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 Welcome to my blog!

This is a new blog, 'Right to Write' that will cover, largely, governance and contemporary issues affecting society. I will be posting issues as they unfold. Watch this space.

Joseph Kayira




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REMEMBERING VICE PRESIDENT SAULOS KLAUS CHILIMA By Joseph Kayira | 1 July 2024 On June 10 2024, death robbed the Malawi nation of a man who so loved his country, so much that he left a lucrative job in the private sector to serve in the public service. Saulos Klaus Chilima or SKC, stunned many when he resigned from the position of managing director at Airtel Malawi Limited to join politics. His courage to join Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to pair with Peter Mutharika in the 2014 presidential election was viewed by many as a risk too high to even consider taking – bearing in mind that at the time, the DPP was an opposition party.  SKC turned out to be the leader this country should have had at the dawn of multiparty politics. His call for Malawi to embrace transformation, public reforms, creation of one million jobs for the youth in a year, and that families should be able to afford three meals a day; that the elderly should get K15,000 per month and that the Malawi passport s...
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KABAMBE, DEMOCRACY AND OWNERSHIP SYNDROME By Joseph Kayira | 22 November 2024 We all waited with bated breath for the announcement of the winner of the presidential race in the UTM Party during the November 17 elective convention slated for the northern city of Mzuzu. There were four candidates vying for the top position. They included former UTM secretary general, Patricia Kaliati; party guru Newton Kambala; and perceived newcomers – Mathews Mtumbuka; and former governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, Dalitso Kabambe.  The events of the convention in Mzuzu bring a bitter lesson and inspiration to politicians who think long years of practicing can bring you votes on a silver platter. It has come to the fore that only those who embark on an issue-based campaign have the opportunity to survive in politics. UTM was the only party that had the highest number of people who had shown interest to vie for the position of party president. The party needed someone with popular mandate to fil...
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Who should police noise polluters? By JOSEPH KAYIRA | 17 SEPTEMBER 2023 Noise pollution refers to harmful or annoying levels of noise. We must therefore underline ‘harmful’, ‘annoying’, ‘noise’ and the word ‘pollution’ itself. Anything harmful, causes or is likely to cause harm. And anything annoying causes irritation or annoyance. While noise is a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance. Pollution is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. All these explanations allude to the cardinal point that noise pollution should not be condoned in human habitat. Yet, in the name of democracy and the rights that come with it, no one wants to act responsibly when it comes to combating noise pollution. It is even worse when the polluters are religious or moralistic in nature. There is this sense of entitlement that no one should question these institutions if they decide to make noise all night l...
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