{"id":24504,"date":"2022-06-19T20:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T20:54:36","slug":"minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs","title":{"rendered":"Minister Matola under fire for calling Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called upon President Lazarus Chakwera to act on Minister Ibrahim Matola\u2019s conduct after the minister called Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a press release seen by this publication, CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has condemned in the strongest terms the disparaging and demeaning remarks made by Minister of Energy Ibrahim Matola, who has described Malawians as Achule (frogs) simply because they are asking President Lazarus Chakwera to walk his talk on austerity measures by keeping his local and international travels to a bare minimum.<\/p>\n

Matola called well-meaning Malawians \u2018Achule\u2019 on Monday at a public function presided over by the President in Dedza and to the surprise of many without coming back to his senses after tagging them \u2018Achule\u2019, Matola went on to encourage the Head of State to travel across the country as it pleases him.<\/p>\n

CDEDI has since demanded the President to discipline Matola to avoid giving the impression that now that the electorate have put the Tonse Alliance in power, they no longer deserve to be treated with dignity and the President has no problem with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalawians are too forgetful and as former president Bakili Muluzi used to say, but some Malawians still remember that it was the same Matola, who publicly insulted some high-profile official, but former President Dr. Joyce Banda swiftly rebuked him, exhibiting a rare leadership quality virtue,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

He added that by asking President to be the protector of the dignity of all Malawians, his organisation is not expecting too much from the presidency.<\/p>\n

According to Namiwa, by any measurements of reasoning, calling fellow citizens \u2018Achule\u2019 is demeaning and such language is uncalled for, especially in a democratic dispensation like Malawi\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of all Malawians who value the dignity of a person, CDEDI hereby demand a retraction of this shameful statement, and a public apology from Matola. It is equally disheartening to note that such a word uttered in the presence of the Head of State went unrebuked by Chakwera himself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However Namiwa said that maybe Matola is not wholly to blame for using the disparaging word in the presence of the President, considering that Chakwera himself might have set the tone at the weekend when he described Malawians as \u2018cry-babies\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is against this background that CDEDI is challenging Chakwera to explain to Malawians if at all insulting the electorate is now part of the Tonse Alliance administration\u2019s policy, as the coincidence of the incidents is too glaring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called upon President Lazarus Chakwera to act on Minister Ibrahim Matola\u2019s conduct after the minister called Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d. In a press release seen by this publication, CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has condemned in the strongest terms the disparaging and demeaning remarks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,311,3125,306,234],"class_list":["post-24504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-cdedi","tag-ibrahim-matola","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nMinister Matola under fire for calling Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called upon President Lazarus Chakwera to act ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister Matola under fire for calling Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has called upon President Lazarus Chakwera to act ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-19T20:39:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-19T20:54:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_4-62af8cf886de2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"990\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"614\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Minister Matola under fire for calling Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-19T20:39:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-19T20:54:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\"},\"wordCount\":443,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_4-62af8cf886de2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"CDEDI\",\"Ibrahim Matola\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/minister-matola-under-fire-for-calling-malawians-frogs\",\"name\":\"Minister Matola under fire for calling Malawians \u201cfrogs\u201d - 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