THE GOVERNMENT EXCLUSIVE OF EDUCATION.

BY: Magede Si Wandale

When the Peoples Party came into power, it was Joyce Banda restoring   the donor relations  which every Malawian needed and went ahead to set policies and measure to implement  our Economy recovery which were not bad measure for  a leader who cares about her county could go without. One year down the line Madam President has changed the tone and all she sees and dreams about is fuel and Forex when in return she is killing the education standards of her own country.

Stop the preaching of Forex and fuel, it’s not every Malawian that needs fuel and Forex neither the one cow per family initiative and elevation of chiefs can change our lives, the future of Malawi lies in Education sector which you are gradually deserting. Every Malawian is entitled to right to education and it’s the duty of your government to make sure that Malawians deserve the best education .In every Family in Malawi there is a child going to attend school not seeking for fuel and Forex.

The drama is just becoming more exciting with the Peoples party going about preaching the gospel of changing the lives of Malawians with their leadership when they are only busy elevating the chiefs, attacking critics, corrupting and stressing on fuel and Forex as the essentials for Malawi yet   lot of issues are at hand that have been not attended to especially in the academics.

It’s not even logical to boost of donor gaining confidence when the rest of Malawians are striving and lavishing with extreme poverty and denied their right to education stipulated in the constitution of the Republic of Malawi when some egocentric few are messing with the taxpayers money for their political gains. It also becomes fascinating when the peoples Party are proud of the political maize handouts, flour and one cow per family distribution when the academic ground of Malawi is still draining down the line. What will come out of Malawi without a good education background? This in my opinion simply shows the government without education we are likely to glance no wonder our presidents doesn’t read news papers  as information is nothing to do with her government.

Without wasting much of your time lets just have a look at how the Peoples party government is killing the brains of the Nation:

1.       The Peoples party government seems not to be serious with the education of our country Malawi rather beefing up their political capability. With just  a year in government we have seen the fading of the Dreamers dream to turn Malawi into not only the Agricultural but also Scientific developed nation through the Malawi University of Science and Technology which seems to be given no attention in the name of insufficient funds to furnish the premises when the same government could waste billions of our money on the ministers Posh  Tx Prado’s and millions yet to be wasted with the treason cases that has already seen huge amount going down the drain. How many Malawians could benefit from the university at NDATA  if it was  furnished ?In my opinion I hope hundred of Malawians could have benefitted from that money compared to the few 35 ministers who have the opportunity of sending their children to study abroad when the poor Malawians still finds it hard to attain tertiary education?

2.        The one year of the people’s party in government has clearly showed that the leadership at hand is much interested in their political success than the social development of the Malawians. We have seen recently the closure of the campus of heath sciences as the institution was having no money to keep it going when the government is busy partying with the tax payer’s money. What significance it will make for Malawians with 10 students from rich families to go and study in America when the rest of poor Malawian students are lavishing in villages. If you are able  to pump in Millions of kwacha from your pocket  to assist about five hundred needy students what more with the government failing to run the Health institution. How sensible is it to offer Millions of Kwacha to Lilongwe Technical College to help the self claimed needy students with school fees when they were already being paid by the companies they are attached to when another institution in need of money has just been shutdown due to financial problems.

3.       What do you think of the students survival  when the issues of their  allowances for the upkeep in teachers colleges and UNIMA constituency colleges remains unsolved when you go by on daily basis wasting the tax payers money touring the world, elevating the chiefs and  insulting your political rivalries. Are you aware that this outcry is due to the recent high cost of living do to the economic recovery policies that were put in place by your government? You think without good human resource through good teacher’s welfare in good terms we can manage to develop Malawi? How ruthless is your government without paying some of the teachers in the countries who are already living in the poverty line just because of your government failing to meet their demands? 

Matters dealing with health, education and well being of Malawians are what you were to put at hand first rather than the concentration on your political bid for your 2014 race with the gospel of fuel, one cow per family, chiefs elevation maize distribution and Forex. We don’t need cows , sending the youth to work in Korea even the handful scholarships to study in  China or America but opening of our own institution in the country where our education needs will be met with good standard.