Your picture Peter has attracted a new debate on social media. Just as your arrogance the other time when we cautioned you over obsession to spend while we are running on a budget that cannot provide enough drugs in hospitals, people are all over agreeing and disagreeing. Others are saying it is just your PR team doing their work.
I am not here to validate whether the photo is a leak or PR stunt, I am just here to express my pleasure: I am glad that finally you are acting like a President of a country whose finances cannot pay water bills for sick people in hospitals.
Unlike other people, I am not optimistic. I do not think that your boarding of commercial flights will change the fortunes of our economy. For all I know, the money we get to save from your displays of poverty will still end up in some offshore bank account that bears your name. I am however glad for the gesture.
You see, Mr President, queuing has become our way as Malawians. The difference is that while you queued in a wonderful and cosy environment and were served when your turn came, we queue in the ugliest and hottest of places where we are never actually served in the end. Others who come late leave us on the queue because they know somebody wherever we are queueing.
For us the poor people, we queue in the hospitals while we are sick. For hours on end, we stand on a hospital queue because the hospitals are understaffed. When our turn to be assisted comes, the tired person at the end of the queue will either tell us to go and buy drugs elsewhere or admit us in a hospital that has no medicine, no food and now no water. All this Peter, is happening under the ‘business unusual’ promise you made.
Even our households now are being forced to queue. So for the whole day they are queued on some ESCOM list to wait for electricity. Then ESCOM provides that electricity for 2 hours before taking it off again. The way it is Peter, is as if we are getting their services for free. We are paying through the nose for a service that does not exist. When we complain, you tell us to wait for 3 years!
The family of Issa Njauju as well is queuing. It is waiting for the time when your efficient Police service will deliver to them what happened to their beloved father, brother and friend. The family of Robert Chasowa whom your DPP murdered in cold blood is also queuing awaiting justice.
It is not only the families of Njauju and Chasowa that are queuing. Even those of us whom robbers have ransacked into our houses (thanks to the security lapse that came with your ascension to power), we are still queuing waiting for the day Police will take control of the situation.
Most of the youth in this country are also queueing at the labour offices awaiting a miracle from your government to jumpstart the nosediving economy and get a job. Those who are not your cadets of course have heard that you are busy allocating jobs to cadets at TEVETA and MRA among other government institutions.
So yes you queued Peter and now your supporters want to make us believe that the world is falling apart but no! Russia is not striking Turkey simply because you queued. The people of your nation are used to queueing and all thanks to your failure to steer this country in the right track.
I hope that the 4 hours (ONLY!) you spent at that airport in Rome make you remember that this country had a Private jet for comfort obsessed individuals like you, now that jet is sold and the proceeds of it no one else knows except Joyce Banda. I only hope that the experience will remind you that it is not up to the media to track Joyce Banda. I hope it makes you hasten in your steps to bringing her to book.
I also hope that the money that has been served will not be used to have you go to some South African hospital when (God forbid!) something bad happens to you. I hope it will be used to stock medicine, pay water bills, recruit more staff in the hospitals so that when the something strikes (God forbid!) you can queue at KCH!
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The President is not a failure, in my view, we Malawians are fond of demeaning our leaders. Lets face reality, because of our behavior to expose our failures as a country hence this experience. I would agree our leader needs to do more but not a failure. Even if it could be anyone advocating this negative motive against the President, they would not manage within the two years less the President has been on the seat. Lets share the blame; who ordered the most looting at Capital Hill? Was it Peter? U have the answer. secondly I think its high time Malawians we learnt to accept when we fail to get something. I subscribe all this to election fever basi. U will be surprised soon to experience the best transformation.
Who is to blame? i think we need reform not in government, but the way we behave and think. Since i started working at Zomba central hospital (June,2015), sindinawonepo ma security lights ali ozimitsa kupatulako magetsi akazima(blackout). Tili ndi maganizo akuti ndi za boma. ngati ndikunama mubwere mudzawone ku building ya dental,ART,skin.
Stupid goes to you and the one who sold jet you are one of the hand crapping during jet selling and now you are saying this today
Brothers and sisters, Malawi is and will always be our nation and presidents come and go but Malawi will always be Malawi. Our president today is His excellence APM, and Leader of opposition is Rev L Chakwera. This is what God has given us as a nation and we have to live within the limits of these two schools, you can insult them in anyway you want, but remember anything happens for a reason. Each one of us have a cross to carry or a role to play in developing our nation. We are Malawi, and indeed Malawi is you and me, let us not stress ourselves to death, no, but let us pray and hope that Malawi will change for the better, God bless Malawi.
Issue Ya Madz Ku Zomba Its Not His Falt,,, E Gvt Sends Millionz Kumeneku,, Now E DHO Used Alot Ov Money On Food Akut Ma Patient Azidya Bwno,, He Unpayed Every Bill Nde Amudulira,,, Nde Inu Mut Chan,,,
Things should be like that until people are able to feed and have drugs in the hospitals. No jet for a poor nation.
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Tingodutsanao,wawatu makosana
Mukugula mowa wodula,ma phone odula…ndiye mwati boma lizikugulirani panado???? Musamale moyo manu nokha anthu aulesi inu..,dpp woyee!
U don’t know wat you are writing. i just blame your mother for spending 9 months just for you wicked. wat is wrong with the president here.
Why do u people speak as tho u r uneducated we are to blame him for failures in our country because we employed him to lead us into development we employed him to help make our lives better we didnt employ him to be our king we emploted him to be our leader and as a leader he has to make all the right choices atleast this time he has made a right choice by using commercial airlines you people say u just cant wait for government for everything u clearly dont understand what a government is if you hire a garden boy are you expected to go cut the grass no your not your comments are a perfect example of why education has to be for free in this country. Peter uses our money therefore he should reflect the country his supposed to be leading. Its foolish to compare malawi to india and america develops because they have senetors who develop the states were they were elected even in america poor states have poor senetors . Bingu was a visionary if he had continued how he started on the beginning malawi could have gone far peter is nothing like him but if he continues to make the ryt decisions like using commercial airkines then maybe we have a chance. A good leader take criticism with a positive attitude
Nothing extra ordinary here big up. I guess this is a beginning for the better of the country
Fake posing. He did not have to queue. First class passengers are simply ushered on their seats. This is more so when airlines have receive advanced itinerary of VVIPS. Stop posing peter
A Malawi24 chonde zinazi muzingoyang’ana musayambitse kuukirana chifukwa chosowa uzimu kwa anthu chonde malawi wamtendere akhoza kukhala owawa chifukwa cha zomwe mukuchita,anthufe mukutipweteketsa mtima ndimavuto omwe tilinawo kale chonde.
GOD chased satan from heaven down to earth,meaning that for things to go on well we must all suffer together(there must be no cellebration while others are crying) so the president is right we must share these sufferings
Is it true or false that medicines in the hospitals are not available,patients are restricted to one meal per day, school will shortly be raised, fertilizer has gone up from K500 to K3500? WHO SHOULD CONTROL THIS? – answer -APM If he is failing to control must we just sit back and let him destroy our country? LET HIM RESIGN
When he resign Chakwera is going to be the predident ?
chakwela za manyi
Tiziti mumatha kutukwana, manyazi mulibe?
Nde mpaka kujambulixa?cholinga timve chisoni,ukanziwa mmene timavutikira kuima panzere kwa admarc koma chimanga osachipeza pali chani apa.nde wanyenyeka pt waima pa q kapena upresident.up next mugulixe magalimoto odula apa convoy mugule ma toyota ipsum muzikwera sinanga economic hardship
Mmmmmmm!shortage ndichifukwa cha medical stores man,today you write a requisition akukuuza kuti out of stock is that the govts doing?