Heads should roll at Capital Hill—Chakwera

Malawi Congress Party says it is gravely saddened with ongoing shameless revelations involving alleged selfish acts of plunder and looting of government coffers by some senior civil servants.

Party President Lazaraus Chakwera briefing the media today in Lilongwe called for Parliamentary committees to “take on board all steps being taken by these investigative authorities so that there is a departure from the business-as-usual approach which has previously seen most investigative efforts yielding unsatisfactory results and most often case files dying premature deaths.”

“If the reports from the media as well as the recent expressed sentiments by our developmental partners are anything to go by, the Malawi Congress Party holds the conviction that enough is enough. Malawians deserve a representative patriotic voice to call the powers that be to task to address the vices currently going unchecked,” Chakwera said.

Chakwera said Malawians have witnessed incidents that clearly demonstrate failure by the current administration to control its own machinery.

For example, the MCP leader said hospitals across the country are at the edge of shutdown due to lack of funding to make essential drugs available and maize is now hardly available in all ADMARC depots and where maize is available, it is rationed up to 10kgs per person regardless of individual family size.

“The sale proceeds of our Presidential Jet at US$15million have not been accounted for, despite the nation being told that they would go for procurement of maize. The nation was informed that about 31,000 metric tonnes of maize had gone rotten in our national maize silos, but up to date no one knows the whereabouts of the rotten maize, nor how it has been disposed of,” said worried Chakwera.

MCP expressed anger that while Malawians were in the state of shock over the high level corruption, the Minister of Finance as well as the Chief Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury and the State President, all decided to fly out of the country.