‘Shithole’ politicians will not add value to DPP – Analysts

January 22, 2018 Nyasa Times 21 Comments

University of Malawi (Unima) political scientists have said that the three former  Cabinet ministers regarded a s nomadic politician who on Sunday joined the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will add no value to the governing party.

Fro left to right: Mpinganjira, Lipenga, Phoya and Gunya paraded as new DPP members

The three  are Ken Lipenga, Henry Phoya and  Brown James Mpinganjira, well known as  BJ.

Also joining DPP was former general secretary of the Church if Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Blantyre Synod Rev. Daniel Gunya .

Apart from Gunya, the trio of Mpinganjira, Lipenga and Phoya were politicians who have been moving from one party to another.  Phoya and Lipenga were also returning to the DPP, the party they ditched when Bingu wa Mutharika died  in 2012 while as Head of State. They all were once members of  United Democratic Front (UDF).

Mpinganjira, who is also an evangelist,  was one of the first members of UDF and served in Bakili Muluzi cabinet before he resigned and formed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which he used its ticket to stand in 2004 presidential elections.

BJ, who came forth during the 2004 presidential election, used to be Muluzi’s trusted aide and a senior minister in the UDF government, and was at one time even tipped to take over from Muluzi at the end of the president’s two terms.

But relations between the two soured when Muluzi began contemplating constitutional amendments to extend his stay in power.

In 2009 he contested the presidency as running-mate of MCP presidential candidate John Tembo and later joined People’s Party (PP)  where he was vice president of the party in the south. He dumped  the PP after it lost elections in 2014.

Phoya once served as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs during the PP regime under the leadership of immediate past President Joyce Banda before losing in the 2014 elections.

Lipenga served on numerous ministerial positions from the United Democratic Front (UDF) regime, People’s Party (PP) and the DPP before he moved to PP after the death of former President the late Bingu Wa Mutharika where his final position was Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development in the two years that PP ruled.

Rev Gunya has also been associated with UDF then NDA and PP.  He failed to make it in the Parliamentary race on a UDF ticket in 2009 where he vied for the position of Member of Parliament for Zomba Lisanjala Constituency.

Chancellor College-based political and social analyst Ernest Thindwa, said  Malawians should embrace new ideas not recycled politicians.

“They may add value but the value may ot be spectacular in the sense that they are looked as  recycled politicians… Perception may suggest that DPP is attracting heavyweights but these are recycled politicians whose value may be limited because they are recycled politicians,” Thindwa said.

Another political analyst based at Chancellor College, Mustapha Hussein, said advised DPP to devise practical strategies if it wants to woo more voters during the 2019 elections than  using recycled politicians.

“Except Rev Gunda, the other recycled politicians have outlived their political credibility,” he said.

Commentators argue that recycled politicians – without a hint of shame – have created a situation where the young generations and those aspiring to join active politics, begin to believe that politics is a privilege of the few like the nomadic politicians  or to say the least – ‘shithole’ politicians  who seem to starve  once they are left out of the fold of ruling parties.

Speaking at Lunzu Primary Ground in Blantyre at a political where the four were unveiled, President Peter Mutharika said DPP is a party for all Malawians and that those willing to join were free to do so.

Mutharika said as leader of the party he does not and he will never stop people from joining the party as the door is wide open.

“Campaign will start in 8 months’ time but we cannot wait until then to welcome people into the party. Our party is ready to welcome everyone who is willing to work with us,” he said.

Mpinganjira said joining the DPP party was not by accident but rather out of will.

He said the country has many political parties but their choice of joining DPP was solely due to sound leadership that the party had demonstrated.

 

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21 replies on “‘Shithole’ politicians will not add value to DPP – Analysts”

  1. What value can Mia add to MCP? How about the shithole leader of opposition, is he adding any value to the party? I am happy that JZU has warned all Malawians that Chakwera is inexperienced and that Mia is too normadic.

    2. MIA brought an MP and thousands of former DPP cadets to MCP within a few days of his join the party. He has rejuvenated the MCP in the south to the extent that credible aspiring candidates are flocking to represent MCP in 2019. So Mia’s impact is undisputable with vivid evidence unlike these granny who to me look more of spent fuel than anything else.

  2. The BJ you are talking about has brought to DPP the whole committee of PP. And it is not a committee of only 5 people. Yet the MCP says the man cannot change anything. MCP is full of dunderheads that’s why they cannot find the reason for their five times of failing in elections. Zoona chipani chachikulu ngati ichi kulephera kupeza zifukwa zomwe zikuchilepheretsa kupambana? Koma election iliyonse anthu akhala akuuzidwa kuti chaka chino tipita ku Sanjika. Mr Units chonde auzeni a Malawi chomwe munamulakwira Mulungu. Anzanu angokhala 2 years kunja pano ndi awo akusimba lokoma nanga inu zikukhala bwanji a George Kasakula?

  3. People should look at their motives for jumping from party to party: do we see evidence they are doing it because they really believe their latest party is the best to develop Malawi? If so, they must be blind. Their motives must lie elsewhere, not in bettering the lives of their constituents or Malawi as a whole. I’m suspicious.

    1. You should be asking the same question when people defect to MCP. Instead you praise anybody who joins MCP without regard to the value they will add to the party. Hypocrisy at it’s best.

  5. And we have the audacity to wonder why Malawi is not developing at all, after all this time we have spent after our so-called INDEPENDENCE from the colonial masters. What a shithole country we live in!! We all were so mad and infuriated with Trump calling our countries wat they exhibit themselves to really be, ‘shitholes’, yet we never get infuriated enough to change the circumstances of our poverty and everything enabling such behaviour. We all witness this kind of stuff where recycled politicians without any fiber of principles keep hoping from party to party and yet we cannot force our law makers in parliamant to make laws that can stop this type of shitty behavior. We, the people, have to be the ones to FORCE parliament to make laws to curb this. But unfortunately, we are the very people who SMILE at this shitty behavior. Wen shall we learn???

    Politicians don’t own our country. WE, the people, own it and have to be concerned when those entrusted with the duty of making policies meant for our betterment are abusing that priviledge. Koma mwina vuto lathu ndi umbuli. Timasekerera zopusa all the time.

    We have to be courageous to point out stupid trends like this exhibited in the likes of ALL we deem recycled irrespective of which party is concerned. Parties are only meant to be vehicles towards our country’s development and they should be chosen depended on how they further that national agenda. That is why from the likes of the now MCP Sidik Mia himself, a self-serving egoistic human being who is more concerned about further enriching himself and his family thru government access and power, to all these now impoverished sick parasites returning to DPP after ma plan atawathera outside politics, WE MUST CONDEMN THEM ALL. The main problem in Malawi is identity politics, to use the TUMBUKA term, the WAKWITHU politics of regionalism and tribalism is the one that clouds us from setting up and electing real patriotic individuals who would have the good of Malawi at heart.

    That why I find it laughable that many have been applauding SIDIK MIA as if he is an honourable individual. Mia just realised, from his time outside politics, that the best way he can expand his business empire is to be in government thru hook or crook, because only then can he easily siphon more funds to his businesses thru shady government contracts. Ndalamatu anthu sizimawakwana. Yet you are stupified into believing he loves Malawi and busy clapping hands for him just because he has joined MCP. What a shame!! Such recycled, principle-less idiots have to be pushed out of politics without considering wat party is involved. it is a habit that is killing Malawi.

    And the same applies to these political prostitutes migrating to DPP.

    The politics of recycling such old useless hogs who have no interest to serve Malawi but themselves must END. And we the people, are the ones to bring that END into effect, not the politicians themselves since they are the beneficiaries of such habits. Wake up Malawi!!!!

    Ndatha ine wanu Kwala, the PATRIOT of the Warm Heart of Malawi.

  7. Mpinganjira is the man who championed theft of public funds and nepotism with impunity. MCP need to put that man on their wanted list. He is the one who started all this nonsense in Malawi.

    Lipenga – the cashgate minister. He must be probed as to why millions of dollars of public money was found in car boots and ceilings instead of its safes at the Reserve Bank while he was minister of public finances.

  8. Whats the aim behind shithole story? . The analyst of this story is one million times shithole and has demonstrated that he is an armature in analysis of politicians movements in as far as influence is concerned.What I see here is biased arguments against DPP each time this University of Malawi DPP Fightist (not scientist) makes a comment.There have been movements of politicians to and fro different parties and their importance/value to the new party depends on their popularity. I wonder how this analyst measured /rated the popularity of people like BJ and Ken Lipenga.. No matter how recycled these politicians are, their skills in swaying the public through oration will add numbers to the DPP unlike those that join MCP.

  9. Kunyoza chifikwa alowa chipani cha anzanu, amalawi nsanje. Mia was in DPP, PP, UDF and now MCP kuli ziiii. But others who have gone through the same metamophisis koma ndiye ayi they will not add vaue. Mukuteta, Three votes plus mavoti achibale awo will matter in 2019. Know that politics is about numbers.

    1. Paja akalowa MCP they are veterans and experienced politicians. Akalowa DPP then they are recycled and spent force politicians. Munya muona. Simunati.

  11. Ken Lipenga was known for smoking chamba at Chancellor College. He is a shithole. Zatha ndalama anaba zija with Joyce Banda. Mpinganjira is the worst shithole and ask Muluzi who once described him as another husband’s wife snatcher. Mkazi wa an fayifi umvamo chiyani. Phoya wapsa too. Shitholes are regrouping.

  14. shame to u,Harry mkandawire joined mcp last month and Mia joined the same party and all these were defecting from PP via T he mighty DPP and u did not call them shithole or namadic ppl.
    zawawa lero poti aphoya alowa ku Dpp muphulika simunati

    1. hahahahahaha kuphulika ndi nkhalamba zogwa nkumina ngati zili apazi? Mkandawire mutu sukuyenda kkkkkkkkkk

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