By Andrew Mkonda in Seoul, Korea

Seoul, June 6, Mana: Diaspora community, especially the youth, have been urged to contribute to Malawi’s socio-economic development.

Speaking Wednesday evening in Seoul, Korea Minister of Information and Digitalization, Moses Kunkuyu, said time has come for Malawian youths to avoid wasting their precious time, energy and resources on things that will not in any way benefit the country.

Kunkuyu thanked the Malawian youths living in Korea for raising constructive ideas to Vice President, Saulos Chilima, on how the country can borrow a leaf from Korea on issues such as trade, education and transport.

“As government, we need constructive ideas that can contribute to the development of our country. We have wasted much of our time in the past on just blaming one another, while our neighbouring counties are developing. We need to change our mindset,” he said.

Kunkuyu assured the diaspora community in Korea of government’s commitment to developing the country through the Agriculture, Mining and Tourism (ATM) strategy.

Representative of the diaspora community in Korea, Gracious Chirambo, assured government that youths in Korea will always contribute positively so that the country develop the way Korea did in few years.

“It is our wish that any knowledge and skills we are gaining here should benefit our country in one way or the other,” he said.

Most Malawians living in Korea are students.