The Public Affairs Committee (Pac) has spoken for millions of Malawians in its statement that has decried mediocre performance by the Peter Mutharika administration.
Patriotic Malawians have been speaking against selective justice that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration has been advancing.
Mutharika has played double-standards in his administration. He has preached about patriotism, integrity and hard work and yet his government has vividly failed to live up to the billing—not even as promised in its manifesto.
It is also clear that the DPP has failed its own manifesto which reads in part “We, in the DPP, believe that if a government does not have integrity, it has no right to govern”.
The manifesto also pledges to promote freedom of speech yet the government uses its agents such as the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), the police and the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) to silence critical voices on trumped up charges.
Mutharika is failing to reign in his officials who are busy plundering public resources. For instance, Mutharika merely ordered his cabinet ministers and senior party officials to move out of Chikangawa Forest instead of ordering them to pay fines that the Department of Forestry imposed on them.
Mutharika is also presiding on mediocrity by not bringing to book DPP councillors who are harassing Chiradzulu District Commissioner, Memory Kaleso, for her insistence on good governance.
The President is also failing to ensure the rule of law when he allows the Malawi Police Service to change tunes in investigating murder cases of The Malawi Polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa and Anti-Corruption Bureau senior official, Issah Njauju.
The Republican Constitution clearly stipulates that those who govern do so on trust and their continued stay in power is dependent on sustenance of such trust.
We strongly believe that Pac has a basis to ask whether based on its own confession, the DPP has a right to continue governing this country.
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