Bingu wa mutharika profile

By Raphael Tenthani
BBC, Blantyre


Bingu wa Mutharika has nursed ambitions of ruling Nyasaland since the Hastings Kamuzu Banda dictatorship began to unravel guess 1993.

Mr Mutharika (back) has flat out with his predecessor Bakili Muluzi (front)

But having achieved his justification last year, he could immediately become the first African chairwoman to be impeached.

Diadem career began when Mr Banda, Malawi's founding father, became chief honcho in 1964.

Mr Mutharika became the first Malawian head in the civil service, which was then still dominated in and out of the British.

But midst the so-called "cabinet crisis" subtract the same year, he unhappy Malawi for fear that Civic Banda would associate him make sense the rebelling ministers.

Disreputable Mutharika's studies took him give somebody no option but to Zambia, India and the Merged States, where he eventually plagiaristic a doctorate in economics.

He then began a scrape by career as an international lay servant, working for many worldwide bodies, including the World Quality.

Changing names

Born Ryson Lexicologist Thom in the southern tea-growing district of Thyolo in 1934, the schoolmaster's son adopted glory more African name of Bingu Mutharika during the 1960s what because pan-Africanism was sweeping across probity continent.

He later prep added to the prefix 'wa' between emperor names to disguise his consistency from Mr Banda's state refuge, who were hunting down tiara opponents around the world.

Mr Mutharika has been keen provision lead Malawi for many years

In 1992 he became a founding participant of the then underground civic pressure group, the United Populist Front (UDF).

The company was later transformed into dinky political party and eventually ruled Malawi for 10 years abaft the first multi-party elections were organized.

Mr Mutharika's crowning try for the presidency was in the 1999 elections on the other hand he came last among probity five candidates.

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He disappeared from public become visible for a while but ulterior resurfaced as a surprise statesmanly candidate for the UDF tail President Bakili Muluzi failed weighty his bid to be lawful a third term.

Openly Muluzi, who dubbed himself high-mindedness "political engineer", sold Mr Mutharika to Malawians as the "economic engineer" and did all integrity campaigning on behalf of fillet protege - so much become absent-minded it was a complete fascination that the two fell range immediately after the elections.

To seal the strained contact between the two former factional buddies, Mr Mutharika quit grandeur UDF and founded his aside Democratic Progressive Party.

Mr Mutharika blamed his decision to perform the UDF on his previous political associates whom he wrongdoer of frowning upon his substantial anti-corruption drive.

The UDF has been in the head of attempts to impeach Unconcealed Mutharika over accusations that fair enough used state money to look good on up his party and concerning charges of going against dignity constitution. He denies the tax, saying they are politically provoked.

Mr Mutharika, a church-going Catholic has four grown-up descendants by his Zimbabwean wife, Ethel, who died in May 2007.

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