Chakwera’s Claim Of Sabotage Dismissed By Experts

President Lazrus Chakwera has been urged to act decisively to solve the country’s myriad of challenges instead of blaming others or opposition leaders because he is the one in charge of the affairs of Malawi.

In his televised national address on Monday 8 September, 2025 aimed at updating Malawians on fertilizer and fuel situation, he surprised the nation when he accused some officers at National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) of working with corrupt cartels to disturb the fuel import and supply to create a crisis and benefit from it.

This was not the kind of statement Malawians were expecting from the president after NOCMA officials and Chakwera’s ministers spent months telling the nation that the administration has taken steps to ensure availability of fuel and one such step touted was the recently signed government to government (G2G) deal with foreign governments including Kenya.
If indeed the G2G deal was signed, where are the cartels coming from to put spanners in the process ? Wondered one concerned citizen who did not want to be named.

Chakwera displayed weak leadership when he went on to accuse an opposition party he did not directly name of influencing basic commodity price increases in order to incite Malawians.

This is strange considering that for the past 5 years he has been in power, such claims have been repeatedly made by him but so far no action has been taken to end the challenges the people face or to arrest those responsible for pulling him down.

One other inconceivable idea was his statement that he will fire those saboteurs next week Tuesday after the elections instead of taking stern action right away, a vivid sign of weak leadership.