By Esther Banda
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Vice President and UTM Party leader Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima told his boss Peter Mutharika that his legacy is at stake due to continued rampant corruption among others.
Chilima sent clear message to president Mutharika that his public image is under disrepute arguing that reports of nepotism, unemployment, insufficient of medical suppliers in public hospitals still high in his leadership.
The UTM leader was addressing the Lilongwe Masintha rally on Sunday, February 23, 2020.
“My clear message to bwana, President Mutharika is that your legacy is at stake as your the head of state. Your boys are still siphoning public resources, youths are still unemployed, no drugs in public hospitals.
“You need to leave the office while clean not the way things are under your leadership,” advises Chilima amid clapping hands from party loyalists.
Chilima therefore assured Malawians that UTM will the same Manifesto that was launched in Dowa, 2019 until all it’s fulfilled and done.
“One of it it’s to provide one Million jobs Especially to the youths that were graduated from the different Universities,” assures the UTM party leader.
On the podium also president of Chancellor Collage Student Union Who is also the president of Chancellor Collage UTM wing as well as UTM National Executive Member Godfrey Clement Phunyanya a person living with albinism said that Chilima will end all their problems that they are facing now in the public universities.
“Because in this Country we have the Ministry of Education that looks into the welfare of the students including Secondary schools and Public Universities. But it’s been a Challenge in the public Universities from the beginning because of the political leaders.
“We had issues where by it was a strategy whenever your in load at the University for example Polytechnic Chancellor Collage you were entitled to be given an upkeep allowance cost fifty thousand Kwacha per month but now those advantages were removed. If a person is selected to the public University, he/she is entitled to sponsor him/herself for food, accommodation as well as nutrition fee.” said Phunyanya.
He further explained that there is a laws board that was chosen to look into the mandate adding that it’s failing to do as it was assigned which leads to the Majority effects where girls start prostituting and others drop out from school.
“And we have got the laws board that was chosen to look into the mandate but if we can go to approach the laws board, it tells us that we don’t have enough funding to cater all the students at the end they choose selected number of students that leads to the majority being affected that most of the girls they are doing prostitution. If it is the side of the boys, they have nothing to hold on to as the result they find out that they have been withdrawn,” he said.