Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has accused of victimizing Civil Servants deemed connected to the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

CDEDI Acting Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa said this in a statement made available to faceofmalawi.

“CDEDI has learnt with shock the news that the Tonse Alliance government has embarked on what can best be described as political victimization of some senior civil servants, especially Principal Secretaries (PS) whose only crime is reported to have been their alleged connection with the immediate past regime of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), albeit without proof.

“CDEDI is reliably informed that over seven PS’s have been subjected to such kind of treatment like that of a Kangaroo court verdict for being suspected to be DPP blue eyed boys,” said Namiwa.

Namiwa has since reminded Chakwera that Malawi is in a democratic dispensation and that these civil servants have running contracts with the Malawi government, implying that taxpayers will continue paying them for doing nothing.

“It is even more shocking to learn that some of these highly trained and skilled people who joined the public service during the Kamuzu regime are being treated unfairly.

“Much as we would like to agree with the assertion that for something to work, some people will have to move, CDEDI would like to caution government to make proper assessments to avoid a scenario where Malawians will be paying more than one person on the same position or at worst, the voters will have to dig deeper into their pockets to pay people that have been unfairly dismissed,” he added.

Effort to talk to Minister of Information Gospel Kazako proved futile.