A pot once again calling its cousin kettle ugly
Dear Judge Mbadwa,
Is the trading of barbs between the Cockerel party and Mapuya’s People’s Demagogic Party on who is more corrupt something that warrants the attention of the citizens, my lord?
My lord, I don’t think these two parties can claim the moral ground that one is cleaner as far as the issue of corruption is concerned.
We, the citizens, know how PDP mastered the art of graft which Tokha Are Liars or is it Cockerel alone seem to have perfected.
My lord, we all remembered how the two political groups connived to derail the appointment of Marita as the Nyasaland Corruption Bureau boss lest their skeletons were exposed.
Were it not for the vigilance of the citizens themselves and the civil society, Marita would have never been hired.
And obviously her departure was silently celebrated by the compromised majority members of these two parties.
Now, my lord, what happened last week at a media briefing and the subsequent rebuttal was to us the citizens, the case of an ugly pot calling its kettle cousin black.
Talking about Tokha are Liars, because it is the focal point as a governing entity, they have themselves to blame for failing to uproot the weeds of corruption and fraud that had grown together with the crop of promise it had planted after the tripartite elections.
The weeds, which have been tamed all these years, have become so parasitic like the ill-famed witchweed otherwise known as kaufiti in local parlance that they have choked out the life of that crop of promise.
Ask me if the crop to be harvested after five years will be something to look forward to.
My lord, I can argue that the Cockerel Party has been using the template they borrowed from PDP to transact its business.
How do I mean? Well, my lord, the award of contracts and the procurement system is still defined by those whose hands are not tight-fisted but are ready to bribe their way through.
My lord, Nyasas have been given the same performance drawn from the same old script of incompetence though its actors were this time different.
What the citizens need is solutions to the growing challenge of corruption, fiscal indiscipline in government not narrations on how one is less corrupt.
If parties want the citizens to vote for them, they should avoid emotive statements which when debunked will reveal the hypocrisy of modern Nyasaland politics.
Anthuwatu ndi amodzi koma!
This was just an ordinary letter to you honourable judge.
Regards,
John Citizen.