CDEDI Blames Govt For Lacking Economic Eye, Questions MERA, NOCMA Decisions
By Iommie Chiwalo
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has expressed shock by indecisiveness of Tonse Alliance led Government by raising fuel pump price twice within a space of three months, signaling lack of economic eye.
The fuel price hike shocked Malawians since it is happening at a time when the economic wheels are turning at a snail’s pace due to the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a statement released March 12, 2021 CDEDI Executive Director, Sylvester Namiwa, says it is worth noting right at the onset, that any upward increase in fuel pump price means an outright increase in the prices for essential services and basic products including food, transport and rentals considering that fuel, which drives the country’s economy, is an imported commodity.
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Apparently fed up with the current Tonse Alliance administration’s slowness to govern and a clear lack of direction, the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has threaten to mobilise Malawians to demand what they deserve and what they were promised and signed for. Ironically HRDC was instrumental in pushing for change after the courts declared null […]
Dates Announced For Nationwide Demos Against Chakwera
Watipaso Mzungu The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Lilongwe and Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators are set to take to the streets beginning December 16, 2020, to protest the decision by President Lazarus Chakwera to ignore their call to take action on illegal immigrants who are plying trade in the country’s strategic cities and towns.
CDEDI and the business operators recently wrote Chakwera demanding that his government should flush out illegal immigrants from China, Nigeria, India, Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda, Burundi, and Somalia who are conducting businesses in the country and have allegedly taken up the last available economic opportunities for the locals.