Though they receive millions of Kwacha as sitting allowances and a salary of over half a million Kwacha, Malawi Members of Parliament (MPs) have claimed that they are the poorest public workers in Malawi.
Speaking on the local press on Sunday, chairperson of Parliamentary Social Welfare committee Alex Major said Malawi legislators are the poorest as the money they earn is not enough to meet their needs.
Major added that expenditures leave them with nothing as they try to look for the welfare of people in their constituencies.
He further explained that their monthly salary of K600,000 does not meet their needs since they use it to solve problems faced by members of their constituency.
“When you look at the three arms of government the Judiciary, Executive and Legislature you will find that MPs are the poorest because of the mentality that people have in Malawi that they are supposed to be helped by them. For instance just today I have bought two coffins for people in my constituency.
“To prove this, when an MP has lost a seat he or she becomes poor because the money is shared to many,” said Major.
However, gender activist Emma Kaliya has faulted the MPs on the matter arguing that they are perpetrators of that behaviour.
“It’s because they give promises to people that is why people come after them to look for support, they give promises that cost them during campaigns,” said Kaliya.
She further advised Malawians to stop looking for support from MPs arguing that they are not mandated to be giving support to individuals.
In a move to end the behaviour, ActionAid has embarked on a sensitisation campaign to advise the public to stop seeking help from MPs.
Dishonest idiots.
Go to hell.
Mbuzi Za Anthu izi. Angoba ndalama Za boma basi
Kungoti mtundu wa anthu andale ndi mtundu osaganizila anzao , akuMalawi ndi kuZimbabwe ,bhasopu.
panyapawo!
ow kodi
ASAIWALE NTCHITO YA M’BOMA NDI MAITANIDWE ,ANDUNA ADATELO!
MPs are indeed very poor coz they don’t afford to monitor their costituency due to their low economic status.
bunch of dudes tsek
Stupid
They are not Public Workers. They are politicians!!!!
If mps are poorest public workers what about teachers?
Shit
This is foollness if you are the poorest just resgn and find something else to do at your homes
How about this real real civil servant survive with his/her meagre salary?
Akunena zoona! Ife tilibe chonena sima mp’s. And we are nt in there shoes
He is comparing the branches of our government:
1. Executive
2. Judiciary
3. Legislature
He says among the three branches listed above, the legislature is the poorest.
I don’t think he was trying to compare the MPs to the public.
Judges and Lawyers (Judiciary) does not share their money anyhow.
They receive, pocket and consume within their respective families.
No one goes to a judiciary member to ask for transport when a family member dies.
The same applies to the Executive.
It doesn’t spend much compared to legislature.
Remember, the Executive includes the Ministers who happen to be Members of Parliament (usually).
This means that the Executive is much better than the legislature.
It is uncommon to see a judiciary member attending a funeral of a mere person unless, the deceased was his/her colleague, his/her family member etc
They hardly provide transportations in their areas, what about the legislature?
It is from that point the nigger voiced out.
They understand their responsibility and duties.
They are there to compare their earnings to their duties.
I don’t fault him.
You will really be poor
Ngati kuli ku tukwana nawenso
Bastard !Muzimva chisoni u fortune seekers ,so called Mps
With this kind of barbaric thinking the gap btw the poor and the rich will continue be widening
Shame to them
Why can’t they just appreciate they have just received sitting allowances yet most of the civil servants not yet paid God forbid
Hell faya gonna burn dem
Rubbish who raised this shit point, people voted for you for the sake of changing there lives with development not to make you rich, you getting more than half million a month, I get k15,000 from a chinise guy.Rubbish dont insult me.
WELLINGTON NAKUPULI IYO NDIYO FUNDO IWO WAKULYA WAKUMWERERA NA NTHUMBO GWAAA WALI FWEE NDALAMA ZIKWERE APO WANTHU KUMIZI WAKUSUZGIKA VANTHU IVI VIKHUMBA KUVIBAMANTHAMO MAKOFI PANJI KUVIBUSKIRA GALIMOTO ZAWO
Mwina kusauka mu nzeru chifukwa ambiri nde ndi mbulitu zenizeni za Jce zimachita kuthawa ku parliament Nawo malamulo amangolora ndi Jc omwe bwanji zitsankho zikubwerazi ma mp azikhala wa diploma atleast ma councilor a msce bolako ziziyenda
I think akunena kusauka muuzimu coz ndi mbava izi ndipo ndi asatana.
But it’s becz they are coming from a poor country which can not afford to pay them in Billions
Kkkkkkkkkk
Mbava izi no wonder they r busy on chaponda isssue not to help the poor but jealous they wish they cud b them shame on our mps
zopusa basi.mudzafa imfa yowawa anthu inu. maphunzitsi mukukanika kuwalipira bho inu mukudyerera
usaviii chani?antcheya akanafunsa ndithu
Ine ndingopempha a police ,aphuzisi kuti akangozionjezera malipilo nose mwasiile ncthito agwire okha ndiopusa
Agalu inu musatilakhuritse kuyipa osangosiya ntchitoyo bwanji??
The worst mistake malawians did was to vote for dpp back into office they will steal every penny as long as it is in govmnt coffers
That’s stupid way of thinking Honourable, I suppose U don’t know your roles as an MP. Wake up Honourable n try to undestand these things, do u want to emulate your Kenya counterparts? Think of our economy 1st.
fuck them the greedy lazy people
Akufuna phuzo eti……
Asatana inu osangosiya ndikupeza zochita bwanji,ndalamaso mumangodya osapangila zitukuko.zopusa eti
How.can you be heard if the president can be told of lake Nyasa(malawi) to be for Tanzania and lake malawi is for malawi/ in his own house and he ould not do nothing. my fellow servant of mw lecture this big crook first before the rest of the crooks can learn how to start respecting the civil servants the perceived low grade force but yet very important to the development of the economy of the country even a standard one pupil know this.
I have never come a useless bunch like MPs. We can do without em. Send em on leave
Mbava zokhazokha izi ofunika tisinthe malamulo kut u mp ukhale uvolontiya asamalandile asakufuna asie
Ndizoona simukunama,simungafanane ndi wa Zambia ngakhale kwa buhali.mukuvutika abale anthu ndithu. Koma mp akumva kufewa sangalabadire za inu kunena zoona.
Kkkkk koma guys
osandimvera chisoni ine kapolo mphunzitsi ndikulilira zanga za january.moti osapezeka mp wachisoni 500yakeyo andipatseko share yanga ndi anzanga ena 6 ikhoza kukwana.kodi apa mphawi(LAZIROUS) Nndani??mphunzitsi akati walandila allowance ndi 4500 aspire 5000NRPworkshops mulibe chisoni kwankhala mpalament 1day mpaka milion mmh! sambitu
Bunch of idiots.
Agalu amenewa et nde amphuzitsi amalandira bwanji if their claiming to be poorest civo sevants
They will be
Zitsilu za anthu
Apologise to Malawians iwe MP walemba izgg
Nothing to say,I really don’t get the point kapena vuto ndi chizungu?ngati di akutelo atha bwanji kunena za aphunzisi amene amagwila ntchito ya nthangata,akuona ngati ife sitingathe zimenezo kungosamba kummawa mkukhala pa mpando mkovuto musakhale ozikonda
nd most idiots in the whle wrld
Vuto lathu a Malawi timangodziwa kulankhula… Ma MP tonse tikudziwa kuti ali ku parliament tiyeni konko tikawatibule… Olo mutayankhula chantundu wanji andale sazasintha.. Akufunika action basi
Panopa Aphunzitsi Sanalandile Timachange Tawo Koma Wina Mkumakayankhula Mwano Chonchi Akudya Mamillion.Ambuye Mkwiyo Wanu Umpeze Yekhayu Wayankhulayu Kuti Akuziweni.Amapatsa Amalanda Tizaonana Ozavota Ndife.
They were on cocaine worry not
If iwas the one to pay them,this time iwould give them what a ground labour recieves.And viceversa. Unfortunately iam not.Our MPS are greedy,thats why even top officials are busy enriching themselves with taxes payed by odnary Malawians.Insted of discussing how to improve social servieces,shools,hospitals,electricity,water etc.Muli mimba kuno ngati mwazimbidwa kuli kukhuta,and muziti ndinu osauka while Ordnary Malawians are starving. Kugona Nyumba zodontha,komanso osadya. pamenepa osauka ndani? Tizaonana 2019.
Blodcratts,stupit pple
I have decided to comment in 2019…May….
Kuzikonda kuyerekedwa
Yes itotaly agree our MPs are the poorest Civil servants interms of their thinking capacities,achicken is far much better!
Whose employees are these MPs?
Pazakhala nthawi yomwe simuzapeza munthu wopita kukakuvoterani anthu opanda zeru inu.
2017 sadzandiona ine ndili pamzere.adzadzivotere okha ana amahulewa.kodi ndekuti chakwera wanena nawo zimenezi??
Kkkkkkkkkk. Koma. Iwe. Ndewandimalizatu
The lightening that will strike em still on ts second session on push ups…. Andikwiisa siumunthu umenewu
Nthawi ikwana tikuchotsani tione ngati mudzilandila ngakhale ndi one kwacha nde mmasauka!a ngati simunali Mp kutiposa ife omwe timapanga zathu si nanga mumakhala pa moyo odalira nde ukatha moyo umenewo imakgala samu yochotsera tsono
Yes! atha kukhala osaukitsitsa ndi mmene amagwiritsira ntchito ndalama zawozo. Koma akanena kuti mwina amalandira zochepa ahahaaaa! nde tasiya kuganizatu. amalandira ma allowance nthawi iliyonse imene akumana , amatsidwa ndalama zoti athandizire ma constituency iwo amazisandusa kukhala “family devt fund”. zonsezi angamanenebe kuti akusauka? Osangosiya bwanji?
They are stupid amachita chani mbuli ngati zimenezi or mmadera mutati musakhale ma mp kumalawi kuno chingasinthe ndi chani mbava zachabechabe what they want z money for nothing leaving those who workhard just to be starving for ever look at teachers full of work but what they earn z peanut foolish mps
Tiyeninawo Ma Coments Vindere Ivi Panji Vingapulikako Mulije Chitima Nawanyinu,chitukuko Mukulephera Koma Kukonda Ma Million,nosense!!
Dziko lapansi palibe wachilungamo nkutheka iye wachilungamoyo m’modziyo atha kumva zofuna zanu ndikukhaladi the poorest
zopusa basi
You don’t have even think about people of your nation, people are earning less than one dollar a day but u are crying of your salary, shem our mps try to think of your people also.
no wonder these maize gates and so many others…..even if they receive millions of kwacha a month they will never appreciate……..these people hv a an inborn virus that lead them that way…….
Real thieves, kuikilathu Malawi kumapeto panu nonse.
Izi nde zopusa
Kkkkkk
Mwakhuta
Eya apite azikazawo azikakanda ndalama akulandirayo ikuthela kugula ufiti
Ndimberere Za Wanthu! Nkumati”timagula mabokosi” Who Tod Them That’s Dea Duty @ First Place? Tionana 2019. Ife Ndiye Kwathu Sitibwereza MP Kuopa Kutijaira & Kutiyakhulira Mbwererazo!
Shaaaaa kutumbwa anzathu mmene mukudyera ma sausage ,pizza anzanufe tikuvutika,koma muzatifuna tsiku lina
Just resign, finish and klaar
I think he doesn’t know what the word ‘poorest’ refers to.
Dat MP Is Heartless & Brainless Lyk Nsikidzi! Civilservts Akudera Kwa Chi MP Chimenecho Mukadzachivoteraso U R Idiots! Hav U Bn Paid Ursevs? Akuti “Mwina” Pa 10. Stupidity @ Its Best!
I nearly bursted with anger when I head a parliamentarian in Zodiak’s Tiuzen Zoona proudly saying they are the poorest. I asked myself, ” Is the mp insane?” It is this kind of mindset that is leading them into cashgate. If this is what all mps have in their mind, then I undoubtedly and wholeheartedly declare that THEY ARE USELESS, BRAINLESS, SENSELESS, CLUELESS AND IN SHORT, THEY ARE MAD. God will punish them. Anthu ena akakulira pachinyezi sadziwa kuti kunja kulinji. This is a mockery to civil servants who last got their meagre salary on 21 Dec. last year and are struggling to buy food and a bar of soap.
Let them vacant their seats wat kind of pple ar these?GOVT is already stranded so where do they thnk money wil com from to make them better off?Wat about teachers their salary iz litle and they get late.Parliament iz jst a club wher our mps seat and relax then get milions while ordinary pple contnue suffering as nothng tangible com out from Mps
They cant define the term poor.
stupid!
When it comes to this i dont trust any political person. At the end they will all agree zopusazi. A opposition ndi a ruling omwe. At least ku parliament kukhale ndi qualification. First degree osatinso zaulele akupeleka ma colege ajawo. Wayambisa zimenezi mapazi ake
U must be very stupid
Siyani mukasake ntchito ina. Tulani pansi u MP wo. Mumapanga chani paja. Enanu ku dera lanu mumatha chaka osaoneka nde muziti chani apa.
ZANU izo.siyan ndale mutolowa ndale mulibe kobili. #LearnDonald trump
Idiots
anyani amenewa
kkkkkk koma ma mp simuli serious k600,000/month makes you poorest public servants kkk wat about someone receiving k60,000/month and is also helping relatives, is poooreeeer i guess
I remember when I was in class, my teacher told me that MPs are not civil servants. Kodi amanama?
They don’t know what it feels like to be poor.
Kkkkkk listen am sayin listen plz, can u repeat again u foolish,stubborn mps.ohooo u r receivin half million as ur monthly salary,yet our teachers, police officers dea salary z less than 100 thousand.wat r u duin in diz poor Malawi land to ask fo increment,dont think of urself,many r suffering, if u feel ur salary z too little.do wat z right change ur carrier jst become a teacher,failng wic tsegulani ma tchalitchi muziba chopeleka
Who told them they are civil servant? Kkkkkkkk
Yes, U Haet A Nail On The Head.
Let these MPs give us lists of Development they have achieved in their respective constituences that can be their yardstick for more money.They just sleep in august house,and some have never spoken in the house.Those who speak ,English is horrible.Take Dpp Thieves to Task. Corruption is just too much.Kodi nkhani ya Chiwaya ndi Chilenje yoba ndalama za ma Lendi ili pati !?
Akadakhala ndi Chakwera ndi Kamulepo bwenzi pano akuvunda ku ndende
Achakwera anaguliridwa galimoto ya 45 million nchifukwa pitala atagula yake sanayankhule mukuona ngati sitikudziwa akakhala kamulepo anazolowela nthawi ya atcheya amati akayankhula amamupatsa chibanzi pano sakupatsidwa nchifukwa ali buzy kuyalutsa boma koma naye ndi mbava ya chabe chabe
Thats an lnsult to our teachers, police officers, messenger, cleaners etc coz they are the ones who get just a token of the mp’s salary.
Kudzikondatu kumeneku mmmm anthu okukhazikani pampando mudawaieala kale mukungokumbuka zanuzokha mmmmm eeesh kukhala mmalawidi nkupirira mutifunanso 2019 pazisankho
You’re insulting poor people.
greed
TIONANA 2019
mr immran u r dull and stupid kwanuko ku south u r the ones behind all this everythind waku mangwetu we ha e have nothing to lose as tumkukas coz all of us we are suffering but we are better off than kwanuko munya simunati come here so that u can be my tenant za zii ngati sukumva english u
funsa akumangwetuwo kkkkkkkkkkkk
trbalism again
mr joseph i was just trying to enlighten him coz good pple were commenting well but wrote trush so i could not hold my feelings but i have told him the truth
But there is nothing in the northern region Mr.
mr matiki open ur eyes spend some two or five days in the north u will see how many resources we have only that we have blind and greedy leaders
So instead they want whom to be more poor than them?
Amati Muzikalandira Ndalama Zeni Zeni Osati Machenji, Maka Inu Aphunzitsi Ndizimene Mudasankha Pamodzi Ndi Mbuli Ija Ili Kumanda, Maxon Mbendera, Chilungamo Mwachidziwa Simudzabwerezanso,
Eish, too selfish guys.
Koma Eeee,
We choose them to be on that position, suddenly they forget about us. ….I think it’s time MPs must not be paid….
Ma em pi…Mbuzi za anthu….winiko,achakwera,achaponda,akaliati,angumuya,alucius banda. . athu opusa
Osawusiya bwanj uMP?
Selfish ideas ma maps
stupid MPs!
people out here have worse jobs you can’t imagine…be grateful for what you have you bloody cowards
Same word must come to u as well that u must know that u were called. That what your finance minister told teachers. If u can’t survive with more that 2 millions, kwacha with sitting allowance, how does a teacher survive with 40 thousands a month . u are evil
Mmmm ambuye awayendere mwapadera ndithu ma mps amenewa
Dziko la Malawi lingatukuke pokhapokha boma litayendetsedwa mu utsogoleri opanda ma mp,
Iwe Major Pachakuti Pako iwe ukumalandila over k6oo,ooo ndi iwe amene unanena kuti munthu azilandila ndalama kuyambira k18,ooo pamwezi.kuli bwino umwalire basi
How stupid our mps are…how selfish you are.?…think about the sararie thats our teachers and policemen are receiving,.. even their working conditions are not the same of you…don’t insult the poor please.
We are in sadic countries they are saying the truth they are comparing with their corrics
Why comparing? Most of these SADC countries are far much better than Malawi economically. Each and every country pays it’s civil servants according to their economic status
Exactly.. but they must think also for some workers. .how much they earn per month?think about the teachers,they are failing even to pay a school fees for private secondary schools for their children’s.
They should not compare with other sadc countries because we are the poorest in the region, so as the result they will also get peanuts
Most of the Malawian MPs are greedy. They think of themselves.
They are there to help poor pipo not to get rich
they are saying in Malawi not sadic! selfish law makers
But as of now…they have forgotten their people who voted them into power,but enriching themselves,. some of hia /her constituencie people are are still drinking water from zithaphwi,..kukanika ndiwamangira borehole yomwe,but by the end of month they recieve more than 0.7 million kwacha.
too much greedy!
Exactly brother Francis,..but nothing they are doing in their constituencies, some of them they are just staying in town,leaving their people stranded in villages,but they need their pay to be hiked for what?
Ine bola ndiziphunzitsa ku Mozambique konkuno amalipira
Instead of fighting for Teachers, Police men/women u are busy with bullshit
wowh~! ” poorest civil servants” thus ridiculous
zopusa anthu akuba mukufunanso chani osangotula pansi u “MP” wanuwo bwanji
Xopusa Basi
Ku Malawi kulibe anthu opusa ena ngati ma mp,anthu akufa nzipatalamu chifukwa chosowa mankhwala,wina akufuna ndalama zomwezo azidya ndiakazi ake Shupit
U Are Worring Though U Have Millions? Do U Know Wat A Poor Teacher Who Tought U Before Earn? Its Almost A Change Of Only Fuel U Use Per Day! Mukudandaula Chan Apa? Anzanu Zikumathera Ntaun Momwemo. Goodle Gondwe Wayankhula Mopusa Lit Zama Civil servants! Kukanisa Ndrama Ngat Yakunyumba Kwanu Why? I Hate U, As I Hate Hell!
Za ziii salary yonseyo MSCE yomweyo mxiieew kuzolowela kudya za manja lende
lemme rmynd u ppo, these Greedy Gluttons so called MPs are there 4their own potbelly’s needs. they dont represent us.Salaries,Allowances & Tea Break are all what matters most to them . IDIOTS !
inu ogwila ntchito m’boma a minister a finance anathoka kale kuti musamadandaule za salary chifukwa kugwira ntchito m’boma ndimaitanidwe ngati ntchito yaubusa kkkkkk
Why not resign and look another job? Damn
Mbuzi za mp..amufunse messanger wa mmboma kuti amalandira zingati…
Mukamalankhula muzikhala ngat muli uzimu.ma million mumalandirao nd apayani?wina akulandira 60 mpaka pano zake kulibe,ndiye inu muziyankhula zonyerazo! ambirinu ndinu mfitidi mwamva!
osamangodandaula taonani anzathu ku Romania atopa nazo koma kuno ndiye kumasekelera fumbi ndiwe mwini
nasty to hear about it
When talking about that,consider the economic status of your country.Where do you think your salary increment can come from in the wake of cashgate,maize gate, tractor gate,corruption and many other vices that have rocked our beloved but poverty stricken nation?
MULUNGU A walange onsewa.
Omwe anakuvoterani mpaka pano adakausabenso mupite mukaone plzzzz
Or the greediest.
athu a msce ngati amenewo
Mapwisi genu sure ma Mp
Izi ndiye zapamtu… Job Center please bail us out tidzipita ku Dubai
Zopusa bas take a look on those teachers. Hard work, less salary, so how poorest are you komatu zinazi kumanena mukuziwa kut kuli Mulungu kunjaku He may step you down. Mbwelera!
Asiyeni asauka 2019
u deserve because u r doing nothing to develop this country.
Zachamba eti zimene mumaba zija bwanji osawerengera
kkkk a Malawi sadzatheka basi, atsogoleli athu kuphangira too much eish makamaka atumbuka ndamene akumayambitsa nkhani za nosense ngati zimenezi
mutifuna .mwadya mokwanira ifetikulira kuno inu nkumalankhula kunya choncho ,mmmm mudyeretu komaliza
And they are the much cleverest thieves in the country
how about teachers , how about police men & women, the city cleaners
That’s some piece of bullshit
Fuck their monkey asses
Most importantly fuck the GOVT
That’s bullshit Malawi MP
this is so stupid decisions why complaining to take care of poor people n the need people???? the hole gervmnt is so stupit fuck u all
They have eaten the sour grapes
Opposite Is True They Are Teasing Malawian Poor Civil Servants
these guys are selfish