Don’t blame others for your failures

Dear Judge Mbadwa,

I hear that Mapuya admitted during an address to the nation that he has failed to solve myriad problems facing the country—ranging from a runaway economy to poor service delivery in health, education and other crucial sectors. That the entire country has been plunged into darkness is common knowledge. It is also true that Mapuya is failing to provide people with potable water; hence, he is encouraging them to drill boreholes in towns and cities.

I hear he is blaming me and other past leaders for the poor state of the economy. Well, at least I admit that Cashgate, especially the K24 billion blunder of the public purse happened under my watch, but what about the K577 billion that grew wings before I assumed the reins of power; who supervised such irresponsible plunder?

My Lord, I laughed my lungs out to hear Mapuya saying some of us were very short-sighted to not provide long-term solutions to the country’s problems, yet the best he can think of to end water woes is the procurement of heavy duty generators for pumping water in Blantyre basi? If that is the best a visionary leader can come up with, then I am afraid, we are going nowhere My Lord.

If procuring 46 megawatts diesel peaking generators to reduce power rationing in the cities of Lilongwe and Mzuzu constitutes thinking outside the box, then the definition of thinking outside the box ought to change, My Lord.

My Lord, when somebody tells the nation that they are only waiting for development partners to implement a plan that will permanently break a cycle of hunger, it means that they either don’t have the plan or they don’t own it. Tidakadikilirabe mzungu?

Now, hear that Mapuya’s permanent solution on electricity woes is to wait on independent power producers who have expressed interest to invest in power production of solar technology etc, but where is his proposed solution?

My Lord, it is for this reason that I have decided to speak from my self-imposed exile in the United States that Mapuya should know that we belong to the same group of leaders, who let the citizens down.

My Lord, at least people could not give me a new mandate to rule because they saw how I bungled and botched through my two years of leadership. But My Lord, what does the law say about someone who promises people the moon but fails to deliver on any of the pledges made? Shouldn’t they also go on a self-imposed exile?

I submit that the contract that the people of Nyasaland signed with Mapuya has been breached by failure to deliver on promises made. What penalty would you give My Lord?

Yours faithfully,

Amayi akunja aja