DPP’s Mpinganjira waters down Sona: ‘President Chakwera is Mr Talk-talk’
The newly-appointed spokesperson for opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Brown Mpinganjira has described the State of the Nation Address (SONA) presented by President Lazarus Chakwera in Parliament on Friday as not a true reflection of what is on the ground.
He has said President Chakwera is “Mr Talk-talk'” who speaks good English full of eloquence but lacks the necessary vision to take the country forward.
In an interview, Mpinganjira said while Malawi is mired in many deep and seemingly intractable problems, the President thought is wise to announce that his government would build official offices for Members of Palriament in all the 193 constituencies.
“If that is not an insult to struggling Malawians, then insult has lost its meaning. MPs have access to parliamentary loans: they receive various allowances; and they receive salaries. What is wise about constructing offices for people who are already managing when teachers, nurses and many public servants are living in mud and grass-thatched houses?
“That was the most horrible part of his speech. The President could have done better,” said Mpinganjira, who is popularly known as ‘BJ’.
BJ said among the problems confronting Malawi today are the weak state of the economy, poor roads infrastructure, housing, lack of essential drugs, inadequate schools and teaching and learning materials and high level of unemployment, hunger and the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, among others.
He said the President never adequately address these issues and articulate realistic approaches to address the same.
BJ said many state-owned companies including ADMARC, Blantyre Water Board, Malawi Posts Corporation, ESCOM and MACOHA are now technically insolvent.
The President should told the nation how his government intends to turn around these loss-making entities instead of exalting court judges for putting him in his seat, he argued.
“These companies and others continue to offer a huge burden on the government’s finances, due to the damage done to them through mismanagement and abuse. What should be the remedy, if I may ask the President. I am not impressed at all,” said BJ.
Veteran journalist turned political commentator Dickson Kashoti has also harshly attacked President Chakwera’s SONA.
Writing on his Facebook page, said the President’s “unnecessaryuse of flowery English language which ended up in verbal diarrhoea”.
“Great and important national issues and facts hidden in the useless show off of mastery of English language.
“President Dr Lazarus Chakwera’s speech writer can do better next time. The whole purpose of SONA is to communicate to Malawians and other interest groups on the state of the nation politically, economically and socially, not a show off that somebody mastered the Queen’s language.
“I think the President is making too many promises which he will not fulfill,” Kashoti argues.
However, Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa said the Democratic Progressive Party will respond to the speech on Monday.
In his one hours and 20 minutes address which was themed “Restoring warmth to the Heart of Africa,”Chakwera—who was elected in a court-sanctioned June 23 presidential election—also repeated the vow to trim the powers of the presidency and answer questions from Members of Parliament—a thing no President has done since independence.
The President, who has already declared his assets, affirmed his desire to roll out the Access to Information (ATI) law, free up state broadcaster Malawi Broadcasting Cooperation (MBC) and Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (Macra) from political abuse and empower the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
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A chitsiruwa basi kubwera kuzavomereza kuti DPP yasiya malawi ali mmavuto? Pamenepa siwavomereza kuti DPP failed? Brown Mpinganjira choose amadziwa ndi kukwata akazi a eni ake basi. Ndiye ku opposition no dollar azikwata ogulitsa tomaoto
Mpinganjira is right. Chakwera’s speech is empty, with nothing developmental in it.
Take it or leave it, this Mpinganjira is none other than a manipulator…. None will listen to him today, how far is Thom Mpinganjira’s case?? We need conclusion
I thought the tradition is that the official Opposition Party will not comment on a SONA delivered by the Head of State in Parliament until after the official Leader of Opposition in the August House has made his response.
Isn’t Mr BJ Mpinganjira preempting and rendering Kondwani Nankhumwa’s official response expected to be delivered in parliament next Monday almost superfluous and irrelevant? Put your house in order DPP, and try and keep BJ in check. You cannot have a mere party spokesperson usurping the role of your official and recognised leader in parliament on issues pertsining to Parliament.
President Talk Talk, I love it.
DPP stop wasting your wisdom on these know it all people. Their blunders are your gain. Malawians are not stupid. Do something for a change, try alleviating the suffering of Malawians even when in opposition. There are still people centred projects which you can implement even when in opposition. Didn’t you establish donor channels when you were in power?
Thumbs up BJ.Mr Talk talk has lost direction this very short period,ash! over my dead body
Mpinganjira and Kashoti are simply jealous of Chakwera’s communication skills. BJ, as a politician, is jealous of LMC’s oratory gymnastics. He’s a loser. Kashoti, as a journalist, is jealous of LMC’s flowery language.He wishes he could articulate like him. He is a big time loser.
Foseki
Bj you are have failed in every single thing you have done. You had your own party NDA. It ended like Makatani. Bj you are so dumb that each patty you join you always mess up. You were in UDF. NDA.. PP. Back to DPP.
My advice is don’t go for other people’s Wives.
What about nkhalamba NTCHONA? Thief thief.
You cannot label a president as a Mr. Talk-talk just two months after he assumed presidential powers. Mr BJ himself has negligible legacy to point at and he expects us to believe his rhetoric. The style of English is personal choice and also reflects the level to which one mastered the language. Kamuzu had his style, just as Muluzi had his own. Barack also had his just like Trump has his own as well. It would be silly to expect Chakwera to speak incoherently like Dausi. The president was addressing the National Assembly if if there is anyone in that August house who cannot understand that language, s/he is probably in a wrong place. Furthermore, the SOMA was designed to address issues that are a priority in the Tonse Alliance manifesto, not in BJ’s manifesto. The Tonse carried the day because of their manifesto and it is only logical to fulfill that. There’s no need for a college degree to understand such basic facts…
Bj is a sick rat and useless in the brains. If they knew that the parastatals he has mentioned were not performing, why were they still stealing money from them,look what itaye did just to single out one among them. these guys needs to just shut up their stinking mouths.
Mr mpinganjira, the president was talking about constructing official residence for MPs in every constituency, houses will be used by the incumbent mp regardless of which party sponsored them to power……the motive for this idea is that MPs should not have any excuse not to go and live in their constituents and listen to their bosses, the people.
Mr mpinganjira with his corrupt mind set thinks the houses will be a personal property of the MPs, that’s not what Chakwera meant.
The loans that the MPs take are for their personal use and they can choose to use it for whatever they want regardless of whether they have a house in their constituency or not.
Escom, Admarc etc are all insolvent?
‘BJ’ has just discovered this now?
DPP, and before them UDF (both parent and daughter parties) were big contributors to the rot at State entities.
Of course, the point is valid, and His Excellency the President should have addressed such vital issues, thought perhaps not necessarily in the SONA.
He is trying to, by for example, prosecuting board members of Escom for massive mid-procurement.
Those board members? DPP members.
This ‘BJ’ should be locked up also.
Mpinganjira ku udf inali komweko… ku pp unali komko…. ku dpp you were there bwanji sunapange chitukuko? pano ukuweluza munthu oti wakhala only 2 months mu boma manyazi ulibe? bwanji iwe sunapange zonsezo mu zaka phwii unali mu boma? Get lost munthu wa dyela iwe olephera ndi u Mp omwe kwanu
Kkkkkkkkk Thanks Brown for openly telling Malawians the truth that Dpp. did literary nothing the time they were in government. Mwavomerezana Naye Chakwera ndi Tonse alliance. Kkkkkkkkk I hope you will also tell Peter that he messed this country.
IF Mpinganjira managed to point out something that is already in what to do list in the current administration such as roads, teachers houses, nurses etc, this is undeniable truth that previous administration failed. Personally, i appreciate him, ayamba bwino kutsutsa.
Nkhope kuopsa.
When you were part of the gangsters didn’t have much to comment. Now that you are seating on the fence you can far about what’s wrong
Mr Mpinganjira, do you need a Chichewa version of the SONA?? We can make it available !
Mr Mpinganjira it’s okay to bring a dictionary ( not a gun) to parliament
Mr Mpinganjira, I know it’s hard to understand THE REAL DEAL when you are used to a RAW DEAL for 6 years, simunati mulira ma cadet, WE NOW HAVE A PRESIDENT AT KAMZU PALACE🙏🙏🙏💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻👏👏👏
All the problem u are saying Mpinganjira was created by your Party UDF and raised by DPP . U were on forefront eating our money to the extent of donating our Bank the Malawi Saving bank to your brother Thom Mpinganjira.
You were so blind with our money not thinking about tomorrow , that’s why u used to say DPP we rule till 2084 , so the problem is, u did not plan of getting out of government as soon as it happened.
Keep on crying with your fellow Cadet journalist but remember we are in the first 3months period so u need to cool down and reflect otherwise 5years on opposition will be an uphill task .
Kuzolowela kudya money yaboma a Brown. LERO MULI KU OPPOSITION. Who made you dpp spokesman ku muchotsa Dausi. If Dpp is going to be a credible opposition, they should remove these old and useless people like Brown, who is going to listen to them. Ife ku Tonse alliance we have fresh leaders in Dr Laz and Saulos. Ndiye zanu izo a dpp, nkhalamba and failed nepotists like BJ are your leaders, bwanji dpp . And which convention elected this Mpinganjira. Illegal position he is holding
What else can this spent force in politics say? It’s him who has dismantled DPP big time. All these problems he has said were created by his DPP. It’s laughable that DPP still regards him as still relevant to current Malawi politics
the longer dpp stays out in the cold, the more likely Mpinganjira will jump ship. It is in his character. Umphawi umupeza posachedwapa.
Campaign period is over..honey moon is over..Mr President its time you walk the talk..we need clear strategies to move the country forward. Why building houses for MPs in Constituencies…
our problems as a country needs holistic approach and I believe you can move the country forward if your promises match your actions. DONT BE MR TALK-TALK rather be MR ACTION – ACTION
Dont make the Courts that put you to power look stupid and naive
The SONA lacks proper strategies to propel the intended wishes
Mr Mpinganjira is failed politician who cannot say good things about Chakwera.
BJ has made very interesting points, he has outlined the problems that face Malawi but two months ago when DPP was in power the same anyekhwe said Malawi is better and those that are talking about these challenges are strangers? Now Mr. Mpinganjira has confirmed what many people were saying. DPP was just useless. Now the attack on Chakwela is about his English just because ur Dad wouldn’t speak like that despite being in USA for so long. Jealousy.
Foseki
Apm stayed in USA for many years and couldn’t afford to speak English.
He was good kutukwana
Mpinganjira should be the last person to say such stupid things. Since 1994 who was in government? Are you not part of the rubbish that Chakwera wants to send to the disposal site? You were in udf that is the father and founder of corruption. Udf took Malawi back 18th century. Amayi ndi abambo kodi Press Agriculture idatha ndi ndani? Nanga ma potholes adabwera ndi ndani? Ma street lights atha nthawi ya ndani? Kuba ndalama zaboma kudadza ndi ndani? Mankhwala akusowa mu zipatala adayamba liti? Kodi sukulu za boma zidasuluka ndi ndani? Nduna idalanda mkazi wa mwini ndani? Lero Mpinganjira akuti ESCOM, Blantyre water board etc are insolvent? Amatenga ndalama from these companies ndani? Ife dpp tathana nayo. Brown Mpinganjira angamumvere ndani. Malawi Railways mudamaliza a udf pano mutinji? Zoona mukusilira English ya bwino ya Chakwera? Nsanje yanji .Ndinu agalu zedi.
Actually Nyasaland government run by the British was better than the Malawi government that was started by Dr Banda. When he took over,everything that was for the government belonged to him as we used to sing in confirmation: ” zonse zimene Za Kamuzu Banda” He owned Blantyre Print whose profits enabled him to own Press corporation and its subsidiaries. He acquired land for commercial agriculture and became the only rich farmer on the land- mchikumbe no.1 as he used to call himself. For 31 years, there was corruption in the government: many gost workers with wages being paid,land obtained illegally, theft of drugs from hospitals, personal use of government vehicles….. and all corruption you have known today was all there then. The rubble was huge by 1994 and piled together with that of UDF, DPP,PP, DPP. MCP is clearing the rubble including the one it had left in 1994.
Useless
Mawu mawu
Mr. Talk No action. We tired of flowery speeches. Plz deliver on ur campaign promises.
BJ is absolutely right. Chakwera is simply clueless. His head is full of court appeasement and nothing more. Chakwera knows that he couldn’t win the general election without the twisting of justice by the corrupt judges that’s why he believes he can’t thank them enough. What we have is a parrot leader.
koma ma cadet. mwakwiya kuti Dr Laz akuletsani kuba ndi kuwononga
Stop being rude we know that you are being paid to write shity stuff.
Dpp for all these years you have been stealing our tax money.
Bj is a Cameron watch out.
Mussa was right not to work with him
Useless
Chakwera is just an eloquent version of apm, this man can’t take us forward. Action man chilima, please seize the moment to outshine this president talk talk.
Will there be a Sona that is been welcomed by everyone?
Nevertheless,i would believe that BJ is just doing his job DPP appointed him to.
True
Observations and criticisms are signs of health democracy. However, most of issues raised were important but not necessary. Some required further description in order to make sense. The presidency should differentiate issues to note and plans to be implemented. Serious plans are accompanied by source of funds to fund the project.
Cry babies. The President made one of the best speeches ever made in Malawi. Bravo President Chakwera, let these losers keep crying.
Malawi don’t need speeches. We cant eat none of that. The country needs action. visionary Leaders who can take the country forward. What does Malawi benefit from flowery utterances?
Foseki
You are so dumb and stupid to be bought to write shity stuff. Tsiku lina I will put you to shame.
BJ and Dickson Kashoti.Please forgive Lazaro. He is in an amateur in politics . Munthuyu ndi mbusa za ndale anangogweramo chifukwa cha dyera. Unfortunately onse omuzungulira ndi ma amateurs. Don’t expect anything good from the Tonse Alliance mpaka Saulosi azakhale pa mpando. Lero Lazaro is talking about mcp’s Hi 5 philosophy!! Talk about passport reduction , high salaries for civil servants,agriculture, education health infrastructure development 1 million jobs fromnSaulosi promises and not Zomangira ma Mp nyumba.
I’m sorry BJ that our President’s mastery of the English word and his eloquence in delivering the SONA clouded your hearing
I understood every word the President said! He was as clear as clear gets about The State of our nation now and what his administration plans to take us out of the sorry state that DPP Thieves left us
mr Mpinganjira did not tell the dpp administration the problems he now sees for past 6 years or they have just cropped up in the past two months
Still licking your wounds after years of plunder and failure of fulfilling the DPP manifesto. 2 months in government we’re at least seeing framework and economic pathways, Talk talk was APMs DNA now you’ll see Tonse Talking the talk and walking the walk. Future tense you’ll be on that opposition bench for a very long Mr BJ together with the crew. Your base will be fragmented due to your autocratic tendencies, and usual antics where your Secretary General gets fired then disciplined for just speaking the truth.
Tonse government has investor/donor confidence plus comprehensive manifesto which sums up transformation and they’ll prove you wrong be sure of it.
Smarting from the loss of power you end up piling all the trash on the new administration. DPP has raised the development scales of Malawi to Germany while the nation is in economic tatters. I wish pastor Mpinganjira would comment on the hefty plundering which has earned our nation the label of the “most corrupt nation” in Africa. The heist was planned conducted by APM and his cohorts. The sun has set down on the swindlers with frozen accounts mounted by ACB. Yes the SONA has very comprehensive targets delivery will be there. So what Kamuzu had good English tell us about English from Kapoloma crack the bone of the contention bwanjI bwana Mpinganjira
Mumva kuwawa kotsutsako sunati……
Unfortunately when we compare him with you and APM, most people will favor LMC. Kkkk
Universal subsidy fertilizer? Malata subsidy?