By Linda Kwanjana
Political Analyst Ceasar Kondowe has backed government decision of honoring late Vice President Saulos Chilima in holding a memorial service at Nthungwa in Nkhata-Bay district on 10th June, 2025.
Kondowe’s sentiments comes at time government has organized a memorial service in honor of the late Vice President Saulos Chilima and eight others who died on a plane clash at Nthungwa in Chikangawa forest, Nkhata-Bay district on 10th June, 2024.
In a press statement, Kondowe said the President decision is welcomed considering that this is a national issue not an individual or a political party issue.
“Vice President Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima was not an ordinary person because he was almost a second citizen, therefore government has a prerogative to make such decision,” reads part of the statement.
He also mentioned that it is quiet important to hold such a memorial considering that this is not only for the Vice President but it will also include those other people who died on the very same spot with the Vice President as government has come clear at a point where several stakeholders, individuals were saying the President has not visited the site.
Kondowe also highlighted that this is the time President wanted to visit the site as there will be a special function which is a memorial service.
“So I feel like people that are against this idea is quite problematic, because the President is doing as a citizen, the first citizen of this country to accord our fallen hero a very Memorial function,” the statement adds.
He further said the President’s attendance is a welcomed idea and is part of people that had been calling for this function.
Kondowe concluded by critising political parties who are politicising the Chilima legacy and talking against government saying this is not acceptable and should really be condemned.
Another Governance and economic expert Dr Ben Dzolowere says the ceremony which Government intend to hold at Nthungwa will mark as a symbol of love towards friends who lost their lives in that place.
Dr Dzolowere said the problem in Malawi is that people only knows to oppose without giving alternative views.
