PLO Lumumba says Chakwera is hope for ‘new Africa’ after Magufuli
Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, PLO, as he is popularly known, has hailed Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera as the promising transformational leader for Africa and called his eulogy of Tanazania’s late president John Pombe Magufuli “the most powerful tribute ever made to an African leader.”
Speaking on Pan-African TV Wednesday night, PLO Lumumba said: “It was the most powerful, in my view the most touching ever made. It is a funeral oration which history must record as one the most greatest funeral orations of all time.”
The celebrated Pan-Africanist says he has henceforth requested a meeting with President Chakwera.
“My intention if he accepts my request, is to ask the Malawi president to be in the forefront of the leadership of a new Africa,” he said.
Continued PLO Lumumba: “Africa needs something new. I am not discounting the other great African leaders that did not attend the funeral. But Chakwera touched something that nobody touched.
“Everyone else was perfunctory and am being unfair to them for they had prepared speeches, but Chakwera spoke from his heart.”
He said: “Whether you like Chakwera or not, go and listen to him again, read him again, he captured the essence of the Magufuli that I met. The Magufuli that I know. The Magufuli who loved Africa. The Magufuli that thought that within the inner recesses of the African heart and mind, there is gold and silver which only is waiting to be unleashed.”
“When I said in 2014 that Africa needs to be magulified, I have been vindicated by Chakwera,” he concluded.
Lumumba is a Kenyan who served as the director of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission from September 2010 to August 2011 and has been director of The Kenya School of Law, a position he has held since 2014.
He is an advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanzania and law lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi.
He is one of the trustees and the executive director of the African Institute of Leaders and Leadership, Nairobi, Kenya.
PLO received his LL.B and LL.M degrees in law at the University of Nairobi, followed by a PhD in the laws of the sea from the University of Ghent in Belgium.
He is touched by Chakwera’s eulogy which the Malawi leader said: “When they said laziness and sloth in public service cannot be cured, they did not see Magufuli coming.
“When they said the cartels of corruption strangling Africa’s governments cannot be defeated, they did not see Magufuli coming.
“When they said African States cannot become middle-income economies within a single presidential term, they did not see Magufuli.”
Chakwera referred to Magufuli, who died last week following heart complications at the age of 61, as “Africa’s finest son” whose “life of service” would be remembered.
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Reading most comments here, I feel ashamed to be a malawian,
Michael Sauka had a Divine power when he wrote the nation anthem,
3 words he discribed everything about malawians,
Njala, nthenda and Nsanje,
If we can get rid of these 3, especially the last one, our nation will develop, but essh, we need mindset change and deliverance,
Lumumba mbuzi, stupid Lumumba komangoyankhula sanachitepo chithu chooneka. Ku Africa anthu amakonda atsogoleri opepela ngati Lumumba
This PLO must been drunk while making the statement. Chakwera is no where near Late H.E. Magufuli. Simply no comparison! Your chakwerea is all talks and no action that too in that stupidly infused accent. Our leader was a true son of Africa. Kwaheri Magufuli.
Simple minds praising each other!
Every corrupt leader is a good speaker. Nothing special about the insincere lies and deceit of Chakwera. The man is a bandit.
Someone with a PhD in Chemistry is he not Scientist? Why did he not believe in Science?
Let’s hope Chakwera just copies/does the good side of Magufuli. We don’t want his dark side in Malawi i.e dictatorship, arrogance and distrust/ignorance of science which has ultimately killed him.
A Lumumba asowa choyankhula. LMC is not delivering back home.7 months and no project is under way. Still laying foundation stones! Bwana,Chakwera, u need Magulification ! We also want to be as proud as our nebas in TZ.
FALSE HOPE
sorry guys.
KKKKKK MKULU AMENEYUNSO NDIYE UTI? WAGANIZA BWANJI.KOMA ZINAZI ABALE.BWANJI OSANGIKHALA PHEE NGATI CHOYANHULA ALIBE
Mukundiuza kuti inuyo simunamvepo za mkulu ameneyu? Anthu onse amene amatsatira zochitika padziko amadziwa za munthu ameneyu. Ngati inu simunamvepo za iye ndiye kuti mwalowelera nkhani zoposa msinkhu wanu, ingokhalani chete. Palibe mtsogoleri mu Africa muno amene sapeleka ulemu kwa mkulu ameneyu. Basi musachitenso comment pa nkhani za mtundu uwu, si za msinkhu wanu.
Kodi Inu mungoti chakwera talk no action mukufuna atenge khaso akakulimileni pa munda? He’s trying his best remember dpp ran the country 15yrs they no longer in power but they system is still there atangochosa system yose ya dpp in one day mudanaso nayetu
Mtumbuka wa ku Kenya kuda ndi upolofesa
Chakwera unfortunately is no Magufuli, different personalities. A speech is just a speech.
LMC cant take the lead he is a White puppet
Very dull I servatuon y Lumumba. Chakwera has formed criminal cartel in government by employing relatives retirees church members and tribes men to oversee his criminal enterprise. Nkaka Chimwendo. Chikhosi and zangaza nga are overseeing this criminal enterpriae where they are making away with government money
I FOLLOW LUMUMBA BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE DULLEST AND STUPID THINGS HE HAS EVER SAID IN HIS TALKING CARRIER. CHAKWERA IS NOT A LEADER BUT AN APPEAZER BECAUSE HE HAS FRIENDSHIP TO RUN NOT GOVERNMENT. IMAGINE WHEN MALAWI HAS 90 PERCENT ON UNEMPLOYED YOUTH HE IS BUSY RECALLING REDUDANT AND RETIRED PEOPLE TO WORK AGAIN IN GOVERNMENT AND THE MIXTURE OF THESE OLD HEADS AND YOUNG GRADUATES IS WHAT IS CAUSING THE WHOLE CONFUSION IN GOVERNMENT.
MAGUFULI REMOVED ALL THOSE WITHOUT QUALIFICATIONS IN GOVERNMENT YET CHAKWERA AND HIS RECALLED RETIRED CHIEF SECRETARY ARE EMPLOYING UNQUALIFIED PEOPLE WITHOUT ANY PAPERS LIKE BENDULA TO HEAD AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT. THIS IS STUPIDITY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER AND CIVIL SERVICE TRADE UNION SHOULD REJECT THIS NOSENSE
Never…can Chakwera be like Magufuli.
He keeps thiefs in his Government…
Late Magufuli was exceptional can’t be compared to Chakwera
If Chakwera can hire reasonable people to help him,some outside his Tonse Government can change Malawi but not at all compared to Magufuli.
Prof,wrong,don’t compare Magufuli with Chakwera…
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Kikiki. Lumumba wagomera fellow talk show host!
PLO Lumumba should tame his expectations. Chakwera is no Magufuli. Magufuli was both talk and action man whereas our Chakwera is all talk and no action. Magufuli decisively dealt with corruption, fraud and organized crime within 2 months of assuming office whereas our Chakwera 9 months after taking the mantle corruption is flourishing like never seen before. Ndimanena mobwerezabwereza kuti a functioning government cannot allow a traffic police kumagwiritsa ntchito pamseu ngati Munda wawo. No. Ndalama zimene zinapita mmatumba mwawo would have been used kumapangira zitukuko zikuwakanikazi. Tizingosangalala kuti tinachotsa DPP basi koma zinazo ndiye mmmh ayi ndithu palibe chabwino. Wina wake analemba kuti a mere fact that we are comparing Chakwera to APM just shows how screwed we are…Ndikafufuzafufuza ma politicians athu both ku government ndiku opposition sindikuonako Magufuli ine. All what I see ndi mbala ndi mbava zokhazokha zomwe zili hell bend to steal our tax-money and not to help move Malawi into a middle income country..
PLO Lumumba, come and see.
You don’t measure successes of a President through eloquent speeches. Did Magufuli and Bingu have eloquent speeches? The answer is a big no yet they delivered within their first terms in office. Do you see the same from Chakwera who gave a very eloquent speech at his inaugural ceremony? Not at all.Let this Professor just come and see for himself and there after, he will definitely change his mind about Chakwera.
What an observation. I concur with the professor and President Chakwera will never be forgiven should he decide to only a one term presidency.
Malawi needs him to put things in order and by not doing a secondary term will probably indicate a failure of some sort.
Africa is looking to his wisdom, l believe he has. See witnessing of professor PL.
Ever since, I have never seen President waliridwa ngati President John Pombe Joseph Magufuli. All Africans or even world wide are genuinely mourning for Magufuli. Shortest period of Presidency, so many developments. May His Soul Rest In Peace.
Prof Lumumba, come after five years and praise our president. We are used to these here. We talk more less action. For Magufuli MHSRIP he did his work. Ntchito za manja ake zumchitira umboni .Let’s hope LMC has learned from him and that his hand clappers and his numerous advisors of whom they even not advise the president will not shift his thinking.
ena sakukondwa koma anakhala mzungu nde wwaa mmanja mpaka kumuitana kuti azacite invest.
ndikunama??.
They never lied when they said “A Prophet is never recognised by his people”. Lumumba, a world renown scholar thinks positively about Chakwera but here we are with so many negative comments about him. Not surprising though, as we know those commenting negatively are habitual detractors, obviously cadets accusing Tonse Alliance government of lying about “three meals a day” when we haven’t harvested what Chakwera and Chilima sowed.
how about curbing corruption. 6.2 billion, crossroads and even recovering the money stolen by the former government. Ndiachidzete basi. Not just about supporting parties here but doing what’s right for Malawians.
He is just a scholar mwee.
Achakwela sangapange kanthu akungolankhula alibe masomphenya koma kulankhula aaaaa number one
Lumumba, Kachaje and Chakwera are full of rhetorics and poems but when it comes to action dololo, these people are just nothing but sweet talkers, imagine someone telling you how to make your first million while himself has nothing to show, typical of storytellers
Za ziii. Akutuma eti? Or you are becoming a Zombie. Mxiiiii.
Chakwera’s mendaciloquence does not inspire me
Who are you to be inspired? You are most likely a nobody who does not see and appreciate what president Chakwera is doing! People from outside our country are able to see the potential in our president and yet you, a local, does not this – shame!
At least Malawians have a president who they can point at. Osati zijazi shoshitisha minyozo.
Malawians want change and development. It’s not about the physical. Even a monkey who can deliver is ok. Tonse and DPP sizikusiyana. Tudzi tokhatokha.
At least I can breathe a sigh of relief that we now have a president who can utter words and not chew his own tongue. Six years of chewing was a difficult period to me
Ayi Abwana Chipongwetu chimenecho. Honestly speaking that that speech was well written & thought of.
petty. Bingu couldn’t talk but had action. Tsono awa nde koto. Pokopoko nothing on the ground
Lumumba, just know that here in Malawi we call Chakwera, Mr Talk, Talk No Show.
Laz has the advantage of years of kulalika. The occasion was precisely his kind of thing. You could see his eloquence shinning through. Imagine if it was APM. With APM, one can’t even tell whether he’s talking or chewing a brick.
Now look at the genuine outpouring of emotions on the Tanzanian streets. Compare that to what happened on the streets of Malawi when Bingu died …..
Nope, my opinion about Magufuli has not changed an inch. But I hope he got to heaven an hour before The Devil found out he was dead.
He even don’t know him at all, Mbuzi ya munthu iyi simungadabwe kuti chikhulupiliro chake chili pa Devil kusiyana ndi Magufuli, munthu wanji omangokhalira MASK kukamwa m’dziko lomwe anthu ake amadalira pa Mulungu kuchokera ku chilimbikitso cha mtsogoleri wawo. mutifunse ife za iwo tikuuzani kuti amangobvomera chilichonse.
Surely speaking His Excellency spoke very well at the funeral of Magufuli and we have hope in the Tonse government that by and by things will change for the better for all Malawians.When one reaches a new level he is likely to meet new devils at the entrance. However there are always new devils at the entrance but with divine help the Tonse Alliance will excel in their agenda. Bravo
He is a preacher wat else do u expect. The guy isn’t a doer
Great words of respect to the son of Africa.
I thought ndiwe munthu wa nzeru koma ndiwe mbuzi yeniyeni. This guy is mr parrot it seems you don’t follow what is happening in Malawi its all talk talk zero implementation
Chakwera is surrounded by corrupt cartels with unknown proxies for his Regime reaping commissions and collecting so called gifts from any gullible investors…Don’t waste your time Lumumba courting this President, all his speeches are sugarcoated to excite jus chewa henchmen and Tumbuka mercenaries but with nothing to show on the ground…
you have said it all, apa pa atumbukapa mwati chani? oh mercenaries indeed!
Talk facts not tribes, Chakwera is the president of Malawi
Avine kaye Chakwerayo angayambe kusupa chosavina….
LMC is a good orator. He is a man who is composed as he takes every podium, like him or not, the eulogy was powerful and touching.
Yes, our President is a good speaker but lacks actions on the ground.
i love that, thats powerful speech from our Chakwera lets do the same here in Maalawi.
cadet mkwiyo umenewo…
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Mr lumumba doesn’t know that the president is just eloquent but in the ground is failing to manage properly. For what good is rhetoric? Lumumba needs to come and live in Malawi to see what Malawians have to suffer everyday. See rising costs of goods, see rising nepotism and cronyism and corruption.
msanje izakupha