Welcome to the Munda wa Chitedze Farm where I relocated from the hustle and bustle of your city. Everything is in peace and only peace reigns supreme in this land. Unlike you and your concrete jungle, here we don’t suffer in peace, we thrive!
So, we hear the electoral circus is back in town! Congratulations! Have fun. These are the rare moments that I miss from the city.
You see, before I retreated to the bush, I used to enjoy watching the political clowns when they were in town, at least once in every five years. They always brought fun as they pulled each other into the mud, dragged each other through dust and ashes. Not any dust, but that Area 25 dust at Kabwabwa!
Dear Diary, Area 25 is no small city. While the rest of the civilised parts of the city are enjoying the circus that is back in town, three young men decide to find a crowbar, a motorbike and choose to strike innocent citizens by the back of the head. One-two-three-four-five the victims were sent to early graves!
You see, excuse us for our dear, dear love. Here at the Munda wa Chitedze Farm where peace and only peace reigns, it is most painful, deeply worrying and grossly disembowelling to hear such gruesome stories.
Dear Diary, we are not surprised with such macabre acts. What more would you expect when in daylight some are allowed to brandish pangas against innocent demonstrators? What more would you expect in a city where demonstrators are whipped with merciless sjamboks in broad daylight, under police watch?
The haste with which the police hunted down the Area 25 suspects must have been unleashed on the ruffians that mercilessly beat Sylvester Namiwa. He was beaten under police watch but as I write police are still investigating. The same skill police displayed in tracking the riff-raff should also have been applied on you know who!
But I digress. I was talking about the circus being back in town. Here it is and I envy you that you are just hearing about kunoko.
The only boring thing is that although the circus is new, the clowns are the same old ones.
The campaign brings us so much fun. The promises and lies that come with it go beyond our power to fathom. One needs not go into detail about the campaign promises being made because nothing ever comes true from campaign promises. They always tell you things will be better….
But then, we at the Farm thought by saying that the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) would be giving out nomination papers after willing candidates pay the nomination fees, the Ras Chikomeni kind of clowning would go. We felt spreading unnecessary laughing powders on our faces would not serve us right with K10 million at stake.
Alas we were wrong. Dr Daniel Sijipunda Dube of the National Patriotic Front is no ordinary man. He is a medical doctor based in the US. When he walked into the BICC without his running mate, former Supreme Court Judge Dunstain Mwaungulu, we forgave the two because MEC had made it clear they would still receive nomination papers in absentia.
But when Dr Dube had to be sent back to include other necessary documents, we were shocked. A medical doctor and a former Supreme Court judge failing to fulfil the preliminary obligations for the presentation of the forms!
Here at the Munda wa Chitedze Farm blame MEC for telling the duo that whether they had the full papers or not, they still had to come and present. Now look, you did not do good to these honourable gentlemen because one can presume they were live-streaming the event for family and friends!
