By Comrade jumbe 08/07/25
When I tuned in to President Lazarus Chakwera’s Freedom Day speech, I expected a message of accountability and restoration. But instead, what I heard was a sermon of excuses wrapped in the old blanket of “be patient, nation-building takes time.” At that very moment, I switched off my radio in deep irritation. Is this a joke, or does he truly believe Malawians are still sleeping under the tree of ignorance?
You Promised, Mr. President. You Lied.
It was Chakwera himself who, before sipping the sweet wine of State House, boldly promised us that he would resign within two years if he failed to meet the expectations of the people.
We have suffered four straight years of hunger, poverty, and betrayal — yet he holds on to power like a leopard that refuses to abandon its kill.
An African proverb says: “A man who swears must also fear the thunder.” Chakwera swore to deliver, to change lives, to restore dignity. But his thunder never came. Only storm clouds over the heads of poor Malawians.
Why should we be patient when the President hiis son and his ministers are swimming in wealth — building houses they never sleep in, driving cars they never finish fueling, eating food they never finish chewing — while ordinary Malawians are eating dust, boiling mangoes, and scavenging for maize husks?
Where Is Our Relief When the President Gets Billions?
He had the audacity to direct Parliament to give him 167 billion kwacha, and they gave it to him. Did he wait? No. But now he stands on a public podium and tells a nation buried in hunger and suffering to “be patient.”
“The monkey who eats alone in the forest forgets the cries of the village children.”
Chakwera and his ministers live in a paradise of privilege while the nation drowns.
They don’t wait — they take. They don’t suffer — they prosper. Their bellies are full, their fuel tanks are topped, and their bank accounts overflow, yet they ask us to hold on just a little longer. For what? More poverty? More lies?
NEEF — A Trap, Not a Relief
I told you before: NEEF is not a helping hand, it’s a harvesting hook that bleeds the poor. Many of you didn’t believe me, but the very pastors who were given 8.4 billion have confessed with their own mouths. What kind of shame is this?
And let me ask plainly: Where are the billions for Muslim sheikhs? Where are the billions for struggling youths and poor farmers?
“When the meat is shared at night, the dogs that bark during the day go hungry.” NEEF is nothing but a network of thieves dressed in robes of religion and politics. A mechanism to rob the poor and feed the fat cats of MCP.
Let’s do the math, and do it slowly like teaching a child to count his father’s cows:
NEEF charges 45% interest. If you borrow 20 million for farming, you repay nearly 40 million. So, I ask you: what is the farmer gaining?
That is not a loan. That is a whip. That is not empowerment — it’s enslavement. The Bible says “Thou shalt not oppress the poor,” but MCP has written their own gospel of corruption.
NEEF doesn’t care about the youth in the villages, the struggling mothers, or the ambitious farmers.
If you don’t own a house, a goat, or wear the MCP party cloth, they will not lend you. But to their friends, their children, and their pastors, billions flow freely.
Malawi: The Sleeping Giant Must Wake
“When the drumbeat changes, the dance must also change.” Malawi cannot continue dancing to the same tired tune of political deception.
If we don’t rise now, we will bury the hopes of our children in the same graves where our ancestors laid their broken dreams.
What we are witnessing is not governance — it is organized looting.
What we are hearing is not leadership — it is elite mockery of the poor. And what we are being told is not patience — it is psychological oppression.
“The firewood of today’s silence will cook the food of tomorrow’s suffering.” If we co
