BY TIMES EDITORIAL:<\/p>\n
The hope and bright enthusiasm that came with multiparty politics in the country has dissipated into excruciating despair for many and utter anger for a few, hazarding agitation for change.<\/p>\n
The promise of dignity, peace and development through the engine of democratic governance has been mercilessly shattered and, with time, this could become much worse.<\/p>\n
Not surprising, for the umpteenth time, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Cadets are in the news for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, DPP Cadets assaulted Blantyre City South Member of Parliament Allan Ngumuya during a military parade marking 54 years of independence in Blantyre.<\/p>\n
Surely, the DPP government and its faithful will never cease to amaze the public with their political brutality.<\/p>\n
In the not-too-distant inglorious past, a much-aspersed DPP regime not only cobbled together legislation meant to take us back to the Stone Age but paraded panga-wielding .thugs in the streets of Blantyre just to intimidate the citizenry when the sense of disillusionment with Bingu wa Mutharika\u2019s leadership was pervasive in the country.<\/p>\n
The truth, however, is that Malawians agreed to follow the democratic path when they voted in multiparty politics in 1994.<\/p>\n
And one of the tenets of democracy is accommodating dissenting views.<\/p>\n
The assault on Ngumuya is a clear sign that DPP leadership \u2013 and those before it \u2013 has resisted demand from the governed to unreservedly embrace enhanced political ideologies aimed at improved democratic and developmental outcomes.<\/p>\n
But Malawi does not belong to DPP.<\/p>\n
So, while it is apparent that Malawi is the most abused country by all sorts of rogues, on a positive note, DPP authorities and their rascals need to know that the country is in a multiparty democracy and this entails that every citizen must enjoy basic freedoms as enshrined in the Republican Constitution regardless of party colour.<\/p>\n
Brutality, intimidation and violence are public enemies in a democracy that must be zealously loathed, hated and reviled; there are a grouchy weed needing total weeding out or complete obliteration from earthly existence to borrow from the common parlance of advertisers of pest busters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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