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| Mutharika: One Malawi |
President Bingu wa Mutharika failed to give a
comprehensive answer on the diplomatic stand-off between Malawi and Zambia
arising from a 2007 deportation of Zambia’s President Michael Sata
when he was opposition leader then.
“I had expected that President Sata would come to
attend the Commonwealth Heads of State and Government Summit in Australia where
I was ready to meet and greet him. Unfortunately he did not come but sent his
vice, Guy Scott. We learnt that being a newly-elected President, His Excellency
Sata had more pressing issues to attend to back home,” Mutharika told reporters
in the Capital City,
Lilongwe
Mutharika could not comment on the deportation of
Sata and instead thanked all those that had come to “welcome me and the First
Lady”.
PresidentbMutharika said that Malawians are ‘one
people’, bemoaning that he has come to learn that some people are not as warm
as the country is renowned the world over-‘the Warm Heart of Africa’.
“We’re full of envy; we are jealous with each other.
Let’s love one another; let’s be children of one family,” he said, apaprently
in reaction to the rumours that made rounds in the country that the President
was dead while enjoying his holiday in South-east Asia.
The Head of State accused journalists in the country
of concentrating on backbiting and gossiping instead of concentrating on
developmental issues.
He called on journalists, particularly the editors to
balance ‘gossip with developmental issues’ saying it was unbelievable that
people outside the country admire the socio-economic strides Malawi has
registered under his leadership when malawian journalists cannot.
Ruling party functionaries booed journalists at the
press conference and some intimidated them.
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