Of late, President Chakwera has resorted to issuing executive decisions, a clear attempt to copy the tactics of leaders like Donald Trump. However, while Trump used executive orders to assert influence and drive policy, Chakwera’s actions appear more like desperate attempts to salvage what is left of his crumbling leadership.
Chakwera, time is not on your side. The public has lost patience, and no executive decree can erase the economic mismanagement, rising corruption, and the failure to deliver on promises that have defined your tenure. Instead of bold reforms or meaningful action, you are clinging to superficial decisions designed to create the illusion of control.
But Malawians see through it. They know these executive decisions won’t change the soaring cost of living, the joblessness affecting thousands, or the growing distrust in government institutions. Leadership is about substance, not optics, and Chakwera’s time for substance has passed.
No last-minute strategy or executive trick can rescue you now. The people of Malawi are ready for real leadership, leadership that listens, delivers, and uplifts the nation, not one that hides behind executive orders.
These copycat means of leadership can not work in a developing country. During Trump’s first tenure of office, he used to have weekly if not fortnightly press briefings at the white house. After sometime, those briefs died a natural cause. Malawi copied and pasted that but it too mysteriously disappeared.
In his second week of his time in office, Trump has inundated the white house with ‘executive orders’; surprisingly, Malawi has taken that route as well. There’s something terribly wrong with our president who is all time obsessed with the American style of doing things. He previously used to twist his tongue and spoke like an American. After a while having realised that that simply exposed his obsession tendency, he resorted to using the proper King’s language and tone. Therefore, this “Executive Directives” is not strange at all; that is his way of doing things. As rightly mentioned, time is not on his side. Where was he all this time for his government not to compensate the Area 18 residents? Those are kicks of a dying horse, I am sorry to to say this.