LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi Catholic Church through the Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) has blamed Malawians for putting in power people who can not govern properly.

The blame comes amid social-economic ills Malawians are encountering under President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance administration.

In the latest pastoral letter ECM issued on Sunday, February 25, 2024 and led in all churches across country, Catholic Bishops for the eight dioceses plus two auxiliary bishops observe that Malawians are in trouble due to failed leader including Chakwera.

The Catholic Bishops note that instead of arriving at the ‘Promised Land’, the current administration has taken Malawians to ‘Bagamoyo’, a city on the east coast of Tanzania where a slave would lose all hope of being free again.

“We are witnessing a serious lack of credible and visionary leadership in the country. This is the root cause of all the problems we now face,” reads the letter in part.

The pastoral letter therefore calls on Malawians to cooperate with God to get out of the mess brought by the Tonse Alliance government.

The bishops have also raised concerns on corruption fight, their ‘fruitless’ engagements with the President, nepotism and corruption and partisanship in the judiciary.

Other issues include intraparty squabbles, victimisation of the elderly and the need to respect and care for creation.

However, the conference says God has not abandoned Malawians but requires their cooperation to actively and wisely participate in next year’s elections.

The pastoral letter titled: ‘The sad story of Malawi,’ has come on the second Sunday of Lent and is expected to be read out in all Catholic churches today.

Chakwera Tonse Alliance Government is yet to comment on the critical issues contained in the pastoral letter.

Malawians have been grappling with high cost of living, inflation, shortage of forex, fuel, drugs in public hospitals under Chakwera leadership.