LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Pressure is mounting on President Lazarus Chakwera to fire embattled Minister of Finance Simplex Chithyola Banda for failing to fix the ailing economy.

The call comes barely hours after Chakwera sacked Trade Minister Sosten Gwengwe while replacing Vitumbiko Mumba.

In an open letter to President Chakwera, Silvester Ayuba James Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporter wants Chithyola Banda be out of Ministry of Finance…

Ayuba James writes…..

This is about the nation, Sir. Please, appoint an accomplished economist as Minister of Finance. I hold nothing personal against the current minister, but I have everything national in my consideration, sir.

Looking at the academic qualifications of the current Minister of Finance, Sir, one could be justified to speculate that perhaps some of the basic fiscal policy problems could be addressed by a proper Economist in that office.

You do not have to fire Honourable Chithyola, Sir, if you don’t wish to. You may just move him to a different ministry where he would be fitting and let a proper Economist with deep and thorough expertise in the subject matter move in, Sir. He must also have some street background to enable him to appreciate the dark arts that are always at play on the Forex market.

I don’t think we are short of such individuals in this country, Sir. Zikavutitsitsa, Sir, bwerekerani Prof. Ronald Mangani from Press Corporation. Ndi chiphe cha Economics chimene chija, Sir, both in theory and practice. He is an undisputed genius with a lucid understanding and a detailed analysis of the game of Economics.

But I know you can find some equally good guys elsewhere, Sir. I wouldn’t mind, but let’s try a proper Economist in that office. Not because Mr. Chithyola has done anything particularly wrong, but because he is not a proper economist handling an economy in a crisis when prenty qualified economists are available on the shelf. It doesn’t make sense, Sir.

I am saying all this is because I wish you well, Sir. And because I don’t wanna see my MCP out of government this soon, Sir. If that’s your wish, too, please, act, Sir.

And I know you are the President, Sir, and that I am no advisor of yours. I am just some Facebook noise maker, Sir, but no one has learned about the cheating of his wife from a serious decent close friend. We all have known about it from random village talkers making noise at Bawo games played under the village’s big tree.

Your interested advisors may not tell you some of the simple but critical things you need to hear, Sir. And they may not wish you as well as some of us do.

Thank you, Sir.