We have said it before and we repeat it today. As founding and permanent apostles of the Interfaith International Prayer-house (Malawi Limited), we verily say unto this nation and its inhabitants that Malawi is still dead. The giant morgue called Malawi is full of us, rotting corpses. Some bodies are already on the way, not to the graveyard, but to the cremation pier.

Before the May 20 2014 elections, we were corpses awaiting interment. Before May 20 2014, we hoped that Malawians would resurrect, elect new, effective and responsible leaders. We hoped we would be sensible enough to punish those who stole our money and made us a laughing stock in the world. Right in our deathbeds, we still hoped.

However, we, the apostles, are here to tell you, fellow dead Malawians that nothing has changed. We rotated worn out tyres. We voted for the very people that oversaw the July 2011 massacre of innocent demonstrators. We voted for the very people that oversaw the murder of Robert Chasowa and shamelessly faked a suicide note and planted it on his bleeding corpse. We voted for the very people that oversaw the pillage of the national coffers to the extent that we had no fuel, no maize, and no forex. We voted for the very people that went around with machetes and pangas in broad daylight, in the presence of smiling police officers to silence us. We voted for midnight six. We voted for Makiyolobasi. We voted for the enemies of academic freedom. We voted for the very people who cannot explain the whereabouts of 177 farm tractors and 144 maize shellers. We are all dead and on our way to the cremation pier.

We punished those who oversaw and participated in Cashgate. That was good, say we, your apostles, but not enough. We should have also punished those who emptied the national cash vault before that. We are dead, do not deny it and on our way to cremation pier.

Today, this dead country is talking about civil service reform. A team has been constituted to report back to the President by December 2014. How many reports do we want to reform the civil service? A fellow dead Malawian told us, when he came to pay his tithe and buy salvation through us, your apostles, that Malawi has produced over 70 civil service reform reports since independence. Nothing has changed. The civil service is still dead and cremated. The Civil Service Reform Committee is dead and on its way to the cremation pier.

For twenty-some years, this dead country has been talking about 50-50 political power sharing between men and women. The painful truth is that 50-50 is a dead agenda and on its way to the cremation pier. It is dead and will not resurrect because the Malawian women are all dead and cremated, politically. They are dead because their 50-50 campaign leaders are cowards. They campaign for 50-50, yet do not stand for election. Dead.

In their dead thinking, Malawi’s women believe in begging for recognition and positions, when they can get them through free, fair and reasonable elections. Malawian women literally begged for Mrs Mcheka Chilenje-Nkhoma to be Deputy Speaker of Parliament. Cremated.

Today, Malawian women blame men for their political failures. They forget that women make up 52 percent of Malawi’s population. If all the women voted for fellow women they would dominate Parliament and would easily produce a female President.

The presidency was thrust unto them by destiny, but they were the first to “undress” Joyce Banda. In 1999, Vera Chirwa, then aged 67 years, wanted to contest as President. Women, fellow women, shouted her down as too old to be President. Ask Patricia Kaliati. Ask Emma Kaliya. Ask Emmie Chanika. Ask. Just ask. Yet, in 2014, Malawians, most of whom are women, voted for Peter Arthur Mutharika, aged 74 years, as President.

Malawian women are dead, cremated and will never ever resurrect, politically. Or, will they?