A fact Malawians seem not to be aware of is that Politician Lazarus Chakwera gets advice from Americans who he trusts more than the local politicians in his Malawi Congress Party. A local Mississippi small paper reports that Chakwera is visiting the poorest state in the USA and is declaring himself the next president of Malawi.

“We have a long history with Mississippi,” Lazarus Chakwera to the clarion Ledger reporter.

The Paper said Lazarus Chakwera is in Mississippi visiting friends, including Bishop Ronnie Crudup, pastor of New Horizon Church International in Jackson. Chakwera was introduced in the state Senate on Thursday. The African leader will be in Mississippi until Sunday before leaving for Washington for the National Prayer Breakfast, which is Tuesday.

Malawi Congress Party should take note that the Man they have entrusted to run the party respects no Malawian as advisors. He trusted aides are the likes of Bishop Ronnie Crudup who travelled across the States during the heat of the 2014 Campaign. In these secret visits he makes to the USA the Reverend turned politician never takes with him a Malawian aide. He seeks counsel from Americans rather than Malawians.

It is a question many in Malawi should start asking in case the remote possibility happens that he becomes the next President of Malawi. Whose counsel is he going to seek? Who will run Malawi behind the scenes?

Chakwera said the first African Bible College campus was opened in 1978 in the West African country of Liberia by Jack and Nell Chinchen of Jackson. In 1991, African Bible College opened its second college in the Central African country of Malawi, and 14 years later the third college campus was opened in East Africa’s equatorial country of Uganda in 2005.

“When I’m in Mississippi, I’m home,” Chakwera said Thursday in an interview at the state Capitol.

Malawi is a country of about 16 million people.

“We are an agricultural-based economy, almost like Mississippi,” Chakwera said. “We would love to have trade that whatever Malawi produces we could have a market here (Mississippi and the United States as a whole) and the same. We aren’t looking for the United States to save us, but rather be partners in the global village.”

Malawi is landlocked, which makes it harder to import and export items, Chakwera said.

Lazarus Chakwera failed to share with the local paper in Mississippi about the Murders and autocratic history of his party the MCP. Instead he fabricated lies that The Malawi Congress Party, which he heads has pushed for better conditions and services for the people of Malawi. He forgot to tell the local paper that the first thing he did was raise his Salary in Parliament at the expense of poor Malawians.

He happily shares the fact that he comes from a poor nation, however he forgets to share the fact that he bought himself a brand New car at the expense of poor Malawians. He refused to rescind his raise when the President and others did so. It is easy to fool a paper in Mississippi but Malawians know better.

“Our country’s economy hasn’t been good,” he said. “Close to 3 million people are seriously without enough food. One of the biggest problems in terms of government issues relates to the cancer of corruption. And sometime because of corruption, services have broken down. We are working to see how we can resuscitate the economy so that the private sector, which is the engine of the economy,” will really do something to make Malawi a productive economy instead of a consumption economy.”

“We need a people who will believe in themselves and who will say no to a culture of entitlements and say we can do something,” Chakwera said. This comes from the Man who has taken every opportunity to enrich himself.

Mississippi a state Chakwera calls home has a checkered past with Civil rights. Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and gain social justice and voting rights. A World War II veteran and college graduate, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became a field secretary for the NAACP. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to gain admission for African Americans to the state-supported public University of Mississippi. He also worked on voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society.

Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a member of the White Citizens’ Council, a group formed in 1954 to resist integration of schools and civil rights activity. As a veteran, Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. His murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests, as well as numerous works of art, music, and film. All-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of Beckwith. He was convicted in a new state trial in 1994, based on new evidence.

Lazarus Chakwera chose the MCP as his vehicle to gaining power, a party with a checkered past and now he calls Mississippi home, a state with a checkered past with Civil rights.

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