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Development, Malawi, Top News

Chilima hails President Mutharika Govt over New Kamuzu Barrage

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Malawi vice president and UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima and runningmate USI

 

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi vice president and UTM Party leader Saulos Chilima has commended President Peter Mutharika for the rehabilitation of the Kamuzu Barrage.

 

In a graphic, Chilima has applauded the Mutharika government for its partnership with the World Bank for the construction of the barrage.

 

“We applaud these partnerships,” he says.

 

He hails the President for seeing the need to rehabilitate the barrage and look for resources for the work.

 

But while the graphic goes with the picture of the New Kamuzu Barrage, Chilima’s knowledge of local issues seems to be not up to scratch as he refers to the barrage as Liwonde Barrage.

 

There is no Liwonde barrage in Malawi.

 

Mutharika commissioned the bridge on Monday, at the end of four years of work on the bridge which Kamuzu Banda commissioned in early 1960s.

 

The Mutharika administration is implementing a massive infrastructure program.

 

Coupled with good financial management demonstrated by the government, the program has drawn the interest of both development partners and local private sector who are supplementing government funding in the sector.

 

In addition, for the first time in many years, government is now able to finance some of the mega-infrastructure projects using own resources.

 

For instance, government is meeting the full budget for the 95-km Lilongwe Old Airport-Kasiya-Santhe Road, among many others.

Opinion, Politics

Chilima launches a vicious attack against MCP-Jan 30 presser

Maravi Post Author

By Falles Kamanga

In a lukewarm press conference that could not live up to the hype, Malawi Vice President and UTM party leader Saulos Chilima launched a vicious attack against the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP).

In his direct attack to the MCP, Chilima makes a claim that he was there “when we fought [MCP] dictatorship, and cruelty to usher in democracy;”

But those who were at CHANCO with him deny ever seeing him participating in student politics. So Chilima is lying when he claims that he was ever involved in political activities in his days as a below average student.

Reminding the people about the atrocities of the MCP, Chilima continued, “My fellow Malawians, this is part of our nation’s history. And it is history that we must never forget.”

Insiders claim that this has really upset the MCP strategists because the MCP is trying too hard to make people forget the evil past and history of the MCP that has costed lives of over 20,000 people- a number that seems to be understated.

Whilst taking a swipe at the DPP, Chilima tried to pretend to sympathise with the MCP when he spoke about Edward Govati.

The plan was to make it look like he sympathises with the MCP, after dedicating minutes of the opening of his lame speech dealing with the atrocities committed by the MCP.

In his speech, however, Chilima did not address the issue of corruption – especially the corruption conducted by a Vice President who earns MK1 million salary per month while doing nothing. His benefits are calculated to be over MK35 million per month, paid for by the tax payers. A MK36 million burden a month!

In a country as poor as Malawi, earning such a huge salary while not working is gross insult to hard working taxpayers and the poor.

 

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