Malawi President Mutharika challenged on corruption: Chakwera says ‘prove you are not thief’
Leader of Opposition and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera has branded President Peter Mutharika’s administration as the most corrupt and challenged him with facts to prove he does not tolerate or benefit from plunder by his henchmen.
In his response to an address the President gave on Friday during the opening of the 47th Session of Parliament, Chakwera said on Monday in Parliament that the fact is that Mutharika’s “countenances corruption among his own ministers” and is surrounded by aides who not only interfere with government processes for awarding contracts, but also ought to be investigated for corruption “for all the inexplicable wealth they have amassed in less than 40 months.”
Chakwera said President Mutharika, Cabinet Ministers, and the Presidential Aides continue to operate above the nation’s anti-corruption laws that some controlling officers, junior level accountants, civil servants, and department directors feel emboldened to continue looting with impunity, as is the case with some parliamentarians who are systematically abusing their Constituency Development Funds (CFDS).
“If the President really wants to prove that he is not a thief or to show that he does not tolerate or benefit from thievery, he should not just have come here with allegations that some MPs are abusing their CDFs. He should name the constituencies, name the culprits, state the amounts stolen, and present evidence as I did earlier this month when I exposed the fraud that is taking place in the procurement of ESCOM generators, perpetrated by the President’s own aides, a scandal he has yet to respond to or resolve,” said Chakwera.
He said the Escom genset deal is not the only fraudulent deal happening under Mutharika’s watch that they are aware of.
Chakwera stated that the whole Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government “reeks with the stench of corruption” and they cannot investigate it because “criminals do not investigate themselves.”
The Leader of Opposition said if any Malawians think he is exaggerating, they should consider the following partial record:
1) The US$35 million maize acquisition from Zambia (MK25.6 Billion) raised serious issues of corruption according to the two reports from the two separate and independent enquiries.
2) The DPP championed the K577 billion Cashgate (reduced to K236 billion) which to date Mutharika is doing nothing about. To date nothing is being done about the 13 files that were reportedly handed over to the ACB and connecting 7 ministers to the MK577 billion Cashgate.
3) It is alleged that the DPP directly benefitted from the MK500 million that was lost from the Southern Region Water Board
4) It is alleged that the DPP and its functionaries benefitted from the MK5 billion ESCOM scandal involving dubious purchases hence blocking ACB from investigating the matter.
5) His ministers were also allegedly involved in the purported procurement of Malawi Army vehicles with Ashok Leyland involving US$54 million.
6) There are strong allegations about US$10 million embezzlement, money from Malawi Embassy in New York meant for our men in uniform
7) The MK3 billion released from MERA purportedly to buy maize through ADMARC allegedly ended up in DPP. I urge this House to follow up on this to see if indeed maize was bought using this money.
8) The MK2 billion that has vanished from TEVETA allegedly partly found its way to DPP, as the other part was allegedly shared among the operatives
9) The previous DPP Administration influenced senior officers to give loans to businessmen connected to their party. Then this DPP Government quickly sold the bank while promising the people of Malawi that it will collect the toxic loans for the bad debts, but up to this day nothing has been collected.
10) The health sector itself has not been spared from stories of abuse of resources, from the siphoning of funds from the National Aids Commission in the early days of this administration to the more recent scam about funds for allowances related to the Center for Disease Control.
Said Chakwera: “Mr. Speaker Sir these are just the examples we know of, and there is much more.”
President Mutharika delivered his address on Friday to mark the official opening of the 47th session of parliament whose deliberations officially started on Monday as members of the House started commenting on his address.
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Kikkkkkkk am laughing at you guys, zikuoneka kuti mwasowa mtendere ndi Chakwera, let the President prove that he is not a thief, osati zomwe munena apazi Mr Jamax ndi Hatton, mumaona ngati tsiku lina sikudzabwera munthu yemwe adzaimilire a Malawi ndi kulankhula chilungamo? mumaona ngati Dziko la Malawi ndi lanu lokha? mubwerere kwanu komwe kumalolaro kubera anthu osauka, ife a Malawi takana. go to hell with your thieves leave Malawi for Malawians.
By the way how long will you be defending the Government full of thieves like this? Jamax stop what you are doing to Mr Chakwera and never again speak nonsense about his calling, am giving the last warning, and remember i once asked you again last time, it seems you have a problem of hating the truth but enjoying lies from your thieves. I always cry when it comes this kind of thinking which i see in these two guys Jamax and Hatton the other one is Santana, whom i believe that he does that out of just commenting but he knows down that what is happening in Malawi is not Malawi we all know, Malawi was a place where every one was enjoying.
I some times stand and start blaming Dr John Tembo for being silence in many things that where happening in his terms, but am not regret on that, because God has given us Chakwera who will stand and speak for Malawian, zonse zobisika zionekela poyera this is the time. The lies of Dr Bakili Muluzi, John Tembo didnt say anything Mr Dausi as well knows that.
Bakili Muluzi was the one who killed those people, that is why he even remembered the voice and cries of them, Mukundipheranji! and anagwira kolona wawo pakhosi, these things were happening in his presence[Bakili Muluzi]
Therefore, see life a head, we are tired of these thieves and they must pack and go!!
What i have discovered in life is that truth pains, therefore muvutika ndipo chilungamo chikusakani ndipo chikupezani, vomelezani kapena dzinjateni.
God bless Malawi
Mr Former man of God, why are you silent on JB’s cashgate? Is it because you benefited from it? You recall Lutepo mentioned your party’s convention that appointed you was financed by JB?
Is this the source of funds that you are using to construct the Maula mansion? How about the donated motor vehicles that you misappropriated from the party for your family use? Is this not thieving. How much wealth have you accumulated since you deserted the pulpit?
Please provide answers to about if your hands are not stained with JB’s cashgate.
Hatton ndiwe munthu opanda nzeru!! we are talking of Pitala and you bring in JB?? smae thinking like your useless president. Munya muona
Abusa a Chakwera tamverani mau, akuti sibwino kumalimbikila kuloza kachisoso kamene kali m’maso mwa mzako pamene mwakomo muli chipika – Aim yanu diyofuna kuyoza a President a dziko lino osati kufunila zabwino dziko lino ayi.
Chomwe muyenera kudziwa ndi chakuti inu ndi mbusa ndipo mbili yanu yaubusa kumpingo kwanu sindikukhulupirira kuti ndi yabwino ayi mwina ndi chifukwa chake munasiya – kuthawa ntchito ya Mbuye ngati YONA – Mulungu akamuitana munthu kuntchito yake ndipo munthuyo akaisiya ntchitoyo ndiye kuti pali BVUTO – ndipo bvuto limeneli lidzaonekera posachedwapa – Abusa a Chakwera muli ndi bvuto losachilitsika kumbukilani maitanidwe anu ndipo mulape ndi kubwerera ku ntchito yomwe Mulungu anakupatsani if not then God will bring SHAME on you. Kuyendetsa dziko sichintu chapafupi ayi musiyeni mzanu amalize term yake ndipo ma elections ali pafupi 2019. You have all this time as well to prove yourself kuti mudzatha kuyendetsa bwino dzikoli, Therefore sell yourself by giving your manifesto as to how will run your goverment if ushered into power. Tell us how you will deal with Electricity problems, Tell us how you will bring about job creation, tell us how you will eliminate all cashgate civil servants, Tell us how big your Cabinet will be, tell us how you will grow our economy, what plans you have in Agriculture, Education etc osati kunyoza kumene mukuchitako ayi – palibe wabwino pano padziko lapansi kuphatikizapo inuyo a CHAKWERA you can not be an exception NO!!!!!! who knows mutha kudzakhala munthu oipitsitsa pa mbili ya Malawi shaaaaaa!!!!! tanenani za bwino za inu eni osati kuipisa anzanu ayi. OChewa amati ‘ULENJE UMASIMBA WAKO’ kkkkk!! ndatha ine wanu Jamax- gudnite
Chakwera! Man of the day. U have my vote.
The best those that hate Chakwera can do is to ask the president to appear in parliament and prove Chakwera wrong in all these allegations right in parliament osati kukalalata ku nsonkhano wa ndale ayi.
What is killing Malawi are the blind hero worshippers
MCP 2019 Boma!!!!!
Our president is a true sign of old age. Agogo amenewa akulamula ngati mfumu ku mudzi. Adding up all the stolen cash, Malawi would have been somewhere above poverty lines. People are happy to see the dire poverty of millions of Malawians. They are cashing in on poverty, umbuli and lack of information. Malawians deserve someone better than our leader.
Chakwera is the political storm & wind sweeping tge Dpp thiethery in 2019. We hav had enough of this Dpp rhetoric, we need actions on corruption, unemployment, nepotism any many social ills. Peter wait for a very painful defeat as you clock 80 years. I believe you wont like that as a present, will you?
Mr Chakwera amenewo. after failing to climb an anthill he is trying his second chance on a mountain. Pepani abussa.
what kind of justice is this?? you come and find me in my house and you ask me to prove that i did not steal?? you should be the one proving that i stole from you not he other way round. fodya uyu!
When Rev Chakwera speaks I always give him the benefit of doubt that he speaks the truth, by virtue of being an ordained Revrend. Just as God cannot lie, so as his children. But I am shocked with a blantant lie on one of the issues he has blamed DPP for. The issue of maize bought by MERA. I have had chance to follow up events over the transaction where maize was bought to avert the 2016 hunger.
Firstly, the matter was probably the most thoroughly investigated of most of the cases, so much that the Revrend doesn’t have to challenge anybody to do any investigation.
Secondly, the investigations and conclusions were very thoroughly covered in the local Press, which the Revrend reads, I suppose.
Auction Holdings Commodity Exchange (AHCX) which is a reputable commodity exchange, supplied the maize and followed it to its destinations
The distributor, ADMARC testified receiving all the maize as dispatched by AHCX and committed to pay MERA, for the maize received and sold
The maize distributed, brought spontaneous end to long queues at ADMARC depots, in the hard hit areas of Bangula, Blantyre and Balaka, until the 2016 harvest season.
The Auditor General, who is non-partisan in Politics can easily share his report to the Revrend, detailing how the maize moved from AHCX to the beneficiary ADMARC depots. Also ADMARC sales records can show how quantities of maize sold increased upon receipt of the maize
The reverend should have appreciated that women who were sleeping at ADMARC depots looking for maize, people eating wild roots in Lower Shire, were saved overnight. Now if MERA gave the money to DPP, where did the maize come from.
The Revrend should be the first one to know, that when all is said and done, when people become presidenta and quit, one thing will remain. Everyone will be answerable before God and lying is not Character of God.
Yet akugwirana chanza nkumasekelerana? Komadi ndizoona, obvutika ndi oonera. Bola tonse tikudziwa kuti chakwera siwoyamba kunyoza ndikulalatira olamulira boma. Kunali a kamlepo munthawi ya muluzi ngakhale munthawi ino. Pano ali kuti? anthu akungowatenga ngati munthu wamisala. Yatsala nthawi yochepa pomwe anthu azafika pozolowera kuti zokamba achakwera zidzakhala ngati nyimbo yamutchalichi yoyimbidwa ndi anthu ambirimbiri musabata imodzi koma anthu asatembenuka chifukwa kwa iwo adangoloweza osati kumvamo uthengawo.
DDP will never learn, I feel ashamed to be a Lhomwe how could these DPP leaders be so heartless every decision this government is making is temporal and aimed at stealing from it. Malawi wake up and let’s love our country, how can investors come if the country is in darkness? cant we learn from our friends in Rwanda, Tanzania, and even Zambia. Ndalama mukubazi simukalowa nazo kumwamba
To develope Malawi we have To unite. Leaders who are dividing us in tribes are doing it for their own benefit and we are victims sipporting them. They are using our tribe. As Malawian we all live in Malawi. There is NO Malawi called Alhlomwe land or Tumbuka land bit MALAWI. We all suffer desprite having a leader from our tribe or region. How many Lhomwes are rich or living better life since Muntharikas came To power? Instead Bingu took lands for poor people To build his Mansion, Musolium and university of Technology? Leaving poor Lhomwes withiout cultivating land. NO leader who use his tribe will make that tribe or his people rich. They lie. They want support. We have To stop this tribal election on ground of tribe and region. Chakwela might not be the best but he speaks UNITE. Malawi need unite. ONE MALAWI ONE NATION.
AM SURE THIS LAZALO IS A GOODMAN AND HE DESERVES LEADERSHIP, THATS WHY HE DISHED FROM GOD’S PRESENTS AND START POLITICS, TO SERVE THE STEAVING MALAWIANS KOMA MWATSOKA HE HAS JUST WEST HIS TIME FOR MANY OF US WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HIM,BETTER TO VOTE FOR ADOG.
Many of us, including who? shame on you!! ife wathu ndiyemweyu basi palibeso ndipo muonekelapoyela ndipo muzuzika naye Chakwera ameneyu simunati.
Chakwela did not ditch God. He is still withiout Churchill and God. Bushiri ditch God. He is a businessman. Jesus died for the poor. Politics is dirty Chakwela knows but he saw How Malawian are suffering thats why he joined politics. He does not collect money from The poor. Bushiri did then start business. To Day Bushiri talks only business. But forget where hus money came from first. Pope was a nazi today serving God. Chakwela has built churches. Bushiri none. Chakwela money To build churches came from USA his church donors. Just like Anglican and Catholic churches are built with money from England and Rom. May be Chakwela can save Malawi. Tre him. After all he is The only one withiout money blood.
MCP BOMA ILO.TIKWERA YOMWEYI
Chakwera 2019….tikwela yomweyo…
Anthunu tawadzudzulani abusawa. Zimene akunena sizikumvekatu apa.
guys all that info in allegations and gossip…for example the generator issue Chakwera said there are no generators coming and the president lied….now generators are being installed….allegations may come to be true or false….be careful when you talk about others… Chakwera should have been thinking outside the box on generators because they are very expensive to manage…he should have been advocating for stable and efficient power sources not the crazy generators
Dr Chakwera should not be carried away with campaigns and fall into sin of lying, falsehood. Campaign will go, Presidency will Go, and after all that one needs to be found spotless before God Almighty. Leadership is not sin, but Kings like David, Solomon etc had to rule, upholding fear of God. Revrend Chakwera should not be misled by people who have no fear for sin. When all is said and done Revrend Chakwera remains man of God.
Dont forget the Gensets were air lifted after Chakwera’s speech just to blindfold us and prove that the president did not lie. We aint kids malume!!!
Let him respond to this if he has the balls.
What facts can DPP present to refute this truth. That’s the opposition leader Malawi has been waiting for. Someone who can hold government accountable and shame them. A leader who can choose to stand for the people and cry together with the citizenry when everyone is crying for the atrocities caused by the rulling elites.
With no strings attached, Chakwera deserves to the Leader of this country come 2019; I can sense another Magufuri in the SADC region.
GUILTY BY PUBLIC VOTE.