POOR ELDERLY MALAWIAN ASKED TO PAY 120,000 KWACHA TO BENEFIT FROM MUDZI TRANSFORMATION TRUST IN NTCHEU.

As a political culture of self enrichment continues to grow roots with the Peoples Party government in Malawi. The people’s party current regime is continuing to implement politically centred development approaches just for mere political apeasement and fame but not improving the lives of over 80 % of Malawi’ population living in the rural areas. To cut the story short, ”The Mudzi Transformation Trust ” is one of such initiatives that will not only end up wasting the governments resources but also having no major impact on the rural mass.


To justify my observation before I go straight behind the scenes.If you may recall, we had Shanil Muluzi foundation, Ethel Muthalika foundation and The Bingu-Silver Grey foundation but where are they today? If you are honest enough, no where to be seen.These initiatives not exclusive of Mudzi transformation Trust are short termed and non sustainable initiatives that end no where in a situation where it’s implementing partners goes out of government.


Getting back to the main bussiness, just to bring some senses to the brains behind Mudzi Transformation Trust and every Malawian.Let’s all visualize a poor widowed, underpriviledged aged grand parent , living in the Area of Traditional Authority Tsiku La Mowa, in the political makeup of Ntcheu South constituency situated in the central region Of Malawi, 100 KiloMetres away from the commercial city of Blantyre.


Yes, follow me with keen interest and attentively .This is a grand parent in the 70s. A proposed recipient of the Mudzi Transformation trust who was just visited recently by government/party officials.A grand parent who cannot even pay for a packet of sugar,a kg of meat even once in a month,a granny who has no means of generating income and surely finds it hard to access the basic needs .This is a grand parent who hardly has energy to mould bricks or go in the river banks of Likudzi or Kapeni to get sand.A granny who has failed all along to have a better habitation and surely the Mudzi transformation trust was of great worth and reasons enough to give a smile and better accomodation in the last days of her life.


On a bad note,this is not the case with this old lady to smirk of Mudzi transformation trust.All the optimism and dreams in this old grand parent in Ntcheu to have a dream house has finally brought hurting and tears in her life.When the officials arrived in Ntcheu.They broke the news to the grand parent which made her smile but the whole story distorted when the grand parent was told that as part of the contribution to the project,the grand parent has to provide bricks,sand and other resources which she can not afford to provide them with.Imagine one more time ,the grand parent who cannot afford even a good meal has to cough 120,000 Kwacha for sand,transportation,bricks and local labour to succefully benefit from the Mudzi transformation Trust.


With the her contribution estimated at 120,000 Kwacha on her mind, the grand parent and the community were shocked as the demand did not meet their expectations .Efforts were made with the help of some commnunity members to call her 1 and only son who is working with one of the big companies in the land and earns less than 30,000 Kwacha to update him on the matter and if at all he can come up to their rescue,to his disbelief the young man responded to the call and said ”Is this not an insult to our poverty,how can we manage to cough such amount of money when we fail to meet our ends?”


As a matter of fact,with the on going economic struggle,how do we expect a jobless,powerless and stranded aged poor Malawian who cannot not even afford her basic needs to benefit from the Mudzi Transformation Trust only if she has to cough 120,000 when even those working and strong enough cannot manage to have their as well.For how long will we clap hands to our leaders when nothing tangible and practical is happenning on the ground just to help our leaders advance not only their political ambitions but also personal gains in the name of Mudzi transformation trust when a poor Malawian is failing to benefit from that.


“I remain Magede Si Wandale and never for once will I praise politicians when poor masses find it hard to withstand the hardships Malawi is going through. As responsible citizens, the worste thing we can do to our own country is sit down, watch and clap hands for nothing of great value to poor underpriviledged Malawians”. –Magede Si Wandale