Chilima barnstoms Kasungu with UTM: Promises agriculture renaissance, DCs to be at level of PSs
State Vice President Saulos Chilima’s United Transformation Movement UTM continues to draw large crowds to its rallies with Kasungu being the latest where Chilima promised agricultural renaissance in the once food basket district.
Just before Kasungu rally, the UTM leader had three stops at Lumbadzi, Mponela and Madisi where locals also came in large numbers. A day earlier he was at Chileka in Blantyre where hundreds also flocked to his rally.
Actually, the assertion that Chilima has no time to reach out to rural areas is being proved wrong because in 30 days, Chilima has held more ralliesand whistle stops than President Peter Mutharika and opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera rallies combined.
Speaking in Kasungu, Chilima pledged to ensure that each district has a mega farm to grow for production crops that respective districts grow.
He specifically, outlined plans to make Kasungu the food basket again by revamping farming as well as making sure that tobacco buyers are not themselves growers.
“We will also open factories to create jobs. Farmers will also sell their produce to these factories.”
He then said UTM government will construct a university in Kasungu and will be known as Kamuzu University in honour of the late Mgwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda.
Earlier, Chilima praised the late Kamuzu Banda, saying much as he had his shortfalls but the late kamuzu was a visionary and development concious leader.
He also promised to have capable District Commissioners who will be given targets to achieve and they will be at PS level.
The Vice President, who will face his boss on the ballot, also repeated his promise to create one million jobs.
“Those who say we can not do it, they must simply keep quiet. They cant match our brain power.”
The launch of UTM in July has completely changed the political landscape and as it stands the 2019 is a three horse race involving the incumbent Mutharika, MCP’s Chakwera and Chilima the new kid on the block himself who has caused a silent revolution.
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Hehehehe mpaka shopping photos? The last photo is not from the Kasungu rally. Kikikiki koma chaka chino propaganda machine yavuta lol.
What I have noted in UTM
s road stop tours is that officials are cheating Chilima too much. What is happening is that they target busy trading centres and invade with good number of advance party to attract the attention of traders and buyers. This is NOT the right gauge of peoplessupport for a party. Please UTM Executive change your style otherwise you are cheating yourselves.Until and only then you wont understand what UTM is, but simple calculations random survey ” if you know the real qualifications of Malawi aspirants as president am sure He might be only Chilima who can sell Malawi better is a Marketer but the rest am afraid please malawians dont trying crossing the river with both feet…. there is no way malawi can do better without what Chilima is preaching its total truth…He is trying to unify us back as it were in old good days where all were malawians…..Just imagine Mchachas sentiments ” kummwera kuno zimenezi ayi which mmwera is he talking about? ndale zakale… we are out of imperial calculations…plz forge ahead…
Ngozo wa ngozo LL
Myself, My family and My village – we have your votes SKC! May Jehovah Nissi, your Banner give you victory over your enemies!
Nyasa Times are realistic and down to earth about Chilima and his Bus Company UTM.
Well, now it’s “he continues to draw large crowds”; “people came in large numbers” and “hundreds (not thousands – my words) flocked to his rally.” Notice that the crowds are NOT massive, or excited anymore, all of a sudden.
Many people have already figured this guy out: that he’s a dreamer, and his ideas are not realistic and are simply plucked straight from the ether. So, many are already sidelining him, and find his gatherings a waste of time, no matter how much they are spiced up.
Chilima will end up opening a (tobacco) farm in Kasungu alright, after next elections. So, this might have been a reconnaissance for such a project!
He’s advancing half baked ideas, like he didn’t learn anything as VP? I liken like him to a Primary School student who cheated in the exams, passed them and got selected to one of our “national” secondary schools. Only to find himself/herself the school material simply too demanding, and starts plagiarizing and writing nonsense essays because that is all he/she knows. Wagwa nazo.
Chilima agwa nazo posachedwa pompa pompa.
And his Bus will be in a ditch, and can’t get extricated. Then he will be cycling to the rallies. Metaphorically!
Basically, Chillima WILL NOT BECOME PRESIDENT OF MALAWI!
Indeed the media can influence an election outcome. Look Nankhumwa held an equally if not better attended DPP rally in Bangwe but its not appearing here. Let me thank Times Group for covering the DPP live on TV and radio (though their pre and post rally analysis showed they did that reluctantly as they were constantly blaming their sponsor and praising UTM) because it proved that DPP was not after all dead in BT as some wanted us to believe.
I want to plead with the media not just to glorify any campaign promises but do a “fact check”. Parties should not win elections based on obvious lies.
For instance 20% of Malawi workforce are public servants who are not more than 300,000 meaning the total workforce (public + nonpublic) today is not more than 1.5 million. So can somebody increase the current establishment by 66% within a year? Even if we find diamond in the next two months that’s not possible. How many years has it taken Botswana with its mighty diamonds to reach where it is today? Just 15 years ago Blantyre was far much developed than Gaberone. Akufuna kutinamiza chani away?
Secondly this is the same man who heading public sector reforms complained bitterly about huge number of public officials on PS level and forced quite a good number into retirement but he is here again promising to add another 28 PSes. Was he trying to decampaign DPP then?
shame on MBC they may have borrowed a leaf from what professionals does Times TV woyeeeee! how i wish during Inaugulation of UTMs leader come 2019 MBC shud be barred until reformed.
It looks like he is running out of real agenda that would transform Malawi.
This baby is indeed a toddler. He talks of equating DCs to PSs, really. Who will be a bwana between DC and PS for Local Govt? Koma zinazi… kambanga mwala.
We can confidently say TSOGOLO LATHU LABWINO LOWALA LAFIKA
When politicians say they will ‘create a million new jobs’, they mean that they will create the conditions which will enable the establishment of a very large number of new jobs. Given the right conditions, more than a million new jobs could be created.
Usanamize anthu iwe, that’s not what this baby means. He says within a year, ONE MILLION new people will be employed.
Malawi has not developed as it should have been because of these pessimists. who have negative thoughts about new good proposals. who fear to go into new areas. who always cling to the “MWAMBI – nkhwangwala wa mantha anafa ndi ukalamba”
Iwe Chilima nchitsilu chenicheni. Dziko lomwe ukufuna kuzalamulilalo la a Mbwiyakotu ndiye
Join the discussion…You have come finally to rebuild this country Dad, we are behind you keep it up.
Thats Malawi..povos hv enough time in their hands.They enjoy seeing convoy of cars bought by money stolen from them.Joyce is busy licking her wounds.
Chilima is sounding more and more like these other failed leaders, promising pie in the Sky everywhere he goes and not being clear on the hows. I’m beginning to lose trust in him
KKKKKKKKK Mwambi walero Moto wa Kandulo suotchera mbewa.
Chilima is just another liar just like Bakili Muluzi in 1993. He lied that Malawi is just like any other country. Do we have oil in Malawi like in Kuwait? Do we have diamonds in Malawi like in Botswana? Only fools can swallow his lies. One million jobs in a year is just a joke. That means all the market vendors and mad people will be employed. Even if it means sending people to do cleaning jobs in UK that is impossible. Even if it means opening tobacco farms in Kasungu and Mchinji that is a lie. He has failed to do this yet he is still in government. He is not yet in opposition. Akweni, Masangwi and Chilimas other bootlickers have been in government since 1994. They have failed.
Mukuzinyenga ni Chala apa. Mchewa simukumudziwa. He is in Govt now, why can’t he start the so called agricultural revolution now? Shupit conman!
I sm liking the ideas being brougut forward by the young man, he is stimulating discussion and more ideas amongst Malawians which is ehat we needed. MCP just used to complain and not offer alternatives. As for DPP , they have no fresh ideas.
Study Zimbabwe situation
Carefully please !!
Auzeni apumbwa kuti palibepo chosatheka padziko pano. Zikanakhala tero bwenzi azungu sakuganiza zokamanga ma solar farms mu space (to generate electricity for relay back here on earth).
Vuto chabe ndi loti dpp imangodziwa kuba osati kuganiza mozama ndi kugwira ntchito mwaluntha.
To all youths in this country, please forget about tribes and look at what our fellow Youth SKC is saying and doing. My hope is as youths we will make a better choice next time. These grandparents have tried their like and have failed miserably.
A real n genuine MCP member will never vote Chilima amene anawabera mavote mu 2014. secondly Chilima danasinrhe bwanji quota pamene amapanga ma reforms?
Chilima wabodza ngati Bakili. Malawi take care. too many promises in one year. Malawi aliyense adzalemera in a year. mudzakhala ma bridge amwamba. Ana onse palibe azalephere mayeso….sure? Ana a ku mpaka adzagwiritsa ntchito internet pophunzira..chancellor college zosakhala ma districts onse Malawi..zoona? Ma DC onse adzakhala ma PS.Sure??????? Adzagawa maunits airtel kwa aliyense…… azimayi sazawafunanso kumsonkhano yachipani. azibambo okha basi…azimayi azisamala amunawo…..
That’s true, how should he match with Chakwera & Muthalika yet his party is too small without structures.
Even though they do not have structures musawaphekese akudabwisani
Mufunseni Mai Joice Banda DPP alive NATO may.
Ataluza anathawa dziko lino.
Piano mabala anapola wabwerako.
Boma ilo… this is indeed a president… i wish you the best of luck SKC. Am suprised when people say a million jobs zosatheka… if the world had zosatheka minds i think we would have still been walking naked in the 21st century.. we need courageous people like you to rule us. You… you have my vote UTM.. you will make things happen for malawi
Go gogogogogogogogoggo SKC YOU HAVE MY VOTE, Plus my family …..go go go
I will vote for Saulos Chilima. Im a man of few words so are the many like me.