By Vincent Gunde
President and Commander in Chief of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah the Utopian, says Malawi is failing to develop and get out from the axis of the poorest country into a “middle income country” because of savage politics.
Jumah said political players in Malawi are ignorantly politicizing national events and development projects as better politicians than others, saying this is the reason national events are boycotted by other leaders and political parties instead of attending as one nation, one Malawi.
He said Malawi must embrace mature politics if national events are going to unite political parties lamenting that each and every political party that comes into power change national events based on political affiliation.
Speaking through his voter and civic campaign programme, Jumah said political trajectory in Malawi ever since independence in 1964 and the attainment of multiparty democracy in 1994 has been divisive instead of uniting.
Jumah has claimed that ignorance, greed, self-serving and in mature politics have blanketed political discourse in the country saying Kamuzu Day is supposed to be a national day, but has been turned into a platform where the ruling party come to use it as a campaign podium and a table of castigation.
He said Malawi is delaying in true and total development because of these ignorance, greed and self-serving type of politics and governance system saying violence is a result of failure and incompetence by politicians using National Day Events to castigate other political parties.
The MRP President said development, transformation, or advancement of the country don’t need advertisement saying Independence Day, Martyrs Day, Kamuzu Day, New Year’s Day, Christmas Day, Freedom Day, and Eid Mubarak Day are national events requiring all political parties and leaders to attend with official invitations.
“Malawi’s political heads must meet to rub heads and randomly deliberate for the country’s future,” said Jumah.
He said Malawi politics for 61 years has completely failed to unite, diversify, incorporate and coordinate oneness by realizing that national days are of everyone in this country saying political campaign platform has its moment and time, not at national days.
Jumah has appealed to the political trajectory of the country for an Indaba where all political parties, religious organizations and NGOs must come together under one roof to identify national days where modalities must be set that political castigation languages must be banned for the sake of National unity and National reconciliation.
