Mutharika says politics delaying Malawi development: Promises agriculture co-op bank, factories for job creation
President Peter Mutharika has said politics in Malawi is derailing development, comparing the nation to China, which he said has developed tremendously owing it to unity and stakeholders in development.
He was speaking at the opening of the 15th National Agriculture Fair in Blantyre held under the theme ‘Access to Finance, Value Addition and Markets: Key to Agri-based industrialisation.”
“People of China are so united; civil society organisations, the government and the private sector are very united. And you must remember that, in 1979, Malawi’s economy was better off than China’s.
“The problem here in Malawi is that we politicise everything and this is a setback to the economy,” said Mutharika.
The Malawi leader said government is focused on the Shire Valley Transformation Programme which he touted as the biggest irrigation project in southern Africa covering about 43 000.
Mutharika also said government would open an agriculture cooperative bank to help farmers’ access funds to help move Malawi from subsistence to commercial farming.
He also said government would open more factories in a bid to create jobs for Malawians.
“Here in Blantyre we will open a leather manufacturing company. When you slaughter your goats, pigs or cattle, you should be able to sell the skin to the company for leather production,” he said,
“Our vision is to turn Malawi from an importing and consuming country to becoming a producing and exporting nation,” said Mutharika.
Mutharika said government would continue the Farm Input Subsidy Programme, saying the number of beneficiaries would rise this year.
In his remarks, Minister of Agriculture, Joseph Mwanamvekha said the agriculture fair provides a platform for farmers to interact and share ideas, access markets and improve on value addition.
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We have all that many times from DPP but nothing happened. Why should we believe them this time around?
Which politics?? It’s You who has pushed Malawi backwards, blame yourself.
Livestock sector in Malawi is in shumbles with little to show case in Malawi. Currently its a few foreigners that seem to lead the sector in investment especially in beef and poultry. Chinese and Indians have seen the opportunities and invaded the poultry industry. Market opportunities for skins and hides is a day dream, its not there.
Have people stopped paying tax bcs of politics? ?? If people are paying tax no need to give reasons just do the right thing on the right time than eating up the poor man’s tax
It is you Mutharika at the helm of Malawi politics. If it is politics delaying development, then you’re the one responsible for such backward politics.
Stop acting like an ostrich. You are the one delaying development in our country. You should have saved us all this waste of time if you had resigned a long time ago.
That time when you returned from Washington with one hand.
I’ll get a lot of down-votes but this example of a leather manufactiring plant exposes the level of reverse-gear thinking with Peter,. Of course a leather plant is a good idea. But govt should treat the causes of why we don’t have one. Those causes are
1. Lack of affordable funding due to endless State spending that pushes up interest rates
2. Lack of electricity, again due to govt’s greed and incompetence in running ESCOM
3. Lack of the skilled workforce able to build and run such factories. Again this is due to lack of govt foresight in spending enough money on education to build the skills necessary
The role of govt is to make sure business conditions are fertile enough for things like factories. Govt should not be spending our tax money to build and run commercial enterprises. We all know they’ll just steal that money and run the company into the ground. Private enterprise is the way forward. Not this Soviet Russia level of thinking.
Has our president waken up from deep slumber or has he been abroad and not aware of what was happening in our country????. This is laughable situation and regretiful.His ministers like Jappie Mhango claims that the Gvt has constructed this,that worth so much forgetting that those are taxpayers monies and they are only giving back what they deducted through taxation,,,its shame !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Idiot. Under whose government has it been done. You push blame to him when things go wrong yet in your warped thinking he shouldnt take credit for anything good that happens.??
Nkumati lozani zanu tax payers money what a shame.
Where were you all these years? You have promised so many projects, some commenced in June, 2014 and are nowhere near completion. Koma timva mabodza mu 2019. Its all Panic Stations!
Has the president waken up from deep slumber or he has been abroad and he has not been aware of the situation?. Even his road infrastructure minister claims that the GVT has constructed road worth billions and yet those are our monies forgeting that they are only giving back what the society needs,,,this is shame and regretable
Hmmmmmm the president abale, wangosowa chonena. Tingagwirizane bwanji ni umbanda ukuchitika pa Malawi? Akufuna kuti ma CSO aziyamikira kuba? Wanya nayo. Kulibe zimenezo. 4 million litres yaku ESCOM basi umati tizdisekelera? Shame
Even the comments themselves show that we really do politicise everything. So u pple can’t see any sense in what the president is saying. Ndale zokhazokha paliponse, no sense of common good amalawi.
NO, Its not politics bwana which is moving Malawi backwards but rather its corruption. No country can prosper with corrupt leaders. Ku China uku muchoka bwana munthu opanga corruption amamupha thats why they are developed. Munthu ogulitsa mankhwala ozunguza bongo amamuphaso. Osatinamiza ngati ndife achina Zakeyu oti sitingawone ayi ndithu bwana. Maybe your message bwana is targeting the ignorant and uneducated rural masses.
Bwana president as much as you are saying politics is derailing development. PLEASE tell us what proposed projects have been dereailed by politics? Unless you could have said CORRUPTION not politics as in opposition sir. Your comrades in the party are the ones who are derailing development in Malawi because they are too corrupt. See substandard roads, corruption at Police,Army,Road Traffic (where officers are busy pocketing money from poor Malawians) just to mention a few rotten departments.
Cant agree more, and actually am flabbergasted with with your politeness Azijo.
Mr. President somebody on the wheel, or rather in your office can not severely miss this point. it would really take more than the blind to mention other factors other than corruption or fraud as key deterents to development
@ Peter A Mutharika
HOW CAN YOU USE PIG SKIN TO MAKE SHOES. Awa ndi matchonadi…This guy will never help Malawi. He doesn’t know how to talk nor connect with people. MATCHONA OUT!!!
shame on the panicking siwunati!!!!!!
Koma akuluwa ikuwapweteka ndi ijayi ya creation of 1 million job ijatu. Nanga yogulisa zikopa za nkhosa ndi zotiuzanso ife pano. Choyambilira bwenzi mutawalimbikisa anthu kuweta ziweto mkumawauza za zikopa. Ndikanakhala ine President bwenzi nditapanga concentrate ku tourism ndi ulimi. Ndikanamanga msewu wa m1 . Mangochi road ndikuika ma talgate . Ndikanafufuza misika ya nandolo ngakhale chimanga ndi cholinga choti alimi akamagulidwa pa mtengo wabwino azitha kumanga nyumba zabwino. Ndikanakhala ine President every 3 months bwenzi ndikukumana ndi a opposition nkumakambirana zotukula dziko .
You are shallow-minded and very pathetic. This is 2018 and yet you are still talking of selling unprocessed goods? Too many low people with low IQs in Malawi. I still don’t understand why people with so much respect like APM would still believe that Malawi can still change with rampant brain-damaged people everywhere like this. Low IQed people like you deserve leaders like joyisi abiti ntila. Too much ignorance in Malawi, eish.
well, its now four years bwana …. nzeru zimenezi mmasungira these few months left??????? thats politics man, just because chilima mentioned shoes and u now have a say in kupanga msapato using nkhumba skin?????? i hope Malawians are not stupid as u think that we will make sure you are in America after May 2019 polls.
1979 it was Kamuzu on the driving wheel….. now it is useless people. 1979 there was little corruption today is order of the day. Its like Osaba asadye. Those who were not there (matchona) cannot know that during Kamuzu’s time Malawi had a leather processing factory…. Kafunseni ku makata ku ndirande
It’s UTM that had been mentioning of an agricultural bank, now you are just parroting Chilima. Shame on you.
the only thing standing on Malawi’s developments is you Mr President, From next year you will be seeing numerous developments because you wont be on the way.
Maybe you are missing something. It has been found that chilima wakaba zomwe amakambirana ku cabinet iye ndikuzipanga campaign tool yake. Ndichifukwa chake akumati akayankhula mfundo chilimayo akumalephera kuyitambasula. Akumangolimbikila kuti ndidzakuuzani mutsogolo.
lol u not that dull to believe that are you? When is the last time chilima attended cabinet meeting? if he stole why don’t the dpp led police arrest him for theft then? haha don’t be such a narrow minded its 2018 buddy woke up!! Isn’t Dpp cabinet resolution: buy beer for the youth to stop them from attending any UTM rally, stop CSO from doing demos, burn UTM cars & boom CSO offices, insult catholics and most important lets steal from ESCOM, MACRA, MRA, MERA, CITY COUNCILS, WATER PROJECTS and all contracts we can for out party and pockets these taxpayers are blind!!
PATHFINDER YOU ARE LOST HOW IRONIC