The Veep Should Stop Thinking That Government Operates With His Personal Or Peoples Party Funds.

VP Kachali

It’s very shameful for the vice President of the Republic of Malawi right honorable  Khumbo Kachali to be thinking that being in the ruling elite automatically grant Malawians and the opposition party their slaves. As a matter of fact, these leader ruling the country are there because of us (Malawians).We are the electorates and with our votes we gave them the ability to represent and serve as and not make them kings and dictators over us (Malawians).

Just recently, speaking in the Lakeshore district of Salima on 25th September 2013, the vice president assured Chiefs and people in the area that those People who are working with the opposition should not expect  to benefit from the Peoples party government in terms of development. This according to the vice president automatically excludes all opposition members from development plans in order to make them fail accomplish their development goals in their respective areas as they are not royal to them.

According to the laws of Malawi and the National Peace policy, Local Authorities (traditional leaders) represent the people in their area and work with the government and not  a political party. Chiefs are independent from  political parties. Regarding the fact that Malawi has been in 19 years of its democratic rule, its very  immature, undemocratic and clueless for the VP to be making those remarks at the expense of tax payers money and that’s  totally unacceptable.

To put it on record, since 1964,Malawi has been ruled by the MCP for 30 years, UDF for 10 years, DPP  for 8 years and currently the PP for a temporally 2 years term but all these parties have or will go while our local leaders will remain intact. These political party according to our democratic constitution  are limited to a 10 years rule ,they came and go but our local leaders and us never change .We are the government and its very unfortunate for the VP to be thinking that way .

Another thing that the vice president and the ruling party should not forget is that, they run this country with people’s tax, revenues collected from us and some donor assistance. These monetary resources fall under the government coffers meant for all Malawians not the Peoples Party. I would like the vice president to know that Malawi is not governed by his personal monies or the people’s party coffers. We are a government which operates from the already existing structures and it’s a violation of Human rights for the Peoples Party to deny the local peoples development for not rallying behind them. Its our constitutional right to benefits from the government through development activities and support the party of our choice.

By: Magede Si Wandale.