DPP attacks Chakwera on Cabinet

The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has lambasted President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera for maintaining some old faces in his 29 member Cabinet released recently.

Following a pressure from the general public, Chakwera dissolved his Cabinet on Monday with a promise that he will reconstitute it within a period of 48 hours which he did.

But the opposition DPP is not pleased with the new Cabinet which has some old faces mainintaing similar posts while other faces being shifted to a different ministerial post.

In a statement released on Friday, DPP spokesperson Shadreck Namalomba has said Chakwera has missed a point, saying the party expected all former Cabinet Ministers to miss out from the new list.

“Malawians expected him (President Chakwera) to reshuffle the Cabinet and drop all ministers embroiled in corruption and incompetence. This did not happen. He only recycled the very Ministers that Malawians do not want to see near their public coffers,” said Namalomba.

Below is the statement from DPP;