By Vincent Gunde
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera has been told to fire his cabinet ministers who are openly distributing cash to citizens as ‘Hand-outs” to win positions in the forthcoming of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Convention.
MCP convention is slated for August 8 this year in the capital Lilongwe.
Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP), has demanded Tonse Alliance Cabinet Ministers including Kenneth Zikhale Ng’oma (Homeland Minister), Simplex Chithyola Banda (Finance Minister), and government supplier of goods Vitumbiko Mumba be arrested for bribing MCP delegates.
The MRP observes, “It is pathetic and demeaning to see government officials who were supposed to be law keepers and law enforcers breaking laws in a country where the very same government adopted against “Hand-outs.”
The party has claimed that the MCP is running the government in Malawi without laws, the president and cabinet ministers break laws but no state institution stands against these powerful people speaking to itself that Malawi is now being governed through “power” not laws.
In a press statement signed by its President and Commander in Chief Bantu Saunders Jumah, the MRP says ever since 2020 Malawians have observed and watched the MCP-led Tonse Alliance government led by President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera plundering and destroying the hard-won democracy.
MRP says, “MCP has institutionalized corruption without bringing to book any of its loyalists suspected of corrupt practices, billions of Kwachas have been lost in dirty and corrupt transactions with political parties looking aside”.
“Under President Chakwera, huge amount of money to the tune of MK76.5 million was reported to have been dished out to the voters by two ministers and MK351 million packed in 90 Kilogram bags was reported to be enroute to Blantyre to be dished out to delegates as “Hand-outs”.
“This is money laundering by ministers, these millions of Kwachas are being handed to the would-be- voters for the elective conference, the country’s laws are watching and doing nothing,” reads the statement in part.
Chakwera is yet to response on the concerns of handout ministers.
