Agogo, Percy Bysshe Shelley asserts that \u201cpower like a dissolute pestilence pollutes whatever it touches\u201d.<\/p>\n
It is, indeed, true.<\/p>\n
In fact, Malawi is one of the most unfortunate countries in Africa, if not the whole world, which has been taken for ride by fortune-seekers masquerading as political leaders.<\/p>\n
The kind of political stagnation that has rocked the country for more than half a century vindicates the fact that the warm but very poor heart of Africa is yet to produce a first-class political leader.<\/p>\n
When seeking freedom, for example, Malawians, this time around, speak for themselves through the media and online social networks, in public spaces and civic forums.<\/p>\n
Thus, in this dot.com generation, it is the elected representatives who are listening to what the governed want or say.<\/p>\n
But not with hard-of-learning President Peter Muthrika Agogo, <\/em>Mutharika and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have a low approval rating, hence draw little trust from Malawians, according to findings of a recent survey conducted by the Institute of Public Opinion and Research (Ipor) led by Boniface Dulani, the University of Malawi academic and Afrobarometer representative.<\/p>\n In short, through the survey, Malawians have passed their judgement on Muthrika and DPP \u2013 and that judgement is mostly negative.<\/p>\n But just to confirm how bereft of up-to-date governance theories he is, the President had no time to attentively listen to the demands of the majority but sadly elected to run down on Dulani with all sorts of insults and empty rhetoric.<\/p>\n Mutharika, agogo<\/em>, might have forgotten that in 2007, his brother the late Bingu appeared in The New York Times, <\/em>among many other publications, because , a s president, he fought hunger in Malawi.<\/p>\n From paltry 1.2 million tonnes of maize harvested in 2005, Bingu\u2019s Farm Input Subsidy Programme increased the yield to 2.7 million tonnes in 2006 and to 3.4 million in 2007. Subsistence farmers who had never harvested enough to last them till the next season sang praises for Bingu.<\/p>\n But, agogo<\/em>, Michelangelo states: \u201cThe greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.\u201d<\/p>\n So, Bingu, with a 2009 landslide re-election victory, thought he had infallible wisdom and, in a horrifying replay of the Odysseus-Sirens adventure, he stuffed his ears with wax so that he could not hear any critical voice of the governed.<\/p>\n Accordingly, despite widespread opposition from the majority Malawians who viewed the introduction of the new flag as unnecessary waste of taxpayer s \u2019 money and nothing more than window dressing, Bingu went ahead with the move.<\/p>\n That marked the beginning of his astounding about-turn of popularity.<\/p>\n And Mutharika is freely treading the same path.<\/p>\n The President has gone to extraordinary lengths to be seen as the beau ideal of indomitable leadership with results that have not mostly been in Malawi\u2019s best interest.<\/p>\n Mutharika, agogo, <\/em>vastly appears to fall short of authentic commitment to deliver Malawi from the recurring socioeconomic evil, which he has continually and shamelessly disassociated himself from.<\/p>\n But when the President appears clueless and hooked on World War I economic indicators which for decades have failed to graduate people from poverty to wealth, he should understand the public\u2019s discomfiture with the situation and their remonstrations, as Ipor\u2019s research indicates, and not expect them to endure in silence like lambs being led to the slaughterhouse.<\/p>\n Mutharika\u2019s ranting on Dulani will not improve the pale Malawi economy.<\/p>\n Neither will any propaganda divert people\u2019s attention from the real economic suffering they are going through nor the dearth of ethical and sacrificial leadership they are facing.<\/p>\n Cheap politics manoeuvres but backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agogo, Percy Bysshe Shelley asserts that \u201cpower like a dissolute pestilence pollutes whatever it touches\u201d. 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