“Trustworthy leaders are identified by measuring how they dedicate their efforts to bring about their promises to fruition” – Roosevelt Kanjautso
The Chakwera administration appears to be, by far, the only leadership in Malawi’s multiparty history that is highly conscience of its promises.
Today, President Chakwera delivered yet another promise enshrined in his 2019 manifesto.
“In the fourth chapter of our manifesto, under Social Development, we promised to establish a health insurance scheme that covers people nationally. Today, several months after its successful rollout, I am delighted to launch this medical insurance scheme for our civil servants across the nation,” said President Chakwera in his statement on the occasion of the official launch of the civil servants’ medical scheme that took place at Capital Hill in Lilongwe today.
The President intimated his ambitions to revamp and improve the public service as key sector for government operations. “Health care is just one aspect that we are working on to improve the conditions of service for our civil servants ahead of a wholesale reconstruction of the Civil Service that is in the pipeline,” he said.
The President further highlighted that his administration has other measures for improving the Civil Service conditions of service that are worth mentioning including provision of local and international training to public servants under government scholarship fund; provision of a ring-fenced budget for recruitment and training of officers in the health, education and security sectors; annual revision of salaries and benefits for public servants to cushion officers from the rising cost of living; and introduction of new welfare incentives such as transport allowance and special allowance.
Other fulfilled promises contained in Chakwera’s Chapter 4 of 2019 manifesto-embedded promises include abolishment of the discriminatory quota system of selecting students for tertiary education; reintroduce the Junior Certificate of Education as a strategy to monitor and improve students’ academic progress and performance during their secondary school education; construction of a state-of-the-art national netball complex capable of hosting international competitions to fast tract our 10-year goal to become the number one netballing country in the world; enforcing and promoting the 2013 Gender Equality Act as the basis for redressing the gender imbalance in the employment and appointment of women in decision-making positions among others.
