DPP cannot go on mountain top

October 22, 2013

DPP leadership in Parliament, led by George Chaponda, should stop taking Malawians as a bunch of idiots who would warm up to their grandstanding on the Capital Hill thieving orgy when we know that they, too, were masters of looting. They were only stopped when they lost power after the death of Bingu wa Mutharika.

Make no mistake, Malawians are livid with anger that their hard- earned tax is lining the pockets of Capital Hill crooks when hospitals have no drugs, schools have no desks and the roads are full of potholes that they have now become a case study of bad reference to people such as Jacob Zuma of South Africa.

What Malawians expect of the PP administration, therefore, is to take responsibility and clean this mess because the looting has reached outlandish levels on their watch and they are the ones running the affairs of government.

By and large, this is being done although it can be better, as at the moment, the general impression is that some big fish are still being shielded and the circumstances and link between the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo and the looting has not been clearly established, if any. PP must come out clean on this and there is no alternative.

As for the DPP, they can shout their lungs out or make their voices hoarse and call for the resignation of this one and that one but discerning Malawians will know one thing and it is that they are not doing it for the love of this country and its people.

On the contrary, it is pure jealousy that they are not the ones in government.

To put it more bluntly, they are mad not because they want development for this country, but because they are not the ones doing the stealing.

This is a case of a scheming thief turning green with envy at how another thief is effortlessly executing the trade.

Those who think that I am stretching my imagination too much and too far should take cognizance of the fact that the DPP owe Malawians answers to the following questions: Firstly, why did they stop an audit mid-way through when it initially unearthed a K90 billion loss as a result of thieves playing games with Ifmis? And can DPP justify why their leader, Bingu wa Mutharika, went to his grave after amassing a whopping K61 billion from a country where the majority cannot afford three square meals a day and living standards are pathetically low?

I have always known that DPP characters are a pathetic lot and will not come out clean on these two questions. Instead, they will attempt to control the narrative and insist that we do not talk the past but only the present because they know their past is dirty just like the present.

But Malawians are not fools to let DPP get away with it when it tries to claim the high moral ground and pretend that this present looting orgy is all the responsibility of PP.

The truth is DPP has its fair share and it is just as accountable to Malawians as the PP.

The Chapondas of this world and their ilk should not act clever today because they are as much to blame as PP for the mess at Capital Hill.

The moral high ground is not for the DPP to claim.