By Vincent Gunde
A Malawi Congress Party (MCP) diehard of Mvera in Dowa district Mr. Rodgers Kamphangala, has advised the new government of the DPP and President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika that in urban centres, all are hungry people.
Kamphangala said free distribution of resources to hungry people in towns and cities always create tension because some of the deserving hungry people are not registered as beneficiaries and as such they patronize distribution centres to cause commotions.
He said if government wants to distribute free resources in towns and cities to let everyone buys saying this will prevent tensions and will help the communities to develop trust with the government advising government to skip urban centres for free distribution of resources.
The MCP diehard has observed that free distribution of resources in towns and cities only party members are the ones that are benefiting while those who support other parties, are regarded as outcasts and cannot come any near to the distribution centres.
Kamphangala has thanked councilors of Mzuzu for rejecting the government decision to distribute free maize to residents affected by hunger in the city expressing hope that other cities and towns will emulate such an example.
He has warned councilors that they are now dealing with people who are wanting change to be seen in their areas observing that the five years of President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and the MCP made MCP members and supporters to have very happy faces as recipients of free food and farm inputs.
The MCP diehard said in the past five years of the MCP, people did not question the rationale for selecting beneficiaries in the urban centres, they just see it as usual that MCP people were the ones who were being favored more because they were in government.
He has assured councilors in towns and cities to be very careful reminding them that DPP members will not allow them to behave in the same way the Ward Development Committees were favoring MCP people as beneficiaries in the last five years.
“Urban councilors, be careful with the free food distribution exercise, hungry people are angry people, anything can happen to you,” said Kamphangala.
He has finally advised government that for any free distribution of resources, it should come with special categories of beneficiaries in towns and cities, be persons with disabilities and not the elderly people saying past experience has proved that deserving elderly people are not registered.
