HE President Chakwera said malaria has affected thousands of pregnant women and children in the country to the extent that over 2,000 people die every year, “Malaria kills six people every day, as such, we need collaboration so that we achieve a zero malaria nation. He also thanked ALMA for supporting the country in developing the malaria scorecard, an essential management tool to track progress. Introduced during the official launch of the ‘Zero Malaria Starts with Me’ campaign at Liwonde in Machinga District, the Head of State of Malawi made a call to partners, the private sector, traditional leaders, religious leaders and communities at large to support government in ending malaria by 2030. God bless you and God bless Malawi.The Malawi malaria scorecard management tool was officially launched last week (Tuesday, 22 June 2021) by His Excellency President Lazarus Chakwera. That is how we will fulfil the dream of Malawi Watsopano Okomela…TONSE. Chilima and I a chance to earn your trust and make this win a win for all of us. I only ask you for one thing in return: To give Dr. But I want you to remember one thing: This new Malawi is a home for you too, and so long as I am its President, it will be a home in which you too will prosper. However, I know that there are many of you who did not vote for me in this election, and perhaps the prospect of my presidency fills you with fear and grief. In making this pledge, I am accepting this call to serve you with joy and holy fear, for I am duty bound to God and all of you to give it my best. So I pledge to run Malawi well, for that is the surest path to Tsogolo Labwino, a path that has long been in ruins, riddled with the potholes of greed and corruption. Although I was raised in a poor village like most Malawians raised without inherited riches or political connections like most Malawians raised without electricity or running water like most Malawians I stand here today because I had one of the blessings of God that young Malawians today do not: The blessing of growing up in a well-governed Malawi. Now, I am no stranger to the benefits of good government. With your help, we will restore a new generation’s faith in the possibility of having a government that serves, not a government that rules a government that inspires, not a government that infuriates a government that listens, not a government that shouts a government that fights for you, not against you. We will pursuit it, not just as servants accountable to you voters, but as stewards of the hopes of millions of children, born and unborn, who have no vote.
Chilima and I accept this challenge and task. The time has come for us to arise from the slumber of our dream and make the dream true.ĭr. We have done so because the time has come for us to go beyond dreaming. But unlike our forebears, we have done so not just because we have a dream. Today, we too have emerged from great struggle and marched our sore feet towards this moment of victory and justice. No! The dream was for all of us, together, to be the ones who enjoy the riches of Malawi’s soil to be the ones who make the products of her industries to be the ones who harvest the bounties of her fields to be the ones who are served by her taxes and to be the ones who raise the skylines of her cities. For of what use is freedom from oppression if you are a slave to starvation? Or freedom from colonialism if you are a slave to tribalism? Of what use is freedom from tyranny if you are a slave to poverty? The dream that binds us together is for us to enjoy shared prosperity, not just freedom. And when their children marched against the one-party state to birth our Democracy in 1993, the dream was not merely for us to be freed from tyranny. When the founders of Malawi emerged from the womb of the great struggle that birthed our Independence in 1964, the dream was not merely for us to be freed from oppression. It’s an honour that has reignited the dream of our nation’s founders for a New Malawi. It’s an honour crafted by your hand when you braved the winter chill to cast your vote. It’s an honour forged in the furnace of your desire and demand for change. It’s an honour that fills me with unspeakable joy and immense gratitude.
To stand before you as your President today is an honor.
Acceptance speech by His Excellency Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of the Republic of Malawi.
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