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Malawi is a Utopia where no one ever gets fired from their job! What a country

BLANTYRE (MaraviPost) - Latest casualties to the list of those fired from their jobs is Benson Tembo and Presidential Press Secretary, Frederick Ndala. Oh my bad these two were not actually fired but were redeployed to a less visible position in society.



Ndala was fired, no sorry redeployed on allegations that President Peter Mutharika got irked when it emerged that he had embezzled close to MK10 million which President Peter Mutharika had set aside for journalists who attended the media interface held in November last year at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre.



If embezzlement is not reason enough to get fired, what can one do in our country to actually merit being fired from a job?  Malawi is a Utopia where no one ever gets fired from their job! What a country: Malawi is a Utopia where no one ever gets fired from their job! What a country

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