{"id":44384,"date":"2023-04-10T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=44384"},"modified":"2023-04-09T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T08:02:55","slug":"maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Munthali resigns as Chakwera\u2019s advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Reverend Maurice Munthali has resigned as President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Advisor on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, citing corruption under the Chakwera administration. Munthali has also left his role as spokesperson of the ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP).<\/p>\n<p>In a letter circulating on social media dated 1st March, 2023 and addressed Chakwera, Munthali says he finds it hard to continue in the role under the prevailing atmosphere marred by persistent corruption scandals.<\/p>\n<p>According to Munthali, the issues rocking the country have fallen short of appropriate or adequate action. \u201cI personally feel that as government we haven\u2019t provided the type of leadership and or direction that would meet the hopes of Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have resolved at a personal level that the prevailing circumstances do not evenly sit with my calling as a man of faith and the benign intentions I shared with the people in accepting to take up the advisory role,\u201d reads part of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Munthali has expressed hope that Chakwera will receive God\u2019s grace to deal with \u201ccorruption vice and the multiple inefficiencies\u201d rocking the government.<\/p>\n<p>Munthali has since confirmed writing the Office of Party\u2019s Secretary General Eisenhower Mkaka and the Office of the President and Cabinet of his decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Reverend Maurice Munthali has resigned as President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Advisor on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, citing corruption under the Chakwera administration. Munthali has also left his role as spokesperson of the ruling Malawi Congress Party (MCP). In a letter circulating on social media dated 1st March, 2023 and addressed Chakwera, Munthali says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":44383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,300,306,234,5936],"class_list":["post-44384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-corruption","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-maurice-munthali"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maurice Munthali resigns as Chakwera\u2019s advisor - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reverend Maurice Munthali has resigned as President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Advisor on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, citin ...\" \/>\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\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maurice Munthali resigns as Chakwera\u2019s advisor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Reverend Maurice Munthali has resigned as President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Advisor on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity, citin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\" \/>\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=\"2023-04-10T01:02:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681003516.76.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\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\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Maurice Munthali resigns as Chakwera\u2019s advisor\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-10T01:02:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681003516.76.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"corruption\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"Maurice Munthali\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/maurice-munthali-resigns-as-chakweras-advisor\",\"name\":\"Maurice Munthali resigns as Chakwera\u2019s advisor - 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