…Chakwera is an incompetent president being let down by an incompetent cabinet
The people of Malawi have concluded that the Malawi Leader Lazarus Chakwera does not have what it takes to lead the nation. The former man of collar is clearly low-quality stuff who is in sixes and sevens over the many challenges Malawi is facing and is now running towards three years in power with nothing tangible to show and without demonstrating that he has any solution to the problems Malawians are going through.
However, the real crisis is that Chakwera does not even have the quality to pick the right people to surround himself with which is the only strength which many weak leaders like him have. As one local Malawian publication analyzed not too long ago, Chakwera has surrounded himself with good for nothing, incompetent people who are specialists in corruption and feel they have over-achieved for being appointed ministers.
In this project of assessing his cabinet, we start with these three.
Sosten Gwengwe
Sosten Gwengwe is clearly a good, very affable human being, young, passionate and clearly means well as a citizen. But the former private secondary school administrator is inexperienced for the finance job. Not surprising he is failing to bring anything on the table. The budget he presented early this year is overrun by overspending and circumstances and he has no muscles to keep it in check. Departments are running on empty because the Treasury cannot give them funding. It requires wisdom and experience to source forex and keep the nation afloat. Now as the economy implodes, Malawians are increasingly becoming frustrated and they gave Chakwera a treatment when they booed him.
Sam Kawale
The choice of Kawale, first as Minister of Lands and now as Minister of Agriculture has been dubbed by others as another demonstration of Chakwera’s incompetence. Whatever the President saw in him, Kawale is known to be a man who belittles those he works with. He is reported to be an impudent man who feels big about himself which frustrates the very people that are supporting him in the ministries.
Ibrahim Matola
In picking Matola for the crucial energy ministry, Chakwera was clearly interested in eastern region politics but his incompetence is all over the place. He pretends to cry for Malawians, he rumbles around issues and fumes at nothing just to show Chakwera how grateful he is for appointing him minister. Malawians are toiling on fuel queues now and Matola has no idea what to do, perhaps he will cry a little.
Look out for the next instalment… Eisenhower Mkaka, Timothy Mtambo, Gospel Kazako
Do you call the congregation of “Youth Leaguers” a cabinet? The one’s the country has is a disgrace. For starters, a chicken will not give birth to a cow. Like goes for like. The group Chakwera came up with is the best he found on the market. The problem does not rest on the appointed but the appointee, who felt he had gone for the cream in the country according to him. There are many qualified and experienced Malawians who can commendably deliver. In this age and era one cannot go for a JCE or MSCE person when there are a lot of graduates out there some with post-graduate degrees, others boasting of PhDs. Unfortunately, the principal chose party partisanship as opposed to qualifications and capabilities.
The trend Malawi is subjected to transcends from the calibre of the leadership now. There has been evidence enough that Chakwera lacks leadership qualities in everything. The first shameful thing he did was to imitate the American tongue and yet the dude did all his education in Malawi and South Africa. He embarked on his misleading mission by promising illiterate Malawians the moon, who apparently bought the lie. He has all along used his lies to justify all his failures and citing unnecessary world calamities as being the reason behind all the nonsense. Unfortunately, his ineptitude has been accompanied by rampant stealing of public money with a footprint from the State House but the law enforcers are refusing to point out who the culprit is. Well, if he is not entertaining this stealing, as a leader, what has he done to check the anomaly? It all boils down to one thing – the perpetrators are the very same people from his party and at times his own relatives. The cabinet he has brought together has seen his weaknesses, hence the unwillingness to deliver coupled with inexperience.
I could strongly say the whole cabinet Chakwera has is merely a waste of space and money. That is the best he has and as such he will maintain the rot till to the end of his tenure or whenever the stakeholders in the country decides that “Enough Is Enough.” There is literally nothing this government will do differently even given an additional 10 years. The fact of the matter is that they have reached to a point where they can’t think rationally anymore; in otherwords they have hit a ‘Concrete Wall’ this is a STALEMATE – the best plan of action before we lose everything is to try others, basi!!
Kadzako is another lame duck good for nothing bastard. Stories are told that he went to chanco where all his thesis were done by hired people. The guy has mamina mmutu. If chakwera would defacate and need people to lick his ass” probably Kadzako would be one of them.
We have Nkaka who speaks as if he is defacating a hard stool. The man has all the charecterist of lucifers son. His bad heart is manifested on his face.