President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika on Tuesday held an interacting meeting with 1,200 Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) youth cadets and splashed cash money amounting to MK18 million, faceofmalawi can reveal.

According to inside sources, all the youths who attended the meeting at Mzuzu State Lodge pocketed money amounting to MK15, 000.

It is said that the cash was aimed at wooing the youths in the region to vote for President Mutharika who is currently criticisms from all corners ahead of the 2019 tripartite election.

Many people feel that President Mutharika is too old to rule the country again and the call was started by his in-law Callista Mutharika.

President Mutharika is now embroiled in police food scandal where it is said that he received MK145 million from Pioneer Investment.