saying the same, but ‘no,’ that is not true,” he stressed.
The former minister said he was perplexed that when Parliament tackled the Access to Information Bill last week, Leader of the House George Chaponda had introduced the Bill abruptly on the floor, going against earlier set plans that the Bill be introduced on Friday—a few days later.
Some critics have faulted frequent changes in ministries, saying that affects continuity. n
I have said this before and I will say it again here ………I have no problem with the prerogative invested in our presidents to hire and fire their ministers but it is morally wrong when a president start abusing this prerogative.
When a president just wake up one morning and decide to fire one of his ministers for whatever reason without prior warning to the affected individual then that is abuse of power. And if what Mr Ndau is saying is true then APM owes the nation an explanation.
Malawians need to know why Mr Ndau has been fired and most importantly why he was not told about his firing before the announcement was made on the national television.
The fact that Mr Ndau was not warned before hand…….it is absolutely clear that his firing was based on gossip so much so that APM was embarrassed to face Mr Ndau to tell him the reasons why he was firing him.
For me personally after knowing APM well over the years, I am not surprised with his actions……. I would like to remind all Malawians that this is the same APM who failed miserably as a minister of education when he lost to Kabwila on the freedom of education issue……….He also failed as a minister of foreign affairs when we all witnessed a deteriorating relationship with the UK govt which culminated into the British ambassador being expelled.
APM does not have the balls to act on his own, he like leading from the back so that when things go wrong he is not the one to blame.
Apparently his medical reports shows that he has more estrogen than testosterone in his blood / balls and you can tell by just looking at his feminine face…….we don’t have a leader in Malawi but a Mulahko Wa Alomwe puppet.
On the other hand I would like to warn our Vice President to watch out…………Mr Ndau is from Tcheu where the VP comes from and now that he has been fired it means that apart from Dr Kalilani, who is another DPP puppet minister from the central region….it is now only the VP himself sitting in the highly dominated Mulahko Wa Alomwe DPP cabinet.
And from what I have gathered from my reliable sources it shows that Mr Ndau has been fired because he was the one who was building a new cabinet for the VP to take over the reigns of power once APM dies in the US during the UN meeting.