MCP holds future for Malawi

We left Kasungu two days ago and we are now here in Mchinji for a brief but serious one-day official event. We have been prompted by the (not-so) Democratic People’s Party (DPP)’s campaign tactics.  You see, the DPP campaign machine is already spending sleepless nights as though the party is out of government. The DPP knows the next election is almost four years away but in DPP political theory, everyday is campaign day.

Lazarous Chakwera: MCP president
Lazarous Chakwera: MCP president

Some of us were born at night, but it was not last night. Yes, we may be outside the DPP house, but we can still see what is inside that party. We see campaigning in all this presidential gallivanting and helicoptering from district to district to lay this foundation stone here today and open that project there tomorrow. It is not necessarily in the national interest it is draining Malawi’s shoestring already-cashgated resources. The party is more interested  in the 2019 elections than in sorting out today’s woes.

That’s what all this full page newspaper advertisement of the party’s self-declared achievements and fulfilment of campaign promises means. All this bill-boarding, all this symbolic annihilation of opposition personalities on the Mutharika, sorry, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation TV is a campaign tactic for 2019.

There is one thing we admire about this party of death and darkness. This is that the party is not afraid of raising controversy. Recently, it held a news conference where it announced that it had introduced user fees in some hospitals. When some chiefs and poor villagers protested, the party came back to deny what it said. It even used such strong words as null and void. The other day it raised salaries for the presidency only to come back and rejected the salaries.

Those who care will remember that a man pretending to be disgruntled with the DPP has been all over the internet condemning the party in power and his own colleagues. But, we are not children. We know this is the same party campaigning. It is trying to show that it can tolerate criticism. Soon, and very soon, we will hear that the same person is back into the mainstream.

Recently we heard someone say “dziko lino ndi la fodya”. Far from being a gaffe, this is another campaign tactic, saying something people can always remember. We have learned from the DPP that one can still make news even when there is nothing newsworthy. That is why we are here. Before coming here, we bought enough blue, yellow, green and orange paint. We also procured enough paintbrushes. We are here, in Mchinji, to paint the cell in which we were once incarcerated and to write some graffiti thereunto.

“Tell us, what really happened for you to be incarcerated?”

“Sometime in 1987, we came here to play volleyball against a team that was named Mchinji district select….”

“You came here from where?” asked Abiti Joyce Befu, also known as MG 66, our leader of expedition.

“That’s immaterial!” I challenged.

“Why?” MG 66 challenged.

“Because the past is immaterial. It’s gone with its agonies and beauties. Edward Chitsulo used to say, to achieve great things in life, forget about the past; look ahead instead,” I said.

“Okay… continue your story…” Native Authority Mandela urged me.

“So, during the volleyball game, I smashed the ball into one of the girls that came to watch us play. The girl went to report to her father who identified me as the smasher. The police came to pick not only me but also my teammates…”

“For what?” Sheikh Jean-Philippe LePossoin screamed.

“The girl I had hit with that ball was the MCP Mchinji district chairman’s daughter,” I said.

“So what?” Jean-Philippe probed.

“The incident was deemed premeditated and we deserved to be punished,” I said.

“You must be joking!” Jean-Philippe said.

“Joking? We were locked up and released without being questioned,” I said, adding that when we tried to find out why we were not asked even a single question, the criminal investigation officer told us we would have to spend another night in the cell if we really wanted to have our statements recorded.

“The MCP has a very bad past, indeed,” Jean-Philippe concluded.

“Yeah, but it’s the only party that holds the future of this country. Unlike others, it has paid enough for its dirty past. It is the only party that knows what Malawians wanted,” Native Authority Mandela said authoritatively.

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gift
gift
9 years ago

undindo wa u president pa chingeni road block suzadutsanso , southern region basi

Watereka
Watereka
9 years ago

Vuto la mcp ndilimenelo olo ku central amazikayikilanso mpaka akupangabe campaign! Asova amenewa 2019 DPP Boma!!

MCP
MCP
9 years ago

Kunena zoona MCP ndi Deal , kwa inu amene mumavota poyang’ana Dela kapena mtundu womwe president akuchokera you need to change your mindset, I am from south koma guys MCP can change Malawi for the better SI zinazi Mbava zachabechabe.

Ufuku
Ufuku
9 years ago

Dala iwe ndi zopanda songolo zimene ukambazo iwezo. Kapeni nthawi zino, Komaso ungozivuta sungazawine 2019

matako a njoka
matako a njoka
9 years ago

kkkkkkkkkkkk malotodi amakoma eeetii?? tangoonani ma district omwe akutchulidwawooo! Kasungu and Mchinji all from central region why? Alaaaaa bwerani kumwera kuno muzapange mabi anuwo muzaone ngati mutazasamalidwekoo! Zopusa zanuzo muzipanga ndi anthu atulo anyau omweo! Alaaaaa!

Gift Mwadenje
Gift Mwadenje
9 years ago

MCP 4 lyf

parasido
parasido
9 years ago

Someone said MCP will never rule Malawi again because of the past atrocities. I wish to say that you can only say that “may be in your life time.” MCP as a party can be there in the next 100 years and all of you who hpld on to the past are gone, some young and more intelligent people will put it into power. Only that you be not be one of the witn3

Julious
Julious
9 years ago

hweey MCP we love you we are people of the southern region.we are surprised that you are still concentrating your campaign tactics in your central region stronghold.why dont u come to the southern region districts and revamp the party structures?this is the time to work and resurrect the party in the southern region.we all know how powerfull our party is in the central and north but this is the time to concentrate on the south.if we put resources in the south we can easily win the elections come 2019.lets start the work now.lets plan and strategise henceforth.

VINKA
VINKA
9 years ago

MCP DHEAL

phwakambwa
phwakambwa
9 years ago

chakwela 2019 boma, peter 2019 to mpumulo wa b

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