By JACK BANDA
Eisenhower Mkaka is big in Malawi Congress Party (MCP), perhaps much bigger than Party’s President Lazarus Chakwera. What he says is normally a policy in the party.
I listened to him yesterday and at some point I thought he was being stupid just to cause controversy but I got really concerned with the amount of hate that MCP has for Lhomwe people in Malawi.
When MCP’s Director of Youth Mr Richard Chimwendo Banda expressed similar hate at a rally in Dowa, I thought it was just politics but there seems to be genuine genocidal hate for Lhomwe people in the MCP leadership.
After listening to Mkaka, I can say here that if you are Lhomwe, one from the South and a Malawian that sees Malawi as one and you support MCP or their alliance with UTM, you are a cuckoo. You are sleepy.
Politicians that think and speak like Mkaka, overtly expressing hate for a tribe and a region should never be entertained.
Last time another MCP Member of Parliament expressed similar hate for northerners, Khumbo quickly organized fellow law makers from the north and released a joint statement condemning MCP and the party was forced to apologies.
Noel Masangwi, Akweni Patricia Kaliati and Bon Kalindo, on a serious note, are they going into this alliance to set fire on their own people? Is the alliance really for the purpose of fighting the Southern region? So, really, by putting Chakwera and Saulos Chilima in the front is a strategy to fight the South????
Chilima and UTM came on the scene as a national party with a national focus.
Now like Mkaka they will be saying the Army Generals ndi osamphunzira, apatsidwa maudindo because they are Lhomwe? The same army that is credited for protecting the protestors today has become a Lhomwe army ya ma generals without merit.
You are just being jealous. I am a Tonga from northern Nkhotakota and I am paying school fees to a Lhomwe boy (a brother to my childhood friend) who dropped out of school in 2016 (yes 2016) due to lack of fees and basic needs. In between I went outside the country to do postgraduate studies and came back last year and he was still out of school. Guess what, he comes from the area (Phalombe-Close to Mitawa) where a younger brother of Leston Mulli was an MP and now it is Million who is an MP. When I went there I was shocked to find that there is no bridge connecting villages and people had to carry me on their back to cross the bridge at a meagre fee of K500.00. This is exactly what Mkaka was saying that the top Lhomwes are the only ones who are benefiting while the rest of them are languishing in untold misery and poverty just like majority of people in the north and center. Family affairs between the Muluzi’s and Mutharika’s are not a solution to the growing problems we are facing in this country. By the way, why should a reasonable person support a grandpa in Mutharika? He is past his sell-by date.