Beleaguered Minister of Sports Ulemu Msungama faces the chop upon return from India where he blew millions of taxpayers for his hair transplant.

Insiders at Kamuzu Palace said President Chakwera is livid with reports that his minister could disrespect hard working Malawians with his hair surgery stunt.

“The President is definitely going to sack Minister Msungama upon his return from India,” said the source.

Another source at Capital Hill said State House officials requested information on whether the Medical Aid Society of Malawi (Masm) covers ‘ailments’ such as hair transplants in their policies and information was passed on to State House.

“We gave them the information they were looking for. Masm does not cover for hair transplants even circumcision, they do not cover that,” said our highly placed and impeccable source.

Msungama has been trending on social media for the wrong reasons after revelations that he had used his position as a cabinet minister to force the ministry of health to put him on a referral list of patients requiring foreign medical assistance on his knee.

However, pictures of Msungama appeared with a bandage on his head following the hair transplant and not the knee problems he had gone to India for. The minister is said to have broken his knee while playing for SOCIAL football in Lilongwe.

Msungama defended his hair transplant surgery saying his is using personal resources through his Masm health insurance policy.

Our investigations have found out that Masm does not have a policy which covers for hair transplants.

Impunity at its best! Minister of Youth and Sports Ulemu Msungama has raised a middle finger at Malawians by going to New Delhi, India to undergo hair transplant on tax payers money at the expense of well deserving Malawians.

Msungama lied to the ministry of Heath that he has fracture on his knee so that he gets a free ride to India.

According to government working conditions for cabinet ministers, they are entitled to health insurance and if need be to seek specialist doctors in the country or outside Malawi but duly approved by Ministry of Heath. But unfortunately hair transplant is a not a disease that Malawians must pay for the Minister to get treatment for.

Some social commentators have described the move as an insult to poor tax payers who are currently struggling to make ends meet with the recent fuel hike that has resulted in skylocating in prices of goods and services.

“Malawi has a lot of serious cases of poor people who are need of seeking medical treatment outside the country but they can not afford to do but here is the whole Minister of President Chakwera, misusing hard earned taxes to pay for his hairstyle,” said of the well known commentators.

There is a video that is flying on social media that is showing Msungama chatting with a medical doctor in India with his head in bandages.

Ironically the doctor who conducted the transplant is bald -headed!

Battle lines drawn! Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has started grooming embattled Secretary General Eseinhower Mkaka to take over from him in 2025.

We can reveal that Chakwera has made a decision not to go for a second term in 2025 after hearty discussions with his wife and children and has earmarked Mkaka for the top post.

“Despite all the scandals that Mkaka has been involved lately, the President is convinced he is the right man to succeed him in 2025,” said a source privy to the plan.

He said Chakwera was also considering another youthful politician Sam Kawale for the position but he has settled for Mkaka. “Mkaka has appeared before the President on issues to do with his involvement on NOCMA deals but he will not be reprimanded because he is the chosen one,” said the source.

A political analyst said Mkaka’s preference for the MCP presidency is more of where he is coming from than capacity. “Chakwera wants to be succeeded by someone from his home district and that is Mkaka,” said the analyst.

Initially, Sidik Mia is the one who was tipped to lead after Chakwera leaves the stage but Chakwera has been tipped that MCP has base, and its headquarters is central region and that he must not give the party to the “outcasts” like Mia who comes from southern region and he mercurial in politics.

Mia is also seen as someone who used his money to ‘buy’ the MCP Vice Presidency. Chakwera has started his presidency on a shacky note with almost all promises failed to take place and this has cast doubts in his leadership skills according to many socioeconomic experts.

Political analysts have since advised MCP not to undermine the coming back of DPP in government as they have best structures in terms political landscape and calling Kondwani Nankhumwa as mechanical engineer of politics who seem to have understood politics of Bakili Muluzi and late Bingu wa Mutharika of stimulating the grassroots with a ‘touching spirit’.

Three renowned political science and communication experts have said Kondwani Nankhumwa who is Leader of the Opposition in Parliament stands a higher chance of winning at the convention which DPP is to hold soon if the playing field is levelled.

The experts tells today’s NATION NEWSPAPER in awake of the news that Dr Daliso Kabambe, the former Reserve Bank Governor has joined the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP) on 31st December, 2020 at the party’s Southern Region headquarters in Blantyre.

Ernest Thindwa, a political science lecturer at Chancellor college has described Daliso Kabambe that he has a slim chance of beating Nankhumwa at the convention as the Mulanje Central legislator is a household name at the moment in DPP and the entire nation.

In his analysis, Integrity Platform, Governance and Communication, political analyst Godfrey Pumbwa has put it blatantly that most DPP faithful are rallying behind Nankhumwa at the moment and it will be difficult for Kabambe, Msaka and Mwanamveka to dislodge him.

Concurring with two is Peter Chisi, the director of civil and political at Malawi Human Rights Organization, has said there is none of the three who can dislodge Nankhumwa even if they combine as Nankhumwa is the ” man of the people ” at the moment.

According to Charles Mchacha, the DPP regional governor for the South has said, next week, DPP will be unveiling Kondwani Nankhumwa at it’s headquarters as a presidential candidate at their convention.So far four people namely, Nankhumwa, Kabambe, Msaka, and Mwanamveka have shown interest of contesting at the party’s convention.

Nankhumwa comes from Mulanje while Kabambe comes from Thyolo where former President Prof Arthur Peter Mutharika comes from and are said to be related.

Mwanamveka comes from Chiradzuru while Msaka comes from Machinga. Kabambe is under investigation by Malawi government for his K27 million salary and other benefits which financial experts have pressed an alarm button.

Nankhumwa was last week in Mzuzu where he attended the farewell ceremony of Rev Levi Nyondo who has retired as General Secretary of the Livingstonia Synod.