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Leader of Opposition in Parliament Lazarus Chakwera, says President Peter Mutharika’s sugarcoated seriousness of the country situation in his speech when opening the Parliament Meeting on Friday.
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president was responding to State Of National Address on Monday evening as the house begins responding to President Speech delivered last Friday 6th November 2015.
Chakwera said although President Peter Mutharika acknowledged in his address that the country is at critical stage but the rest of his speech was sugarcoating the seriousness of the situation.
The leader of Opposition whose speech lasted 38 minutes, full of number of concerns regarding what President Peter Mutharika should have spoken on the occasion of opening the 46th Session of Parliament, however, said “one positive from the President‟s address is that it only lasted 23 minutes, so at least Mutharika was kind enough to not take too much of our time with his Zero Plan Speech.”
Chakwera said the President Speech was not only empty, but also avoided so many national issues
“To be frank, Mr Speaker Sir, the President‟s speech avoided so many national issues that it is almost impossible to find anything of substance to respond to.” Said Chakwera
“The Executive may think that avoiding to say how bad things are will make Malawians think that their lives are getting better, but this is a fool‟s errand, and this House will not allow you to bury your heads in the sand like this. Let‟s talk about how things are falling apart.” Said Chakwera
He said as things seems now, it is clear that Malawi is not only financially bankrupt, but also bankrupt of sound policies and plans to move Malawi into a prosperous nation.
The Opposition Leader justified his claim saying for those who listened to President Mutharika’s speech never got action plans to end enormous challenges facing people.
Among others he said President failed to highlight areas of deteriorating security, food situation, social welfare even rationale on hiked fees in Secondary and Universities as well as removal of Standard 8 and JCE examination. He further said the President should have also informed Malawians on the status of K557 billion audit query as well as plans to end arson burning markets.
He then requested the whole house to put heads together to offer ideas to President on how he can end the enormous challenges facing the country
“Because the President has failed to set the record straight about the poor performance of the country and his leadership, I stand here to do it. Because his government has no plan by which to call Malawians to actions that will get us out of this mess, we must all put our heads together here to offer him ideas.” He said
“We simply cannot afford to let the ship we are sailing on to sink in these troubled economic waters simply because the captain does not know the way to our destiny or how to navigate troubled waters. We cannot afford to let the Executive, with its 20 strong cabinet plus a congregation of 20 plus so-called advisors, leave our children at the mercy of its endless comedy of errors. It is unfortunate that the people have no means to fire the whole administration, and indeed a wonder that the whole lot has not resigned. After all, Mr Speaker Sir, not only are they failing to solve our problems, but they themselves have become a problem!” he lamented
He also accused President Mutharika of lying to Malawians that 2015 will be a great year, that the economy will rebound and that nothing is working now.
The Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president was responding to State Of National Address on Monday evening as the house begins responding to President Speech delivered last Friday 6th November 2015.
Chakwera said although President Peter Mutharika acknowledged in his address that the country is at critical stage but the rest of his speech was sugarcoating the seriousness of the situation.
The leader of Opposition whose speech lasted 38 minutes, full of number of concerns regarding what President Peter Mutharika should have spoken on the occasion of opening the 46th Session of Parliament, however, said “one positive from the President‟s address is that it only lasted 23 minutes, so at least Mutharika was kind enough to not take too much of our time with his Zero Plan Speech.”
Chakwera said the President Speech was not only empty, but also avoided so many national issues
“To be frank, Mr Speaker Sir, the President‟s speech avoided so many national issues that it is almost impossible to find anything of substance to respond to.” Said Chakwera
“The Executive may think that avoiding to say how bad things are will make Malawians think that their lives are getting better, but this is a fool‟s errand, and this House will not allow you to bury your heads in the sand like this. Let‟s talk about how things are falling apart.” Said Chakwera
He said as things seems now, it is clear that Malawi is not only financially bankrupt, but also bankrupt of sound policies and plans to move Malawi into a prosperous nation.
The Opposition Leader justified his claim saying for those who listened to President Mutharika’s speech never got action plans to end enormous challenges facing people.
Among others he said President failed to highlight areas of deteriorating security, food situation, social welfare even rationale on hiked fees in Secondary and Universities as well as removal of Standard 8 and JCE examination. He further said the President should have also informed Malawians on the status of K557 billion audit query as well as plans to end arson burning markets.
He then requested the whole house to put heads together to offer ideas to President on how he can end the enormous challenges facing the country
“Because the President has failed to set the record straight about the poor performance of the country and his leadership, I stand here to do it. Because his government has no plan by which to call Malawians to actions that will get us out of this mess, we must all put our heads together here to offer him ideas.” He said
“We simply cannot afford to let the ship we are sailing on to sink in these troubled economic waters simply because the captain does not know the way to our destiny or how to navigate troubled waters. We cannot afford to let the Executive, with its 20 strong cabinet plus a congregation of 20 plus so-called advisors, leave our children at the mercy of its endless comedy of errors. It is unfortunate that the people have no means to fire the whole administration, and indeed a wonder that the whole lot has not resigned. After all, Mr Speaker Sir, not only are they failing to solve our problems, but they themselves have become a problem!” he lamented
He also accused President Mutharika of lying to Malawians that 2015 will be a great year, that the economy will rebound and that nothing is working now.
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