President Chakwera is like Thiago Alcantara
Malawi’s President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera is in many ways like Spanish International football star and Liverpool’s marque signing central midfield maestro, Thiago Alcantara.
When the multi-trophy winning footballing wizard signed for the Merseyside based club and the current English Premier League Champions, Liverpool from Buyers Munich, last year, the football world, particularly Liverpool supporters went crazy.
Understably so, it was a justified frenzy, Thiago Alcantara is one of the best middle-of-park best footballers. There are not many like him. He is so agile on the ball and his pin-point ball passing is exceptionally exquisite and out of this world.
At 29 years of age, Thiago Alcantara is a player any big football club would love to have in their team. He is a proven special player who has thus far plied his game with Barcelona, Buyern Munich and the Spanish national team as a key player.
His reading of the game is by far the best in the business at the moment. He is a mixture of Pirlo, Luis Figo, Paul Scores, Claude Makelele, Ernest Wire Mtawali, Christopher John Banda and Chiza Nyirongo.
Similarly, when President Chakwera, an eloquent evangelist and one of the smartest politicians in recent history signed up for the presidency last year with Dr. Saulos Chilima as his runningmate, Malawians, especially those from MCP and UTM plus the others went crazy since in Dr. Chakwera, Malawians, like Liverpool fans found a renewed hope, and change for the future.
Dr. Chakwera, is to say the least, a fine gentleman, mannered, educated, wise and above all else humane and humble. He is a proven leader in all aspects of life. He is a good looking man and looks every inch like a president.
Every country in Africa and beyond, would love to have him as their president.
President Chakwera like Thiago Alcantara is so fluent on the political ball.
He has a special way. His demeanor is so exceptional and exemplary. He is a family man, a real (Malawian) in every sense of the word.
But, despite his brilliance, mental agility and top-notch and apt above-average classy and distinct style of play, Thiago Alcantara has not yet found his light to brighten his shine at Liverpool.
He is not even half the player that he is known to be and he is now being blamed for his dismal performances and many a football commentator have opined that he is the reason Liverpool is not doing well at the moment.
Thiago has now fallen on the pecking order-from hope to despair. But what these critics are now forgetting to remember is that Thiago came to a wounded Liverpool and he doesn’t have a good system.
Football, to say the least, is team game and requires every player to do their part. Individual brilliance is an added advantage but not overly necessary. Good team work is vital and an important ingredient.
Solely roasting and hanging Thiago Alcantara for all the Liverpool’s woes is folly. And very unfair.
President Chakwera, who of course has nothing to do with Liverpool as he is an ardent Arsenal fan, is like Thiago Alcantara. He took over the reigns to a morally broken and wounded Malawi.
Just like Thiago, President Chakwera has found himself in a fix of things. Things looks to be going so slow and Malawians like Liverpool supporters are becoming frustrated and dejected.
President Chakwera like Thiago is now getting the stick for everything that is going wrong in the government.
Again, Malawians like Liverpool fanatics and zealots, are remembering not that government like a football team and needs all the players to do their part if things are to go the best and right way.
President Chakwera can only do as much. He needs to be supported by each and everyone in order for him to shine his light.
Blaming Chakwera for everything that’s going on in the government is not right because for the government to run smooth, all the players, in this case citizens needs to be actively in participation.
And this is where the comparison between President Chakwera ends.
On the one hand, Thiago is lucky because he has a coach, one of the best football managers of this generation, the German gaffer, Jurgen Klopp, to plan and prepare him for the next game in a bid to try and help him get back to his best.
If Thiago is having a bad day at the office, not ticking the boxes during a match, his manager would most likely substitute him and have someone else to carry on.
On the other hand, President Chakwera does not have a coach to substitute him if he is having a bad game. If things go wrong, he must carry on and right the wrong.
Perhaps, the only person, President Chakwera looks up to when ‘the government lorry’ seems to be loosing air in the braking system is his able ‘Sisitansi,’ the Vice President Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima, and then some of his trusted ministers – but the bulk stops with no one but President Chakwera.
Overall, let us not blame President Chakwera alone for everything that is going wrong because we, as citizens are all responsible to make Malawi free of theft of public funds, corruption and abuse of office.
As citizens, we need to change our mindset and be honest people. If we were honest people that K6.2 billion that has been stolen from the Covid funds should not have been ‘eaten’ like Lizulu tomatoes.
That some Malawians love to steal public funds, is, and should not be President Chakwera’s fault. It is our fault as a country.
President Chakwera became a president of a country where the people are corrupt-minded and morally bankrupt. A country where people love stealing public funds.
We must change our mindset if we must change our country for the better. If we don’t, we will remain as we are forever.
Truth be told, President Chakwera is a very good man. He is a definition of a modern democrat and a listening politician. He has the passion of the Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda and vision of the earlier-days Bingu wa Mutharika.
President Chakwera is more. He speaks well and his diction and vocabulary in both English and the vernacular is so rich. When he speaks, everyone, listens.
President Chakwera unlike Thiago Alcantara has big decisions to make, people to fire and people to hire. He has a responsibility to ensure that the country is running smooth on economy, health, education and all faculties of the state.
Chakwera is the executive head chef of the Malawi kitchen and it is now time to make omelette for his clientele, the citizens, the people who hired him to be their servant through the ballot with 52 percent of votes.
But if President Chakwera is to make the omelette then he will have to break the ‘eggs’ otherwise if he doesn’t break them, we surely will only end with boiled eggs.
And you know what boiled eggs do to people.
Malawians, let us stand up, roll our sleeves put on our gumboots and work-gear on and get down dirt to work, support President
Chakwera and his trusted lieutenants build a better Malawi.
A better Malawi is possible. The power is in our hands, and in our unity of purpose to transform this our ‘Warm Heart of Africa.’
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The article is waste of time to read chakwera is failed president by the start he leave and employee all his friends and family members what can expect he cannot proscute his own in-laws or friends corruption will never end
let’s talk sense here. forget about the analogies. First cabinet of President Chakwera should shown efficiency and effectiveness based on their political cry during their campaign trail. The President has a 31or so cabinet Ministers. what are they doing onsewo Only ministry of agriculture and ministry of Health are being heard by Malawians. Basi tu. we can’t even hear kuti ministry of transport ayamba maintanance of city roads which are so bad. ai. Budget tikonza misewu mmatown anakananiza aphungu? Unfortunately apparently the President has put much weight on ministry of health and its covid 19. How about other Ministries? Epidemics come and go. The President, as a leader, should rise above every thing else and move forward. the contracts which his Ministers signed before him really does not make any sense of it coz Ministers continue in their laize- fair type of working and thus lack to deliver. Looks like every minister is on a slumber bed at Cape Mac Clear running away from Covid 19 or indeed working in collaboration with ministry of health – they forgotten their mandate. Malawians nly hear of Ministry of Agriculture working in this country. and I praise President Chakwera to appoint Mr Lowe for that important ministry. koma kwinako the President has work to do.
I beg your pardon
Opsi! Aaaa dont compare politics with football…..
Anyway we dont focus on him we do focus on our economy, businesses, jobs …alcatara in football can get injured, at this moment he can’t help his team which contrarily to chakwera……tsonotu ifeyo omalawi mabadziwo tuwafunaaa
We need a change pliz…….
Koma anthu enanudi munangobadwa ngati zitukwanidi eti. Akudyetsa chani magary amenewo kuti udzitiuza ife mbwerera zakozi.
Sukuona kuti dziko la malawi alimaliza lathapo anthu akuvutika mesa akanakhala dolo mafuta sakanakwera
Kkkkkk chakwera indeed very good president who let our learner’s 7 weeks out of the learning institutions.
This country we joke a lot. Of all the analogy this is the worst and a bad take
Completely true. I support everything the author has divulged for us. Well done, it is up to us the citizens to roll up our sleeves and help the president to lift Malawi from the trash bin.
He’s like Alcantara indeed!. Are you a genuine soccer fan? Alcantara came to Liverpool when things were just Ok, liverpool won its 1st premier league after 30+ years, they also won the champions league making their manager the best in the world, they were the best club in the world, their players won various medals in the process. Alcantara found things so rejuvenated at liverpool, infact it is players like him who are messing things up at the club. The club is in bad shape that only God knows if they’ll make it to top 4 even.
So if you compare him to our president, you know what it means.
Its a good article and well written, but I would also want to remind the writer Dr Chakwera did not choose to run for presidency because of his good looks and fluency in the queens language but to fix that which was broken. That is why people voted for him. His voters expect nothing less than that. May be we should learn that when one becomes a president we should least expect sympathy but rather get on with the job. Let him deal with issues that have made our nation rotten to the core. We have to remember Dr Chakwera for coming into presidency and having done something really tangible. THAT IS LEAVING A LEGACY NOT SOME GOOD LOOKS.
Umaganiza bwanji olemba iwe, should someone blame his wife because ufa watha iyeyo asanapereke ndalama yokwanira
Akulu ndinu achitsiru. You mean if Malawi had a no nonsense president, who is serious with ending corruption, you think these people you claim were groomed by UDF and DPP would still be stealing? Can’t you see that the tonse alliance members, ministers and MCP sympathisers are now making up a bigger composition of the bandwagon of thieves today? Mind your language!
Hahaha Peter Makosah, the author of this write up is fake. Chakwera and Tiago are not comparable in anyway. Tiago, though has lost his touch at Liverpool, was, and has been the best performer and midfield specialist before he joined Liverpool. Chakwera’s only administrative history was to represent his constituency as an MP and being a leader of his church. He is currently learning how to run the government. He may or may not succeed as a president, whereas Alcantara will surely rediscover his form and hit the ground running again.
Chakwera is just a perfect example for aneneri onyenga. Remember, he dumped God for dirty money. Lazaro is an evil man with no empathy for other people at all. Just look at the rate he is taking people out of employment basing on unfounded lies and replacing them with his family members and church friends!!!
akulu mukulemba serious issue mwa chibwana. the difficult part of being a president is to choose right people. Chakwera failed that part. Withb the current crop we should expect nothing but misery. Especially when you are intimidating civil servants every day. Akuonetsani bagwe.
Pali anthu ena amangoombera manja zilizonse.
Ngati akulu alemba nkhani iyi, kwa iwo zikhote zisakhote akuti zili bwino asiyeni azazindikira pa patsogolo.
Were here as well opposing the truth, ndiyetu imakhalapo yotsutsyo osati masewela mpaka banja kutha kaye chifukwa chotsutsana. simunati muziona ndipo uku mkuyamba chabe mpaka 2084 wooooo! hahahahahahahaha! Chakwera akuyesetsa kuthana ndi mbewu wayipeza M,boma yakuba komaso yosanva ngati iyi! but let me tell you, we are winning this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of hot air and praise singing in this so called “article.” Obviously coming from the hand of a paid propagandist intent on beating the drum for his master.This write up has earned the author a good lunch.Eloquence, good English, diction etc are not qualities of leadership anywhere in the world. Except of course in the poverty stricken and backward nation of Malawi
WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME, HIS CALLING IS AT CHURCH NOT STATE, MULUNGU ANGOTSE DALA MAKOMO, GO BACK HOME AND WORK SIR
If we should not blame Chakwera alone for the mess in government, then why were we blaming Muntharika alone for the mess during his administration when Chilima of today and the Chakwera himself were the top three people Manning the government.
MA RUBBISH.
Akulu, akupatsani zingati? Should we say you’re happy with how things are? Stop making silly excuses, people are suffering. His electoral campaign promised a lot of things that don’t need a hand from Malawians for him to implement. What can ordinary people do about fuel increase? Reduction of passport cost? Universal fertilizer? Etc etc. What can ordinary people do about the alleged looting that is taking place at Capital Hill, OPC, Covid-19 funds? Stop defending what cannot be defended. Let him deliver what he promised. 8 months into the government but we can hardly point to any tangible and long term achievements.
atidye nawo awa. Singing for his supper
No wonder from.the beautiful colours of campaign mwagwa pano.muli ndifumbi.Look at Liverpool mmene ikulephelera with Tiago in the team.I wont be surprosed if this guy shall be one term president
Fotseki mwadya zingati zaku Kamuzu palace kuti mulembe zimenezi.
Well written but mind you , not all Malawians love stealing or are thieves.The so called corrupt people are those working in government and organizations owned by the government.These crooks were groomed by UDF then DPP ,PP and again DPP of Peter Mutharika.These crooks are all over the place and it will take time to get rid of them as they are a generation of their own.They are young and energetic.They control the civil service as those who uesd to work with Dr Banda are retirees. Therefore give Dr Chakwera time to sweep the rubble which is too thick for a new broom.After all the man has not even spent a year in office.
a ngwazi tilipobe….you have a point but alternatively reduce retirement age and most of the ‘thieves” will go. take statistics muone kuti omwe analipo tikulowa mmatipate ndi what percentage because some of them were now on the loose after mu goli la ngwazi.
Lyk serious or you are crazy? 1 full year to start implementing the campaign promises? I think you are an actor. Does triming Presidential powers need a year to fulfil?
Dont get fooled with Chakwera
its him who once said nsomba imayamba kuola kumutu.citizens are not policy makers ,its him and few around him.we did not ask him to promise us 1million jobs ,cheap passport fees etc
Hahaha mcp cadet what a boring piece to read uhave wasted my time
What u are trying to say is the substitute is the vice?
Now he has been on the substitute bench for ten years without even put into field of play
Don’t u think he has run out of ideas and best way is to pave way and quit
Crap.
Great for us all to unite and fight corruption in Malawi
What a waste of space. U can’t compare a president to a player. A president is like a coach. If u had compared him to Mourinho maybe. Coz a coach has to come in and most will acquire players who will suit their style of management. Rr write your article.
The article started with a beutifull analogy but I have been lost because all what the writer has said does not fit Chakwera except the eloquence. Chakwera is a very timid person and can never take any strong decisons against people he persived to have helped him get into government even if he knows they are in the wrong. I will sight few examples.
Fly Emirates Fly Better. It’s not different from Malawian. In 1978 we had the VC 10. Air Malawi ‘africa’s friendly airline’ . Back then they never served us with Sobo orange crush!
This is one of the most misguided and off the mark analysis I have ever read. The dude said all campaign promises no longer apply because the circumstances have changed, so who should we blame for cheating us? Certainly not those who had hope and voted for him. The buck stops with Chakwera.
This is an article written by a hired author to try to present president Chakwera otherwise. No brother, it’s too late and too enough to paint him that way. The truth about this current presidential pair is bare for everyone to see. If your article is true then all the presidents that have led Malawi were good. Those attributes are applicable to any of the malawi’s presidents and of course anyone on the planet.
By not accepting the current predicament and that things have slipped through their (Chakwera and Chilima) fingers, you are just adding salt to the wound.
You took government by thuggery; breaking and burning malawi mercilessly and now you want run away from your own shadows?
The author of this article spoke like true MCP zealot. He forgot to mention that Chakwera is presiding over a party of death, and also over a corrupt alliance full of cashgaters. Chimimba Kumbo Kachali has just swindled K400 million under Chakwera’s watch. His relatives in State House are as nauseating as a corpse, and as for the thieves or corrupt people you are are talking about, kaya, ife mbava timene tikuziona ndizimene analowa nazo mu alliance. Busy kummanga ma small fish and leaving out the big fish to finish every tambala we are left with. The only help Chakwera needs is to be assisted out of office with either the ballot or the bullet.
Chakwera has allowed state house staff to Connie with crossroads hotel to steal public funds, and he has done nothing. Why should we not steal if an opportunity arises? Chakwera has tolerated it.
Chakwera is like afiki sikelo of bata bullets
Zongotithera bundle izi basi
The writer can scrutinize issues
During APM rule, you blamed him for the sins commited by others. Now because it’s chakwera, you shift the posts and involve citizenry as part if the problem. Hipocrisy at it’s best. Don’t think that you can fool us with your alcantara comparison. That’s what happens when failure is right on the wall for everyone to read. Cheap politicking!
This article does not make sense. Thiago doesn’t call the shots at Liverpool and it’s the duty of the manager to fix things i.e. which systems suits the players, assessing player from. So leave the player out of this. Meanwhile Chakwera calls the shots and should do his home work to fix the system and assess those that are playing for him. The article would have been richer if you could have compared Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea Manager) who in a short period has transformed the team. In here, your argument could have been that it doesnt take time to see a performer performing. Ndangodutsa musandigende chonde..
Nice article!
Ss Liverpool fan am very angry with your comparative analysis mentioning our players versus kwantele. In football you compete against another team. Your president is a servant put there just to serve and not compete with someone else or team to win. Big good!
A very stupid article, written by an Mcp die hard and apologist. Worst still the fool seems to be a Liverpool fan also the worst champions ever. A team that are one season wonders and have won the trophy just once after 30 freaking years and have failed dismally to retain it. Chakwera is very far from Thiago Infact his only comparison is the high Lord Nicklas Bendtner!! An overhyped flop of flops.
Makossah, wasowa zopanga report. Iyi ndi nkhani imeneyi? Ayi. Offside indeed.
To be honest and a person who voted for him it’s really disappointing ….. I understand for change to take place it will take time but Mr president has started to sound like his predecessor or all the other politicians we have had in the past…. All talk nothing substantial…blame game. Etc .. Pull up the socks and be the change Malawi needs.
If what is advanced in this article is anything to go by, there was no need to change the country’s leadership in 2020.
power is in our hands indeed, i believe chakwera is doing fine, so far so good. considering that its his first year in office. yes we want to see change, and a genuine change for that matter. and genuine and durable change take time to be manifested. [good food takes time to prepare]
COVID ikazilala world wide muzamva mbembe coz economic environment izakhala conducive haha!
Zautsiru baasi, the writer must be a hired MCP thug and what he has written is contrary to what is on the ground. Fotseki!!