Africa-Press – Malawi. There are many Malawians who think that a change of government is the only solution to the problems rocking Malawi. In their wishful thinking, they thought that President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance government would transform Malawi into a land of honey and milk. I had reservations right away from the start.
In their daydreaming endeavour, they envisioned a better Malawi with most Malawians eating three meals a day. I laughed my lungs out. They also hallucinated about securing one million jobs within the first year of Tonse alliance regime.
A lot of delusions were further entertained as to think of possibility of having free water and electricity connections. Another hallucination was to think of an utopia Malawi with driving licences that don’t expire when our own national IDs do have an expiatory date. For sure, a plebian was duped.
As if the economic hardships Malawians are facing are not enough, incidences of corruption, extravagant expenditure, nepotism, mediocrity and poor public service delivery are just the order of the day in the Chakwera’s regime.
Many questions arise. How many Malawians have benefited from this Tonse Alliance government? Have their lives transformed for the better or for the worse? Was the change of regime a panacea to their day-to-day quandaries?
Frankly speaking, Tonse Alliance government has effectively initiated no formidable change. The only change lies in the fact that we have new faces who are corruptly benefiting from the system at the expense of poor Malawians. The rich are getting richer while the poor getting poorer. We see some elite now erecting mansions and even others have opened commercial banks. This is happening at the time when a remote villager cannot even afford even a single meal a day.
Unfortunately, the Chakwera government is following the same corrupt system the previous regimes were using. No change at all. No transformative leadership of any kind. No roadmap on how the campaign promises would be fulfilled.
No austere measures of any kind so as to cushion the effects of the dwindling economy. It is funny now to hear President Chakwera blowing millions of Kwachas just to inspect crops across Malawi. It is ironic for the Vice President to trim the number of his delegates to the USA conference after a public outcry.
Do these leaders have the welfare of Malawians at heart? Doubtful it stands. It is therefore not wrong to conclude that these politicians campaigned for their bellies and not for the majority of Malawians.
No wonder, President Chakwera’s daughter was placed the UK embassy while Chilima’s mother-in-law is basking in the sun at the embassy in Zambia while a local Malawian is languishing in poverty in the deep rural areas of Nambazo, Bolero, Kadewere just to mention a few.
It is a fact that a change of regime can only be effective if and only if the system of governance changes too. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This government is practicing exactly what it condemned before. Corruption, nepotism, extravagant expenditure, nepotism, mediocrity and poor public service delivery still remain unchecked.
Real transformation occurs when the local villagers’ life and welfare improves. On this aspect, the Tonse Alliance government has failed dismally. It is high time the Tonse Alliance government went back to the drawing board to change the system of government. It is absurd for the Tonse Alliance government to adopt previous regimes’ corrupt system while preaching to the masses that it is fighting corruption. This paradox needs pragmatic solutions.
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