{"id":42772,"date":"2023-03-14T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/frank-mwenifumbo-responds-to-joshua-chisa-mbeles-rantings-on-social-media"},"modified":"2023-03-15T08:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:29:09","slug":"frank-mwenifumbo-responds-to-joshua-chisa-mbeles-rantings-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/frank-mwenifumbo-responds-to-joshua-chisa-mbeles-rantings-on-social-media","title":{"rendered":"Frank Mwenifumbo responds to Joshua Chisa Mbele\u2019s rantings on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>My brother Joshua Chisa Mbele you did not need to come social media to question circumstances surrounding my appointment as Board Chair . You have brought in issues of morality and integrity in this appointment .<\/p>\n<p>Let me begin by informing you and your audience that this is not my first public appointment , especially in the statutory corporation . In 2010 The Bingu administration did appoint me as Board Chair of the same NRWB . The appointment was announced both on print and electronic media platforms . I turned down the appointment. The same administration offered me a very strategic diplomatic post and I turned it down too . I turned down these two offers because one influential business in the DPP fold , labelled me as \u201cTumbuka\u201d .<\/p>\n<p>I bitterly complained about this to late President Bingu wa Mutharika . Verify this with Goodall Gondwe and with a decorated &amp; veteran public servant now a member of Parliament , Hon Bright Msaka , SC , MP who was then the chief secretary of Government who personally phoned me for these appointments .<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS TO SHOW YOU THAT I AM NEVER CARRIED AWAY WITH SUCH APPOINTMENTS. I took this appointment with great honour to serve the people of Malawi. My departure from UTM was never a caveat for this appointment.<\/p>\n<p>MY DEPARTURE FROM UTM WAS AMICABLE AND VOLUNTARY. IT WAS ONE MADE OUT OF CHOICE , JUST AS I HAD DONE WHEN I CHOSE TO JOIN UTM OVER OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES .<\/p>\n<p>Saulos Chilima is a fine man whom I have respected and admired over time for the gift of leadership, academics and as an accomplished corporate executive . Nothing and no one shall change my holding of him .<\/p>\n<p>Rt Hon Saulos Chilima knows why I left UTM because I shared with him all the ridicule and the emotional suffering I endured during my membership from my fellow members I felt were compatriots. The worst was when I and the people of the North were tribally profiled by very few senior individuals in the Party who felt threatened by my presence in UTM . With the avoidance of doubt , I forgive you and many others who come up with all kinds of theories regarding my withdrawal of membership from UTM party and my subsequent appointment as a Board Chair, because I have avoided to explain this deliberately .<\/p>\n<p>If I explain this to the public especially to those who live in the Northern part of Malawi , who have over the years borne and endured the scars of segregation and deprivation , then I doubt if any single voter out there will have the appetite to vote for them in 2025. For the love of chilima who has already gone through a lot from the days of the DPP , to date I have chosen to fathom my grievances . Chilimas enemies are not from outside as you assert but from within . He is completely captured by them , only time will tell .<\/p>\n<p>There has never been a day when I and President chakwera discussed any public appointments including this particular one of a Board Chair. It is wrong therefore , to assert that I was appointed Board Chair because I resigned from UTM . With this kind of attitude towards each other as citizens, this will scare many to call it a day in politics .<\/p>\n<p>It makes me crave for an appetite to come back to active politics in future , otherwise history shall record my legacy wrongly because of people like you who chose to twist facts .<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. My brother Joshua Chisa Mbele you did not need to come social media to question circumstances surrounding my appointment as Board Chair . You have brought in issues of morality and integrity in this appointment . 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