President Peter Mutharika has broken his silence on his health, publicly declaring his fitness and that he will see through his five-year tenure ending in 2030. Headline numbers appear to support Mutharika’s assertions. The country’s inflation rate has eased from 29.1 percent last October to 23.8 percent in March this year—the lowest general rise in prices since 2022.
Maize prices, which have helped to bring down inflation, slumped from around K1 360 per kg in October to K900 currently, representing a drop of around 33 percent. Said the President: “Everyone is able to eat now because we have addressed the food situation. It’s up to a person now whether to have three, four or even five meals a day,” he said.
“We found this country in a total mess. Everything was in a poor state, including the roads,” said Mutharika. The President also said fuel is steadily getting into the country, expressed commitment to urgently rehabilitate roads nationwide and declared that he was in good health.
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The health of Mutharika, 85, has been a subject of speculation, with his delegation of Cabinet ministers to some public events, including the opening of the 2026 Tobacco Marketing Season mid last month, fuelling the rumour mill. But he said those spreading the rumours about his death will instead predecease him. “Someone from Nigeria also said I will die, but he is the one who ended up in the grave, he is six feet under while I am here breathing fresh air, oxygen.
He is gone. Don’t wish others bad things,” said Mutharika, in an apparent reference to a purported prophecy by departed Nigerian prophet T. Joshua during his first term of office between 2014 and 2019. But critics argued yesterday that the impact of the stabilising indicators is yet to percolate into improved cost of living for the majority of Malawians,
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