Members of the public are criticizing the Tonse administration for using the Covid 19 pandemic as an excuse for unfulfilled campaign promises.
The criticism comes as the nine-member alliance government clocks one year in power after the June 23 court sanctioned fresh presidential election.
President Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party-MCP and his running mate Saulos Chilima of the UTM led the alliance to the polls.
Malawians had high expectations following juicy campaign promises by the alliance partners such as creation of 1 million jobs in the first year.
The Chakwera led administration also promised to clear the rubble that mounted during the DPP regime under former president Peter Mutharika.
But ordinary citizens, governance, political and social commentators give a poor-to-average rating on the performance of the new administration so far.
A social and governance commentator Executive Director, the Institute for Policy Interaction-IPI Rafiq Hajat has tipped the government to seriously focus on clearing the rubble.
NGO Gender Coordination Network (GCN) through its Chairperson Barbara Banda however demands guaranteed protection for women and girls. (CFM News)
Most times people in office automatically have their jobs, responsibilities, policies etc cut-out by themselves (office holders) by giving empty promises which are not practical, promising a moon when you can not manage doing so.
Tonse Alliance has no grounds to hide behind Covid-19 because the time they were taking over, Covid-19 was already wreaking havoc, that Chakwera and Chilima faulted Mutharika in the manner he handled and mitigated the pandemic. Meaning that the two had planned on how they would manage the disease, hence their uncalled for criticism of their predecessor. Not surprising that Malawians want results and not excuses. The ball is in their court and all people are looking forward to is LEADERSHIP.
Its childish always to come up with excuses for failing to live up to our promises. If there was the leader who had tough time in the history of malawi was APM. When took over from jb donors had shunned us away and the kwacha was nose diving leading to the rise of commodity prices while pp administration and her colonies were busy kutakata and exceling in cashgate. APM was determined, thinking outside the box and dared the most feared zero aid budget and successful implemmented it. He met the most adverse weather conditions and deadly violence but, the guy was never moved and not even an inch did our local currency saccumbed to all the pressure Do you remember the deadly cyclones that caused our hills to flash flood like chilobwe, chisitu, etc? The guy is an excellent problem solver and he revealed to us that excuse raisers are just weak minded or they find natural catastrophies as a scape goat to relax their muscle or to steal. What we are witnessing now is the rule of the jungle….oh yes, survival of the fittest. Can you imagine that they are now using covid as an excuse to make it appear as the most deadly to them and yet the isolation of respiratory patients has been stopped as if everyone has been fully vaccinated. There must be a sinister move in all this which is a secret they are making. This is the era of actions not excuses. Lazy bones are always busy hunting for problems to cover their incompetencies. Ine ndalephera chifukwa mfiti zandiphwitsira and yet the guy was just sleeping and had no time for studying and revising work. Think, think, think and reduce looming around.