Malawi’s President, Dr Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country’s entire cabinet amid charges of corruption against several ministers, he announced in an address to the nation.
On Monday evening Chakwera said that he had decided to allow the three ministers and other public officers accused of corruption to face their charges.
“I have dissolved my entire cabinet effective immediately, and all the functions of cabinet revert to my office until I announce a reconfigured cabinet in two days,” Chakwera said in a national address.
Chakwera, who is also the head of Malawi Congress Party (MCP), the country’s oldest and the biggest in the ruling Tonse Alliance, said he would look to reinstate a new cabinet in the next 48 hours.
He had been facing increasing rebellion from within the coalition with many of its members accusing his party of corruption, nepotism and pushing the country to the brink of an economic crisis.
The President’s decision come close on the heels of the arrest of three former officials of the former ruling party Democratic Progressive Party, which inlcuded the former finance minister and central bank governor, touted to be his prime challengers for the election scheduled in 2025.
