Last parliament meeting before elections sits from Nov. 19
Members of parliament have been summoned for the last meeting of parliament before the highly contested May 2019 elections and it starts from November 19 to December 14.
Clerk of Parliament Fiona Kalemba, in a brief statement seen by Nyasa Times , is calling all legislators to attend.
No business has been indicated for the meeting, but civil society organisations are lobbying opposition back benchers to bring into the 193 strong House an impeachment motion.
They want President Peter Mutharika impeached on various grounds.
But it is doubtful that the motion would be moved after main opposition, the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) cast doubt over the motion.
Analysts say the MCP fears if Mutharika is impeached then vice president Saulos Chilima would immediately take over just less than six months before a general election.
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the MCP are also planning to topple Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya for joining the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Saulos Chilima.
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Za impeachment ya APM zisiyeni nthawi yatha kale koma ya Msowoya you can go ahead. If I may ask APM being impeached then it has to be done together with SKC as they are running the country jointly as people voted for them as a pair. Anamuuza Zanabi muja SKC amadzikolakola kuti they were jointly elected, so impeachment together as well. Don’t be selective in this issue as both are Malawian Presidents whether or even if there was Second Vice, they were supposed to be impeached together.
I suppose that between now and the 19th of November we shall have to listen to more of our politicians telling us how much they support the concept of servant-leadership. No one ever tells us what they think this concept means, or what it would look like if it were put into practice. If our present political leaders embody the concept, I suppose we should have to conclude that servant-leadership at the national level would look a bit like what would happen if we gave the responsibility for the running of our household to our gardener or kitchen-maid, but on a grander scale.
Presumably, this is not the state of affairs that they are promising us – but what is it? Nobody spells it out for us.
All Malawians have servants – parliamentary servants, public servants, and domestic servants, although the latter are usually unpaid family members, especially daughters. We can all tell the difference between a good servant and a bad one, and we all know that the most obvious difference between them is that a good servant listens actively, while a bad does not. There is a big difference between listening actively and merely hearing. There is a lot of material on active listening on the internet, for example: http://www.skillsyouneed,com/ips/active-listening.html, so I won’t waste space abstracting it here.
It is our duty to tell our politicians what they are talking about. Otherwise, how will they know? Most of them are now talking about change, but unless we tell them what changes we want, and how to prepare themselves for these changes, they will not know what to do.
That’s the thing about having servant-leaders. It implies that – as the ‘bosses’ of these servant-leaders – we will tell them clearly what we want them to do, and they will listen carefully and do their best to achieve the goals we set. If we don’t talk, how can we expect them to listen, actively or otherwise?
Let us begin a dialogue on the nature of servant-leadership with those who aspire to be our servant-leaders.
everything is at stake ,