Where poverty increases, crime and all sorts of social disorders plague a nation. I am afraid this is where Malawi is surely heading unless sobriety enters our pathetic leadership very quickly.
Call me a prophet of doom but the reality is, as people struggle to make ends meet; crime, corruption and all social ills will continue to worsen in our beloved country.
You know that things are really bad, when the wasted years of Bakili’s very poor reign is looked back with some admiration. I wouldn’t!
The problem is our current leaders chose to provoke the hand that largely feeds us at a wrong time. Consequently the donor easily and quickly adjusted the aid tap.
This time the eyes of the US and the UK are firmly fixed in sorting out the recession in their domestic countries and the events in North Africa.
As oil prices are plummeting, they are worried sick about the negative effect of the decrease in oil supplies in their countries.
They have a people who are grossly pampered. A people who cannot entertain a fraction of the hardship we daily put up with without a revolt. Believe me their leaders will act and quickly they will!
No wonder David Cameroon had to make a sudden visit to Egypt for a talk down to the army generals who are in control of the country. It’s all done behind the mask of promoting democracy and the right of people to protest.
In Libya, among the fragmented leadership, whosoever will be seen to be in control of most of the oil will be quickly backed by the UK and the US. Total chaos will mean an evasion. Remember Iraq, the end justifies the means, sadly. The oil!
Back home, most disturbingly our leaders fail to read how international events are unfolding. In all this we will be a forgotten nation.
When a crisis is in the leadership you know you have a mountain to climb. And when the leadership is blind, you are certain to be led into a stinking ditch.
Crucially the scarcity of fuel and the rise in commodity prices will lead to a total meltdown in all our social structures in the country.
Hey Malawians, it is time to think and act decisively. We can actively and defiantly demand from the leadership a good leadership we deserve. The rule of law.
Why should survival be to the most corrupt and their families only? I fail to get my head around the thinking of leaders who joyfully wallow in extreme luxury when their people are basking in the daily tsunami of all sorts of sufferings.
In the words of Learned Hand, "If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." Our people need to be unshackled from this leadership madness.
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ANZANGA/ABALE AMALAWI: NKHANI YA FOREX NDI FUEL.
I am not a politician nor an economist nor a fanatic nor an extremist of whatever ideologies, but I have an alternative suggestion how the opposition, civil society and oncerned Malawians could stand to protect the land and economy of Malawi.
Currently (background situation since 2004), more than 90% of all city shops in Lilongwe and Limbe are owned by AMWENYE. On the other hand, 40% of all residential land in Lilongwe and Blantyre cities are owned by AMWENYE.Our first 10 years of democracy style of administration predisposed such landmark anomaly, no doubt about it.
Now we are sickened by this current government of the day which boast infrastructure development which has surpassed power generation machinery of the country resulting in frequent black outs and fuel shortages. Indeed it is a worrisome development to all Malawians and the Government has had been taken to task to explain and indeed advised to revise her policies so that Malawians could be saved from a retrogressive economic development. It does not take one to be an economic professor to advise the constitutional role of the current Government of the day to revist their policies so that they lay a favourable environment for forex generation.Its now close to two solid years we still experience erratic forex and fuel in-flows. The government has been time again defending itself with contradictory scapegoats etc but one IMPORTANT THING (ARGUEMENT) has been always coming out clearly from the incumbent PRESIDENT himself for many times as the ultimate cause (according to him, who happens to be also a renowned economist globally). It is “AMWENYE DRAINING ALL FOREX”!!!! He even many times justified by arguing that:
1. AMENYE own many big businesses in the country but you visit their bank accounts there is nothing, no money regrdless of their daily sales. One could argue that they keep money at home or go straight to “BLACK FOREX MARKET” but it remains to be investigated if we, indeed, need the true piture of the allegation on the ground.
2. Many times AMWENYE & recently CHINESE (who are supposedly know little or are unexperienced as compared to their fellow AMWENYE)have been caught red handed with thousands of US $ and even other valuables like IVORY at our ultra-poor security airports.
Other allegations by the public (ordinary Malawians) against the AMWENYE as regards to externalizing Malawi Forex includes well planned crookery as a sharper. Sometimes they include using corpse to load thousands of Malawi forex to their respective countries in guise for sheer cremation.
Therefore, my fellow Malawians, what other evidences do we need to stand ourself up as civil societies, religious communities, academia, opposition parties and indeed concerned Malawians to involve a dialogue or FORCE upon our Government and Parliamentarians to come up with a COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGATIONS BY THE HEAD OF STATE AS REGARDS TO AMWENYE OR CHINESE DRAINING FOREX!!!!
I think the commercial banks, city assemblies etc would be coperative enough to investigate the allegations so that we can have informed choices before taking BINGU and his Government to task as regards to forex and fuel forex etc. However, my appeal is to do it professionally and in good faith so that it should not be labelled as a mere xenophobia,nor Zimbabwe(MUGABE) saga!
What Malawi wants are foriegn investors with clean (corrupt-free practice to benefit the local Malawians)businesses, not foreign investors who took advantages of the corruption of the first 10 years of democracy of the country (DZIKO NDI WANU, NDALAMA NDI WATHU SLOGAN).
I hope you will read my arguement with sober and clear mind or conscious!!!! I LOVE MALAWI & I AM READY TO DIE FOR MALAWI!
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