This country has so many problems that threaten its very survival unless something happens—a revolution that changes everything beginning with how we think and then pushing through well articulated plans in all their facets.
The problems range from leadership deficiency at all levels, corruption in high places, tribalism and greed to moral bankruptcy and break down of discipline and spirit of hard work.
You would think therefore that Malawians, starting from the tenant at Plot Number 1 down to the last man among the 17 million of us would isolate these problems and start serious work on them so that Malawi should be great again, to use an adulterated version of Donald Trump’s ‘America will be great again’ epithet.
Sadly, this is not the case at all. Government has no clue on what needs to be done for the country to change course.
In fact, it will go all the way to defend to the hilt that it is on its right track when everybody knows the country is off it. There is no shared vision for all us to rally around and then the steel determination and willingness of those in power to deliver that vision.
For us, the governed, we are just in foul mood due to hopelessness and desperation amid the realisation that our country is going nowhere and that when the creator decides to call time on us on earth, we shall bequeath a worse country than we found it to our grand children.
Worse still we have become a bunch of gossipers of just about everything and everybody especially those we deem to be doing better in life than the rest of us.
It is almost an obsession and a national pastime.
I did not know that much about Shepherd Bushiri until now when he has become a national obsession in Malawi that no day passes now without hearing or reading something about him and he is associated with the most vile and laughable of stories.
It has gotten so bad that a gospel music star cannot die quietly without somebody in their fertile imagination concocting a story that Bushiri somewhere is connected at some metaphysics level.
We have just become a pathetic lot and one wonders what our problem is but certainly it is not Bushiri.
From the little I know about him, it seems Bushiri is doing just fine, better than most of us, in South Africa.
I mean, flying in your own private jet or indeed a chartered one is a stuff of the Hollywood and preserve of the super rich.
If Bushiri is doing it, then certainly he is not into small monies. How he got it is none of our business because he did not steal from us like the Cashgate thieves at Capital Hill.
If some people who have excess money give it freely to him because they believe in what he does in floating around and then naming it a miracle, it does not concern you and me especially if we aren’t into such stuff but are down on earth in our station in life.
If he hit gold, literally, somewhere then he was born with luck in his mother’s womb and you have got to give it to him.
But this should not make the whole nation to be on a standstill and discuss Bushiri endlessly just everywhere you go.
It is not healthy for the nation. Then when you have a clueless government that seems to be fidgeting and jittery with him, you know the country is in trouble.
Why should the DPP government become nervous just because Bushiri donated maize to people, something it did not do?
Now the DPP government does not want to hear just anything about the so called prophet Bushiri.
It condemns just about everything about the lad even when he gives money to the national football team and covering their backs.
The obsession with Bushiri has simply permeated everywhere and it is alarming.
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