By Emmanuel Nduka
President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera has officially launched a 10-year implementation plan to turn the country’s economic fortunes around.
The aim of the plan according to the President, is to turn Malawi from one of the poorest countries in the world to a lower middle income country by 2030.
This, Chakwera believes is only possible by changing people’s attitudes.
“Anytime you hear another Malawian complaining about somebody else or a politician, you should ask them if they themselves have started reading the implementation plan. And if they themselves have started implementing, that plan at a household level.
As we speak.
“I have well over 500 messages on my phone requesting that I run each family for them as president. And I’m not kidding. Members of Parliament. They have messages so they can run families of their constituents. A country will never develop with that kind of spirit. Until we take full responsibility. We need to truly have our minds changed,” said President Chakwera during aspeech in the capital, Lilongwe.
The plan includes different pillars such as agriculture and farming. It plans to digitize farming in order to make it more productive and efficient.
The President also challenged young people in the country’s colleges and universities to be aspiring and to use their education to improve the country’s farming system.
