Seasons come, seasons go but at times the status of affairs is so resistant to change that change itself finds ridicule as drama of reality unfolds despite a belief that every season exists for a reason.
Whenever the country’s national assembly convenes, its meetings are spiced and flavored by high class comedies and tragedies.
Whether this characterization is a work of some political architect or else a self dug pit of mixed fortunes, well your guess is as good or as bad as mine since the catapulted question undeniably generates a meander of answers.
Malawi is slowly but surely building its history on pillars of hardcore feud between pro-government and pro-opposition parliamentarians.
At least when some incidents occur more than once and that their occurrence replicates previous happenings, surety and assurance hatches to confirm there is history in the making in the offing.
Surely, both opposition and government parliamentarians have sober points and agendas as weighed by their national, political and individual school of thought.
Both parties are right –no need to be pro or against this conclusion because wrongs are often miscalculated rights.
A cloud of uncertainty continues to hover over Malawi’s political horizons and this atmosphere is unfortunately unsafe in determining political forecasts.
For engines of democracy to be propelled normally, opposition is a necessary component of the driving force of government –simply put, government needs opposition and vice versa.
Of course the two factions have parallel ideologies, visions and interests which hopefully are similar or congruent by the fact that they all target to satisfy national interests for the good of Malawi and Malawians.
It is as disgusting as ever to always witness the beef between government and opposition in the national assembly as the expense of the taxpayers’ money.
If government takes the opposition for granted then definitely parliament will be the only instrumental tool the opposition will engage to plot a sound revenge.
If the opposition takes government for a ride because of the muscle of its majority in parliament then obviously the risk triggered will see government chewing bits and pieces of the constitution as it grasps to catch a breath for survival.
Unless mended through proper procedures and channels, the constitution is not subject to be reduced to a document that falls short of what it stipulates and summons.
Our parliamentarians are a bunch of schooled individuals that obviously recognize that violence is a language that people drought of words engage.
Schooled as they are, of course with a variety of levels, parliamentarians are a caliber of leaders that cannot ‘capsize’ in parallel political bridges or indeed democratic potholes.
Life is full of mixed fortunes that some realities are hard to swallow but as a sound and sober society, it is high time Malawi accepts reality and quickly re-assembles itself to avoid repercussions and replications.
Behind every problem there is always a solution alongside prevention.
After bowing down honorably to pave way for the approval of the 2007/08 national budget last year, opposition MPs deemed that as a pre-requisite to the implementation of the highly touted, anticipated, debated and controversial Section 65 after being assured by government.
The budget was finally passed despite some ministries emerging as causalities of political beef resulting into cartooned allocations –some as low as K1.
If what is being witnessed in parliament today is anything to go by, then may be government merely paid a lip service to smuggle the national budget as evidenced by its reluctance and dilly-dallying in the implementation of Section 65.
One funny factor about law is that it does not work to satisfy one’s advantages but that it satisfies fundamental principles for the good of the nation.
As government strives day and night to win favours of some sentences scribed in the constitution, opposition parties are perusing the same pages in search of similar sentences that work to their advantage.
At the end of the day, the constitution remains the same undefiled, raped or abused document that reigns supreme beyond reasonable doubt.
However, the political cross fire between government and opposition MPs will only be beneficial to mother Malawi’s hardly won democracy if it is justified within the parameters of the law.
Otherwise going out of constitutional bounds whilst desperately seeking to resolve the current political impasse would only be a short term measure that might surely cost the nation lots if its implications back fire, may be tomorrow or the day after…not exactly but surely one day.
As bonafide Malawians keep their fingers crossed to witness what tomorrow brings in the political spheres, one dominant puzzle continues irritate upstairs: Who is fooling who?
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