Sam Mpasu is a Malawian politician, author, and former diplomat — He served as Minister of Commerce, Secretary General of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1999, and speaker of the Malawi National Assembly.

Early life

He was a student at Dedza secondary school and went to University of Malawi

University of Malawi

The University of Malawi is an educational institution established in 1964 and composed of five constituent colleges located in Zomba, Blantyre, and Lilongwe. Of the five colleges, the largest is Chancellor College in Zomba. The name of the school is abbreviated to UNIMA. It is part of the...

's Chancellor College.

Career

He served as a diplomat in the foreign service for the Malawi mission to Germany. He wrote a book in 1975 entitled, 'Nobodys Friend', which got him arrested because the Kamuzu Banda regime thought that it was written about Kamuzu Banda. He was arrested without trail for, "two year, one month, one week, and one day" in Mukuyu Prison.
He served as Minister of Commerce, Education, and Speaker of the Malawi House of Assembly. His appointment as a minister of commerce was met with a lot of resistance since he was the speaker of the house at that time. The court attempted to block President Bakili Muluzi

Bakili Muluzi

Elson Bakili Muluzi is a Malawian politician. He was the President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004 and was Chairman of the United Democratic Front until 2009.-Presidency:...

 from posting him to this position.

Civil Servant Strike 1997

On April 8, 1997 whilst he was UDF Secretary General, during a civil servant strike where civil servants were demanding higher salaries as recommended by the Chatsika Report, he was pelted with stones in Zombawhilst driving his own car to the Parliament Building. He was hit in the jaw.

Fieldyork Notebook Scandal

In 2008 A Malawian court charged him with a six-year prison sentence over corruption charges dating back 14 years. He was accused of receiving kickbacks h for awarding a British company, Fieldyork a deal to provide Malawi with millions of notebooks and pencil when he served as Minister of Education. He was released from jail in 2010 instead of 2014 due to good behavior.

Movies

• Black Gold, as self
• Lifecycles: A Story of AIDS in Malawi (2003), as self Speaker of the House