ECONOMIC RECOVERY AGAINST THE REAL SITUATION IN MALAWI.

By: Magede Si Wandale.

Honorable ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost permit me to congratulate on one occasion our dear Presidents Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda, the capital hill staff working on ERP and the Orange intellectuals from Nsanje to Chitipa for vigorously making the noise along with the enunciation that the economy of our country Malawi that was once tattered and in shambles just some few months ago has recovered. Undeniably that’s a great situation to the party loyalists and bootlickers that I can’t go by without appreciating though not really impactful to the rest of Malawians.

Honorable folks, allow me on the contrary of economic recovery to pilot you into the genuine circumstances Malawians are going through with the so called economic recovery in evolution.

To begin with, it’s not long ago the fuel pricing at the international marketplace dropped than we heard our government through MERA  forcing those in petroleum industry to diminish the prices of the fuel on pump  as the Automatic Fuel Pricing <in line with ERP> had to take effect parting the fuel  business society ending  up  in losses since the fuel they were told to lessen the pricing was bought at a higher price than it was lately sold to formulate every Malawian believe that ERP was really on course. It’s pathetic that when our leaders some where are busy preaching the gospel of economic recovery someone out there in the business community is being vindicated some where the same way as the things were with the Zero deficit budget.

In addition to that, we have heard freshly the Peoples Party on Podiums calling upon John Kapito of CAMA to match so that retail and wholesale shop owners should reduce the pricing of goods and services as the government on the underground is going by busy negotiating and convincing companies to lower the prices of goods and services and on the contrary the ESCOM and water board and other statutory corporations such as the Malawi Housing corporation charges and tariffs are not going down than going up. How do we believe of economic recovery only from the private sectors when the government’s efforts to lower its services pricing remain in indeterminate state.

Furthermore, it’s very interesting with the recovered economy in progress to hear that the 2013 to 2014 budget has trimmed the allocation of Early Child Development with over 40 Million kwacha compared to the previous year allocation which is the blow to the upbringing of the little promising Malawian leaders and such behaviors  with this Peoples Party government have by now resulted in trouncing of lives to some people as the case has been in Nkhatabay  where the fuel allocation for ambulance was reduced from 200 to 40 litres putting peoples lives at risk.

The issue of civil servants outcry on their unpaid allowances or salaries remains the slogan for the day now despite the recovery of our economics, civil servants are continuing to suffer and facing the hardships of economics in recovery  and each and passing day we hear stories of civil servants  complaining of their unpaid dues backdating to April 2012 and for no reasons the tendency seems to have grown  roots and now its about time the workers in the ministry of health are about to jeopardize the children’s week of vaccination because of their unpaid dues backing dating to the previous year risking further the lives of the next generation of Malawi.

Honestly it’s high time we must stop playing with peoples lives by politicking and start reflecting on the real situation Malawians are facing .When some one is busy preaching of economic recovery people are continuing to be vindicated and suffering, the prices of sugar remains the same as of the present while eggs price in local shop are continuing to rise.