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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Officials from Centre for Democracy Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) have advised President Lazarus Chakwera and his cabinet to cut their salaries by half as part of austerity means. CDEDI executive director Silvester Namiwa has also asked President Chakwera to trim his cabinet and trim number of his advisers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Chakwera should also learn to delegate others to go and cut ribbons while he stays in the office figuring out how his government can protect the vulnerable and marginalized Malawians using resources accrued from the announced cost-cutting measures,\u201d said Namiwa.<\/p>\n

At a press conference in Lilongwe, Namiwa has expressed concern over President Chakwera\u2019s continued appetite for travel. He said despite announcing austerity measures that included limiting international and local travels, Chakwera did the contrary next day as SPC Office released the President\u2019s programme that saw him on the road from Saturday to Monday.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. Officials from Centre for Democracy Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) have advised President Lazarus Chakwera and his cabinet to cut their salaries by half as part of austerity means. CDEDI executive director Silvester Namiwa has also asked President Chakwera to trim his cabinet and trim number of his advisers. \u201cPresident Chakwera should also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-26127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nCDEDI asks Chakwera, cabinet to cut salary by half - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Officials from Centre for Democracy Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) have advised President Lazarus Chakwera and ...\" \/>\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\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDEDI asks Chakwera, cabinet to cut salary by half\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Officials from Centre for Democracy Economic Development Initiative (CDEDI) have advised President Lazarus Chakwera and ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\" \/>\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=\"2022-07-06T21:17:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-06T21:38:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_27-62c600c6be351.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"CDEDI asks Chakwera, cabinet to cut salary by half\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-06T21:17:43+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-06T21:38:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_27-62c600c6be351.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cdedi-asks-chakwera-cabinet-to-cut-salary-by-half\",\"name\":\"CDEDI asks Chakwera, cabinet to cut salary by half - 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