Leader of opposition in Parliament Dr. Kondwani Nankhumwa has asked President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera to either address all the challenges affecting Malawians or that he should resign as country’s president.
Nankhumwa made the call on Thursday during a presser held at Grace Bandawe Conference Centre in Blantyre.
He cited shortage of forex, fuel and high costs of living as some of the challenges Malawians are going through under Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance administration.
“President Chakwera must outline an alternative game plan to Malawians as a way of strategic response to the current macro-environment context.
He {Chakwera} was hired to provide solutions, and now it is time to work or to simply resign from his position,” said Nankhumwa
He added: “I am also calling upon the President to make a follow up statement on the forex and fuel crises after telling Malawians that his government is bringing in 6 million liters of fuel and that the situation will normalize.”
According to Nankhumwa, Fuel and forex scarcity, and electricity blackouts have caused a lot of assets and human capital to remain unproductive as they spent their time either waiting for electricity or looking for fuel.
However, speaking on Wednesday in Chikwawa, President Chakwera called on Malawians to be patient saying his government is up and down to make sure that some of the challenges the country is facing are fixed once and for all.
On power outages, Chakwera said nobody is happy with the persistent load shedding the country is currently facing, saying before the disasters which led to a burst of Kapichira Dam, there was power all day, every day.
This government is made up of retrogressive people who are either arrogant or simply empty vessels. How many times must people tell you that use of money is directed towards wrong priorities, if they could be categorised as such?
This habit of being on the road all the time is one of the main contributing factors draining the financial resources in the country. Where are the austerity measures you told the nation about? People are saying we can not operate on empty coffers, mainly when the country requires items from abroad to become operative. The forex to utilise for ordering those materials is non-existent. There is no fuel for transporters to use in order to convey the scarce materials by road from other countries so that MRA could charge taxes for government to make money. This is a cyclic circle and the moment one link is broken the whole system grounds to a halt. Surprisingly the man at the helm seem not to care about the plight and general livelihood of the very same people who catapulted him to prominence. They are left to fend for themselves, die in hospitals which don’t have medicines and all the equipment is broken let alone the lack of power generation. Does all that require advisors to come and plead to him that something has to be done in order to avert the looming crisis, or as a rational human being he can determine necessities as they come? The question still remains, “what was his aim or objective when he decided to run for the post, was it to come and murder Malawians or serve them? Instead of fulfilling his mandate as a leader, he is busy aligning his pockets with money and operating bank accounts in the country as well as abroad. I am sure that by the time we will be hitting 2025 a lot of people will be dead due to lack of the much needed daily services. Amazingly his firefighters are busy mopping out the fire he deliberately is setting up allover Malawi. Kaya poti mulungu ndi wamkulu atiyang’aniira.