By Draxon Maloya.
Malawi. (News of The South) – There is growing sour relationship between the president of Malawi Arthur Peter Mutharika and his vice Saulos Klaus Chilima as the country draws to the historic sixth democratic presidential and parliamentary elections.
On Monday the president accused his vice of fuelling revolts in the country during the swearing in ceremony of commissioners who have been appointed to investigate into the barbaric killings and abductions of people with albinism since 2013 which has led to the loss of 26 lives of people with albinism.
“I have very reliable evidence that all these demonstrations carried out by people with albinism are being sponsored by our vice president with the aim of trying to frustrate my government,” Mutharika said.
But the United Transformation Movement (UTM) spokesperson Chidanti Malunga rubbished president Mutharika’s accusations as baseless and unfounded.
“Let the president come out in the open and present his evidence if at all he has any, as you are aware we are running towards the elections and he knows very well that his tenure of office is almost over so he simply wants to buy sympathy,” Malunga said.
At the moment government has already started according the ruling party’s presidential running mate Everton Chimlirenji the vice president’s privileges such as security detail which some quarters have already complained about as a waste of resources and abuse of powers.
The legislative member who is also the presidential running mate for the United Democratic Front (UDF) Frank Tumpale Mwenefumbo is the latest senior member to criticise the according of vice president’s status to a mere presidential running mate.
“It is unconstitutional to start according someone those privileges now when we know very well that our prime guiding rules do not provide for two sitting vice presidents, let government uphold the rule of law at all times otherwise they are deliberately creating a crisis,” Mwenefumbo said.
Meanwhile government through the finance minister Goodall Gondwe has announced the revision in reduction of the vice president’s Saulos Klaus Chilima’s financial budget.
The move which some observers says is a deliberate move aimed at destructing the vice president’s campaign trails was announced in parliament on Wednesday.
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