Malawi president warns citizens against overpraising, depending on him
May 16, 2021 Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has warned Malawians against overpraising and overdepending on him, a tendency that he says can turn presidents into dictators.
Chakwera spoke Friday in Lilongwe during a commemoration of the country’s first president, the late Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who many say was a dictator during the 31 years of his administration.
Chakwera, who became president after a rerun election last June, said it’s sad that even during this democratic era, people want a president to respond to every little thing, while also praising the president as they would a god. Without directly referring to Banda, Chakwera said dictators are made by people who always idolize their leaders.
May 11, 2021 Nyasa Times 9 Comments
By now, believe you me, our HI5 and would-be servant leader that was President Dr Lazarus Chakwera prior and after the 2019 tippexed elections would have already made a decision, or at least said something, on whether and when he and his chief secretary to government Zangazanga Chikhosi are going to settle legal costs following their puerile decision in the firing of MEC commissioners Linda Kunje and Jean Mathanga.
Chakwera stresses a point -Pic by Roy Nkosi
Well, we must as well forget it; for that is now sticking in us as some far-fetched idea. Quite unexpected of a man who preached people power and fervently sold us his unmistakable hate for executive arrogance which seemed to have been running in the DNA of his predecessor-party the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).