{"id":7638,"date":"2021-10-13T23:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:32:09","slug":"govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general","title":{"rendered":"Govt appoints Daud Suleman as new MACRA Director General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Renowned Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) expert Daud Suleman has been appointed Director General of the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA), Nyasa Times can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information Gospel Kazako said in an interview a short while ago that Suleman has been offered the job after undergoing rigorous interview processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I can confirm to you that Mr. Suleman is our new Director General for MACRA,\u201d said Kazako. The Information Minister said the government has full confidence that the appointee will deliver according to the expectations of Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement of his appointment, social media enthusiasts took to social networking platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp to express their reactions and views on Suleman\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n<p>While others heartily congratulated him for what they termed as \u201cdeserving appointment\u201d, others felt this was a pure example of political appeasement. But Kazako dismissed the assertions, stressing that Suleman had been hired after undergoing a competitive process of interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me reiterate that the Tonse Alliance Government, under President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, is not in a business of appeasing anyone based on political considerations. This government doesn\u2019t look at its citizens based on their region of origin, parties they are affiliated to or religions they belong to, but their competence,\u201d said the minister.<\/p>\n<p>Kazako said his ministry looks forward to working with Suleman as he leads MACRA in changing the ICT terrain in Malawi. Suleman earned himself an ICT celebrity accolade during the Presidential Elections Case where his evidence is believed to have turned the tables in the annulled election of former President Peter Mutharika in the 2019 Tripartite Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Renowned Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) expert Daud Suleman has been appointed Director General of the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA), Nyasa Times can confirm. The Minister of Information Gospel Kazako said in an interview a short while ago that Suleman has been offered the job after undergoing rigorous interview processes. \u201cYes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,2838,2837,234],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-communication-and-technology","tag-information","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Govt appoints Daud Suleman as new MACRA Director General - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Renowned Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) expert Daud Suleman has been appointed Director General of the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt appoints Daud Suleman as new MACRA Director General\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Renowned Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) expert Daud Suleman has been appointed Director General of the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-13T23:12:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-13T23:32:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/10\/img-61676c3d9c3b9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Govt appoints Daud Suleman as new MACRA Director General\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-13T23:12:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-13T23:32:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\"},\"wordCount\":282,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/10\/img-61676c3d9c3b9.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Communication and Technology\",\"Information\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/govt-appoints-daud-suleman-as-new-macra-director-general\",\"name\":\"Govt appoints Daud Suleman as new MACRA Director General - 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