By Vincent Gunde
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) has open a national debate for Malawians to discuss on whether or not President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera should continue to be receiving taxpayers’ money after leaving office as pension scheme for life.
Just like all other previous Presidents and Vice Presidents, President Chakwera is entitled to be accorded all the respect he deserves as Former President of the Republic of Malawi enjoying terminal benefits such as vehicles, housing, security, all this, under the sponsorship of citizens’ taxes.
President Chakwera has become the first President in Malawi to have gone out of the State House with no legacy to write about only the history of MCP panga wielding thugs who he was sponsoring to turn Malawi into another Rwanda in a quest to bounce back into government.
The organization’s Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa speaking at a news conference in Blantyre on Monday, said it is sad that K67 billion which Parliament allocated to state House has been eaten as tomato in 6 months of the planned 12 months and he even borrowed more to cover the remaining 6 months.
Namiwa claimed that the money which was eaten like tomato came from the hard sweats of the common men and women who are the poorest in the villages demanding Parliament to summon President Chakwera to tell Malawians what he did with the K67 billion.
He said the money was allocated to the State House to implement equally important projects but President Chakwera with powers vested in himself, used it for the benefit of his family members, extended family, friends and relatives.
The CDEDI leader said going by calculations of the K67 billion, President Chakwera and his extended family spent K12.2 billion a month, K372 million a day, K15.2 million per hour and K25,000 per minute at a time when Malawians were dying after eating wild bushes (chitedze) as food for their survival.
Namiwa said he believe that the whole K67 billion was not spent going by calculations and with the K3.4 `trillion which disappeared from government coffers in just 3 months to the 16th September, 2025 elections, there is no need to give President Chakwera his pension.
He has called on the Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) to call President Chakwera to answer questions as part of their investigations and possibly to arrest and prosecute him in a competent court of law for killing millions of Malawians with hunger while he had free for all money at the State House.
“The way President Chakwera has abused Malawians, panga wielding thugs terrorizing and hacking innocent peopl, people have sailed through pain and sufferings, spending nights with empty stomachs, God is not going to leave him scot-free, he will receive Godly punishments,” said Namiwa.
He expressed hope that Malawians will join the debate as part of their democratic rights to express their opinions for the new government to take action claiming that President Chakwera has proved to the outside world that Malawi is not a poor country.
