Malawi veep convoy stuck in Mzimba muddy road: Chilima gets first hand experience of bad roads
Vice President and UTM leader Saulos Chilima’s convoy got stuck in the mud on the Khosolo and Luwerezi road in Mzimba forcing him and his team to spend at least two hours on the spot on Tuesday.
Chilima had just held an Imbizo at Khosolo and was going for another imbizo at Luwerezi as he finalized his 5 day visit to the northern region.
Ironically, budget for upgrading of the road was approved and funds provided for but nothing has been done on the ground so far.
Speaking at Luwerezi, UTM shadow MP for Mzimba Luwerezi Erick Chirwa said he Chilima had first hand experience of the Khosolo- Luwerezi road hence he was not going to talk about it’s sad state.
“Since you have seen and experienced it yourself, you have seen the gravity of the poor road network in this area but am happy that when you become President of this country on May 21 you will sort out this issue, ” said Chirwa.
In his remarks, Chilima said it is sad that after 54 years of independence, the country still have such poor roads which are more of death traps to the people in the area.
He wondered why the whole Mzimba district do not have upgraded roads apart from the M1 which is just a passing road from other districts.
“The country needs to have better road network if we are to have real development. It is not fair that someone sits in the office convinced that the country is being run well while citizens use these kind of roads,” lamented Chilima.
He said when UTM gets in government in two months time, will improve the living conditions of people including upgrading the roads.
“Development is done by money which people pay tax, the money will not come from Saulos Chilima or any of us politicians, it is your own money, we just facilitate and lead on how we can implement the projects, ” said Chilima.
NANGA KUMENE KULI MISEU YABWINOKO SIMUNADUSEKO? BWANJI SIMUNAJAMBULE KUTI MWAYENDA NSEU WABWINO? KOMA KOIPA NDIYE KUJAMBULA SHAME ON YOU
Chilima and his team are just noisy. UTM cannot win the next election. The best they can is third or forth position. This election will be won by MCP, take it or leave it.
All we can learn from this Chilima handclapping, boot-licking group called UTM is that unemployment has reached stupifying levels. Ana akusowa zochita mmakomomu kenakono basi kumalondola anthu okhumudwa ndi ndale kumakakankha Galimoto mmatope with the hope kuti atati awina zisankho mudzidzaba ndalama ngati Ana a Dadi! This is wrong, tiyeni tilikonde dziko lathu……mbavazi zichoke, tiyambilenso! Almost every tangible infrastructure you can point at nza nthawi ya Kamuzu except for a few zangongolezi ngati stadium. The only hope now ndi abusawa, he just needs to have a good plan to manage Mia post election
Malawians,it seems many of you have your brains contaminated with Hastings Banda’s POISON of 31 years of wanton dictatorship.How would someone blame Chilima who has been in leadership for not even one year? This is what Muthalika and his dupes are telling you to bark like wild-dogs? Comeon you half-brain rogues,Chilima has been in politics and leadership for not long time and he is showing Malawians through his thoughts and intelligence that given an opportunity to lead our dilapidated nation,Chilima will do just miracles because he is a pure Malawian who feels melancholy for the sufferings of his fellow Malawians.Contrary,Muthalika has nothing to loose he is just passing through after emptying our government coffers.Malawians,wakeup for how long foreign leaders are going to misrule you guile? My fellow Northerners,give Chilima the strongest support ever seen in our country because he is the leader who cares about his fellow Malawians.I was very touched to see the road in Mzimba where Chilima’s vehicle was stacked in mud,after 54 years of nationhood while,in Central and Southern Regions there are good roads while,in the North,all the roads are impassable due to negligence of the onesided governments and its unthoughtful leadership from the Central and Southern regions.A good instance is the impositions of the fallacious and satanic QUATA SYSTEM to openly destroy the people of the North who also took vehement strides in the freedom struggle of our COUNTRY.GOD BLESS CHILIMA THE REAL SON OF OUR COUNTRY.ALUTA CONTINUA.What I would respectfully ask Chilima is to remember the road from Njakwa to Livingstonia CONSTRUCTED MORETHAN 100 years ago by the British colonialists and it is still in use by the forgotten people of the North.GOD BLESS MALAWI AND AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MCP will never win an election in Malawi. mark my words. To pompous and full of jelously. It takes a person who is humble enough to visit such places. We needs leaders like Chilima to develop a good mindset among malawiana.
MCP is not different from ZANU PF of Zimbabwe. Never vote for MCP
Thats super great….if he will do that when he wins which i doubt……..Good though for the future just dont come to avoid that spot when you are president you need to come back again and go smoothly…
Kikiki You haven’t seen anything yet. This is actually, and for real, “getting stuck in the mud” for the UTM bus.
When people were writing that one day soon, proverbially, the UTM bus will get stuck in the mud, they meant on 21st May. That is coming, you just wait.
Chilima kuima m’matope nkumaoneka ngati osasamba?
What is new here? Are you serious we do know the extent of damage to our roads? Is it something new for Saulos to drive a car – of course, the guy does not know the 4×4 drive experience. He is another town guy used for town drive!!!!!!!! After all he is the vice president – he needs to do something and now!
hahahahaha Che Saulos kukokonda matope ngati bakha bwanji
Chilima wavala liti ma gambutsi? Staged event.
Chilima should have been moving around these past 4 years to appreciate the state of affairs in the country and work together with Mutharika to improve things and if Mutharika would not listen, then Chilima should have resigned and formed a break-away party two years ago but no, only when he learnt that he would not running mate, did he decide to go Khosolo and Luwerezi to see the state of the roads (and waited until it had rained)
Kumakhala ndi miseu yoipa ngati iyi yet mdziko muno tili ndi President komanso wachiwiri wake, kumangomenya mapwevupwevu ali pheee. Akulira koma akwera galimoto za boma (ma 4×4) koma enafe tikhala tikudutsa momwemu pangolo ndi pa njinga for the past 4 and half yiyezi awawa ali SECOND IN COMMAND. Ndiye lero azitinamiza kumakankha magalimoto ………… aaahhh drama yamtundu wanji iyi?
Sitimasintha nsapato yamwendo umodzi and hope to achieve a perfect step. Onse amene anali mu DPP for the past 4 years ayenera kuchokapo tioneko zina.
SKC……lougherble stalk….try again next time…
SKC is just like crying Bambino……who can’t even take off his napy……this kid will never rule Malawians…..mark my words folks
THE MAN IS SO DESPERATE FOR VOTES……THE CROOKS ARE NOT NEED IN OUR ECONOMY
He is a biggest fool
kkkkk this drama group, how can people push the car trying to get it out yet some people pare sitting phwiii in it? Another staged free drama show.
Umbuli siuposa apa nanunso…Don’t you know that for the vehicle to have a grip of the ground it needs some weight while the others are pushing it???? Eeeeeeh! Amalawi ena mukadalidi ogona eti???
this has just shown how blank you are those people sitting there are adding weight to the car so that the tyres can get a good grip on the ground to move forward easily. it shows kuti you have not moved through such roads in your sojourn on Gods green earth.
The pick up is lighter when there is no load in it, this helps it to be heavier and easy to push in the mud. Those who have pick ups will testify
YOU BETTER SHUT UP IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY MCHIMBA IWE
you are stupid jj you cadet, that is why you are always making stupid comments here, i know you know the reason why some people had to sit in the van, you are only fooling yourself here, malawians who have access to these comments are intelligent malawians you can not fool us with your stupid comments, most of us have cars so we know in mud the car needs weight on it to have extra traction
Clearly you do not have a driving license!
By loading the back of the vehicle the tyres have a better chance to grip in the slippery conditions. I expect that is why the people are sitting there.
pathfinder, nsanje, wanu sangazithe izi. Mwagwa nayo! Chilima is our own Magufuli… No nonsense. Nonse apumbwa nu muli mmadzi. Anthu okuba inu. Kupaka phula a Malawi inu ndi tima roundabout tosakhala bwino ngati kapa Stadium kaja ku Lilongwe.
Inu nde palibe mudziwa inu… galimoto imatuluka mmatope ikamalemedwa amwene… kukhalako kuti ilimedwe kumbuyoko kuti ituluke
The fact remains that he is going into the rural hinterland whilst a certain leader walks on a carpet to open a tap.
BOTH CHILIMA AND MUNTHARIKA ARE TAKING US FOR GRANTED
Sato, you got it spot on. You are a genius. How did you spot this? There is a pathetic dweeb here by the name of Pathfinder. He supports such mediocrity of opening taps and walking on red carpets. He cannot see the difference. Chilima is reaching out to people right in the heart of poverty while the other one by the name of Zampeter Mutharikarim is wearing neat shiny shoes walking on a red carpet, unveiling taps – running away from solving Malawi’s problems.
Once elected, he will fly by Helicopter to those areas and forget completely that the roads are impassable. I am not convinced. I think Malawi has a very poor instrument for gauging true leaders. Do you realy think pushing a car stuck in Mad has anything to do with leadership….or presidency. Wake up folks, when did he realize that we have such roads in this country? Am not a fool to vote for either UTM or DPP. The way I look at things right now, MCP should be the option for every concerned Malawian.
why MCP? they were in power for almost 30 years and those roads were there what did they do? pushing a car has nothing to do with leadership but at the same time it has anything to do with it because if the leadership was not corrupt those roads could have been upgraded long back as the writer says the money for upgrading the road were there but where are they now.
We can say Chilima is there in govern what is he doing. Mind you being in gorv doesnt mean he is able to solve the problems. where he is his powers of implementing projects are limited unless he becomes a president. I dont see MCP as an option
all leaders say that when campaining. all roads in malawi need to be tarmac but its imposible to do that. this is why every corner of malawi is promising to do each and every problem pple have. this is liar, iknow may be he might be better than others but not to extent to what he is saying. kodi bullet brain ija sikuchulidwatu pano. mukufuna tiyiwale eti
No MCP. Malawi is not going to vote for such a docile leader mmbusa. He has been deafeningly quiet in Parliament for close to 5 years, not even challenging the government for once. Chilima has been out there for only few months but has challenged APM, making him to panic and sprint into action. So many examples Chilima has shown. Tell me one single example Mmbusa wapangapo choti cholodzeka by taking APM to task. Even Zampeter Mutharikarim knows that the MCP leader is a weak opponent. Main threat to Zampeter is SKC.
If you think SKC will change when he gets into government, my friend, you will be surprised. SKC is such a hard working youngman my friend. You will never change. He knows Malawi better than a busa aja. SKC knows the hood well. He will never abandon his routes. Mark my words!
All these years he did not know of this problem, yet he has been VP ?
Scouting for votes aside, I think Chilima came face to face with reality on the ground. And he should not pretend he never knew these issues existed before. It’s a known fact that three quarters of Malawian roads are un-passable let alone non-existent especially in the rainy season. I remember attending Ethini Secondary School in the late ’80s to early ’90s, we had same issues with un-passable roads we usually had to walk long distances to and from school during the rainy season – usually from the M1 Mzimba – Ekwendeni/Mzuzu via Kafukule Road. And Euthini was (and perhaps still is) just one of the countless places in and around the country.
That’s a reality check. Right there.
He (Chilima), APM and other government officials (especially ministers) do not see such things on the ground as they either stay in their offices at Capital Hill or cruise around in expensive, gas-guzzling government sponsored 4x4s. If I were president I would just “Magufuli” these fat-cat officials by dictating to them that if they want to use a government sponsored 4×4 they must sponsor their own fuel (and/or maintenance costs) or buy one of their own using their own money just like any of us buy our own cars from our own pockets – after all they get paid, right? Or they do charitable work? I don’t think so.
Otherwise government officials must get government sponsored Toyota Yaris(es). They don’t need a 4×4 to drive from Capital Hill to City Center for lunch, or from LL to BT for “gavament biziness” – the roads are okay’ish a Yaris would make it to BT or Mzuzu and back. In reality all the 4x4s they use must actually be sent to rural areas as ambulances – that is going to help the man on the street in a rural area.
Have you ever visite every place in Malawi?
What is your point Le Sensor? Honestly, taking my politics hat off, I have read your post twice but I am failing to get the theme. So which leader can do a Magufuli? Apart from SKC, I cannot see any leader who can do a Magufuli in Malawi. Having known SKC for a long time, he is a hard worker and will never let the government officials snore at their desks if he is president. SKC will leave no stone unturned. I am not saying this on merit not bias.
The problem with us Malawians we support mediocrity over excellence. We envy quality and excellence so much. SKC campaign has been the most innovative and original than the rest. No one has ever done the campaign like SKC team in history of Malawi, utilising all channels including TV, Social Media etc while the rest MCP, DPP are playing copycat.
UTM innovativeness should be a clear sign that they will bring much needed change in Malawi.
Chilima is a hands on guys this guy can join in the push he could careless if the media states Malawi VP pushing his convey after mud stuck! KKKKK
SKC has been vp for 5 years, what was he doing? Btw, it’s not only Mzimba that does not have tarred feeder roads. It’s almost all districts. In fact, some district headquarters did not have tarred roads until DPP came in. District headqurters such as Chitipa, Ntchisi, Dowa, Nsanje, have been connected with tarred roads, thanks to DPP government.
Chilima atengatu ziko
Kulota saletsa. Atenga ziko DPP ili kuti?
In malawi the President has it all. He can only deligate areas that he thinks his vice will not own glory. That being the case, Chilima cannot be blamed for that it is the power that deligates that should take the blame. So go back and tell it to who was supposed to deligate to do the needful although time is up
Who stopped him from resigning? Anamuletsa ndani kusiya u VP?
Dan kumeneko ndekunena mau
He has been VP with limited powers to implement or give directives. once voted into power he will have all the powers
wapa kaliyala saimba belu achimwene…
Patrick, be reminded that MAlawi VP office is a delegated office. Ask pumbwa wamkulu Peter kuti chitukuko chimayenda bwanji? Ndalama akuba a DPP mopanda manyazi. Yakuba yokhayo mugwa nayo pansi. Do forget JB anagwa nayo ya cashgate. A malawi siwoputsa. Nanu za ma 145 million zikupwetekani chaka chake chino.
Patrick, either you are less informed about how the system works or you stay abroad. Otherwise you would know that VIP trips attract speedy action in repairing these roads. APM would not get stuck on that road because the relevant authorities would be fixing the road so that the president gets a smooth drive through the road. The VP has fallen out, which is good. Now his trips will not get the VIP treatment as before hence exposing these roads and other such inefficiencies in the country.
Moto kuti booo UUUUTTTTTTMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kusakasa mavoti but once elected you will forget kuti you stuck one time. Only the kingdom of God is very good omwe tikuuyembezera. I know anthu asapephelanu will ask kuti nanga bwanji osapita kufumuko panopa? Jesus said dikilani ndi kupephera that is what I am doing.
Not SKC. Chilima is from the hood. He knows Malawi better than Zampeter Mutharikarim the 145 million thief .
Never seen this since decades ago, you have my vote.
Weni weni wa chimalawai Guys kunena zoona munthuyi akupanga zeni zeni osakhala zongonva kwa anthu koma zeni zeni. Abwana pitilizani ntchito zanu zikuoneka ndipo ife ndi mboni za zimenezo kumadera onse .
Ignorance indeed has no cure particularly to those well baptized in it. It is sad that until now some ppl who speak write or read English still don’t know their constitution and why VPs in this country have been victims.. The VP has no powers and no say on what shud be done or not. His responsibility is run around on errands assigned to him by the President. If the president doesn’t assign him/her anything, he/she is just as good as you and me.
The free salary he is drawing monthly is enough to pay for this road including official opening cost.
Sizikugwilizana
kamuzu did it more than that. he even see us naked to same parts of this country areas