By Vincent Gunde
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, has come out from silence to answer Malawi Congress Party (MCP) doubts over free secondary education that from 1st January, 2026 both primary and secondary school education will be free.
After noting that it was taking long that the DPP will not implement its awaited promise of free secondary school education and having observed that students were paying for secondary education, MCP members and supporters were strategizing to go to the streets to hold demonstrations for the same.
MCP forums were a subject of discussions that Professor Mutharika has failed to implement his promise with others saying free secondary school education was just a campaign tool to help the party wooing votes from the people.
Speaking at the Mulhako wa Alhomwe cultural festival in Mulanje on Saturday, Professor Mutharika called for mindset change amongst Malawians that what is impossible with someone can be possible with someone.
Professor Mutharika said there were other people who said DPP will never rule the country as long as they are alive and if it is ruling, it will be over their dead bodies saying this kind of thinking has brought shame to the MCP.
He said Professor Mutharika and the DPP are the ones ruling the country advising Malawians that thinking that it is impossible, has brought the country downward observing that people have think differently and not always the same as yesterday.
The President encouraged parents and guardians that from January, 2026 they should not have any excuse that they are failing to send their children to school because of school fees and advising children never and ever to get themselves absent from school for no valid reasons.
He has warned parents and guardians not sending their children to school from January, 2026 and letting the children be drinking Kachasu, he will deal with them, and he mean it saying this the only way to instill discipline.
“I want discipline in the country, without discipline, the country cannot go far, I don’t want the whole country to celebrate 55 percent pass rate during examinations,” said Mutharika.
He called upon all Malawians to love their country, people to love one another in no Lomwe, Sena, Tumbuka, Chewa, all are Malawians borrowing a leaf from Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda that he did not want Malawians to segregate by themselves through tribal and regional lines.
