Chakwera rebuffed on Mpumulo wa Bata visit
The family of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika has prevented Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Dr Lazarus Chakwera from visiting Mpumulo wa Bata at Ndata Farm in Thyolo to lay a wreath.
Chakwera is in Southern Region conducting meetings in several areas. On Wednesday, he was in Chikhwawa and other parts of the Shire Valley.
MCP spokesperson Jessie Kabwila said Chakwera will be in the South for 10 days during which he wanted to pay respect by laying a wreath on Mutharika’s grave.
“He [Bingu] was the president for the whole nation. He recognised Ngwazi and his achievements. The president [Chakwera] felt it proper that for the 10 days he will be in the South, he should spare some time to pay homage to the late Bingu,” said Kabwila.
But the Mutharika family says it would not be possible because of the injunction that government took against Bineth Trust that restrains them from handling anything to do with the trust.
One of Bingu’s daughters, Tapiwa Mutharika, said much as the family acknowledges Chakwera’s gesture, the plan will not materialise because of the injunction.
“Government obtained an injunction against Bineth Trust where Mpumulo wa Bata is and the visit by Chakwera is, therefore, impossible. But as a family, we acknowledge the gesture shown by the MCP leader,” said Tapiwa yesterday.
Asked whether MCP might not be gambling by associating the party with Bingu who had poor human rights and a governance record, Kabwila dismissed the assertions.
“Bingu might have had a poor human rights record. In fact, I took a leading role during the academic freedom fight. But that cannot erase the fact that he did good things like making the country food secure,” she said.
Ndale za pa Malawi zopusa bwanji.munthu wapha wanthu,dziko linafika posambuka,anthu kukhala opanda ufulu dziko lokhala lawo. Ngati kunali chakudya bwanjit anthu amagura chakudya modura. Kuyesa kupeza mavoti ku lomwe belt?
Achimwene Wachiyao Wangalusa, inu ndinu Mmalawi ndithu? ndiuzeni nthawi ya Bingu thumba lachimanga linali ndalama zingati? K1500 ku Admarc lero ndi K5000, mavenda amagulitsa K3000 lero ndi K10,000 ndiye inu zoona baba munganame kuti chimanga chimadula? baba mutu wanu sugwira ndithu. Bingu anali ndi zofooka zake inde, monga mmene analili muluzi ndi ena koma pa nkhani ya chakudya mkulu uja anali khang’a, kumaphunzira kunena zoona baba, nsanje kapena kaduka sizabwino
pa mw zinthu zavuta basi,,,,
Bingu was criminal whether thumba la chimanga was K1.00. For me, olo litafika K50,000, I wuddnt mind as long as I keep my peace, and freedom that God gave me. Economy ikunenedwayo anaononga ma fundamentals ake ndiiyeyo, wat we are seeing are results of his decisions. Criminality can’t be justified by price of thumba la chimanga.
Some fools never learn. Bingu had problems but not worse Than amayiwa
We witnessed Malawi becoming Africa’s Food Basket.
We witnessed Malawi’s Economy Glowing as Quatar’s
We witnessed Malawi’s Security Glowing daily
And the list goes on.
Not forgetting Infrastructure Development.
Man U vs Swasea
as much as i acknowledge the achievement Bingu did but lets not 4get that he was also doing as adictator and apart from that he stole alot of our money.
Kodi njala yabwera ndimayi or chifukwa chamvula be honest
Azungu anavomeleza kuti Bingu was 2big for Malawi and that’s y we didn’t understand him. Tonse tikulongolola apa ndikumanyoza mitu yathu njochepa. I dnt sympathise with DPP the fact of the matter is BINGU WAS A GREAT MAN period.
The only mistake he did was to appoint Joice Banda as vice president. Munatilakwira ife a oMalawi. She z embarrassing us left and right
QUATAR wake uti amene mukufanizira ndi Malawi. Komadi a Malawidi olo atati tipite tonse ku America ndiye aku a Merica abwere kuno tikakhalabe osauka. Mitima inasauka kale kale,kubwera uyu akatinamiza ife komweko.naye Joice ndiye mbava yotheratu.
Wachiyao wangalusa supports cash gate. He doesn’t know Joice Banda is killing by not providing hospitals with medicines, not providong ADMARC with maize. In your logic, do you think one is in peace without food? Is a nation with hospitals that have no medicines in peace? Joice Banda has brought more misery on the nation than Bingu. The goodness is that people with the mentality you have are in minority. The choice is between Chakwera and Peter.
@Mpumuntha open your eyes and see things the right way, wina anakupusisani ndiye dziko la Malawi mukuliwonera pamwamba pansi pakubisalirani. Bingu, may his soul rest in peace, was a great man, a source of comfort for Malawi. JB and many human rights activists worked hard to frustrate his projects. Little did they knew that it was not Bingu they were frustrating but the Malawi nation at large. The effects of JBs fight against Bingu are what we are seeing now. Unlike Zimbabwe, where most zimbabweans continously supported Mugabe here at home we have been myopitic rallying behind the west forsaking our own leader. JB can be likened to Shangirai who now the west call rubbish. Now, today the british are after JB, she should explain about Bingu’s Plain. She thought mzungu ndi mzake. She is now counted as useless before the british. These 2 years ma british achita nalo dziko la MALAWI now they wont care about JB. Britain and America always fight against great leaders of Africa cabbages become their mates, havent you observed yet.
The question is can MCP and DPP form an alliance?
If I support DPP because of Bingu’s sound economic policies, then I see no one who can emulate the late economic engineer.
APM (the presidential candidate for May 2014) is a failure. My point is supported by his failure in all ministrial positions entrusted by his late brother, Education(Chancho academic freedom saga), Justice(cases took time complete), Foreign affairs(expulsion of an ambassador). Unless you tell me that DPP will use someone else as a presidential candidate, I have no problem in voting for this party but as of now I cannot vote for APM because as far as running the affairs of the state is concerned, he has proved to be a failure. I rest my case!
Mamwene rewind your tape recorders and listen to Prof Etta Banda as foreign affairs minister explaining about the expulsion of British envoy.
Anthu opusa inu munakhala bwanji? Kodi nthawi ya Bingu mwayiwala kuti kuchipatala kunalibiletu mankhwala? Timagawana botolo la chubu cha mmaso kutsila mmawa kubweranso masan. The bumper harvest we had during Bingu was only a result of good rains over his period. Even the first terms of a Cheya we had good rains and people wanted to link the good harvest to starter pack. No. Bingu was only trying to enrich himself and ended up contracting companies to get some thing out of it. Andale basi onse ndi akuba including Chakwera wabwera kuti adzabepo basi.
Wa chiyawo wolusayo akunama. He might be a bit myopic here but I am sure he has now turned out to be sensible. You know if 90% of Malawians have food and I and the 10% dont have then you ask yourself why. You can not be stupid to admit that the reason is because I and my parents are lazy and not worthy living. I dont think you could link your laziness to calamities that they have befallen upon Malawians.
Bingu adagwedeza not only Africa but the World. I was proud of this Great man. Few Malawians we understood him. He died because of much thinking that really ‘ Malawians I want to take across Jordan but you think I am taking you to Pharaoh’
MCP and DPP please think of liberating us now.
Malawi produced more metric tonnes of Maize in the 2012/13 growing season than in 2011/12 when Bingu was alive, this is a fact that can be verified with the Ministry of Agriculture. Similarly Tobacco farmers became better off in the 2012/13 growing season than the season before,we produced more tobacco after Bingu and earned more forex,records are also there at TCC.
All this points to the fact that late Bingus successes are highly overstated particularly by his fellow Lomwes due to their selfish nature,DYELA KWAMBILI MTUNDU WUMENEWU, CHOLINGA AKUFUNA APITENSO MUBOMA AZIKAPHANGIRA MA UDINDO NDI MA BUSINESS.
At todays exchange rate of $1: K450, the K10,000 today was MK3,711.11 in September 2011 a few months before Bingu died.The fact remains that even if our mighty God saved the life of late Bingu,the bag of maize that was around K3,000 by Vendors then with the devaluation was still going to be around K10,000.
We should not forget the fuel and forex problems that we had under Bingu which led to so many Companies including the mighty Lever Brothers scalling down their operations/production in Malawi thereby hightening the unemployment levels.What about the stupid and nepostic QUOTA system of selecting students into University under late Bingu? What about the open LOMWELISATION POLICY that led to the transfer of MUST from LL to the personal NDATA Farm in Thyolo and the filling of key Govt positions such as RBM Governor.Minieter of Finance,Secretary to the Treasury,Budget Director,MRA Commissioner General,Inspector General of Police,Chief Justice,Clerk of Parliament, Deputy Chief Secretary,MBC Director General,High Commissioners amongst others by fellow tribesmen from MTL.
Another bare fact is that Donors have pumped in alot of forex into our economy post Bingu,without this forex,how worse off would our economy have been?
To some of us ,Malawi was better off under late Bingu only between 2004 to 20010 thereafter we went into an intensive care type of economy till AMAYI JB rescued us and we are back again to where we belonged due to the CASHGATE scandal.