Speeches from archives wont knock Tembo
We’re fed up with speeches from archives aimed at dehumanising John Zenus Ungapake Tembo.
All of us are fed up.
It’s not just Chris Daza, Ishmael Chafukila, Humphrey Mvula, Mayi Hilda Manjankhosi and our fellow Nyasa Times columnist, Nyakuchenya Ganda, (we know even without asking him).It’s the entire coalition team-Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF). All peace loving Malawians are sick to death of these ‘satanic’ speeches.
Ok, there are a few diehards, like the architects of the same, whose own fate is tied to the system.
And then, there are those who get rewarded out of it, they think its fun and people love it.
People sneered at Tom Likambale’s recent article, claiming that stories of Bingu wa mutharika and Comesa were all about the past.
So, what is new about Bakili Muluzi’s 2004 speeches on John Tembo?
POLITICAL PROPAGANDA
Instead of telling people facts that will sell their idols politically, producers of these speeches are wasting time searching from the annals what Muluzi said against Tembo years ago and rerunning the vocalizations now, all with the sole aim of political propaganda.
Cheap propaganda indeed.
CAMPAIGN
To be guileless with our brothers and sisters who earn a living from producing the satanic speeches, they are only bringing our country into disarray.
These speeches will only fuel antagonism amongst Malawians.
Why not talk about projects that the government intend to do?
Why not talk about new appointments that may accommodate Northerners as they have been wholly sidelined for the past five years with only four mnisters in 45 member cabinet and as well the centre with only two ministers?
Why not critique the MCP manifesto?
As opposed to telling the voting public that Muluzi voiced out that Tembo has blood in his hands.
Is it not Bingu who in 2004 praised Muluzi to the skies that he was the champion of democracy? And today he calls him a failure.
Such is politics.
Good politicians
Everyday lost in listening to these satanic speeches will cost us dearly in the long run.
Yet our politicians are criminally wasting time and money on these speeches from the library to distract voters from Muluzi and Tembo. No! That is not the way.
Good politicians bring developmental issues to voters.
Education, health, road networks, issues surrounding the social/economic life of people and many more are the kind of things the nation wants to listen to.
These are the critical issues facing Malawi today. And tomorrow and for decades to come.
Certainly, we are more interested to hear about what tough decisions will be taken to cut our ballooning state debt than Muluzi calling Bingu an ‘economic engineer’.
Amangwetu, this is 2009. What will voters, some of whom never saw late Aaron Gadama, benefit from these speeches from the archives?
Politicians only use these great sons of Malawi (whose death remains a mystery to date) during campaign, yet there is completely nothing in their honour in form of roads and buildings (in their names).
At this highly sensitive period in Malawi, the government is rudderless and adrift, utterly lacking in the authority to stop this nonsense and lead by example.
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Tagged with: Bakili, Bingu, DPP, JZU, MCP, Muluzi, Mutharika, Tembo, UDF
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