It is apparent that Malawians for decades have been going through tough times in almost all sectors of life, especially with growing levels of poverty, desperation and hunger among others.
In this view, Malawians were gravely saddened with shameless revelations that some unscrupulous traders were intending to export maize in 30 trucks to suspiciously Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The government, for a record, banned maize exports as a matter of policy to ensure food sufficiency in the country continually ravaged by food shortages.
The most worrying thing is that such a smuggle and many other selfish acts of plunder or looting of public resources including government coffers by some senior government officials are mostly orchestrated by a collaborative syndicate of people with political influence.
But Malawians deserve a patriotic leadership to take to address the vices currently going unchecked.
The maize smuggling saga is a case in point. It is high time all the culprits in this smuggle were brought to book.
The police transfers as occasioned in Karonga and Chitipa police stations are not a solution to arrest the malpractice. The country needs long-lasting solution to the thievery attitude it is grappling with; and it is only by meting out rightful punishment to the rascals through right and constitutional procedures.
Therefore, the government should ensure that the efforts by relevant quarters to get to the bottom of this matter are not hindered by deliberate external political influences for the fact that perhaps some involved in the scam are politically connected.
The Republican Constitution demands that the President and his government should adopt and implement sound policies to achieve good economic management, public trust and good governance.
And the current administration and its ancillary agents can achieve that by avoiding short-term solutions to the country’s attitudinal, structural and political problems.
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