Ex-MYPs Holds Demonstration this Friday;

To Petition Mutharika on Premature Retirement Compensation, Stop Govt from Engaging with their Old Committee

EX-MYP marching to LL DC office in 2014

The Concerned former Malawi Young Pioneers (Ex- MYP) victims of 1993 Operation Bwezani are holding demonstrations this Friday Morning, in a bid to ask President Mutharika to act on outstanding grievances surrounding on premature retirement package and discontinuation of government engaging with their old committee.

In an interview with Publicity Secretary for Ex-MYP, Hendrix Chijota said have prepared a petition to President Mutharika which will be delivered to Lilongwe District Commissioner following exhaust of all avenues.

“Our core objective for petitioning the highest office in the land is to seek intervention and consequent action because our grievances are long overdue" he said, "Despite all our efforts to engage in contact and dialogue with top government officials to contain the situation but instead, they are choosing to be too busy to attend our grievances” explained Chijota

The group is accusing some top Government officials of swindling million’s of Kwacha’s meant for Ex-MYP pension and gratuity payments. 

It is also accusing the offices of the Deputy Chief Secretary to the Government, Principal Secretary for Human Resource Management, Accountant General/Pensions Department and Auditor General’s office for “deliberate gross negligence” and “deliberate rejection” of Ex-MYPs observation and overwhelming acts as regards to the payment parade exercise and data used some time in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

Chijota; man visibly in the black suit and white shirt

“After we kept on pressing the government on our grievances, they chose to use the very committee that masterminded the plans of swindling government money” claim Chijota

According to the group, the 2012 data had loopholes as a lot of ghost Ex-MYPs went away with millions of Kwacha’s when actual members were getting K1500 as minimum retirement package and K5000 as maximum package. The development led to arrests of several committee members of Ex-MYPs who masterminded the misdemeanor. 

He said they would like to appeal to President Mutharika to consider them on premature retirement compensation as former civil servants following expulsion without legal procedures and compensation of gross human rights violation in terms of failure to build better houses, sending their children to school, find well-established jobs as well as ill treatment.

Over 200 demonstrators
joined 2014 demonstrations 

This will be second time for the group to present petition to Lilongwe District Commissioners office addressed to President Office following March 4, 2014 petition to former President Joyce Banda. 

Last year’s petition had demands on compensation for premature retirement and request to probe some top government officials for gross negligence on very serious anomalies of ghosting, forgery and alternating as well as deliberate wrong data collection by the old committee that was led by Mr. Grey Chibaya Chisale for the Ex-MYPs.

The march is expected in the morning at Kamuzu Central Hospital roundabout going to Lilongwe DC’s office