Columnist hits at MCP: Party ‘not inspiring confidence’ as choice that could save Malawi
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) faced an extraordinary bit of dissent from a newspaper columnist who torched the oldest party as not being on the cusp of victory in 2019 Tripartite elections as predicted by some survey but a party that is “unravelling at the seams aided by some shortsighted individuals lacking ambition.”
Suzhho Khunga, writting in Weekend Nation, argued that MCP has been “flip flppiing” on the stand to the government dubiously sourced and distributed K4 billion for constituencies.
The cokumnidt pointed out the MCP president Lazarus Chakwera made it clear that much as they had accepted the money would be spent, he still wanted the events leading to the disclosure of this funding investigated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
“One would think this was a clear stand communicated by the president of the party with endorsements from the National Executive Committee (NEC) but that was clearly not the case.
“The MCP MPs must have been shocked, however, when the acting secretary general Eisenhower Mkaka told the media that MCP would not be accepting the K4 billion after all,” reads the column.
Khunga wrote that if Iindeed the K4 billion was contained in the allocation for the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, it was up to those leaders in Parliament to school their colleagues outside that this could not reversed.
At least, the columnist wrote, not without tabling a repeal or amendment Bill to the Appropriation Act which MCP MPs themselves contributed in passing to authorise the Minister of Finance to spend.
And the column used has more questions than answers.
”Why is it that it was only Mkaka who realised that the K4 billion payout was embroiled in dishonesty and thievery, not the MPs who approved its expenditure?
“What is MCP telling its supporters and potential voters about their ability to make decisions and stick to them?”
In all this, the columnist observed that the leadership of Chakwera is “nowhere to be seen or felt.”
According to the columnist, Chakwera is spending more time attending dinners organised by an aspiring vice-president than removing the confusion that rocks the party.
“MCP does not seem like a political party on the cusp of victory as predicted by some survey or other. It is a party that is unravelling at the seams aided by some shortsighted individuals lacking ambition,” wrote Khunga.
The columnist states that MCP seems to “hellbent on squandering the perceived good they have had recently”.
Khunga concluded the column by stating that MCP does not inspire confidence as a party that is capable of governing come May 2019.
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Well, the writer has some sense of biased reflection of his own. Caution to everyone is that usually DPP sympathizers seek manipulate people’s choice. This is a good example. Chakwera could be the only option outside Mutharika that’s all.
Polls are won thru the ballot,not on paper..work hard to achieve the dream.
As for me, its not about merit of the alternative. It’s more about a change full stop. It’s even more about someone without traits of dirt of the dpp. It’s much about someone who will not duck to tackle the evil of this government. An arrogant government with evil people.
Thus on point @sugzo. .really this man can’t change things. .we guys like chilima to govern
Politicians come from our midst. They were not imported from Syria. They are our brothers, sisters, uncles, in-laws, and so forth. Their character was made by our society. We condemn them right and left forgetting its our very society that modded them. With this kind of immature writing by Nyasa Time Reporter do you expert politicians to behave and act differently. Can you separate the character of this reporter and that of Goodall Gondwe. No. Look at your chiefs Kyungu and Lundu how they misbehave do you expect politicians coming from there to act differently. We ask politicians to change and not reporters. Transformation must be in every facet of our society. Nankhumwa is as good as our reporters, our accountants, our economists and our engineers. The whole system is rotten. Look at loss of public money, poor roads, medical malpractices and poor quality of school leavers and immature reporting. All undesirable
This writer is useless and does not know politics in MCP, Chakwera is working day and night to build a party, while his other court bounded GS, and VP, are not helping in anyway, no meetings, of all the bye elections, they are not part of it. This writer first must look into Malawi today under DPP, the most scandalous gvnt ever had since 1964, most corrupt, most thieves we ALL MUST remove to bring into it the new dawn and at the moment its Chakwera who must help us redeem Malawi from the corrupt government.
Be blind deliberately. MCP is receiving support than any time since 1994
Wadyetsedwa
AS A MATTER OF RESPECT AND DIGNITY TO YOURSELVES AND THE PEOPLE OF MALAWI
PLEASE HUMBLE YOURSELVES
SURRENDER THE MANTLE TO
THIS TALENTED YOUNG MAN OF GOD/OUR LAND (BUSHIRI AKA MAJOR 1)
THE YOUNG MAN CAN TAKE THE COUNTRY TO HIGHER LEVEL.
GOD BLESS !!
Forget about this girl Suzgo Khunga. She is so much driven by misplaced Northern tribal feelings.
MCP supporters too over confident. I dont blame you. But if at all it happens that you have lost 2019 ELections, I doubt if you will indeed welcome that result. Relax and have an open mind team. MIA is powerful but never helped UDF nor PP win votes in the Southern region. You are working too much on probability which can in itself be unpredictable. In Brief, nobody knows what the outcome will be in 2019.
Malawi is a pathetic nation. We have no hope from our leaders including MCP
When you are listening to commentators during a loved game/match and a goal is about to be scored, who do commentators mention almost countless times? The commentators mention the STRIKER who is certainly to put the ball into the net. ………………….. it is DR Chakwera
You say the young lady is being bought? That is silly thinking from mucous brains of MCP supporters who follow things with Trachoma eyes. Do you read newspapers? You would have found out that this is the only article which has hit MCP. The lady has been at DPP’s neck all along. By hitting at MCP it does not mean he supports DPP. She is forced to write this article looking at what is happening on the ground. Is it not true that MCP MPs helped the k4billion bill to pass? If the bill was debated in Parliament and passed were MCP MPs not there? Were MCP MPs not among the MPs who suggested that the money for each constituency should not be k40m but k20m? Why did it take MCP so long to make a U-turn? It only shows that the leadership got the latter decision from outsiders who don’t even have a constituency. This leader of MCP should be released and let him go back to read HABBAKKUKS and ZEPHANIAS. Politics is too heavy for him. Sugzo is just trying to panel beat the leadership which as of now is doing things as a headless snake. How can a party accept itself to be in hot quarrels day and night yet elections are just at a stone throw? News of defections from the party are at every DPP rally? Why are supporters running away from Chakwera at this crucial time? Truth pains, but its good to accept it and do corrections. This blind following of supporters is what has made the party lose five times yet at every election supporters were being promised a win. Surprisingly not even a single supporter has questioned these promises and lies. TIWINA, TIWINA, TIWINA, was the song in all the five elections but come results the party finds itself in opposition bench!!! Tell us where you are insipiring confidence. Tell us which mistakes have you corrected that you can assure a win this time? DPP is just very quiet making plans on how to bruise Chakwera for the second time. MCP have used all avenues, newspapers, CSOs, PAC and the other PAC but the agents have all failed. Panopa a George Kasakura akungotuluka thobvu kukamwa kusowa chonena.
Let me remind Kasakura: You wrote in your column MY DIARY when you were working at NPL with a heading ”Cheating us wont work” on page 19 of the WEEKEND NATION of 1st September,2012. But the article itself was written on 28th August,2012. In this article you challenged Goodall Gondwe that he is wasting time conducting rallies because there is no way DPP can come back to power. Another highlited statement you made was ”DPP should just be licking its wounds as it rots in political purgatory”. How do you feel now after seeing the same Gondwe having a ministerial post in the same government of DPP which you said could not win? That is why some of us do not take your writings seriously for we know that the rubbish is there to rot.
Koma achimwene apa nde mwamuuza Kasakula, wopusa uyu!
Kasakula sono ulibe manyazi apa, ndi ma prognostication ako a “ass wipe” aja?
Poor analysis of things by half baked writer. Who doesn’t know that you have beensent to write this nosense aimed at tarnishing the image of the government in waiting? You Suzho and whoever has sent you to write this sensless article will be disappointed come 2019. That is when you will realize that you were fooled. Unfortunately those sending you will leave you alone full of shame.
Let the games begin! Malawians are now wide awake from slumber and now can see for themselves all the smokes and mirrors, optical illusions and the dance of fire. Political parties please focus on how you’re going to change peoples lives and on how youll deliver on your promises; otherwise you’ll be voted out just like the other political parties before the Peter Mutharika DPP. Stop throwing mad at each other we are tired of kutukwana ana asanagone.
Sadly most party followers are blind. The level of education and analytical thinking is no where near in Malawi. The issue here is not to castigate each other but to share and see how to help parties to be answerable to voters. The excitement in MCP as a government in waiting cannot be blamed to them . It’s been long since they tested Mercedes-Benz. The Chakwera /Mia is not a winning card. Chakwera is new but Mia has been there before. Nothing we cannot point about him except feeding rotten meat to people gracing convention. e.g. the PP convention. He is a powerhungry person who together with his wife think they can rule Malawi. His late Father the senior mia was a principled person. Gwanda tried to lure him to MCP but he refused. The son is biggot who brings confusion in parties using his money. Most people including Chakwera are interested in this money that is why he has abandoned the real son’s of MCP for Mia’s money. . it’s sad. The problem is is the youth of Malawi. let’s rise and takeover from these political condoms. It is time now. We have able young men in all the parties who can come together and form a party that can transform Malawi . Stop castigating each other here.
I agree with you about MCP but then again Peter has done nothing to end the corruption. If only Saulosi was their candidate
Attending fund raising dinner????? how many blue nights has DPP organised and Mutharika has attended. So of the money raised ndizija akuti zinali ndi Chaponda. Is it wrong for MCP president to attend a dinner dance raising money for his party?? Leave MCP alone and write about what DPP is doing good for this country so that People can vote for it.
Kaya watumidwa ndi mbamva za DPP kaya watumidwa ndi achina kaliwo ndi msowoya?Koma 2019 mcp tikuivotela basi,u’re just wasting your time writting shit stories bout mcp
Peter Muthalika akugona nthawi yothayitha , so you want us to vote for DPP, so you spend your time telling us that there is internal problems in MCP, there are not, problems are outside it, in fact it’s you & Msowoya group who are outside MCP have problems, that’s why you go to courts while the internal members are busy fundraising for the party & setting the political ground level clean. Umbava wawonekera poyera, Goodall wawulula kuti akupakula ku capital hill, kuba kufika pokanika kupenta ma ofesi a boma ku capital hill. And you should know that Chakwera has been given chance to go to the polls unopposed through court injunction ya Kaliwo & his fellow nkholokolo, ndipo Chakwera ndi Mia akugwedeza, sizocheza wina abibidwa , chaka chake ndi chino.
DPP inspiring? Kikikikiki.
This is what Gustav & Company want. But it will not work!
Paper does not refuse ink. Anything can be said by anyone true or false
The most unfortunate thing people have already made up there mind that this time MCP should be voted in. This negative fabricated stories about MCP will not hold, the reason is simple DPP is in total shit, their leader are just pretending to be doing something nothing is working and they know it.
MCP will have an easy ride come 2019, as its opponent is hopeless, running out of ideas. DPP is no longer an option for most Malawians, its failed party.
Khunga chindere chakufikapo
Nation newspaper ikutumikila a Msowoya coz Mbumba amateretsa ndege ya Richard Msowoya. Who doesn’t know, plz know. Nation is hell bent to decampaign MCP
Kodi Ku chipaniku kulibe amuna? Akuluwa angozingidwa ndi azimai okhaokha chifukwa chiani? Bwinotu.
Azimuna a azimai amenewa chenjerani. Azikazi anuwo akabeleka ana go for DNA tests, now popularly known as Ngwira tests, Mutha kupeza kuti anawo sianu.
You may right to say only Mkaka said MCP is not getting the dirty money therefore there is no leadership and not fit to run govt. Is Mkaka not a leader in MCP?
Fine. now tell us about those who steal our resources, should they remain in govt and continue stealing?
Vinu ivo ise MCP na Chakwera mweneyuyu. Ine na banja lane 2019 MCP. I hate quota system with passion
I respect Sugzo. She is not biased and she has never been. I know there will be some misguided individuals, with blind party loyalty smelling fresh dust from kudambwe, will fault her. Suzgo ignore them, those are blind people leading each. I rate you better than Afrobarometer!!! Your objectivity is far much better than them.
After dancing to choruses for over 30 years now nthawi yothaitha akuvina seculiar. After taking a few doses of red wine the people who were there were surprised to see the party leader dancing to Nkasa’s ‘Yoswa’ hit!!!!!
Keep it up Suzgo, that was superb analysis and observation.
No tribe and no person under the sun is perfect and or righteous! Nkhani ya mistake ya Chakwera yapita ku dambwe chifukwa chani m’bale wanga?
Why this magnitude of hate? Why? Do you have reasons why God created them? This is too much! They might be useless to you as a person, but the Creator Loves them as He does with every other tribe in Malawi and beyond……………………………………..!!
azimayi omwa kachasu vuto ndi limeneli
Hatton, i would like to advise you just with very few, if you hate the Chewa tribe let it be, but do not write them here.
You are provoking us my friend! we are very peaceful people if you may ask.
Lets respect each other as we are all Malawians, i don’t know what type of tribe you are coming from, but this page is telling me that you are Lwomwe, we have Lwomwes here for the sake of them respect us, we are taking care of them, they are sleeping in our houses, we are feeding them, paying them, they work for us. Therefore do not tarnish the i mage of Lwomwes by your ignorance, Do not be stupid thinking like kuti we can not talk, we respect and we will continue do that, koma ukationjeza kunyoza our tribe in the name of kuti mudziwike, that is when you will see kuti anthu amayambana Dziko limodzi, [civil war], lets avoid this! mukamanyoza muzinyoza mupepukako.
At least personal attack it is ok, you and the person, DO NOT ATTACK THE TRIBE AND THEIR CULTURE!
This place must be a place where we can learn something, speak our thoughts freely and again share our views and also show maturity.
We all know how many you are here for the ruling party and am sure you also know how many we are for opposition parties. DO NOT ATTACK THE TRIBE AND THEIR CULTURE.
Fake news! Let the grassroots make a judgement of that hence Chakwera has been probing the 4 billion kwacha onset . The infighting in the party is done by funded perpetrators & fueled by cheap propaganda on MBC. As columist you are failing to research facts only the ground.
Haters. DPP yagula anthu ambiri eti? Ndi inu nomwe kumalemba zouma mutu chonchi. Olemba nkhani pa Malawi ndiosaukadi. Mpake mulandila zi ma banzi za blue
This lady has never commented anything positive about MCP. Dig through all her articles. You know who she toes the line for. I agree that MCP goofed and dipped themselves in DPP’s perpetual thievery and plunder of state resources. She has however never attached the thief. However pound for pound, decision making, reasoning, the inspiration she talks about, uprightness, capacity to Govern, IQ level, leadership etc, APM far falls below Chakwera.
Wait for just 14 months. You will realise your analysis was corrupted. MCP is winning heavely
Mwangozikolakola a Khunga. Are you against fund raising, better that way than using taxpayers money. You should understand how crooked the DPP government is. Where is PAC now?What do you think will be the next course of action of these men of God. Do you think PAC is dead?