The making of a “Party clerk”

It’s not outlandish that we have had yet another poorly presented press statement from the ruling PP. Why? It’s their style and we have seen many of those. I didn’t know that sometimes the consumption of Fanta orange in large supply can make one so harsh and heated up over petty issues. Thanks to Ken Msonda and his fellow orange entertainers, now I know. 
 

PP loves picking unnecessary fights. It’s their nature because they are just following the footsteps of their leader who has made more enemies than friends within a short period of time. 

The People’s Party is fuming that despite government announcing the reduction of fuel prices a couple of days ago, not all people were clapping hands to such a move. This prompted the party to sanction their “party clerk” Ken Msonda to place his signature on some useless statement that attacked the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority MERA and the Democratic Progressive Party DPP.

In their orange heads, MERA is full of “DPP mercenaries” who contradicted the government’s announcement on the reduction of fuel prices so they deserve the attack. To them anyone who seems to be standing on their way is DPP, not MCP, UDF, Mafunde or Chipani Chapfuko. 

In fact they keep seeing DPP controlling everything about their government. Who is in control of government by the way? No wonder even when this Ken man went to town with pronouncements that they will soon be painting the streets orange with their 50 orange pickups, it never took him a day to backpedal. It was DPP again fabricating all that. Now I know, it’s either this man is constipated with the orange stuff so much that he has turned into a day dreamer who keeps seeing DPP all over in his dreams or he just loves DPP more than he loves PP. That’s why DPP is always becoming the first name to come out of his mouth with so much ease. He is so obsessed with DPP this Ken man.

To some extent I understand Ken Msonda’s frustrations, it sucks big time being PP nowadays. Their leader has failed to deliver with only one year in power. She keeps loosing popularity each passing day no matter how much they battle to bring her up on the ladder. Not even chants of “amayi chiwongolero” are doing the magic. The 2014 reality is sinking right in their orange matter, oh my! The JB moment will soon become history. That’s so frustrating, isn’t it? 

Picture this; It reminds me of the Ken Msonda I used to know back then when I was working as a reporter at MBC. I met Ken Msonda at Polytechnic during a Press conference that was organised by Jessy Kabwila and her friends during the academic freedom fight. Ken Msonda came all the way and sat together with us, the journalists. Of course he introduced himself as a concerned citizen but it was funny seeing him asking those questions and making those funny comments throughout. 

This other day I was sent at Malawi Sun Hotel to cover a press conference by property owners who were launching what they called Estate Agents Association of Malawi or whatever they called it. Guess who I found there, Ken Msonda again. The man was almost everywhere laboring to make himself very important and useful. I am not faulting him on that though because we all have at one point all the other labored to achieve the same, but sometimes it becomes too much.

What am I saying here? If there are people that need the orange jobs than anything else in this world then Ken man is one of them. Wachokela kutali mkuluyu.

But I have some nice words for all of you orange buddies; No more “amayi chiwongolero” no more milking the Asian traders in Lilongwe (by the way, you guys are crooks, thieves and corrupt, eish! More than the UDF regime) no more kutakata come 2014.

Hail Ken Man the party clerk.. Umayitha!