By Vincent Gunde
A Roman Catholic Bishop Alfred Chaima of Zomba Diocese has appealed to the citizens to come together and pray for Malawi as it is passing through pain, anger and suffering.
Bishop Chaima is describing the recent devaluation of the Malawi Kwacha by 44 percent as a very worrisome development reminding Malawians that the same Kwacha fall by 25 percent and this time around, government has devalued the Kwacha by 69 percent in one year alone.
He says the devaluation of the Malawi Kwacha by an alarming 44 percent has sent a strong message to the outside world that things are not moving in Malawi and this has never happened in the country’s history before.
Speaking through an extract taken from his preaching circulating in various social media platforms, Bishop Chaima has called on the citizens in Malawi to pray to God to choose for them good leaders who will place a human being at the middle of their leadership.
Bishop Chaima says while it is a fact that Russia-Ukraine war, Tropical Cyclones including Freddy have greatly affected the country, some other clever people should not take this as an advantage hiding from their corrupt and theft activities in government.
“Patriotic Malawians 25 percent plus 44 percent is making a 69 percent Kwacha devaluation in one year alone. This means that things are not moving in Malawi, ” he says.
One of the prominent Malawi’s economists Dr. Daniel S Dube says the Republic of Malawi is in unprecedented full-blown economic crisis calling upon President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera to address the nation on the 44 percent Kwacha devaluation.
Dr. Dube says the decision by Reserve Bank of Malawi to devalue the Kwacha by 44 percent after 25 percent devaluation, has devastating adverse on the poor and rural masses saying the Chakwera Administration and the Reserve Bank of Malawi have failed to enact transformational policies to improve economic output, control inflation and to create jobs.
He says President Chakwera needs to address the impact of his government’s economic decision on social services and outline how the massive economic shock looming from the devaluations that his government has unleashed will be addressed.
“This is the time when the country needs leadership, economic direction and above everything else a comforting and sensitivity to their suffering,” reads the writings of Dr. Daniel S Dube’s on the wall.
