Chakwera says Mutharika running scared and paranoid: Malawi govt should deal with widening inequalities and rising corruption
President Peter Mutharika is panicking that a combination of rising unemployment, economic decay, pending mass protests to demand transformational leadership would result in ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) losing the 2019 elections through the ballot, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) President Lazarus Chakwera has observed.
Chakwera has since questioned Mutharika’s logic over accusations that the opposition leader pushed a regime-change agenda through the rejected Electoral Reforms Bills.
President Mutharika described Chakwera as ‘a foul mouthed reverend’.
Drifting away from his prepared speech during the groundbreaking ceremony for a five-star hotel project and business centre in Blantyre, Mutharika said Chakwera, who trailed him in the 2014 presidential race, was conniving with what he called misguided faith leaders to bring down his government.
But in his reaction, Chakwera described the President’s sentiments as unfortunate, saying the greatest threat to Mutharika’s presidency include the unemployed, homeless, hungry and individuals who see no light in Malawi under corrupt and nepotistic DPP administration.
Chakwera dismissed Mutharika’s claim that he pushed a regime-change agenda through the rejected Electoral Reforms Bills.
“If that is how he interprets it, how the intelligence works and how he reasons, then no wonder this country is in trouble,” said Chakwera
“Is he that scared? Is that his level of reasoning? Is that the level of intelligence he gets to and the conclusion he makes? How does that tally? Who does he think we are?” wondered Chakwera .
Mutharika lashed out at the opposition, accusing it of plotting to topple his government by December 31 2017.
But MCP has since said widening inequalities and rising corruption are creating tension among people which is a threat to Mutharika’s presidency.
The opposition has since called on DPP administration to deal with corruption in government and tackling concerns arising from lack of jobs, poverty and limited business opportunity for Malawians.
Chakwera pledges to fight corruption and pursue a policy of radical economic transformation if elected as President in 2019 polls.
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Chakwera Will cry like RAIILA ODINGA OF KENYA MARK MY WORD.TIZADULANSO KHOSI TAMBALA WAKUDA TAMBALA ALIBE MANO IN AS MUCH CHAKWERA CANNOT BITE.
OVER MY DEAD BODY MCP WAS GONE WITH THE DICTATOR KAMUZU
Mr Santana zafika kulibwino kuvotera even chisiru komaso chozereka coz palibe kusiyana ndi izi zilipozi….so ngati achakwera alibe fundo izo zilibe kanthu Koma ife tikufuna tionepo zina basiii full stop…..
Mr Telon, The fact is that we have a place ON THE MAP OF Malawi WHICH IS SITUATED on the East. There are other political parties who have governors ruling the eastern region. Mr Telon I have now and again challenged you on these pages that tell me one strategy which was not done by MCP in 2014 which if done in 2019 the party will win the presidential race. Despite repeating this question now and again no MCP diehard is coming with an answer. Ask your Chakwera to tell Malawians what he will do on blackouts if he assumes the presidency today. He is silent, so he wants people to follow him blindly. Let him expose his solutions so that Malawians should assess them. I know he cannot reveal the solutions because he does not have any. Three years from the 2014 loss he has not found any corrective measure for a 2014 loss and you cheat supporters that you will win in 2019. Which election did MCP not promise its supporters for a win? You always say APM is scared with Chakwera, tomorrow he is scared with Kamlepo, the other day he is scared with Manganya. Please tell us what is it in these people that can make APM scared? A win in Nsanje is a repeat of what Gwanda was doing under MCP but did he took the presidency? Tell us facts which will make us believe that MCP will make the next government. Is it not a shock to MCP to see the opposition MPs not siding with him in the 50+1 votes? Who would then side with it if a re-run was done in 2019? P[lease MCP continue licking the wounds of 2014 accident.
I like Chakwera’s persistent attach on Peter Mutharika. Please go, go, Man.
Ours is a president who knows what is right for the country but chooses to do differently just to serve his personal interests. Isn’t he the same person who proposed federalism and proportional representation in the country as a way of dealing with concerns of regional marginalization only to change his view once elected as president? Should we then be surprised that he is against the recommendations of the special law reform commission appointed by himself. One word describes our president better “hypocrite”.
I feel sorry for students of this professor who can’t uphold his principles.
This is where Dr Chakwera is missing the point. Samanena mfundo ndi imodzi yomwe. Koma kunena zoipa za DPP. to be honest we already know how bad DPP is, that’s preaching to the saved. Tiuzeni mfundo zanu, nkhani ya magesi muzapanga chani, power plants takes yrs to build, sikuti kutenga boma magesi azayaka, za katangale muzapanga bwanji, komanso anthu mukudyerera muli Ku opposition, za malipiro athu simukamba mkomwe popeza inu malipiro anu ndi aaatali , fuel, ma allowance migolomigolo.
Kofumsira mkazi suchedwa kukamba kuipa Kwa wina. Umakamba mfundo zako. So far I haven’t heard anything from abusa (not sure if this will not be deleted pajaza Dr Chakwera ndi Bushiri mmangoti a Nyasatimes)
Mr Ben, it’s only because your eyes and mind have been compromised with the DPP blue-discolouration caused by fraudulent money. The effects of which are that you can’t see nor reason logically.
What Chakwera is saying was in fact once successfully implemented are results were positive. Kodi magetsi amazima 2yrs JB anali pa mpando?
So it is not that the Chakweras of this world do not offer alternative views or workable solutions, it’s because we have a president who either does NOT listen or simply fails to get things done.
Amwene, olo pa office pamakhala ma bwana ena zinthu osayenda ataaah!!! Kungobwera nzawo, office yomweyo same funding koma zinthu kusithiratu. Olo salary yomweyi wina kupangila za nzeru koma wina nothing. Mwinanso munthu wake osamwanso mowa olo akazi ayi. Pamakhala anthu basi okanika.
This is what naive DPP royalists fail to understand/ appreciate. Or is it probably just a bitter reality to accept. Unfortunately it is what is the problem (cancer) for Malawi at the moment. Transactional as opposed to transformational leadership. BASI u INEPT BASI !!!
Tsono ndiye mwati oChakwerawo ndi munthu oti atakhala pa office zinthu zisintha? Mwadziwa bwanji? Popeza zomwe tiludziwa ife ndizoti Malawi ssemblies of God with Dr Chitsonga is much better than the time of Chakwera. Ask me for more details. What about infighting and failing to run his own party? Politically, which party is stable and strong, DPP and MCP?
“…power plants takes years to build…” chizungu chakuti chimenecho?!! Standard eight English lessons – he, she, it – plural; else singular!
Tianthu ta dpp ubulutu uli thoo! Koma makani. They want to lead when in actual fact they need to be led!
Unfortunately, Chakwera will never be president of Malawi. Mark my words. APM is going to win again in 2019.
Poti ukavota ndiwe Alex……Kuno Ku Mulanje tikavotera Chakwera.
It is surprising some people do not realise how smart president Mutharika has been on the 50+1 bill. He played a clever game on MCP, PAC, Catholic bishops and churches: (1) Pretended to capitulate to their demands by accepting to bring the bill to parliament (2) Publicly begged PAC, Catholic Bishops to stop the 13th December demonstrations (3) Then, his government brought a bill that was doctored (in the words of Kamlepo, an adulterated bill) which caused a stir in parliament and outside (4) knifed the 50+1 bill even as the ruling DPP only has 50 MPs of the total 193. If people do not understand that APM is genious by virtue of this act and the timing, I wonder what they mean he is not professor. Well, he studied law, remember, and therefore knows law-making very well.
He cannot outsmart the Church – Catholics and all those. The church will speak in 2019. Trust me.
Did he play a clever game or a crooked game? Amalawi ndife odabwitsa. Uku nkombera mfiti mmanja ndithu!
Then your happy with the president for playing tricks on what the people wants…what a shame to civilisation n democracy. Time is coming and trust me things will change either by the ballot or the bullet.
Can you happily state things that APM has done for this country since his election??
Which pipo are talking about who wanted that law? Few greedy clerics partnering the lost opposition???
“….. the greatest threat to Mutharika’s presidency include the unemployed, homeless, hungry and individuals who see no light in Malawi under corrupt and nepotistic DPP ”
You are absolutely right president elect Chakwera.
Continue telling him in no unequivocal terms about his failure. Everyone is behind you on that. Was it not the diplomats who described him as a gangster leader talking about the institutionalised corruption and theft of public funds.
Amwene mamuna odziwa kufunzira mkazi sanena zoipa za mzake amamnena zake. Who is hungry now in Malawi? If there is one then he is lazy. Why are maize prices so low? Is this not the sign that there is plenty of maize? Don’t you know that even with a 50+1 APM can easily smash your hallucinating president elect your Raila Odinga Chakwera? Ndale za pa social media muchedwa nazo. Somebody here in Central Region was jubilating when Chakwera held a rally a year ago saying there were crowds of people. Really? Fishing in own net. While in BT crowds were like that of a funeral of a homeless person. Anzanu a DPP akuyala zitukuko zowoneka ndi maso muli miti gwaaaa ndi a president elect anuwo. Ngakhale amipingo ambeleke kumbuyo koma wanuyo ndi owuma mutu ndale sazidziwa olo pang’ono. Mwaona bwanji mmene game ya 50+1 mmene ma MP aisewelera mparliament. Simwamva za Museven ku Uganda? Amenewa ndiye a chalume. Masaizi awo ndi a JZU ndi a Chair osati ma amateur anuwo ayi.
If I was muthatika, I would stop people from addressing me as his excellency. It does not make sense to have such titles when people live in the dark.
Look at the roads he is constructing,,,they are useless road which develop pitholes within a month.
Anywhere in the world corruption, theft and nepotism follow leaders wherever they go. They is no competent eraser to clear these evil acts. This is why culprit of the same behave as though they suffer from hallucination. Given what Malawians are made up of one sees the relationship between the 5-1 defeat and the three evils mentioned above. The climax of it all will be in May 2019 where I believe the rejected 50+1 will automatically be implemented by the masses without passing through the August house.
Perekani ulemu kwa a president,olo akhale opanda mano
The best thing Chakwera should do is to convince DPP supporters not to vote for APM in 2019 and he should give reasons for that. Further he should direct them who to vote for. The problem is that the man himself lacks political muscle. His speeches carry no weight at all. I wonder how he moved Christians to spiritual ecstasy during his pastoral days. Your rival atleast has people on the ground including those from your region Mr Chakwera. The reasons you are giving for people not vote for DPP in 2019 are too childish. Which president in Malawi achieved what you are blaming APM for? And MCP president thinks people are so stupid that they can be hooked fish, line and sinker? What is it that can convince people that you can achieve something Mr Chakwera? APM has support that is not shaken in anyway. The Lhomwe built is unmovable. It is stuck as it was in 2014. There is no carrot which you Chakwera can tangle before them. Dpp has all hope that it will win in 2019 because it has numbers on the ground. It is the only party which has support across the country while MCP is invaded in his own yard and at the same time cannot go outside the central region. The lowershire votes cannot make Chakwera win in 2019 because there were big people popular than him who tried but failed. Chakwera should forget about a win in 2019. How do you feel now after a 50+1 hit? You myopically banked your hope on something which is actually a bomb to you. Which opposition parties would have backed you in a re-run? Can you convince the eastern region to vote for you and not their partners in politics, the DPP? Madala mudzabwerera ku KANISA 2019.
Santana you are the most misguided lieutenant of this rotten regime. In the first place there is no administrative region called Eastern in Malawi. It is the Southern region period. When we say the South we include what you call Eastern. DPP lost embarrassingly bad in the by elections and you ,Santana, got unconscious for weeks before you started again making your wild barking. You are a good example of educated parasites, sycophants and above all ass licking lovers. You don’t depend on your brain to analyse facts but emotions.
Man Telon mwamulephera Santana. Wanena zoonatu apa. See my comments above. Unfortunately when one is on the losing side of the argument he starts calling other people names. Tsitsani mfundo without attacking the personality of your opponent. Thypical of MCP supporters just being too vocal on social media. Do you think MCP can contain the pressure that come with national elections? Why do we say APM will win? In the South, the gap between APM and Lazaro are so huge. In the centre APM trails closely to Lazaro. North is any mans land but with the demise of Aford, DPP will outsmart MCP. Tangukuuzaponitu izi mwaulere ngakhale tikudziwa kuti simumva.
I wish you could use your spiritual eyes and listen to him preaching the word of God. It’s unfortunate that people in DPP see him as a failed pastor. Look at how he has responded to APM on several national issues. Chakwera has charisma. ..you can’t compare Chakwera with Peter
Muuthawa ulomwe come 2019
I agree with all the comments raised by the other readers. For starters who instructed the special law commission to consult people on the electoral reforms? Was it MCP? The answer is a big No but dpp gaffment. Was it PAC? The answer is a big NO but dpp gaffment under clueless leadership of Mr. Ibu. Why is it then that Mr. Ibu and hid dpp are afraid of their own bill? The answer is they have underperformed and they are sure if the reforms pass through parliament they’ll lose miserably in 2019. So the only alternative for them is the first past the post through which unfortunately they will also lose miserably. they are found between the rock and a hard place. Kwawo kapande.
Unfortunately this is another illusion. Good that you have been fooled by the by-election results.
Mwati APM ndi professor? Oh no. Munthu wakumudzi sure can reason better.
This man has been useless even when he was a minister no wonder he is failing to govern a country. The Few Lhomwes put the whole country in a mess very unfortunate and we can not repeat this mistake any more game changer to drive the country come 2019
I don’t thinks this issue is about Lhomwe’s, there are a number of good Lhomwe people. I believe he is just an individual bustard. Nkhutukumve
I hardly can see anyone among lomwe leaders. I only see ritualistic, anamapopa, albino killers, Princes and princesses of thieves. AMONG supporters you see hopeless farm labourers who because of illiteracy, are too uncivilised to make informed choices and endup paying heavily for their poor choices. Someonee has posted pictures of lomwe cadets and mcp supporters on the social media. The difference is astonishing. Clean and polished mcp youths as opposed to the painted things resembling humans. Doesn’t that bother you.
Peter has started hallucinating. This is the same way Bingu hallucinated when his days were numbered. Peter’s days are numbered….conclusion. So Chakwera our president just know that Mutharika’s stupidity has reached a point of no return. The old man is stupid.
The reasoning capacity of Muthalika is very low. His IQ could be one of the lowest and apes could be better than him. Surely chimpanzees show some intelligence and wisdom that Pitala. If he were in a class of Ralph Kasambara and Kalekeni Kaphale he would not have made it. He would have ended in the streets as a beggar or homeless. Look at the way he is praising the Chinese. Malawi still needs hospitals and schools. The Chinese have not brought any of these. It is just business centres. Kamuzu brought a lot schools which the government is failing to run. Alumni Associations are running government schools. We have not developed. The roads Muthalika is building are branching from the main roads which Kamuzu built. What was Mwanza without Kamuzu?
Koma ndaseka mpaka mmimba kupweteka.
His reasoning capacity is very low to lead a Country, no wonder we are sleeping in darkness – OLD AGE may be?
The 50+1 argument that it improves the legitimacy of the elected president might be true but what is the relationship between improved legitimacy and economic development and transformation? Since the advent of multiparty democracy in Malawi legitimacy was attained twice. Was there more development or were lives better in those periods, the same or worse? My observation is that legitimacy made no difference. Can someone please show evidence from elsewhere? As far as I have studied there is no evidence of a relationship between legitimacy and better economic growth and development. Malawi should not just change for the sake of change. The 50+1 will not add any value to our lives as Malawian, if anything it will destroy value. I reject it on that basis and I think those in Government and some opposition parliamentarians who rejected it are right. Those advocating for it only see it as an easy way to get into government because the current system has not worked for them. I think they know it is a value destruction system but they think it is a way to get into government. Shame on them and to hell with blind copying of valueless systems. Bravo Peter Mutharika. You inherited a rotten government followed by natural disaster but you have managed to position it in the right direction the facts are there and are making your enemies jittery. Stay the course, lead in fighting corruption and sort out the electricity problems and you are on your way to re-election by more than 50+1.
A THING EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE DONE MR MAPWIYA. YOU DO NOT KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER THE WHOLE COUNTRY, FOR THE GOVT TO MOVE THE WHOLE COUNTRY SHOULD JOIN HANDS. NOT A GOVT LOVED BY MARGINALISED, POCKET, AND NUCLEOUS CLAN. LEAD BY FAMILY PARTIES. THINK NATIONAL DEAR.
Mapwiya you are right. With which government are we seeing unprecedented development? Awa otsutsa chomwe safuna kunena ndichoti ndale zawo zagona pa nsanje. They know kuti APM ndi katundu mwala. Chomwe akuwaputsitsira ndichoti sakuwayankha ndipo sakulimbana nawo. Iye angomenya chitukuko basi. He has a lot to show to the electorates. Tsono awa a Chakwera ma advisor awo adawalakwitsa. Adawauza kuti munthu kuti ukhale president umayamba wamangidwa kaye. Ndiye popeza boma lakhala lisakuwamanga, amayetsetsa kunyoza ndi kutukwana kuti papezeke treason case, koma APM wangoti pheeee. Kwatsalaku muona adzabiba mnkhonde mwa State House to legitimize his arrest, komanso APM adzangomuuza kuti ola kataye uko. Lazaro mpando wakhala akuufuna mpaka kale mpaka ma plan onse ofuna kulowera pa window amuthere. Tsono ndi uyu akuputsitsa a chi na Chingota ndi a chi na Mulomole ndi ma bishop amene ife nthaw yonseyi takhala tikuwalemekeza.
I am appalled by your reasoning, Mr Mapwiya. I do not understand how raising the bar for everyone will facilitate easy entry into government for the opposition. This was going to be the case if those in opposition were going to be voted using a different criteria other than the proposed 50+1.
In a democracy, a legitimate government is accepted by the majority. It is characterized by strong governance principles where people push for accountable leaders and effective institutions. A very good example of an ineffective institution is our own ESCOM. The people our leaders appoint to run ESCOM are probably not suited for the job. How much business has been lost due to power outages? We have witnessed the price of a number of commodities going up as a result of power outages, the most evident being cement. Power outages are now forcing people to import more products than was previously the case? What does this mean to our Kwacha and forex reserves? The impact on the economy of power outages becomes gigantic if we consider scaling down of production by most companies, the rising production costs if they are to use generators and the eventual job losses leading to higher unemployment levels.
For you to appreciate how leadership impacts on economic growth and development look no further than the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguably the richest country in Africa in terms of natural resources, and contrast it with the Tiger Nations of Asia i.e. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Corruption has taken root in our societies. The people we look up to, have condoned or taken part in corruption. We have a president who shields his corrupt lieutenants for reasons best known to himself. People cannot help but speculate he is a major player in this ill. Fighting corruption has remained but lip service.
The present scenario suits APM better, hence his unwillingness to embrace the proposed reforms. He thinks his tribe and other affiliated tribal groupings will give him the simple majority he needs to retain the presidency, but he is in for a rude awakening. If he inherited a rotten government as you are putting it, surely he will leave it completely stripped to the bone.
There couldn’t be a better way of choosing your leader than the 50 plus of you agreeing on your president.
You are so lacking comrade. The impact of a president being voted into power by the majority of the population cannot be seen or assessed in 1, 2, 5 years. No!
Both Tcheya and Bingu were voted into power by chance. In other words they were NOT expecting such a 50+1 majority.
Koma ma president akaziwa kuti they have to wina 50+1 majority to win they can’t or don’t just serve one corner or section of the country. They know samgawine, koma amapanga ma plan enieni osati kungogula ma banzi a mfumu Lundu in a calculated move to win elections. Such political manimanipulation only promote corruption and political patronage which is counter-productive to genuine development..
Accountability only comes munthu akakhala kuti amaopa pa office. Kuopa kumabwera wandale akamadzifunsa kuti, ndikupangazi kodi adzandivotera? Not a Ngongoliwa ndiwagulire galimoto basi awauza anthu a mudzi mwawo adzandivotere. That’s political patronage even anthu awo a Ngongoliwa azakhala pa uphawi. Okudya ndi a mfumu basi osati munthu wosauka wa ku mudzi.