By Vincent Gunde
Political activist Bon Kalindo, says Malawi is a country of shame observing that it has good programs on paper but implementation is zero faulting the new Labour Minister Vitumbiko Mumba wrong for visiting and closing companies for political start.
Kalindo has noted with a great concern a clip circulating in various media platforms showing that the Minister is visiting companies to woo for votes from employees to vote for President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and his MCP on 16th September, 2025.
He said the Minister is being heard telling company employees “Boma ndi lomweli and Kwacha” meaning that his visits to companies is too personal to encourage employees that this MCP is a caring government to look after their working conditions hence the need to vote for President Chakwera.
Speaking through an audio clip, Kalindo has advised the Labor Minister that what he could have done was to fix his office observing that there are Commissioners and Inspectors on what they have been doing previously before him was appointed Minister.
Kalindo said he is failing to understand what exactly triggered the Minister who has just return from his private holiday visiting Jamaica to see the grave and a bed left by Bob Marley to go straight to companies closing them.
He said CP Foods and NT Plastics are some of the companies in Malawi contributing to the growth of the economy and have employed many Malawians observing that besides them paying low salaries to their employees, people are surviving in their everyday life situations.
“These companies were supposed to be issued with warnings and not just come on a surprise visit to temporarily closing for businesses,” said Kalindo.
He has advised Ministers and those holding high positions in offices to avoid doing things that will put their offices or government into disrepute describing the harassing of a woman employee in front of cameras as totally bad.
Kalindo said leadership is not about threatening or intimidating people observing that the Minister lost his temper pronouncing “Shut UP! to a woman who is just an employee of the company and not the Managing Director of the company.
He said when the Minister started his work of visiting companies to see the working conditions of employees he offered himself to support him on the claims that there are companies brewing beer and preparing food from poor health environment saying such companies deserve to be visited for a change.
