DPP guilty of a crime worse than Cashgate: Don’t forgive thieves, looters
There are quite a few of them around. They do nothing of note other than seeking publicity and speaking for their masters. Do not be cheated about their agenda. There is no free lunch. They are lucratively remunerated for making that noise. One mercenary briefcase non-governmental organisation (NGO) is Malawi Watch, owned by Billy Banda.
Malawi Watch is a political construct from the Bakili Muluzi administration. Like all owners of briefcase NGOs in the country, Banda is founder, CEO, spokesperson, messenger and watchman—all rolled up in one person—of Malawi Watch. You don’t see anything else this NGO does apart from sanitising and mopping up the mess created by its political masters.
When Muluzi left and DPP came on the scene, Banda quickly morphed into a DPP stooge. He became a strong supporter and defender of the Bingu regime and later APM’s administration. In between the Bingu and APM’s administrations, as a DPP bootlicker Banda was an acidic critic of the JB administration.
Not surprisingly, Billy Banda’s narrative now is that the Tonse administration’s crack down on corruption and fraud is witch-hunting. He says the new government should forget the past and forgive those who plundered the public coffers in the past, if it is to deliver its promises.
To give credence and weight to this narrative, this week Banda enlisted the support of four other SCO leaders. By the way, it is now fashionable for SCOs to push their agendas as coalitions. There is nothing wrong with that. It is strategic. You speak with a bigger voice and get better attention that way. But the agenda is the same. It is not to serve the larger public good but themselves.
So this week, Billy Banda and his coalition partners questioned the wave of arrests of people connected to the immediate past DPP administration arguing the conduct may divide the country. Banda also called for the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission. According to him such a commission would help heal the wounds of the nation and put the nation on the path to reconciliation. He asked the new administration to forgive the thieves and looters.
It’s true Malawi needs all of these—healing, reconciliation and forgiveness. But more than and before anything else, Malawi needs rule of law and justice. For healing, reconciliation and forgiveness to take place, justice should be allowed to flow like a river. The law is the common denominator and regulator.
Malawians are angry because somebody stole from them. They stole money for drugs, roads, schools, farm inputs, relief, utility services. As a result of this brazen thievery, Malawians are being denied proper and quality services in all sectors. Malawians want the law to take its course.
Those who dipped their filthy fingers into public coffers and those who are causing misery to Malawians should face the law. The law was there before they started stealing. They knew the consequences of their actions. But they chose to ignore them. They are now filthy rich and even boasting about their ill-gotten wealth. And then someone has the audacity to say they should be forgiven. My foot!
Irrespective of the administration the thieves are from, they must all face the law. Forgiving a presumed thief sounds saintly, but it hurts even more to victims of the theft. Besides you only forgive someone who is remorseful. You don’t forgive a thief who does not admit their wrongdoing. The Tonse Alliance already opened a window for those who looted to confess their sins and return the loot during the campaign period. That window is now closed. If you stole and failed to declare you stole, there is now only one logical and legal conclusion of your conduct. You must go through the justice system. People want nothing but justice. Only when justice is seen to be done will there be healing and reconciliation.
The Chakwera-led Tonse administration will be making a grave mistake to listen to people asking it to forgive thieves. You can forgive a goat thief or a cattle rustler but not people who stole hundreds of millions or billions of kwacha.
The new administration will not win the war against corruption if it leaves thieves scot free in the name of healing and reconciliation. You don’t reconcile with thieves and plunderers. How do you drain the swamp? Let the crusade against fraud, plunder and corruption continue.
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Muchila
Billy Banda, like Mavuto Bamusi and Fryson Chodzi, is a useless mortal. So full of greed. Useless!
Granted the pre-multiparty democracy MCP had its evils but when you hear and see what what DPP did to the nation, the cruelty scale tips towards DPP. The plunder and thievery robbed every sector of the country’s socioeconomic development. When you consider the shortage of drugs in hospitals and the resulting effect on the population, you start wondering who, between MCP and DPP, caused more suffering.
How did Joyce Banda fund her stay for over a year. When she was President a plane landed from which embarked an Indian carrying cartons, he drove off without immigration or customs checks to see Joyce Banda. Who was he and what was in those cartons?
The identity and photograph of the Indian is available to me, the Indian lives in London, and the British authorities would extradite him to Malawi.
Joyce Banda has been MCP. UDF, DPP, PP, and now wants to be MCP / Tonse. But as she has cases pending so President Chakwera has to keep her at arms length b
DPP is a deep rooted criminal terrorism organization whose systems are beyond terrorism.
DPP is more worse than Rusefer
That’s why the are Devil Peoples Party
They kill
They rob
They plunder
They milk
They are fraudulent gurus on every game
I voted Tonse alliance administration just only to punish Nepotism of Llomwe who made other Malawians as second citizens
They must face the music of Justice so that when they return back in 2050 they have learnt a lesson of unity, obedience, loyalty and Discipline
Muchila
Somebody has said this is politicide (equivalent to genocide) and they are right. Blanket condemnation of a group of people, in this case a whole political party, coupled with blanket and blind praise of another party is dangerous and wrong. Like all wrong things, there shall surely be pay back someday.
in Malawi, the problem is about corpoy governance. e.g. National Audit Office, ACB and NLGFC are not independent hence poor funding and no monitoring. Treasury has an interest hence underfunding these governance institutions. In Norway and developed countries governance takes the whole 10 percent of budget. In Malawi less than 1 percent. What do you expect? Looting.
Ineptocracy – a government characterised by incompetent leaders.
Mapwiya led gaffment, you mean? Dont worry, that one is gone, never to come again in the foreseeable future
Find out how Nhlane benefited from his boss Abiti CASHGATE
It seems you know how. Just spill the beans and don’t waste our time.
Dr Chakwera, please take this message and everything Malawians are saying about these DPP thieves seriously! Please don’t leave them scot free!! Please keep up arresting them, and arrest them all!! Steve is sport on!!
Komabe muchila inu a UTMCP.
When are you arresting Mr Arthur Peter Mutharika and Ms Gertrude Mutharika?
Soon! Watch this space!
Excellent article this is what malawians want – those who write negative comments are thieves and the law is coming after you.
We need our money back into government account no1,don’t just arrest them but let’s take back what they took from us.
JB used to tell Malwians that DPP was the master minder of cashgate, Malswians then chose to give it a deaf ear and went ahead to give DPP mandate to govern simply because Malawians were fooled by the DPP mafias that it was PP that was the cash gater. Current revelations can vindicate the sentiments Amayi made several years ago. One issue one would find with Maleians is the element of quick to judge and believe or doubt without thorough thoughtfulness, a case of society characterised by high illiteracy levels.
Tonse Alliance of Dr. Laz Chakwera and Dr. S.K. Chilima, please don’t fo what Former President JB did by leaving these merciless thieves Scot free. It will be a big mistake. These looters have caused misery to many Malawians who have been denied good services in the hospitals, good roads etc. They go boasting as hard workers yet, it’s from our taxes. Please make sure that these cases are dealt with the speed it deserves.
Nhlane worked for Chief CASHGATER Joyce Banda. Your mind is clogged with cashgate and you are not objective. Unali kale iwe.
But why did you left Banda free?
Don’t forget She went into self exile and came out of her hiding den during campaign season.
DPP worse than cashgate, yes. But corruption goes back to 1994 with the election of Bakili so Tonse should be looking to investigate all corruption and bring to account not only the politicians but also the Indians, Greeks, indigenous Malawians and other foreigners who were the middlemen who facilitated the corruption. The purpose of the investigations has to be the recovery of the stolen funds not newspaper headlines. The headlines if the Tonse government is serious will be about recovery of the loot not investigations.
Great thinking and I 100% agree.
Very stupid article
You appear to be very familiar with stupid. Do you reside there?
Better MW, don’t worry about this guy. I know him and his real name. Pepa DPP yathera mnjira. Umandivetsa chisoni. Ndiye zikuthera bwaaaa
What’s in the article sounds nice and dandy, but let’s not forget that the author of this article used to be in the cashgate regime of PP. Apart from stolen cash handed to her at the palace in bags, JB imported over 200 fuckin’ cars duty-free for “personal use”. A truly crooked woman!
I like the content of your article but the heading defeats the purpose; Mr. don’t grade crimes; what Malawians want is to punish everyone who stole from them, even in the name of cashgate, maizegate etc whetger it was in hundreds, thousands, millions and or billions; stealing is stealing infact it starts with stealing of small things and graduates . ULet them face the common denominator of law.
Mayo a Billy Banda. Lero mukufuna akusiyeni? Palibe
Simutitha period
Mwatheka kale Wawa,mwatsala pati mmene mukuoneka? Self conscious is that going to deal with you my friend!