The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) has strongly accused President Lazarus Chakwera his continuation of travelling both locally and abroad despite the country’s economic challenges.
CAMA said this through a press statement dated October 14 and has been signed by its Executive Director John Kapito.
The statement has accused Chakwera of travelling to United State of America for UN General Assembly with a large delegation where he spent close to 25 days when the country had no Forex Reserve, fuel scarcity and when Malawians are going through one of the worst high costs of living in recent memory.
Reads part of the statement: “The President left the country at a time Malawians needed his leadership to address the serious economic and social challenges the economy is going through. The President with his large delegation took and swept almost every dollar available on the market for activities that he could have conducted with a small number of people for a shorter period considering the cost implications of the trip.
“We expected the President immediately upon arrival after staying out that long to start immediately addressing critical challenges affecting the country, we believe the workload waiting for him must be huge, unfortunately he has prioritized attending to functions that have no impact to address the macro/micro economic challenges affecting lives of many Malawians.”
The statement further said Malawians are expecting the President to explain his economic strategies and plans in order to end the current economic crisis and suffering Malawians are going through.
It further reminded the President that this is not the time for him to sit back and hope that all the problems facing this country will be sorted out by borrowing from multilateral and bilateral donors but as a country we need to find quick domestic solutions.
“President Chakwera must be ashamed to see many industries closing down, many Malawians losing jobs under his watch and he has no clue how to address these serious economic blunders,” reads the statement.
In conclusion CAMA has advised Chakwera to “jack up or go.”
