President Dr. Joyce Banda has promised to develop Senior Chief
Mazengera’s Headquarters to settle the pledge she made in 2004 but never
had chance to push for its fulfillment due to her political isolation.
The President made the pledge on Sunday at Mazengera Primary School where she conducted a development rally, gave out fifteen cows to fifteen beneficiaries, and distributed 1,000 bags of maize to families affected by hunger.
Dr. Banda said she was very touched to note that Senior Chief Mazengera’s base was even worse than it had been the time the President visited when she was campaigning for former President, Bingu Mutharika.
She recalled that during the 2004 campaign
period, she had met late Senior Chief Mazengera with 600 chiefs under
his jurisdiction and that the chief had complained about his
headquarters’ lack of facilities such as teachers’ houses, court,
hospital, electricity at the school, desks and the chief’s own house.
“I promised Senior Chief Mazengera that our Government would take care of the outlined problems when we were voted into power,” recalled Dr. Banda. “And indeed people from the centre including this area gave us the votes but little did I know that I’d only enjoy the Vice Presidency for a week.”
The President said isolated as she was, it was very difficult for her to push for the things she had promised Senior Chief Mazengera and now that she was president of the country; she remembered to pay Mazengera’s subjects a visit and initiate the fulfillment of the promise.
“It would be very unfair to the soul of Senior Chief Mazengera if I don’t fulfill the promise I made because he did his part,” explained Dr. Banda. She added, “I’m sending you some people before end of this week and that will be the beginning of everything.”
President Banda also said she had identified a village within the area where she was going to build a modern village through her rural transformation programme under the Mudzi Transformation.
She said her government put the core needs of people at heart and that it was why she had constructed modern villages across the country from Chitipa, up north, to Nsanje, down south.
The Malawi leader added that although she had inherited depleted coffers from her predecessor, she had managed to steer the economy to the point whereby the country’s import cover which she found at one week was now at two months, with US$400 million in reserve.
President Banda also said she was the only president who had seriously waged an all-out war against corruption and she stressed that she would not shield anybody implicated in the on-going investigations regarding the looting of public funds at Capital Hill.
“Regarding Cash-gate I am saying we should not just concentrate on the K13billion which was stolen from 2012 to 2013. Let us also probe, and bring to book those who stole K92billion during the three years before I took over,” she said, adding that she also needed names in the just released forensic audit report on the looting
The President made the pledge on Sunday at Mazengera Primary School where she conducted a development rally, gave out fifteen cows to fifteen beneficiaries, and distributed 1,000 bags of maize to families affected by hunger.
Dr. Banda said she was very touched to note that Senior Chief Mazengera’s base was even worse than it had been the time the President visited when she was campaigning for former President, Bingu Mutharika.
President Dr. Joyce Banda distributes maize to hunger affected households of Tradition Authority Mazengera in Lilongwe.
“I promised Senior Chief Mazengera that our Government would take care of the outlined problems when we were voted into power,” recalled Dr. Banda. “And indeed people from the centre including this area gave us the votes but little did I know that I’d only enjoy the Vice Presidency for a week.”
The President said isolated as she was, it was very difficult for her to push for the things she had promised Senior Chief Mazengera and now that she was president of the country; she remembered to pay Mazengera’s subjects a visit and initiate the fulfillment of the promise.
“It would be very unfair to the soul of Senior Chief Mazengera if I don’t fulfill the promise I made because he did his part,” explained Dr. Banda. She added, “I’m sending you some people before end of this week and that will be the beginning of everything.”
President Banda also said she had identified a village within the area where she was going to build a modern village through her rural transformation programme under the Mudzi Transformation.
She said her government put the core needs of people at heart and that it was why she had constructed modern villages across the country from Chitipa, up north, to Nsanje, down south.
The Malawi leader added that although she had inherited depleted coffers from her predecessor, she had managed to steer the economy to the point whereby the country’s import cover which she found at one week was now at two months, with US$400 million in reserve.
President Banda also said she was the only president who had seriously waged an all-out war against corruption and she stressed that she would not shield anybody implicated in the on-going investigations regarding the looting of public funds at Capital Hill.
“Regarding Cash-gate I am saying we should not just concentrate on the K13billion which was stolen from 2012 to 2013. Let us also probe, and bring to book those who stole K92billion during the three years before I took over,” she said, adding that she also needed names in the just released forensic audit report on the looting
