Contribution by:  Chisala, Maxwell L.

Listening to Hon. Chilima detail the myriad of problems and travails confronting our country and his ‘economic recovery plan’ aimed at ‘balancing the economic variables’ to ‘resuscitate the Malawi economy from its deathbed’ through his ‘12 Point Plan’, one would not know Hon. Chilima has a private-sector background and sufficient experience with private-sector centered solutions to realize the private sector has a crucial role to play in solving some of our more intractable problems.  I may have wrongly believed Hon. Chilima’s appeal to ‘his’ DPP and the country was his private-sector background and therefore his apparent lack of enthusiasm for and confidence in private sector based solutions very perplexing to say the least.  Hon. Chilima’s understanding of how the Malawi economy functions, how to grow it and how to use it to create private-sector jobs seems suspect or at best very rudimentary.  Or is Hon. Chilima just another politician saying what people want to hear or, as they say, simply speaking the language of the people?  Continue reading Is Hon. Saulos Chilima Trafficking In Deception Or Just Difficult-To-Realize Hopes? →