Malawi President says Chakwera still frustrated over poll loss
President Peter Mutharika has dismissed Leader of Opposition Lazarus Chakwera’s criticism of the presidency, describing them as rantings of a frustrated loser of an election.
Chakwera on Thursday issued a hard hitting statement, attacking Mutharika as a failed leader and for failed leadership, urging Malawians not to give him another presidential term.
Chakwera said Mutharika lives in “Mutharika Republic” whose capital city is Kamuzu Palace where everything is paid for by tax payers money whilst the tax payer are finding life extremely hard.
But presidential spokesperson Mgeme Kalirani said what Chakwera said was not true and came from a frustrated person.
“Dr Chakwera contested the 2014 presidential elections on Malawi Congress Party ticket, His Excellency the president Professor Peter Mutharika contested the elections on Democratic Progressive Party ticket and he won the elections. Since he lost the elections to Professor Mutharika, Dr Chakwera has always been frustrated,” Kalilani said.
Chakwera highlighted a myriad of problems; political, economic and social rocking the nation which he said Mutharika and his administration have completely failed.
He did not only critice but also offered a five-step solution which the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader insists are the only way to help turn around the country’s fortunes.
Chakwera suggested that separating the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) from the Executive arm of government could give power and independence for the ACB to investigate corruption by members of the Executive branch.
He said: “If Mutharika was serious about fighting corruption, he would have implemented this solution right now.”
He also suggested that government should create a special court in the Judiciary that will focus exclusively on corruption and fraud by public servants so that cases of stealing taxpayers’ funds are given priority and speedy conclusion.
Chakwera further advised Mutharika to suspend all top government officials who were at the helm of government ministries during the time money was siphoned from State coffers in what has come to be known as Cashgate until an independent investigation clears them of collusion in the corruption that resulted.
He, however, said passing the Access to Information Bill was another solution to expose all public officers with business interests that are using the State as a means to personal gain, and that those officers should be removed from office.
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you always say chakwera should provide solutions. Now he has given you solutions and now you say he is a frustrated loser? come on people, what the goon has said is true. very true.
Just to educate some members of Malawi Congress Party that the 2014 election was never rigged.
The challenge is that MCP took it for granted that by coming of chakwera everything has automatically changed. How can some one win the an election by centralizing on one region? If we are honest lets tell the truth. How many MPs did MCP get in the 9 Districts of Malawi in the Southern region?
Don’t buy the ideas of hypocrites. Don’t be holly on matters that require analytical thinking. Analytically there wAs no any possibilities for chakwera and don’t even see them in the next election. No good soldier is produced in a hands of a wrong general. Chakwera is not a good General.
My advise to both DPP and MAP is that of doing the will of the people otherwise I am afraid that 2019 may be more disastrous than anticipated.
Going through the comments one can easily see that there are a section of people who are not seeing what Malawi is going through right now. There are a lot of problems in this country which the Mutharika administration is failing to solve.
More over corruption is being glorified in this country because the government is it self full of corrupt people.
Its only people like Dr Chakwera who can bring hope to this country. No wonder Malawi has becoming the poorest nation on earth.
Always truth z so pain bt things r at worse coz we r suffering a lot, Chakwera was talking the truth
Oooo yes no more yp say but moving on foot while I have money ! it’s something else
If oChakwera had any good ideas, he surely would be keeping them close to his chest. Thinking they are big secrets. He simply can’t run government: his thinking is NOT deep enough. If he became President, this country would go to the dogs faster than what happened when equally clueless Joisi Banda was president. PP sure did a number on us – in just two years! Never again.
To be sure, if APM followed oChakwera’s advice, for sure DPP would lose the next elections, and oChakwera would revel in sabotaging the government. No less.
oChakwera hasn’t done anything big in life to suggest he could run a government – not same as running a church. Obviously! He’s learning this, albeit slowly: the two institutions are different in many ways.
2019 is not very far, by political calendars. And if oChakwera doesn’t up his game, especially in the populous South and East, and parts of his own backyard, DPP will again wipe the board (or the floor) with him.
Iwe ndiye Nyani wachabe chabe, basi muzingokhalira ndale basi mmalo momaona komwe dziko likupita?
Nyasa Times please, APM didn’t win the 2014 elections. He was helped to rig the elections systematically by the corrupt judicially that we have in Malawi.This is a fact, only that we didn’t have time & the resources to prove it. Remember, when suggestion of opening ballot boxes was put forward, DPP machinery resort to torching the ballots. It’s an expensive mwano to say APM won the elections. Chakwera is being diabolic here. It calls for someone to be stupid enough to say APM is in control. Finance Management Act 2003 is not working. Chakwera is right, suspend all PSs, to pave way for investigations. But this contingent of PSs is the same one that started cashgate with Bakili tgen Bingu, then JB, niw APM. One day, light from above will descend to reveal all this, it’s just a matter of time. Who knew that cashgate would be exposed?
Iwe Kalirani umuuze Pitala wakoyo kuti madzi nkhasako koma magetsi niproblemube achitepo kanthu zikakhala za ufa ndi ndiwo ine ndilinazo zawo amene anavotera Pitalawo
Anyone who cannot see what Chakwera is crying about needs a mental checkup. All the sentiments he has put forward are true and most of us concerned Malawians are frustrated with Mutharika’s ineptness to run a country. Chakwera has also given five solutions to some of the problems the country is going through. However, it is doubtful if any of them will be considered by Mutharika. Malawians should seriously consider voting for someone else come 2019, I don’t care who it will be but it should not be the same myopic Mutharika or any of his old, thieving DPP ministers. I wish the Malawi youth were as jacked up as those from our neighbouring countries to remove him from power!
A kpngolisi mupuma liti kuliraku? mpaka muthe zaka zisanu chonde pumani muzayambileso 2019.
Alomwenu musatibowe angakhale atandidyetsa temiki yanga voti pitala sangaione.Mbava viwanthu va DPP.
You said Chakwera should come up with solutions to challenges Malawians are going through. Wa kupatsanitu koma mukunyozaso viwathu vosamva inu, mudzamva liti ankhutukuve a DPP inu?
Nangansotu inu a Chewa musasokisere a Lomwe. Iwonso ngakhale mutawathila at emoji sangavotere nyau zanuzo. Adavutika nazo kale kuchokera 1962 kudzafika mu 1994 momwe ambiri adathawa, kuphwedwa, kudibwa ndi ang,ona, kuthamangitsidwa poti anali a Jehova Witnesses ………. zambiri zifukwa mpaka bukhu lake liripo.
Grieving is normal but has to be within normal period. Grieving beyond normal period becomes a psychotic problem that needs treatment. A Chakwera u mean APM has no single thing that he is doing well. You can’t advise someone by just giving negatives.
Palibe vuto APA, Chakwera wanena zoona zokhazokha APA. Tikuvutikadi ife anthu kuno. Mwachuluka mbava mmbomamu kungoyambila kumwambako mpaka kumusi koseku, mbva zokhazokha. Uli ndi vuto iwe sukutha kuona vutoli.
Chakwera has categorically criticised government,so we expected a categorical denial or clarification from the government not merely describing chakwera as a frustrated looser of an election.
Chokani apa mbava za DPP vitsiru ndi mathanyula wanuyo. Mxie!
Chakwera why making all this nonsense exposing your greedy for power.
Are you really reverend or take one
Your time to rule this country will never come
My Mcp members why are we allowing this vagabond to continue tarnishing the image of our party
Kamuzu munapita nd chipani chani. Where you are Kamuzu can’t you advise this guy through dreams
We are tired of this idiot who wants us to loose badly in 2019
Suspending all top government officials who were there at the helm of government Ministries is an advice coming from a person who is clueless on labour relations. Si chalichitu ai. Kapena MCP where you just suspend each other only to find that courts have reinstated them.
Chakwera was there when JB was President and why didn’t he advise her on all these? I doubt if JB could have litsened when she herself was on the peak of reaping on cashgate.Even you Chakwera, if you can be in power today, you can do all these but you will circumvent the system to plunder state funds. That is why you want to be President.
Nanunso a APM mwanyanya! Solve all these sources of noise makers: maize, electricity, drugs in hospitals and standard of education. These are the basics we need here in our villages. Chi nyumba chanucho mdi chigalimoto chanucho ndi Chaponda wanu yo, Ife tiribe nazo ntchito ai. Ife ndi nsima basi, sha!
Suspension has never been dismissal. Suspension allows for investigation
Yes but suspension comes if part of the investigation done against an employees are strong indications that he or she was involved. Suspension where investigations have not started can take long and there is a limited period allowed beyond which Labour Law can be violated. When a person is suspended without any investigations; just based on suspicions, you are tantamount to damaging someone’s CV and character because this person is now exposed on the public domain as if he is a cashgate culprit already in this instance.
He can’t also be able to apply for a job elsewhere during the period. I can write on and on othis but it takes only those who understand labour issue to get pumped sense! So you can’t declare a blanket suspension on innocent employees.
Sound like “Chambe” knows Malawi Labor Law; and perhaps “Becks” could benefit from a lecture or two. Muuzeni!
Don’t shoot the messenger, Mgeme.
What’s wrong with Chakwera’s plea for APM to suspend corrupt top civil servants? Its commonsense, isn’t it?
APM is obviously FAILING as president and his presidency can benefit from advice like this. Chakwera is only doing his job as leader of opposition; he is not “frustrated”.
As it stands, APM could turn out to be the worst president (from the economics vantage) of our democratic era.
Che Pitara is an inept leader advised by inept and corrupt people like JIjo chapondamanyi. The only thing the present govt is good at is f…..king, kuba, kupha and bodza.
Pitara, just do the needful-resign. I have never seen a dull president in my like you. A president who is indecisive most of the times. A president who propagates cracks and division among the citizenry of the country through nepotism, tribalism and regionalism. Enough of this
Its sad some fools in Malawi dont see Chakwela words as True. The same words Germany ambassador says. Peter is not a leader. If he was he could see how bad Malawi and Malawians are suffering. The man has pulled a nation more down. Desperate Malawians trying to go other countries are chased like dogs. Yet we have many foreigners Who are enjoying our hospitality. Why are they leaving poverty. APM never won. He rigged votes with stolen money. Quiteness is danger. Many Malawians are so angry. It could have been better for Catholics to demonistrate for poverty which is The main reason for abortion. Is it better for a poor woman to give birth and then dump the baby in a latrine? APM is the worst leader Malawi ever had. Malawi has having bad and leaders Who never loved the nation after Kamuzu Banda. APM is a professor Who does not know the value of education. He is not Malawi to serve The people but enjoy life and steal money. He has a green card. But lie he gav it back. Its not True one can give it back. The rule is that one go there once in a year. One can loose it If you are convicted but he is not. He saved there and is entilted for pension there. Malawi is ruled by a fortune seeker.
Quenn’s language Abale mmmmh
That is arrogance at its best, if chakwera lied where is mutharika living, it it not state house, if chakwera lied, is there electricity, why can’t you get some senses and change simple