State House puts a positive spin on MCP youth protests: ‘Chakwera concerned with challenges affecting Malawi youths’

December 14, 2020 Patricia Kapulula – Mana 23 Comments

President  Lazarus Chakwera is  aware of challenges the youth in the country are facing and sympathises with them hence the need to address such challenges in order to create a Malawi that was good for all, his spokesperson Brian Banda has said

President Chakwera knows that the youth lack employment a situation which cannot go without being addressed.

Banda, State House Press Secretary,  made the remarks Monday during a Weekly Brief at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe saying the President understands challenges affecting Malawians, youth inclusive and those asking are right because they have hope for a better Malawi.

Banda was responding to questions from journalists on concerns on some Malawi Congress Party (MCP) youth made over the weekend.

On Saturday, dozens of MCP youth held protest marches against the party’s Secretary General (SG), Eisenhower Mkaka, and two others accusing them of nepotism, favouritism and tribalism.

He said he wouldn’t comment much on that saying it was a party issue which could best be answered by the party’s Secretary General.

The Press Secretary said President Chakwera knows that the youth lack employment a situation which cannot go without being addressed.

“Their concerns are genuine. It is true that the youth don’t want handouts but jobs. As such it is important that the creation of one million jobs materialises.

“It is important that campaign promises are fulfilled. Some are short term, some medium term while othesr are long term and as such they will be fulfilled at different times,” Banda said.

He cited raising the tax threshold to K100, 000, minimum wage to K50, 000 and non-interference of the law enforcement agencies as some of the promises which have been fulfilled.

Banda appealed to Malawians to exercise patience on campaign promises saying the Tonse led government has been in office for 169 days yet their mandate is for five years.

Earlier, State House Director of Communication and Executive Assistant to the President, Sean Kampondeni gave an outline of the president’s diary for last week and the week ahead.

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23 replies on “State House puts a positive spin on MCP youth protests: ‘Chakwera concerned with challenges affecting Malawi youths’”

  1. mkaka name again???? all for bad reasons and someone is still obsessed with dpp??? my friend anthu akulila cake amene mkaka akudya yenkha and ur here talking about intra politics stupid ndithu. the same is happenning in dpp what name are you giving it?? fighting

  2. At least MCP youth shows maturity politically. This proves their is intraparty democracy in MCP. I don’t think this would have happened in DPP when they were in Govt. Keep it up the youth rebranding happened in MCP, now we need refining

      1. Yes, it’s what I meant. If the youth are able to point grey areas about a senior official of the party, then maturity is there coz it will force those officials to revert back to right. Rather than what we hv been experiencing during the DPP. The cadets were only good at defending the wrong their seniors were doing

  5. You know why the MCP youths are protesting? They have been given a rawl deal.You promised them heaven and they are getting Earth.That’s the root cause of protests.

  7. For 1 million jobs, you promised us this would be achieved within a year. It’s almost half a year you have been in office, but no single job has been created Yet.

  9. Address the problem not just acknowledging that there is a problem. A bunch of new people doing what the previous gov did. I’m sorry I believed in you Mr. President.

    1. Absolutely it seems to be the replica of the DPP system. It is a wake up call, it’s about time to turn things around otherwise it will never end well.

  11. People are expecting a 20+ year damage to be resolved in 169 days.. let’s apply logic in some of these things…

    1. Nepotism can be ended instantly FYI. They personally said 1 million jobs in the first year too. So who is to blame?

    2. No the 1 million jobs in one year promise was what attracted the youth to vote for the dudes. Six months not even a single job has been given to the youth

      1. FORGET ABOUT JOB CREATION , HOW MANY FACTORIES HAVE CONSTRUCTED TO PROVIDE A MILLION JOBS ,MALAWIANS LIKE TO BE FOOLED

    3. MMMMMM HOW LONG DID BINGU IMPLIMENTED THE FERTILIZER SUBSIDY PROGRAM ,FORGET ABOUT POLITICS HERE , PEOPLE ARE COUNTING ON THE EMPTY PROMISES OF OUR CURRENT GORVENMENT

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