Government might be serious about the hunger situation in the country but the head of the government thinks it is a joking issue and therefore should be allowed to throw jokes carelessly on the issue, the minister of information Patricia Kaliati has said.
According to a statement from Kaliati, Mutharika decided to crack a joke on the matter of life and death when he addressed a rally at Limbuli in Mulanje in which he instructed people to start eating ‘mice and grasshoppers’ as a way of averting death from hunger.
Kaliati was reacting to the way the media reported Mutharika’s joke. The joke was since met with criticism from various sectors of the society who accused Mutharika of being insensitive.
“The criticism directed at innocent jokes that the President cracked at a recent development rally in Mulanje that people should eat ‘mice’ as part of their food supplement is thoughtless and unwarranted. It speaks of fault-finding of the extreme nature,” reads part of the statement that has been signed by the vocal minister of information.
The statement has worryingly expressed that Malawians are just being obsessed with criticising the President and are thereby taking away his right to joke with his people:
“For anybody to suggest that such a President has abdicated his responsibility of looking after his people simply because he referred jokingly to ‘mice’ as a food supplement is to sink our politics to new levels of pettiness.”
However in an interview with Malawi24, a social commentator Felix Unyolo faulted the President’s remark and the Press Statement.
“The President’s remark are what we call an offside in football, the Press statement however has just made things worse. What are they trying to say, that Mutharika thinks the hunger situation in the country is a joking issue?” asked Unyolo.
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APM wachita correction; akuti adati tixidya zitchetche(also known as YAMS/MPAMA) osati zitete…………. But i’ve consulted my dictionary & m’ntanthauzira mawu m’chinyanja koma mawuwo cndidawapezemo! kkkkkkkkkk Nde ndikudabwanso kuti n’chifukwa chiyani akuchita correction pa zinthu zot zidali nthabwala?
Kodi #peter_mtharika ndika nyama kanji?
Nzerutu sikulowa mkarasi kokha. Munyanya amalawi munkayesa u president ndi ufumu. Munthu wanzeru umaona when to crack a joke. That was stupid n insensitive. Alibe wisdom from above. Just because he is fattening himself like a lamb to be slaughtered for sacrifice doesn’t mean ena sakugona nayo. Silly jokes aside ds is serious matter
Time will tell man
Mbuz ya presdent! A malaw nanu kupusa kumavotera zlizonse ndie munya smunat nd mlomwe wanuyo
#Mbuzi #dzitsilu #Agalu inu #fotseki zanu anthu opanda umunthu mukungoyankhula bwetetebwetete Poti mukukhuta nkumakanyela dzimbuzi dzanu dza flash. Anthu opand chisoni ndi #Amphawi #mbuzi #Agalu inu ndipo ndikupemphela kwa mulungu wamphamvuyo kut #Anyani inu akulangeni pasi pompano forsake. Ife amphawi tidakulakwilani chani? ?? Tikuti dziko muno muli #njila wina nkumayankhula zakumaliseche Poti akukhuta? ???
Kd iyeyu watembenukanso, mmesa mmawawu munanenakuti kaliati wampepesela President pakhani yomwe ananena kuthyolo ponena kt inali nthabwala? Ndiyepano akutinso Pitalayo akuyesa zamasanje
according to the speech by the president i guess ADMARC will start keeping mice & grasshoppers instead of maize. this is unfair to poor Malawians.