Chanco Students Plan to Oust Registrar

University of Malawi’s Chancellor College students are planning to remove their Registrar for Social Welfare, Mr. Elius G. Chizimba, citing failure by him to handle students’ welfare properly as a major reason behind the plot.
According to a memo, sourced by this reporter, which circulated on Monday around Chirunga campus, as it is popularly known, and signed by some very concerned students, Mr. Chizimba is being accused of mishandling of transport, accommodation, and sports issues for the students. The highly-emotively charged memo further says the registrar has failed to consult students on critical issues as he has made unilateral decisions on many important issues that have affected the student’s body.
President-elect for Students Union of Chancellor College (SUCC), Lonjezo Sithole, confirmed this development in an exclusive interview with this reporter.
“It’s indeed true that some students are planning to remove Mr. Chizimba, from the office of Registrar for Social Welfare following the memo that circulated on Monday around the campus,” he said.
“But this issue hasn’t come to my office yet for the practice here is that if students have got grievances, they have to call for a general assembly so that the whole student body should agree on the course of action to take,” he added.
Quizzed on whether he supports this motion or not, Sithole said as a union’s president, he will follow what the students will agree in the general assembly.
Dean of Students for Chancellor College, Ms Jubilee Tizifa, was not immediately available for comment.
But a fourth year student, who spoke on strict condition of anonymity, observed that it was indeed high time that the registrar was booted out of office.
“Mr. Chizimba has taken us for granted for quite some time. Imagine, he has banned the Sports Complex Bar from showing football matches while other students televisions are down and have not been repaired,” he lamented.
“He hasn’t given us our Chancellor Trophy medals that we won last year up to now. An encounter with him in office is a nightmare, he shouts for no apparent reason. And recently he has started walking around with a camera photographing students without permission for whatever use. In fact, the list goes on and on,” he added.
“Mr. Chizimba has been tried and found wanting. We cannot continue watching him, fellow intellectuals, corrupting our intellectualism. There is but one thing that ought to be done to him if we are to regain our pride…we all know that thing: Mr. Chizimba must be shown the exit door through any means imaginable and possible” reads part of the memo.