Malawi needs new mass anti-regime demo – Likambale
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MONTREAL (MaraPost/Nyasa Times) -“Let’s not sugarcoat this, Malawi is broken. Her back has snapped under the dual weight of poor governance and economic mismanagement. Her recovery will be slow, difficult and painful; and shows no signs of starting,” says Ambuje Che Tom Likambale, an astute observer of Malawi politics, an article published by Nyasa Times and MaraPost Monday.
The article as analysed by MaraPost says, in July last year, Malawians took to the streets to protest against what Likambale has just stated. Nineteen people were killed after police opened fire. The Mutharika administration has since named commissions of inquiry to probe the events and there’s presidential committee on dialogue to try and address some of the concerns that led to the protests.
But, says Likambale, with no end in sight to the country’s economic woes, “commissions of inquiry and presidential committees on dialogue are not a replacements for the public’s right to peacefully show its displeasure and call for remedial action from government.”
What should Malawians do? Likambale has a suggestion.
“The time has come for Malawians to, once again, rise and pour onto the streets to peacefully let it be known that we cannot take fuel shortages any longer while government fat cats have plenty of it. That we are tired of being told lies about the real causes of the fuel shortage.
“That we cannot take power outages any longer while government fat cats are bathing in light at night. That we cannot take 50% increments in the price of our staple food any longer, while we also feed our leaders who do not pay for their own food.
“That we cannot take water outages in urban areas any longer while they build olympic sized swimming pools with public money at their residences. That we cannot take government corruption, nepotism and selective prosecution any longer.
“That we don’t accept blatant preferential treatment, using public resources, of those close to the President in ethnicity, family, political affiliation or friendship. That we can’t take any more stalling on government’s obligation to address the 20-point petition presented it as part of last year’s July 20th and 21st demonstrations,” says Likambale.
He says when people demonstrate this time around, “they shouldn’t stop until the public is satisfied that its issues have been adequately addressed by those in authority.”
Likambale learnt something from demonstrations in North Africa.
LIKAMBALE
“The demonstrators in Cairo didn’t stop when they heard vague promises and stalling gambits from Mubarak, did they? Or those in Tunis when Ben Ali tried to intimidate or hoodwink them, did they?”
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A likambale inu mumakhala ku canada mukufuna kukhala ngati anzeru ? ife tisiyeni amalawi musatinamize mulibe nzeru eti ? demonso ya chani ? simukuona kuti petro wayamba kupezeka ? mulibe chochita tadikirani muone zomwe anzanu adaona koma ali kwa chete .
While we are free to express ourselves, it should be noted that anzathu muli kunjanu you don’t know how really things are in our beloved mother Malawi. Mavuto tili nawo m’manyumbamu who can go and demonstrate indefinitely? We cannot just afford to do that at the expense of our families. Bola moyo kumavutika than kukaphedwa kunsewu kusiya mkazi ndi ana pambalambanda. Come back home Thom and demonstrate indefinitely. Kwekwekwe, nkadye deya
So help us God!
New demonstrations that you will follow in the comfort of your home in Canada while stray teargas canisters and bullets fall in my family’s compound in ndirande, no that is not the solution or part of the solution. You should rather devout your effort writing about how as a country we can generate more foreign currency.
you must be there to lead by example. Don’t talk from overseas, instigating these plans and yet you will be on your sofas in Canada and UK. You must make sure you are there for mass demonstration.
A malawi ndi anthu a umbuli. Bingu akuba, he is abusing the right to govern! anthu onse ali duuuu osapanga chilichonse shaaaa!! no wonder Malawi is still poor. People need to wake up and stand up for whats right! how can we sit phwiii complaining for months to and end? Malawians are so docile that if Bingu asked them to drink poison they would do so. No wonder Jim Jones did not visit Malawi maybe he would have cleaned out the docitility and umbuli wa anthu awa.
Dreamer and cry baby at it again
Forget about demo!!! we don’t want demo again ,if you want come and do i with your family!!!
Amulamba apa afuna kutihesa… Mlamba ukufuna iwe ungoteleramo azako agwidwe. Likambale it’s mlamba don’t be bothered, that guy is indeed mlamba!!!