Do your job and don’t give citizens excuses

Dear judge Mbadwa,

My lord, have you noticed that strange business transactions or events surrounding some bizarre deals always coincide with the shortage of fuel in the country?

Not so long ago, we witnessed an unsolicited donation of K750 million belonging to taxpayers to some butchery that claimed it would supply fertiliser to the country. This happened at the time Nyasaland was experiencing fuel and forex shortage.

Now the fuel queues have resurfaced, my lord and we hear that directors of a firm from the East Bank in Lower States are globe-trotting looking for markets, yet the citizens were assured that markets were already found. So, which markets are these?

I don’t want to delve into the contradictions and the confusion surrounding this deal. But something just doesn’t look right and it is surprising that the authorities believe citizens are that gullible because they are not.

The resurgence of forex and fuel shortage, therefore, speaks volume about the Tokha Are Liars’ failure to solve the challenges they were hired to tackle.

My lord, Tokha told us they would bring a new way of doing business in government to inject life to a comatose public service, but going by the turn of events, including the fertiliser debacle, they have spectacularly failed to resuscitate it within its set time frame.

My lord, you already know how the sepsis of corruption and fraud has permeated both the public and private sector so much that the only practical thing to do is to amputate the parts that are struck with the gangrene of abuse.

Unfortunately, Lazaro and company have decided to trust the sick parts that are draining public coffers to propel developmental plans of the alliance.

The noise of discontent and worry from the guardians in Nyasaland, who want to see their patient walking again, is increasing, but Tokha is not providing any hope.

As I argued before, my lord, what makes the job of Tokha Are Liars difficult in cleaning up the system is that most of the alliance’s new cells of promise are mutating to the old cancerous ones at a supersonic speed.

They are using the old tricks of the Mapuya, Moya and chairman’s regimes to transact business in the Tokha era. How sad!

What have I been trying to say to my lord? Well, those who care to notice how people entrusted with running some of the affairs of the country are doing will realise that the backroom agreements in procurement and tendering processes have been enhanced during this time.

I will not get tired of telling it all that it is weird agreements that people who now wield influence sign with middle men that lure them into decisions that do not benefit the citizens.

My lord, the citizens appear to be on their own once again and I don’t expect Tokha Are Liars to change even if they ask us to tell them nothing but the truth.

Haven’t we been telling them the truth they have been ignoring all these years because the lies sound plausible?

This was just an ordinary letter to you honourable judge.

Regards,

John Citizen.

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