JOYCE BANDA PAYING THE PRICE FOR SIDING WITH THE 'POOR'

If people, especially the opposition and its operatives, are waking up every morning to nonchalantly express their discontent with the way Malawi leader Mrs. Joyce Banda is doing her business of running affairs of the country, it is not because they have best interest or solutions to the problems Malawi is facing currently rather it’s their demonic-large-than- life ego and selfishness driving them.

Ever since the president started the maize distribution campaign, the opposition has been up in arms accusing the president of wasting government money on what they call ‘petty’ and opportunistic issues.

Yes, they labeled the over 2million hunger stricken Malawians benefiting from the programme as ‘petty’ just imagine.

As if that is not enough, they have went on to declare that it is better for the president to sit down phwiiiii in her office and concentrate on solving the multi faceted economic malaise, we are currently sailing through, than reaching out to the very miserable rural people.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m speaking through experience; I have been involved in the maize and food distribution exercise in Karonga, Chitipa, Rumphi, Phalombe, Mulanje, Balaka and Mangochi.

In all the districts I have mentioned above, despite their geographical and tribal differences, they are sharing one thing in common, hunger and catastrophe.

I remember how the elderly, disabled, HIV/Aids survivors (for the sake of activists they are not patients or victims), were taking turns to recount their horrible ordeal of going to bed on empty stomach for days. Very sad indeed.

In other extreme cases, stories were told of how some lost their loved ones who were surviving on life prolonging drugs and they could no longer hold on a little while longer simply because the drug just like the local brewer Kachasu amafunika kudyela.

After giving it a thorough thought, as a true patriot, I have since come to the conclusion that those discouraging the president not to go out and about distributing relief food items are not doing it on behalf of the poor.

Our memories are still fresh of how they imposed probably the most punitive taxes in the region if not whole world, at least since the fall of Berlin wall, just to make sure that their swimming pools are refurbished at whooping amount of over MK50 million.

These are the people who had no regard for the poor people when they were in government by off-putting donors who have been aiding us since independence.

These are the people who, when the nation was crying for better living conditions, they were busy dining and wining in a marquee at the newly renamed Kamuzu Palace in the name of public lecture while the ruthless police officers were slaughtering innocent people like nobody’s business.

Yes, I agree those championing the criticism against JB by accusing her of being incompetent, brought some notable infrastructural developments courtesy of the new rising super power China.  Kudos for that.

But let me remind you also that our children and their grand children would bear the burden or feel the pinch of settling these hefty loans when we are all gone to our ancestors.

By the way, if Bingu was sincere about improving education standards by lobbying the loan agreement from the ‘generous’ Chinese government to build the Malawi University of Science and Technology (Must) I wonder why choosing Ndata and not Madetsa, Mayani, Lobi, Chilumba, MweneWenya, Nthalilre, Limbuli, Nsona, Nyezelela, Chibavi, Thakhiwa, Ngabu or settle for its original place in Lilongwe?

By virtue of moving the university next to his bravura toilet room in Ndata, Bingu demonstrated his selfish largesse.

On the phalanx of roads he pioneered, I’m telling you those roads were not meant for poor people as we are being forced to believe. They were simply put into motion as conduit to siphon billions of money as evidenced by the fact that 99.9% of those roads were or are being constructed by Mota Engil.

It is the very same Mota Engil Company which constructed everything in Ndata estate including Bingu’s final resting place, wow!!!

For whatever reasons why Mota did that but the truth is lying by the side of Bingu’s casket.

Take for instance the Zomba-JaLi-Chitakale-Phalombe road, only a fool can believe that it was targeting my fellow poor Lhomwes in the belt.

If you have time, take the Chiradzulu-Phalombe road and see for yourself how many warehouses and maize mills have already been erected or are under construction?

Don’t stop there but go on and ask who owns those imposing buildings? Your guess is as good as mine.

How about the Khulubvi highway along the Lower shire? Was it really meant for the vulnerable Senas or one of the ever-politically-connected –ruling-elite wanted easy transportation of his herd of cattles to the commercial city? On this one your guess is nowhere near mine.

In all the examples I have cited, I’m convinced beyond any grain of doubt that the country’s elite have no heart for the poor masses and they don’t care whether we exist or not. That is why they are all over town busy fighting the president so that she stops siding with the common people.

Another indicting example to prove that those raising up their colossal voice against Madam President are selfish and greed, is the recent fuel shortage [or let’s just say the petrol and diesel shortage] because no one, I mean nobody, has ever mentioned about the scarcity of paraffin.

Not because the commodity is available on the market but because it is commonly used by the poor in the villages and nobody has dared to mention about it because the rich capitalists simply don’t care about us like JB does.

The only time these noise makers [murderers] need us [poor people] is either during elections or there is a cockroach in their wardrobe.

Did I hear someone mentioning that they also need us when their expensive vehicles are stuck in the mud or they have a flat tire? I guess so.

So stop bluffing about the president and her personal involvement in the maize distribution, she simply cares for her people; that’s why she is moving around in order to simply value their agony and join them by sharing the little she has in these tough times.

What is interesting is that the murderous-attention-seekers are nowhere mentioning the role the department of disaster management and preparedness is playing in complimenting the president’s concerted efforts to ease the pain on the poor.

To them, they look at JB’s initiative as political aimed at gaining mileage; who can fault that after all the poor are the biggest Electoral College on the land. 

They wouldn’t give a damn if they hear stories of people dying of hunger. Wait a minute is it because they have killed enough innocent souls in their lifetime in rather bizarre and horrific circumstances so much that they would treat hunger related deaths as matter of fate? I hope that is not the case.

All-in-all it is now a known fact that the many sins of JB, as alleged by her critics, are coming in open because she is always there for the poor even if they don’t need her.

But what do you benefit from living a life than benefiting mankind? Benefiting those that have nowhere to sleep, no nothing to put in their stomach? It has to be emphasized that Malawi has no space to contain selfish egos whose is always to hurt the poor.

If you have legitimate issues bring them to the poor we will see how to sort you out and stop your cheap conspiracy which is aimed at chopping the generous hand of JB so that she stops feeding her people. That thinking is worse that cancer. The patriot rests his case for now!!!!!!