Forum for National Development (FND) has asked Prof. Peter Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to be the first ones to provide answers on massive plunder and looting of Government resources rather than castigating the current leadership.
Remarks were made on Thursday in Lilongwe by the FND National Coordinator, Fryson Chodzi during the press briefing in awake of Mutharika’s statements when addressing the issue of green card and his resignation as Member of Parliament.
Chodzi said FND agrees with the DPP leader that Malawians should not be diverted from the real issues of cash gate and massive theft of public resources.
But, Chodzi said FND felt that DPP should be the first to blame for the looting of public resources as evidence shows that the party through its former President late. Dr Bingu wa Mutharika was the architecture and the framers of the cash gate.
“The issues attest to our assertion that the DPP Members are the architects of the massive looting, theft and plunder of public resources known as cashgate. To be precise there was too much corruption during the DDP regime,” he said.
Chodzi expressed that Goodall Gondwe who was then Finance Minister has always acknowledged the degree of corruption during the Mutharika period.
“Gondwe who is the National Executive member of the Party…. acknowledged that during the DPP government corruption was just a mere one,” he explained.
Chodzi then hinted that his organization has empirical evidence that the DPP is responsible for massive looting of public resources.
“We are concerned with the misinformation by the opposition parties especially the United Democratic Front (UDF) and DPP who want to convince the country that corruption, looting, plundering and theft of public resources have started by the People’s Party (PP) government.
Chodzi mentioned Dr Bakili Muluzi’s K1.7 billion case as indication that corruption was order of the day during his tenure of office.
He said that FND is saddened by the acts of the present DPP leadership which would like to act as holier than others as regards the plundering of public resources when they are architects of the cashgate.
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