President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has criticized the mentality of some people who only want to destroy public infrastructure instead of building Malawi.
But Chakwera has appealed to citizens of good will to work with him to build this country.
He made the remarks in Kasungu district at a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the country.
Chakwera said it was sad that there is a group of people who have chosen to despise and destroy everything that his government is doing to lift people out of poverty.
“It is not that there are no people in this country who want to tear down what we are building, but we have to agree that we are not going along with them. It is not that there are no people in this country who knock down electricity poles when we raise them, or steal the corn that we distribute to people who are suffering from hunger, or insult us as if they are not the ones who were caught by the courts stealing elections, or those who talk as if houses and roads and links are mega farms Those who are laying the groundwork in this country do not see them, but we can only work together so that our eyes are on continuing to serve the people of Malawi.
“It’s not that there are no people in this country who are defaming us as if they don’t see that in this country the trains that died a long time ago are starting to run again, but let’s just work together so that our hands are busy with development projects,” said Chakwera.
Speaking about the history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Chakwera said the church did a commendable job in the country even though it is hardly appreciated by many.
He said it was through the African Methodist Episcopal Church that the first president, the late Hastings Kamuzu Banda, got his chance to study at higher education institutions in America.
Chakwera stated that it was for this reason that in 1974, Kamuzu went and paid homage to the church with Pastor Hannock Msokera Phiri who gave him the ability and advice he used to deal with the federal government.
“So today is a very glorious day that the church that did this to us has been preserved by God for 100 years, which is a reminder to us that God preserves his people and preserves those who sacrifice themselves in the work of building the country. It is not the time when the church did this, there were no others in this country who wanted to destroy our country, but today their history was erased. It’s not that there weren’t some people in the country who collaborated with the colonialists and helped them persecute their own people, but all of them today have their reputation frozen. It’s not that there weren’t some Malawians in the country who enjoyed themselves in the houses of the colonialists, who don’t like the issue of getting rid of the colonialists, but all of them have lost their reputation today. The ones we remember today are the Malawians who dedicated themselves to the work of burning their country and building a new Malawi,” emphasized Chakwera.
He also stressed the need to celebrate and commemorate lives of people like Hannock Msokera and mention him frequently because they are the foundations of the freedom that people are currently enjoying.
