SLOW DOWN MR PRESIDENT

‘They have been insulting me and I have not hit back. If you think am issuing threats, take it as you like. Enough is enough. I will not accept this nonsense anymore… If donors are going to criticize that, this is democracy, to hell with you. I have had enough. If any donor wants to withdraw from this country, let them leave and go.’ His Excellency the president Ngwazi Professor Bingu wa Mutharika, fondly called ‘the wise and dynamic leader’.

Lots of tongues have staggered to get the president’s verbal wrath straight. Youth are the most confused. Insults and blank insults are making the younger generation intoxicated with the politics around as well as the governing style.

Is it not the father himself that equated the rest of us into chickens and branded some selected others as tiankhwezule? The donors, civil society et al were dubbed stupid by the same. But Bingu says he has not hit back, probably because criticism is far from insults.

Spare victimisation of the truth by being brutal to reality at hand, at least some of us remember that the state hastily deported self-acclaimed Kamuzu’s son, Jumani, who spat a tremendous amount of insults at Bingu. But the senior Professor Mutharika denies to have hit back.

Mr President, remember that not long ago you were a darling to many that people even enjoyed playing and dancing to your party anthems in clubs, cars, homes, parties etc. But fast forward to today, those songs are dumb and DJs have placed the CDs where they belong.

Perhaps enough is enough, no wonder the president repeatedly says ‘he can’t understand Malawians’. Do the so called Malawians understand their leader anyway?

Fellow youngsters, we are privileged to know and realise that an eye for an eye only leaves the whole world blind. Malawi needs to smoke out the tit-for-tat and shoot to kill ideologies if peace and sanity is to prevail. Slow down Mr President!