President Lazarus Chakwera has urged eligible Malawians to prepare to register for next year’s general elections once the Malawi Electoral Commission (Mec) opens the registration exercise in September.
Chakwera made the remarks in Monkey Bay after touring the newly constructed Monkey Bay-Cape Maclear Road.
The President said Malawi’s democracy is peaceful and growing, and that Malawians need to take part in the voting process to democratically choose their representatives.
“Next year, we are having general elections in which you can elect your leaders. But you cannot have that opportunity if you are not registered, so I encourage every one of you who is eligible to register in large numbers so that you can be part of this democratic process,” he said.
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Commenting on infrastructure developments in the country, Chakwera said his government is not in the business of constructing roads and other projects that will not stand the test of time.
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“The construction of roads must follow modern standards for them to be durable. We cannot be constructing roads every year because somebody did not do his or her job properly,” he said.
The President added that responsible people in the construction industry never settle for projects whose quality and lifespan are compromised.
Speaking earlier at Jalasi in Namwera after touring the estate, Chakwera reiterated his administration’s commitment to stimulating Malawi’s agricultural sector through irrigation farming and technologies as a way of increasing the country’s crop production.
He acknowledged the challenges faced by the agricultural sector due to erratic rainfall patterns and natural calamities and assured Malawians that his administration would prioritise food security as a catalyst for development.
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In his remarks, Senior Chief Jalasi commended the President for what he described as his dedication to the development of Mangochi and Malawi at large.
The chief appealed to Chakwera to reach out to people facing hunger due to the dry spell that hit the country earlier this year.
It left at least two million farming households at risk of hunger, particularly in the Southern Region, where thousands of hectares of crop fields were scorched by the El Nino-induced heat.
Chakwera has been in the Eastern Region for some days now, meeting various stakeholders, including businesspersons, and touring development projects.
