{"id":73993,"date":"2019-02-04T03:08:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73993"},"modified":"2019-02-04T03:08:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T01:08:36","slug":"critics-fail-to-provide-solutions-peter-mutharika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/critics-fail-to-provide-solutions-peter-mutharika\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics fail to provide solutions\u2014Peter Mutharika"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Faith Kamtambe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Peter Mutharika has said it is sad that people that criticise his development initiatives fail to provide solutions.<\/p>\n<p>He said this when addressing a crowd that gathered in Area 36, Lilongwe, Sunday during a whistle stop tour.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika said some people criticise projects he initiated such as Malata Cement Subsidy and Farm Input Subsidy Programme but fail to provide solutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cPeople that criticise subsidy programmes do not even provide solutions. I intend to continue developing this nation,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mutharika also urged people to vote for him during the May 21 Tripartite Elections, saying he has a lot to offer in the next five years, including constructing roads.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke against political violence, saying people must learn to protect their wives and mothers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI want violence to stop in this country,\u201d<\/em> Mutharika said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On a lighter note, Mutharika said he was happy that Malawi Police Service has arrested Anderson Chipwaila, known as Mesho in the music industry, for composing a song that talks ill of the Islamic faith.<\/p>\n<p>During the whistle stop tour, Mutharika visited Area 23 Market, Area 24 Main Market, Area 36, Chinsapo 2 Market and Mgona ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kamtambe: President Peter Mutharika has said it is sad that people that criticise his development initiatives fail to provide solutions. He said this when addressing a crowd that gathered in Area 36, Lilongwe, Sunday during a whistle stop tour. Mutharika said some people criticise projects he initiated such as Malata Cement Subsidy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73998,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73993\/revisions\/73998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}