Malawi is broken—Chakwera
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera has said misrule under the Peter Mutharika administration has left all the country’s institutions broken and Malawians without hope.
Chakwera, who is also leader of Opposition in Parliament, in a special end of the year message yesterday, further blamed Mutharika’s administration for hunger in the country, and fuelling corruption.
However, government spokesperson and Minister of Information, Communications and Technology Nicholas Dausi said the criticism is unfortunate and unfair, there is a lot that government is doing to resolve all the challenges facing Malawians.
However, Chakwera reiterated his recent criticism of Mutharika that he has failed Malawians and pointed at increased corruption within senior ranks of government and State owned enterprises such as Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera), Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) and Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) as more worrying.
“The allegations of links between members of Mutharika’s Cabinet and the mismanagement of K236 billion remains uninvestigated and the ministers in question continue to spend our taxes,” said Chakwera.
But Dausi said Chakwera, as leader of Opposition, should appreciate various initiatives government has employed to tackle corruption, hunger, water and electricity problems.
He described Chakwera’s speech as hopeless as it failed to capture the role opposition has to play to bring about change.
The funny thing is that despite all the misery that Malawians will have to endure during this corrupt DPP govt, AMP will still win come 2019…..,,thanks to politics of regionalism and the culture of rigging elections with impunity by the ruling political parties.
We all remember the Mchinji by-election recently where the DPP pulled the Moses Kuchingale card thank God it didn’t work this time but can you imagine if DPP had the audacity of doing this in the MCP heartland what will the do in the south and lomwe belt? Your guess is as good as mine.
What worries me is that Moses Kuchingale is still eating at the high table with the Vice President as his personal assistant desipite impersonating an electoral commission official, a very serious crime according to our laws.
IF Moses Kuchingale was from the opposition he would have been in jail by now.
Until that time when Malawians shall be smart enough to start electing their leaders based on ones trustworthiness, integrity and capabilities we shall continue to suffer under the APM led DPP and Mulahko wa alomwe melons.