BLANTYRE, MALAWI, March 19th 2015 (MaraviPost): As part Of a detailed statement tackling a lot of issues facing the country, Leader Lazarus Chakwera Tackled the matter of DPP Secretary General Kudontoni Statements that well in the least in artful and have already been repudiated by President Peter Mutharika.
Below is the full statement on the Matter by Leader Chakwera:
A few days ago we learnt with great trepidation that the Secretary General of the DPP had during a meeting he addressed in Mzuzu had called on CEOs of statutory corporations to support the DPP.
I condemned in very strong terms those unfortunate remarks and called for a retraction of such undemocratic statements. I asked the DPP leadership to censure the official unless the statements reflected the thinking of the leadership of the Party at the highest level.
In typical fashion of the DPP instead of retracting the remarks or censoring the Secretary General, a claim is now being made that the Secretary General was misunderstood or misquoted.
It is most unfortunate, in my view, that the blame is now being placed on the media.
I repeat my demand that there must be an unequivocal retraction of those unfortunate statements.
If the DPP insists that the Secretary General was misunderstood then I demand that the DPP must make available to Malawians the complete recording or full transcript of what the Secretary General said so that all Malawians can hear for themselves what the Secretary General said and judge for themselves if what was said is proper.
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p style=”padding-left: 60px;”>The statement issued by the President falls short of condemning the official, it would have been even better to be told that the individual was summoned and censured instead of just generalizing.
