By Vincent Gunde
A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) diehard of Mvera in Dowa district Mr. Rodgers Kamphangala, has praised UTM leader Dr. Dalitso Kabambe for the outstanding interview he had with Mibawa Television that Malawi is not poor but the leaders themselves are poor in their mind.
Kabambe said Malawi has everything to make itself rich citing mineral deposits in Karonga/Rumphi, Chitipa, Songwe, Mulanje, Neno-Mwanza, Balaka, Kasungu, Malingunde and Kasiya saying these mines if used properly can change Malawi from a begging country to an industrious nation.
He expressed fears with the country’s debt which is over K18 trillion when the country is not producing for export only importing saying this development has made the country to be chained with huge loans on its head.
The UTM leader said Agriculture, Tourism and Mining (ATM) Strategy which the current government is spearheading is jut on paper observing that if there was action and strong commitment to political will, the nation could not be run out of forex.
In the interview, Kabambe made it clear that no country will help Malawi to get rich but Malawians themselves have to sacrifice with their own resources to pay back the loans which the country has with the international community and donors.
Kabambe expressed his sadness that during this tobacco selling season, tobacco is being sold in US Dollars for forex but this forex is being enjoyed by those in government while the poor farmers are crying after selling their tobacco at the exchange fixed rate of K1,700 per 1 Kg.
“The majority in the central region of Malawi are farmers who are lying on tobacco for their everyday life situations, but they are all crying for low prices at the Auction Floors,” said Kabambe.
Kamphangala said listening from the interview Dr. Kabambe had with Mibawa Television, he has made up a conclusion that this country needs the services of an economist like Kabambe to be President of the Republic of Malawi than the country to be in the hands of politicians.
He said Dr. Kabambe and Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) President Bantu Saunders Jumah, are the only two people which Malawians can have trust in them on the 16th September, 2025 that they can change the whole political, economic and social setups in Malawi.
The MCP diehard said Kabambe and Jumah have one thing in common, they are not happy to see their country being labelled the paramount chief of the 46 poorest countries in the world while Malawi has everything to make itself rich.
He has asked Dr. Kabambe to get in touch with Bantu Saunders Jumah saying Muvi wa Chilungamo and UTM policies are birds of a feather and they must flock together if the country is to see transformation not the MCP and DPP.
Kamphangala said Malawians have tried DPP and MCP and have seen for themselves their fruits; nepotism, regionalism, tribalism and rampant corruption and as a result they should have a new thinking of mindset change to vote for Dr. Kabambe and Bantu Saunders Jumah, saying the combination of these two, Malawi in less than 15 years to come, will be like Singapore, Malaysia and Qatar of Africa.
