The countdown to 2014 is constantly cruising. Not slowed
down a bit by the persistent fuel drought, or even the stumble in forex
malnutrition. Our leaders can tout about their verbal glittering successes and policies
that have unfortunately led this country into deep graveyard reality where the
citizenry is bulldozed into tinted royalty.
Leadership is not a posh portfolio. Leadership is both a
charisma and a challenge. The issue of nicknames for leaders makes most of us
choke with laughter. I am not being sarcastic but am only undressing reality as
it is.
I cannot poke at some big
kahunas or moyas as these names
are protectively condemned and embalmed by the high authority. I would not want
to be in contempt. It reminds of secondary school politics, where captains or
head boys/girls were untouchables. Branding them with any accord contrary to
their taste would be enough a warrant to endless brutal punishments. Such
punishments of intolerance would include digging a sizeable deep pit and
burying the same… all this, just a showcase of authority to silence those with
dissenting views but selfishly disguised as discipline installation measures.
The youth know that most heads and captains into the
punitive authoritarian fashion of leadership ended up being accomplished miserable
failures because they were so corrupt by power that they sacrificed focus on
school or leadership to individual witch hunting just to show their might and
power. Sad!
Youngsters, who is our leader? Are we tempted to undermine
everything Malawi ever stood for in terms of multiparty democracy? From a
distance, Malawi seems to be in even a greater destabilization spiced by a
beleaguered economy. Is our silence demeaning the cause for which our freedom fighters
sacrificed their lives for?
Verily I say unto you, Malawi under the most high God shall
have a new birth of freedom and that fundamental principles of democracy shall
not perish.
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