Mutharika tells Chakwera to step down for failing to fix the country

November 12, 2022 Naomi Mkwanda 16 Comments
Former President Peter Mutharika has now put on political boxing gloves, calling President Dr Lazarus Maccathy Chakwera a clueless leader and asking him to step down for failing to fix the country.
Mutharika said this during a press conference he held on Friday at his Page House in Mangochi.
Mutharika said his calls for President Chakwera to step down come from Chakwera’s own campaign-time pledge “to step down if by two years” his administration would not have delivered.
“It’s not uncommon that these things happen. It’s unfortunate that we are not a parliamentary democracy. If we were, we may have pushed for a vote of no confidence,” says Mutharika.
Mutharika insisted that if Malawi had maintained the first past the post in the fresh presidential election, he would have won.
He said the country lacks leadership.
He accused Chakwera of lacking leadership skills describing him as a clueless leader who only knows how to travel around the World.
He said corruption and theft have become order of the day as witnessed by the stolen AIP funds.
According to Mutharika, this is sad as rains are already here and the country has no fertilizer.
He has called on the Fiscal Police and the ACB to investigate the AIP stolen funds.
Mutharika has demanded that Chakwera’s government should provide fertilizer before end of December.
Mutharika also blamed Chakwera’s government for shortage of forex in the country.
He said: “I left US$1 billion the time I was leaving government, I left 6.1 month import cover, Chakwera should explain where are all these Dollars”.
According to Mutharika, the economy has collapsed and government must take serious measures to address this problem.
Mutharika also wondered why Chakwera went into government if he cannot fix fuel shortage, blackouts, shortage of drugs in hospitals and many other challenges.
He said Chakwera’s ministers have failed to address challenges facing the nation.
According to Mutharika, Chakwera has travelled a lot and this is not doing any good to solving the country’s shortage of Forex.
“Chakwera has travelled 34 times in two years, I don’t think I travelled that much during my six years”.

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16 replies on “Mutharika tells Chakwera to step down for failing to fix the country”

  6. Chakwera was or unlucky to take a government which was already on it’s knees. On top of that he came in at the pic of Corona which crumbled global economies. After Corona, each and ever country is feeling the effect of the Ukraine inversion by Russia, of which these are the major two countries global supplier of fertiliser. Things won’t be the same as they were in 2019. Smaller economies will suffer the most. As for those countries that depend on donations, will never Come out of this deep hole. Now all economies are heading towards global financial recession or economic crush. How would the bottom and struggling economies survive? It is a question that needs answers. We should all bring collective efforts and constructive suggestions than poisoning the atmosphere in our countries. We have been there and this is not the first time poor countries like Malawi has struggled to have foreign Cash. Fuel shortages have been there since ever if I can recall during 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. All these year. Let’s look for solutions. As for Fertiliser, we must inform ourselves on what is causing the fertiliser shortage globally.

  8. The truth pains. In fact many people heard what he said and wasn’t far from what is happening on the ground.
    The minister of information who is the government spokesman didn’t dispute over the remarks made by the former president. He only added that malawians are poor and there haven’t been a time when they were considered rich people. That implies that people should not bother the government with development plans. That is how I understood the minister of information.

  12. Agogo, nthawi yomwe munkayendetsa inu boma palibe chomwe munapanga. Kwanu kunali kuba, kutitukwana komanso kugona pantchito yanu. Bwamji inu simunatule pansi udindo?

  15. If Muthalika loves Malawians He could have done something to help solving our problems. For example Indians solves problem of shortage of food in Malawi by going to rural villages to give poor Malawians food. Why not him going to his friends to ask them to help solving these problems. Let’s be people who loves each not jealous. This jealous is the one that makes as criticizing one another. Let’s be people who loves one another though we don’t any positions in government. Together we can raise Malawi

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