PAC meets JB today
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC) is this morning scheduled to hold an interface meeting with President Joyce Banda in its quest to seek transformative leadership from presidential candidates in the May 20 elections.
PAC executive director Robert Phiri confirmed yesterday that the meeting is scheduled for 9 am at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe where, among other issues, the discussion will centre on political and economic governance.
Said Phiri: “Yes I can confirm that the meeting is on tomorrow [Wednesday] in the morning hours. Basically, PAC is discussing issues on political and economic governance.
“PAC is seeking commitments from presidential candidates on the issues raised from our conferences. In addition, there are proposed time frames within which the issues raised should be dealt with. After 20 May elections, PAC will be monitoring progress as part of implementation of PAC resolutions.”
He said the presidential interface meetings have been a good start because, as an organisation, PAC was learning a lot from the presidential candidates since this was the first time to embark on such an advocacy activity.
In its issues paper, PAC says from reports and All-Inclusive Stakeholders Conference, there has been a call for transformative leadership through sustained advocacy and building an informed society for quality leadership.
Reads the paper: “The core problem identified based on recent PAC activities is the lack of transformative, accountable and responsive leadership in Malawi which funnels in all key sectors of the economy, which is compounded by the Malawi’s political culture and systems.
“PAC intends to make follow-ups on the above issues given that the identified presidential candidates may be represented in Parliament after 2014 elections and one of them may assume office of the presidency. This will constitute holding leaders and ourselves accountable because for many years obvious issues have been ignored by both Malawians and their leaders.”
PAC has already met presidential candidates for United Democratic Front (UDF), Atupele Muluzi, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) torch-bearer Lazarus Chakwera and Mark Katsonga Phiri of the People’s Progressive Movement (PPM).
While I agree and support PAC on this initiative, It has shown bias by shifting goal posts. All other presidential candidates left their businesses and travelled to the Venue PAC had designated for the meeting but only on this occasion, one presidential candidate is preferred and the whole PAC is going to her home. Why did you not visit Dr Chakwera’s or Atupele’s houses. The playing field must be level whether one is a sitting president or otherwise. I do not support the plan to have the meeting at Kamuzu Palace. If PAC were serious, they would have proposed a neutral venue say like Capital Hotel and let the candidate come for these interviews. What a wrong precedence?
Why @ state house?
Please PAC, ask her about asset declaration and meeting of parliament to discuss cashgate and legalise the budget which is now different from what parliament approved in June last year, and therefore, rendering it illegal. Don’t spare her. We are suffering because of her.
I don’t think the choice of the venue is a big deal. You don’t expect a whole president to go to PAC’s premisses.
Idiotic as she is, she is still our president.
Also, there is really no good presidential candidate out there. None. No hope for Malawi. Sigh.
But PAC should let journalists in on it, and should quiz her about her assets. She is simply running out the clock on asset declaration and cashgate.
Mr Gombwax you are missing the point. In an election year there is need to be fair. With the culture of worshipping leaders you don’t want them to be accountable. PAC are holding so take off the mentality of Ufumu in this discourse.
A PAC mukuti the problem is lack of transformative leadership, nanga poti Joyce akuti yakeyi ndiye transformative leadership? You are wasting your time by meeting her unless if you are expecting to get paid by her for your futile efforts. Kwa Joyce Banda, ntchito ya president is kugawa mbuzi ndi abakha. To her, transforming a village is to be build a shoddy hut for one person in a village of 1,000.
Looking at the picture depicted above you can easily notice that the head is just there for decoration purposes and not it’s actual work, that of thinking and not only thinking, but thinking like a leader and not a Fritters maker. I can bet most of the time is spent on glooming her hair and ironing shoulder shashes. Instead of doing all these on her own and her sister Cecilia Kumpukwe she should have been hiring professionals, there are a lot in town. But looking at the manner she loves money, she deduced that doing that will mean dipping her hand in the pilfered government finances cache’ she goes about bragging that she begun amassing at the age of 21, Wow!!!!!!!!
Put them together for a live debate.
Instead of calling for consititutionala and ggovernment reforms this is the best pac can do…taking pledges from presidential candidates…
Politics=greedy