PAC says DPP has failed to deliver
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a quasi-religious body and governance watchdog, has poorly rated the administration of President Peter Mutharika and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), saying it has failed to govern the country.
Giving its assessment to the media in Blantyre yesterday, PAC said the country was currently experiencing mediocrity as poverty levels have been deeply entrenched among ordinary citizens.
But in his reaction last evening, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Nicholas Dausi, who is the official government spokesperson, described PAC’s assessment as untoward and unusual of a religious body of its calibre.
PAC told a news conference in Blantyre the DPP administration and its leadership lack vision to steer the country into prosperity.
The grouping said during the past three years, the DPP administration has failed to fulfil its own manifesto, citing what it described as deep-rooted corruption, fraud and selective justice.
“After a careful examination on incidents of corruption, we note that the DPP administration has been greatly characterised by corrupt practices, financial indiscipline and selective justice,” said PAC chairperson the Reverend Felix Chingota during the conference attended by the body’s board of trustees, executive committee and representatives of affiliates.
He also noted that the DPP continues to embark on selective justice as those who are within and close to the system do not face the wrath of the law.
“This may lead people to conclude that those in leadership especially in the higher echelons of the administration also benefit from the questionable deals that have been revealed to date,” he said.
Chingota said PAC was aware that the lack of legal enforcement in the country was a perennial problem especially where the “big fishes” were directly or indirectly involved.
He said: “Corruption and lack of leadership continue to derail development of our country. Time has come to peacefully and decisively act in favour of change for result-oriented and transformative leadership.
“The mediocrity we experience today will not improve the lives of Malawians and the nation needs to wake up to the call.”
On his part, PAC publicity secretary Father Peter Mulomole observed that prior to the 2014 Tripartite Elections, the country’s leadership committed itself to deal with fraud, corruption and also to improve lives of Malawians but has failed to fulfil them.
He also said PAC would be holding the Sixth All-Inclusive Stakeholders Conference in May this year where it will ask Malawians to decide the next action as regards the future of the nation.
But in a brief interview, Dausi questioned the current structure of PAC, saying it has a fixed dislike against the DPP led regime.
Said Dausi: “It seems the current composition of PAC has a pathological hatred of the DPP-led government. They don’t see anything good in whatever we do and say, so let God be God, [because] He is always a merciful God.”
