An opposition legislator in Mangochi has surprised his own Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for sleeping on job saying that the party is failing to perform its core job of keeping checks and balances on government.

Mangochi north MP Benedict Chambo, who was sponsored into the 193 strong House by the DPP, said that main opposition party in the county is busy with power struggle, political infighting, backbiting and obtaining court injunctions instead of performing its job.

Chambo said this on Monday at apolitical rally in his area Makanjila held by President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera after he launched the construction of the state of the art maternity wing at Makanjila health center.

“Do we have the opposition in Malawi?” said Chambo rhetorically before he responded his own question, “we don’t have. We have the weakest opposition ever in the country,” he said.

He said the real opposition in the country ever had was when Chakwera was the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, saying the Malawi Congress Party provided checks and balances on government.

Chambo said Chakwera inherited a rotten and broken economy from his predecessor Arthur Peter Muntharika.
The DPP MP has since criticized his fellow politicians who have been ‘wrongly judging’ President Chakwera’ on the slow economic progress.

Chambo wondered why politicians are blaming Chakwera for the economic hardships Malawians are facing yet they fail to appreciate that the President inherited a rotten and broken economy from the DPP regime under Arthur Peter Muntharika.