By Vincent Gunde

Former President of the Republic of Malawi who is also DPP leader Professor Arthur Mutharika, has assured Malawians that on the first of office on the 17th September, 2025 hewill issue a decree for all public and private institutions to retain to Blantyre.

Professor Mutharika said Blantyre is the industrial and commercial capital of Malawi and it is sad that the MCP government led by President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has destroyed it by relocating all institutions to the Capital, Lilongwe.

He observed that today, Blantyre is just the name and there is nothing to show that it is an industrial and commercial capital of Malawi and as such his duty will be to issue a decree for all companies to come back to Blantyre for the City to be where it was before.

Speaking at a jam-parked Njamba stadium in Blantyre during the DPP 2025 manifesto launch and campaign, Mutharika promised to build a modern stadium in Blantyre to work hand in hand with Kamuzu stadium.

Mutharika said the DPP will continue building Community Technical Colleges across the country for the youth to be trained in different vocational skills so that in the end they employ others, claiming that not all the youth can be working in offices.

He said when he left office in June, 2020 there were 15,000 houses constructed across the country built through the vulnerable Cement-Malata subsidy programme assuring the people that his government will continue with the programme to ensure that many people do not sleep in grass thatched houses.

“When I left office in June, 2020 there were over 15,000 houses built and if I was still in office by today, all grass-thanked houses would have been history of yesterday,” said Mutharika.

He briefed Malawians that the DPP has a good economic recovery committee which has finished its work and the report is ready beginning from 17th September, 2025 assuring Malawians that the DPP is ready to implement the economic recovery plan.

The DPP leader assured Malawians that in the next 5 years from 17th September, 2025 Malawi’s economy will be back on track urging the people regardless of their political party affiliations, to vote for him by campaigning door to door to sell his manifesto.

He thanked the manifesto committee for a job beautifully done urging Malawians to continue loving one another besides the sufferings they are going through under the MCP led government with a promise that proven leadership is coming with the DPP.