By Vincent Gunde
A Concerned Citizen of Malawi Comrade Alhaji Imraan JUmbe, has called for political removal of hands in the country’s sugar companies as a solution to the availability of sugar for these companies to be truly privatized.
Jumbe says these sugar companies must not be in the hands of political proxies, but to competent, visionary Malawians who understand the discipline of the market saying politicians should have no place in managing industries that require competition, innovation, and efficiency, their job be policy not production.
He said as it is being seen in Malawi, the sugar companies are not for the benefit of Malawians but for the convenience of elites observing that the same government that claims to protect the people is the one bleeding these companies by issuing licenses.
Speaking through his face book page, Comrade Jumbe, says a government official Vitumbiko Mumba pointing fingers outward with both hands not in pursuit of truth, but in defense of shadows as observed in his recent interview he made concerning the perennial sugar shortage in Malawi.
Comrade Jumbe says what Mumba said was not a statement of accountability, but a desperate performance of deflection, listening to him, he insulted the parade of well- practiced half-truths, recycled excuses, and crafted falsehoods.
He says Mumba blamed vendors claiming they hoard sugar, manipulate the market, and exploit the people saying this is not a vendor problem, this is a production and governance failure and he turned to smugglers saying Malawi sugar is vanishing into Zambia, describing this as another lazy scapegoat.
The Citizen says blaming smugglers is admission of weak border control and poor internal oversight, it is not a cause of the crisis, it is a symptom of government incompetence and in a move as dangerous as it is dishonest, he blamed Indian business people by alleging that they withhold sugar from the market.
He says this branch of blame reveals a deep rot, a refusal to accept responsibility, government policy permits it, if the law is broken, let the law speak and not a minister on a blame tour saying the authorities must not play the tribal or racial card when the real enemy is greed wearing the mask of leadership.
“The real thieves sit in suits, Mumba will never say aloud that Malawi’s sugar companies have become cash cows for politicians, they are no longer national assets, they are political ATMs,” reads Comrade Jumbe’s writings on the wall.
