Malawians criticise Chakwera over petty trips: President should not be ‘Kwendajenda’
Malawians have taken up in various social media platforms to criticize and mock president Lazarus Chakwera over his endless trips.
Chakwera was in Lumbadzi, Dowa on Friday where he visited the Green House vegetable structure run by Israelis.
However, some Malawians feel such trips could have been undertaken by an official in the ministry of Agriculture.
Some people have even gone to the extent of mocking him, describing him as Siku Transport, here today, there tomorrow and Kwendajenda Transport.
Undaunted Chakwera visited greenhouse vegetable structures by an Israeli company, Inoseria Commercial Limited under Government’s Greenbelt Authority.
He said the adoption of modern farming technologies is key to turning Malawi into a food self sufficient nation.
The President said the initiative is key to feeding Malawi’s internal and external markets and for enhanced revenue generation.
“We are into a productivity agenda. The idea is rather than have tomato from South Africa in our shops, this is super grade. In fact, a standard higher than what we have,” he added.
The nearly K4 billion establishment has 16 vegetable Green Houses measuring one hundred square metres each.
One term President
Macadet mlira simunati vuto laketso kulibe angazapikitsane ndi Chakwera and Chilima ku DPP Agogo anuwo ndamene atopa kale apa even Nankhumwa sakuwafuna Agogo sleeping on the job
Ma cadet mukwatsa kutsutsa zaka 50? Angulekani.
Say ‘”some” Malawians not Malawians
Visiting a 4 billion kwacha investment is what a President should do to encourage others to invest too and expose the investment to the market. I remember Kamuzu used to visit such undertakings too. This is not spending 100 million to open a 10 million project. Neither is it spending half a billion to go lay a foundation stone whose project shall not see the light of day
Chakwera is practising MBWA – Management by walking. The Bakili style. Typical of leaders who are clueless about office affairs.
Very good project. Well done Mr President. Viva Malawi.
This is what happens when the job description is not understood. This guy has run out of ideas for he has tried everything in the book to convince but nothing seem to work. Fulfilling government engagements when carriedout by the whole president is quite costly when you look at the entourage involved. It is up to him as a grown-up, sane and responsible person to gauge which activities he can undertake. Just across the border in TZ you will be surprised to learn how many foreign trips Pombe Magufuli has made since he became president. With ours, he will even beat Museveni who apparently has stayed years in a similar capacity. This is where things start going wrong if we the owners of the land and indeed genuine tax payers just grin and overlook such type of extravagance by Chakwera. When he occupied plot No. 1 he didn’t go there with his own finances to begin spending like a mad dog. Joyce Banda did the same with her daily village visits. Look at what we ended witnessing – she translated the absence of checks and balances as a nod assenting to her grandiose trips, that transcended into a myriad malpractice called CASHGATE – whose resolution is yet to be made. Now this Chakwera thing is a joke. We can’t continue to look aside when things go wrong and yet we have before trekked the same route. Please, please enough is enough. We are surely going backwards in everything and yet there are many people who could caution his administration as it were. So is Tony Blair coming to educate him as to how another Cashgate can be masterminded, and who is doing things wrongly to day if not himself at the helm together with his cohorts? This is mother of all madness!!!
This is a very powerful piece of advice. When will we be tired of moving in circles without any tangible breakthrough as a country? I concur with you Sir, what the president is displaying should not be new to us; it has been happening before but we still seem not to have learnt from our past.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 give a guy a break please mpaka Kwendajenda? I understand this is his first year in office he needs to feel it. There are sometimes I guess that he can’t believe that indeed he is the president of the Republic. It is natural. So bear with him he will come up to his self.
A Malawi ndi choncho kusowa zokamba, president akapanda kuyendanso gossip will have it kuti akudwala.
Perhaps Malawians should be taught the job description of the president to understand what the president does, or is supposed to do.
Last time we had a president who was holed up at Sanjika all the time and things were happening behind his back including K5 billion worthy of fertiliser crossing our borders duty free in his name but without his knowledge…….
The president is a free citizen just like anybody else in this country and is free to get out of the state house any time he wants…….how many times do you get out of your house to attend to errands that are of importance to you, and why should the president be prevented from doing the same?
Micro managing at its best!
Brother you comment like an mcp machinery, wa ‘yufi’ who is so obsessed with chakwera/mcp to the extent of being myopic to the danger signs the president is slowly showing.Your comparison of the president’s right to that of a common citizen is even more laughable as even a standard 7 pupil can comprehend that a president dips from state coffers through our taxes where as the common citizen uses their personal hard earned money, hence the need for the presidency to be very careful with the trips as they cost a lot of money for the taxpayer. Don’t politicise this criticism, it is valid and timely, the president can learn to delegate on these small things.
So u wanted him to comment as Cadet ?? Expect to have different opinions , this is Nyasatimes forum and not your family forum.
Matako akana pansi on a crop inspecting tour in Dowa.Clearly he doesn’t have much to do in his office
This is what exactl happened with Bakili who used to spend much of his time travelling on unnecessary trips and later discovered that time was over without any tangible development hence wanted extension of the term 15 years kenako open term kkkkk. So Chakwera should rethink about such trips and i it could have been proper even to deligate his vice bcoz iyetu ndiye wayenda kwabasi kkkkkk
Kkkkkk Mr Talk Talk is not Siku Transport? Shipongwe shenisgeni!
kwantere – kwantere basi. slow down mr president and take your time to fulfill your manfesto time is not with you.
The judges anatalikwara for giving us this president.
Anakulakwirani Omwe mumkabanu ….ndi mbwiye wanu uja … Anyway Chisale was in charge …Enawo anali apa ballot chabe…
choice to choose whether to draw negative or positive on his trips is yours, as for me am happy to see him visitng an encouraging new farming tech..
Bakili type of leadership, if your head is empty to run a government thus the best thing you can do to attend to petty issues to keep yourself busy. Chakwela knows now that running a church is completely different from running a government,
Shaa mpaka Siku Transport, here today, there tomorrow. Koma eni ake ayiwona imeneyi? Aliwona dzina loyendera pa mseu?
I don’t see anything wrong for the President to frequently travel locally and as far as he&his body guards,Personal assistance travel at no costs….ie; without allowances,if not,he must stop.
Chakwera is a listening President very different from the alive 3&dead 2.With sound ministers,he will develop Nyasaland,let’s hope.
Regards
Mzakwacha Nixon
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