I am having all the reasons now to be proud to be a Malawian. to make visits to all funny places in the country adds fun to our eyes...i have indeed made visits to all funny and interesting places of Malawi but never in my life have i visited a place with a lot of questions than the place Ntchisi.
In the past decades, i was made to believe that Ntchisi is not a good place to be as it is backwards with no developments at all. My lovely president, has made me believe that Ntchisi is not as wayback by the construction of a much nice road surface to Ntchisi Boma.
i was earlier told Ntchisi is the home of witches and wizards, from the day i arrived on my three days trip, nothing of that sort happened, people are so friendly and lovely to talk to they, have a vast agriculture living style and they respect their culture so much
How I wish i was born in Ntchisi at their beautiful and yet congested hospital, i have been made to believe that congested hospital are trusted hospitals...that's what Ntchisi hospital is made of, the people in the district trust their hospital
However i still cry for the lost years when the former vice president of this country was not able to establish a good road infrastructure and make Ntchisi be known.
How i wish I was from Ntchisi.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
HAPPY YEAR TO YOU ALL
I like to think of myself as a writer. Most of the times I write things that are difficult to comprehend even to me. Inevitably I write also about my personal life and family life.
So many things have happened in the year just ending and many thanks to all those who stood by me in all seasons making me a success out of the year just ending. My immediate thinking when I was just entering this ending year was that I will keep my resolutions true. One of the resolutions was to keep you and all my readers updated all the time. I never thought that rough times will be there in the year.
Expectations of the coming year are just unrealistically high that I had to trim them down for fear of reappraisal. Frankly speaking it will be a year of good and bad. Many have predicted that the year will bring a lot of roses. On the economy I see prices of essential commodities rising unbelievably. This will not due to the coming year’s problems but things that have failed to materialize and we have failed to conquer in the going year. What comes so early in my mind is the fuel crisis, the donor money in flow and the earthquakes.
Politically, I don’t see the UDF party holding a credible convention as promised by the outgoing chairman of the party. This will be due to internal squabbles currently in the party. Friday Jumbe has a huge task lying ahead of him in bringing all the big heads together to finance the convention and do it as one block. I am seeing a few changes also in ministerial appointments which I will not mention for now.
We will off course lose some big heads to death in the coming year but the shock will not be as much as many would be made to believe.
Religiously, the fight between Pac and government on justice continues.
All in all there will be positive areas as well; so many districts will register good harvest in the coming year making another successful year in agriculture.
Wishing you a success full year
So many things have happened in the year just ending and many thanks to all those who stood by me in all seasons making me a success out of the year just ending. My immediate thinking when I was just entering this ending year was that I will keep my resolutions true. One of the resolutions was to keep you and all my readers updated all the time. I never thought that rough times will be there in the year.
Expectations of the coming year are just unrealistically high that I had to trim them down for fear of reappraisal. Frankly speaking it will be a year of good and bad. Many have predicted that the year will bring a lot of roses. On the economy I see prices of essential commodities rising unbelievably. This will not due to the coming year’s problems but things that have failed to materialize and we have failed to conquer in the going year. What comes so early in my mind is the fuel crisis, the donor money in flow and the earthquakes.
Politically, I don’t see the UDF party holding a credible convention as promised by the outgoing chairman of the party. This will be due to internal squabbles currently in the party. Friday Jumbe has a huge task lying ahead of him in bringing all the big heads together to finance the convention and do it as one block. I am seeing a few changes also in ministerial appointments which I will not mention for now.
We will off course lose some big heads to death in the coming year but the shock will not be as much as many would be made to believe.
Religiously, the fight between Pac and government on justice continues.
All in all there will be positive areas as well; so many districts will register good harvest in the coming year making another successful year in agriculture.
Wishing you a success full year
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
PLEAD FOR SAM MPASU
It is not today that Sam Mpasu was convicted in the popular fieldyork scandal but memories are still fresh of him outside the prison. I see a time when Sam Mpasu will get out of jail with a book ready to be published.
What brings back the memories of Sam Mpasu is the article written by D.D Phiri pleading for Mpasu to be pardoned. Much as he was not the first political convict, he will not be the last political convict. Many others are on the line despite the zero tolerance to corruption war the government waged. Depending on the meaning of corruption, many others are just doing that in today’s life either in the public sector or private sector.
No one will oppose the fact that Sam Mpasu is a good narrator if you read the book political prisoner 3/75. He wrote with such professionalism despite claiming that he took writing as a hobby. Today, while he sits in his cell, my strong conviction is that he is not feeling lonely as he has that vibrant creativity of using the pen that would make his time useful but what about those who are used to issuing orders and have never tested jail in their life.
Remember, he was so influential in the formation of Malawi writers union, he was at liver brothers at one time that is in the 70s.
He was not only good at being a writer, he once served as a speaker for the Malawi parliament which made him the third in command to go with the hierarchy of governance considering the three arms of government namely the judiciary, legislature and the executive.
Not only that, he served as a minister in different post in the previous government. I remember at one time he was the minister of education, at one time a minister of commerce and industry and many other ministerial posts. Today the one we used to call honourable is a convict.
The last time I met Sam Mpasu was at the constitution review meeting in Lilongwe weeks after being arrested for trespassing at a graveyard. He looked composed just like he was when he was a minister. He was not ashamed when people made jokes about the whole incident of being found at a graveyard. He contributed positively and impartially during the review meeting despite the fact that at that time he was a spokesperson of the United democratic front.
Things fall worse for him when he openly foresaw doom in UDF for its insistence to make Dr Bakili Muluzi its candidate for the just ended elections. No one listened to him apart from a few people who told me angonis a known for their brevity. People called him the real ngoni.
My question in this should be should we surely forget all the things Sam Mpasu did for Malawi when he was in power? In his analysis, D.D Phiri the columnist said Mpasu did not steal and did not accept bribes. He just failed to use the normal channels of awarding contracts. I feel for Sam Mpasu if he has the opportunity to read the newspapers where he is now for he is reading stories of others in the same crime. I feel for him as being a high positioned man at one time, he knows some who the long arm of law has not caught up with them.
Many others apart from me have feelings for Sam Mpasu that if he can be out of prison today, he will still make a considerable contribution to the nation and the world as a whole be cause I have a strong conviction that he has fully reformed.
I f he does not get the pardon, for me its okay, but I know he will come out strong as ever before ready to fight and contribute to mother Malawi as he has always done.
What brings back the memories of Sam Mpasu is the article written by D.D Phiri pleading for Mpasu to be pardoned. Much as he was not the first political convict, he will not be the last political convict. Many others are on the line despite the zero tolerance to corruption war the government waged. Depending on the meaning of corruption, many others are just doing that in today’s life either in the public sector or private sector.
No one will oppose the fact that Sam Mpasu is a good narrator if you read the book political prisoner 3/75. He wrote with such professionalism despite claiming that he took writing as a hobby. Today, while he sits in his cell, my strong conviction is that he is not feeling lonely as he has that vibrant creativity of using the pen that would make his time useful but what about those who are used to issuing orders and have never tested jail in their life.
Remember, he was so influential in the formation of Malawi writers union, he was at liver brothers at one time that is in the 70s.
He was not only good at being a writer, he once served as a speaker for the Malawi parliament which made him the third in command to go with the hierarchy of governance considering the three arms of government namely the judiciary, legislature and the executive.
Not only that, he served as a minister in different post in the previous government. I remember at one time he was the minister of education, at one time a minister of commerce and industry and many other ministerial posts. Today the one we used to call honourable is a convict.
The last time I met Sam Mpasu was at the constitution review meeting in Lilongwe weeks after being arrested for trespassing at a graveyard. He looked composed just like he was when he was a minister. He was not ashamed when people made jokes about the whole incident of being found at a graveyard. He contributed positively and impartially during the review meeting despite the fact that at that time he was a spokesperson of the United democratic front.
Things fall worse for him when he openly foresaw doom in UDF for its insistence to make Dr Bakili Muluzi its candidate for the just ended elections. No one listened to him apart from a few people who told me angonis a known for their brevity. People called him the real ngoni.
My question in this should be should we surely forget all the things Sam Mpasu did for Malawi when he was in power? In his analysis, D.D Phiri the columnist said Mpasu did not steal and did not accept bribes. He just failed to use the normal channels of awarding contracts. I feel for Sam Mpasu if he has the opportunity to read the newspapers where he is now for he is reading stories of others in the same crime. I feel for him as being a high positioned man at one time, he knows some who the long arm of law has not caught up with them.
Many others apart from me have feelings for Sam Mpasu that if he can be out of prison today, he will still make a considerable contribution to the nation and the world as a whole be cause I have a strong conviction that he has fully reformed.
I f he does not get the pardon, for me its okay, but I know he will come out strong as ever before ready to fight and contribute to mother Malawi as he has always done.
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