Breakthrough for a village idiot... Pay tax for Mphwiyo to remain in SA.

Picture this: Kumudzi munthu oti anakhala nthawi yayitali asanadye nsima kumangogonela mango ndi nandolo akangoyipeza nsima amayithyolatu mpakana mitanda 7 amatha kumaliza. Komanso munthu oti wakhala akugona ndi njala kwa kanthawi, ikamulengula njala kapena akakomoka nayo samangofikila kumupatsa nsima yangungungu amawopa kuti ikhoza kumupha, amamupatsa kaye kaphala kamadzimadzi kuti apezeko ka moyo. Olo mwana oti akudwala matenda opelewela zakudya mthupi samangofikila kumukhutulira mikute yonse basi, amayamba nditakudya tamadzimadzi kaye.

This is what I call a PP story. You may be asking me why and how? Here is my simple answer; PP was in the cold, its leader was chased from the then ruling DPP for creating parallel structures. Their language was in thousand kwachas not millions or billions. Ask them if they knew or dreamt of driving or owning any Toyota fortuner, the Jeeps we are seeing in town, the Pathfinders, Prados and all the posh cars that are being associated with them now, no! Their types were the Toyota corollas and carinas. The best they could at least afford was a Rav 4.

Just like that village person who was surviving on mangoes and nandolo, now that he has access to nsima what is expected of him? Kupakulatu basi. And again just like that person who was being starved to death, instead of taking the phala therapy, he is busy guzzling solid foods. No wonder nsima ikufuna kuwapha anthuwa.

To sum it up I would be agreeing with a number of observers who have hinted that most of the governance problems facing our country should be attributed to a leadership crisis. Most of our leaders have turned out to be more concerned with self aggrandizement and material gain than development.

Just take a look at the PP, the very same greedy politicians who sang “amayi a Bingu ifeyo” forgetting that they were men are still calling the shots and are the lead praise singers in the chiwongolero amayi chorus.

They are the people that have added to the confusion and desperation that has characterised our political system for years, switching from one party to another, abandoning principles for which they had once campaigned.

Now a little comment on the capital cash-gate, forgive my ignorance over these issues, I am not an accountant and I don’t think I will ever become one but my little understanding of the system tells me that an accounts assistant is somebody who just prepares a payment voucher. He doesn’t authorise payment.

This is where I am having more questions especially hearing news that an accounts assistant was found with K120 million cash, K10 million, K7 million bla bla bla! Where are the people that authorised such payments? Why are the police not pouncing on them? What we are seeing next is those controlling officers and some of the signatories to government cheques holding press briefings giving us that middle finger altitude describing the whole episode as a breakthrough.

By the way, we are talking government cheques here right? Cashed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi? Ehem! So the Reserve Bank cashed K120, million and all the mentioned sums without raising eyebrows? Hahahaha!

And now my take on the media, geese! You mean facebook has now become a reliable source of news than our newspapers? Nowadays am turning to facebook to be updated on current affairs than our newspapers. News have been making rounds on the social network, giving us leads, no paper  has taken courage to dig deeper and follow all the leads and give us a comprehensive piece. 

The watch dog role has been abandoned completely. What am seeing now is event based journalism just waiting for Hawa Ndilowe to hold a press briefing and that automatically becomes a front page material. C’mon go to Capital hill and investigate. We need to know who signs government cheques, who is involved? Is Kasambara part of the syndicate? Follow up on documents, am sure there are some disgruntled fellas at capital hill who can talk anonymously, aaaaaah!

Hey you village idiot, don’t worry about these other things because Mphwiyo is to remain in South Africa, still on your tax, we are told for security reasons. Be a good and responsible idiot, eeeeeer citizen by paying tax, Mphiyo needs the money in South Africa.