I choose to wait for the fruits of reconfiguration to appear first

Dear judge Mbadwa,

I received with amusement Lazaro’s justification that he had to make a difficult decision to bring in Difficulty Chigwetsa to lead reconfiguring of public spending “towards productive and most economic sectors”.

My lord, it sounded like somebody had finally woken up from their dogmatic slumber and wanted to start acting on the challenges facing the country three years later.

My lord, I could not be animated beyond the explanation for the obvious reason; nobody has the magic wand to turn the fortunes of the country around without the political will.

If you listened to Difficulty’s predecessor outlining his vision, he ticked the right boxes as far as managing debt and spurring growth is concerned.

This is the guy who honestly told us that Nyasaland’s debt was unsustainable; hence, fulfilling financial obligations became a tall order.

In fact, if he had his way to implement all his ideas, Nyasaland would have been on the path to glory.

My lord, it was not like the minister was implementing his parochial agenda. It was the agenda of Tokha Are Liars that So-Certain was at the centre of.

Unfortunately, the minister’s agenda was derailed by the same establishment that hired him.

We all remember, my lord, when austerity measures were put in place, the young man was let down by the same gurus whose penchant for travel is legendary.

Nyasas accepted a long time ago that the incessant borrowing is premised on the fact that we cannot produce enough for ourselves and even export some.

Regardless of this naked fact, there has hardly been an earth-shaking policy change to end this self-inflicted servitude.

My lord, it will be interesting to see now how this Difficulty guy will be allowed to reconfigure public spending without the demands of political correctness, especially when elections are only a few months away, meddling in his affairs.

My lord, the other day we were asked by imperialists, of course to start acting instead of wasting our precious energy with mere talk.

I think we have talked enough without having anything to show for it and I agree with the imperialists that Nyasaland has a lot of strategies, policies and personnel to carry the country forward.

What we really need, my lord, is action that will speak for us other than these knee jerk changes.

 By the way, what kind of key performance indicators have been given to Chigwetsa so that we should know how and when to assess if his coming was worth interrupting dinner for most folk that Saturday?

Regards,

John Citizen.