Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has come under a heavy criticism for travelling with over 200 delegates to Egypt for United Nations Conference of Parties (CoP27) on climate change despite Forex and economic challenges in the country.
According to a leaked list made available to Malawi Voice, among the delegates are his family members, traditional leaders, members of the clergy, cabinet ministers, journalists from both private and public media houses and former president Dr. Joyce Banda.
Speaking earlier President Chakwera defended his trip to Sharma El Sheik in Egypt saying the sacrifice was necessary for the country to benefit later.
Chakwera who returns home today has left behind in Egypt Minister of Agriculture Sam Kawale, Minister of Energy Ibrahim Matola, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nancy Tembo, Minister of Natural Resources and Climate Change Eisenhower Mkaka and Secretary to the President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba, among other officials.
Chakwera is not to blame for the calamity the country is facing and going through. The man is ignorant of the activities taking place around him and most of the occurrences are merely shoved onto his lap without himself comprehending its significance. Chakwera came from a nothing to being a head of state without any hands-on experience in either politics or management. At least he should have been a minister or, better still an MP belonging to a party in government in order for him to learn and observe the technicalities, dynamics and mechanisms of a government. Unfortunately, the people surrounding him are equally empty and therefore basing their daily administration on a trial and error modus operandi. In otherwords, what we are seeing is more less like two blind people holding each others hand to go to a very busy town centre.
Chakwera blindly accepts everything because he has no grounds or basis to compare the rot presented before him to anything else because he has never been afforded the luxury to lead. With him anything goes. Not surprising that he continues to carry with him very unnecessary and nonproductive people abroad just because one of his idiots has said so. Where is it written that a head of state must take with him his wife everywhere he goes? Chakwera has done that since he ascended to that post. What good does his wife do to the country other than draining the little forex the country has? Why should they be following each other like “Rabid dogs on heat?” There was a time Atupele Muluzi questioned his qualities, capabilities and experiences when it came to being a Statesman. That question was indeed crucial and the response could or should reflect onto the aftermath of the error Malawians made by choosing trash. Malawians might be blaming him as an arrogant person who doesn’t want to listen to advice. But I think the contributing factor with this pastor is ‘Ignorance’ – ignorance is very dangerous in life; it even gets more dangerous when people’s lives come into play. Innocent lives will be lost because of entrusting mediocrity, substandard leadership. Unfortunately, the dissent as lately displayed by Malawians in general is not going to relent until pragmatic changes are instituted. It is usually difficult to hide ineptitude, nondelivery, inexperience etc because it shows itself without needing a human being to beat a drum. Well, time is the best Master!!