By Vincent Gunde
A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) diehard of Mvera in Dowa district Mr. Rodgers Kamphangala, has praised President-Elect Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika for prioritizing on food security and fuel as his agenda number one.
Professor Mutharika told the media in Blantyre that Malawians should not expect a lot from the 100 days in office saying to him this not very important, his priority is to address hunger which has hit the households hard and persistent fuel supply.
He expressed optimistic that within the 100 days which he doesn’t like, Malawians will see for themselves the difference saying from 2014 his government has been prioritizing on food security at household level, and no one died of hunger.
Kamphangala said within the days that Mec Chairperson Justice Annabel Mtalimanja declared Professor Mutharika the winner in the 16th September, 2025 presidential elections, price of maize is continuing going down, no one expected this to be happening in Malawi.
He said the US Dollar and the Rand which was a headache to the outgoing President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and his MCP government, is now making many Malawians smiling that they have a government which look after the welfare of people first.
The MCP diehard said truth to be said, the 5 years of the outgoing President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has made many Malawians to cry for their country claiming that the country was moving on its own without a driver.
He said even though some individuals in the MCP were advocating for “Boma ndilomweli silikuchoka” these words alone, were insults to millions of Malawians sleeping with empty stomachs and have no hope for a better tomorrow.
Kamphangala said he don’t understand why traders are reducing the price of maize when the same were in the forefront increasing prices of the commodity beyond the reach of the poor people in Malawi a development which made other people to eat chitedze.
“History is the best teacher, there have been hunger in Malawi, in 1949, 1981, 2002 people were surviving on eating tuber roots and yellow maize from Kenya not chitedze,” he said.
He said President Chakwera has gone without leaving a good legacy to be remembered for by the generations to come, he is the worst President Malawians have ever had since the dawn of multiparty politics and democracy in 1994.
The MCP diehard said had it been Professor Mutharika came two years ago to replace Dr. Lazarus Chakwera as President of the Republic, Malawi could have moved many steps forward and not with President Chakwera, a man not wealth to be President at all.
