Throwing away the baby? Reflections on the 2025 SONA
I have read and understood the SONA.
The 2025 SONA was well packed and loaded with developments in food security, the economy, governance, human capital and infrastructure in all districts across the country which underscores the fair national distribution of public resources by the Chakwera administration.
The developments spreading in all 28 districts covered essential public services like electrification through grid and off-grid connectivity, free water connectivity, irrigation schemes, mega farms, farming subsidy (AIP),NEEF business loans, health centers and posts, social cash transfers, job creation in the civil service, university students loans and learning facility at primary, secondary and university levels, roads and bridges, public servants houses, rail way transport, managing electricity blackouts and other completed, on-going and taking off projects.
However, let me not ignore the public ridicule from Opposition stooges and fault-finders claiming, on social media, that the President lied in the SONA just because some of the projects claimed to have been completed are yet to complete or take off.
There is a huge difference between lying and misrepresentation of facts, and owing to the vastness and complexity of government systems, reporting of financial, statistical or any data in any form is prone to human error at entry, dissemination or interpretation levels.
I don’t know what government has responded to the allegation about the “lies” in the SONA, but overall, everything the president said in the SONA is correct. Despite the pain and struggles, Malawi has realized remarkable developments that have alleviated suffering and poverty.
What really shocks me is why some have chosen to ignore all the correct information and achievements of our government, which comprise 99.99 % of the SONA and dwelt on the 0.01% misreported information? Why are we always obsessed with negativity? Why do most Malawians find it easy to celebrate negativity more than positivity, progress and prosperity? Its all a mindset problem.
Remember, we do not throw away the baby with the dirty bathwater. Let us keep the baby and throw away the dirty bathwater.
As Rev. Maurice Munthali prays, “ mu tiyi wathu wamkaka mwagwera ntchentche. Tisataye mkaka, koma tingochotsamo ntchentcheyo kuti timwe bwino mkaka wanthu.” SONA imeneyi ndi mkaka ndithu. Panalakwikapo ndikantchetche kameneko. Ingokavuwulani mukaponyere uko and appreciate the developments at large.
Cultivate a positive mindset.
Lets embrace the SONA and request clarification on misrepresented facts. That’s what responsible citizens do.
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I don’t know the intention of the writer of this story, but when you start reading the story from the start, it sounds like they are reporting from what they quote someone who was commenting on the SONA and in the end, it looks like it was an editorial review… Dear editors, there are some burdens you can’t shoulder on behalf of politicians, they are obviously in a better position to clarify to their citizens… on the big issue of the president lying to his citizens, there are legible people in the office of the president and cabinet who are… Read more »
How could you?
I mean you are allowed to voice your opinion. But shouldn’t it be on your own platform and not on this mass one where the world needs to know what is really happening?
This kind of reporting is the one that made the past administration say “we didn’t know that all that was happening” because they didn’t even see what was wrong through the media too. Please give a voice to the voiceless and be human for once.
Mwapangana
I wonder how much did u get paid to write this nonsense.
Which suffering and poverty have been eradicated? What is eradicating suffering and poverty? You should have elaborate further on this. It looks like you are not in Malawi. Do you know that most businesses are at the blink of closing? Citizens cannot afford to buy even the most basic food items, and your foolishness you say suffering and poverty have been eradicated. Where? In your house? About the so called misrepresentations in the SONA, do you believe reporting that at such such a place there are 24 houses built when there is none to be an error? Then you cannot… Read more »
Malawi is retrogressing because we tend to support silly things even where we know we are being duped. How can one say it is a mispresentation when the President claims has built 29 houses in Phalombe yet even a single one is in existence?! I take this as a deliberate way of hooking money from the government dubiously because every project goes through different stages and there is no way a project that has not reached completion level nor has started can be reported. It shows money has been used and recorded. This is not time to manage hands but… Read more »
This is the position way of reporting. God bless you Nyasa Times. Many are bent to destroy the very thing they intend to build when in government. Just set the record straight by throwing dirty water than throwing away it with the baby.
Keep on the good and positive attitudes toward your country development.
how much did you get paid to write this puff piece editorial? Even a blind and deaf man can see through both yours and the president’s nonsense. Life is unbearable in Malawi we are facing hyper inflation the ship’s captain is not only asleep but. doesn’t even seem to know hiw to operate a ship let a alone a canoe when woken up. And here you are bootlicking for whatever favors, you think your oratory prowess changes the hardships being faced by Malawians on a daily basis? You are a disgrace to this nation and journalism.
statistics are for the dead not the living. mathematics of errors. self deception.
The writer = SONA 2025.
Nyasa Times you have revealed yourself that you took part in writing that presentation.
Dont you feel ashamed of a shaming the head of state?