CDEDI writes Malawi government on the plight of diaspora students
August 23, 2020
Watipaso Mzungu -Nyasa Times 4 Comments
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has written Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for urgent assistance to about 60 Malawian citizens who have been stranded for about three (3) months in the People’s Republic of China and desire to return home.
Namiwa stressing a point during the news conference.-Photo by Watipaso Mzungu, Nyasa Times
CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa says it has come to the attention of the organization that these Malawian students, who completed their studies in June in various universities, are stuck in China due to the COVID-19 lockdown in China and present restrictions on movement of people as preventative measures to the spread of the virus.
Namiwa adds that the students’ overstay in China has further been exacerbated by the Malawi government’s decision to stop inbound and outbound flights.
“However, CDEDI has learnt from the president of the Association of Malawians in China and his secretary that the concerned students stopped receiving any financial support from their respective universities just immediately after their graduation and that they have been surviving on assistance from friends ever since.
“Due to inadequate and unreliable support from fellow students, the concerned students have now been subjected to desolate life as they are struggling to buy food and pay for their accommodation. The situation is now getting out of hand as their respective schools have already served them with eviction notices from the dormitories they are living in,” reads the CDEDI letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Namiwa further states that his organisation is saddened with revelation that the Malawian Embassy in China has been silent on the matter, despite numerous requests and reminders the embassy has been receiving from the students, asking for repatriation back home.
“CDEDI has further challenged the ministy to let the nation know if there are any other issues that have led to the Malawian Embassy in China to remain mum on the matter, a situation that has left the concerned students, their relatives, and indeed Malawians of goodwill with unanswered questions.
“It is our hope, that the ministry shall consider and treat this matter with the urgency it deserves, and accordingly take appropriate action to help these helpless Malawian citizens,” said Namiwa in a separate interview.
I think Mr Namiwa does not really know what he is writing about.The government of Malawi should not do anything because many of their parents and relatives stole a lot of money in Malawi and its responsibility of those relatives who sent them to China and not the present government. Mr Namiwa should also know that his words of threats cannot stand with Tonse Alliance government and he must stop forthwith.
sabinana
4 years ago
Inde abale awo, komanso, and lomwe people,Cadets. Govt dont entertain this. Athandizana okha. ife tikuvutika pano ndalama asunga.Mudikire ndalama abwenze kaye abale anuwa
Very right indeed. DPP sons and daughters shd not be our concern now
. U were already greedy why shd we pay now. Send them money until lock down is over. Lockdown is already over.
I think Mr Namiwa does not really know what he is writing about.The government of Malawi should not do anything because many of their parents and relatives stole a lot of money in Malawi and its responsibility of those relatives who sent them to China and not the present government. Mr Namiwa should also know that his words of threats cannot stand with Tonse Alliance government and he must stop forthwith.
Inde abale awo, komanso, and lomwe people,Cadets. Govt dont entertain this. Athandizana okha. ife tikuvutika pano ndalama asunga.Mudikire ndalama abwenze kaye abale anuwa
Ana ndi abale amabwana then from DPP
Very right indeed. DPP sons and daughters shd not be our concern now
. U were already greedy why shd we pay now. Send them money until lock down is over. Lockdown is already over.