Deputy Chief Executive Officer for National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) Hellen Buluma has today failed to appear before the Trade and Industry Committee of Parliament.
According to MIJ Online, the Committee was today scheduled to meet NOCMA to discuss matters relating to fuel situation in the country but NOCMA failed to appear before the committee after sending an excuse.
The country has been experiencing fuel shortage for some days now with Lilongwe’s situation worsening day by day.
This Committee in Parliament is barking the wrong tree. Start by going backwards and establish the criteria that was followed in the hiring of the CEO of MERA. Possibly, thereafter the aforementioned Committee will then be able to know why things have reached that state of affairs. The olden days people who said, “A fish starts rotting from the head” – didn’t just come up with that statement. If you trace the origins of the rampant failure of services in the country, certainly there must be an appropriate and singular principal who should shoulder all these calamities. If the top is dead (head), you don’t expect the limbs (arms and legs) to operate on their own. If Buluma is blamed for scarcity of Fuel, she is at the end of the day not a Forex milling machine that has to procure the ‘Runaway Forex’, which apparently is needed to buy the incognito fuel, someone is sleeping on his job, period!! This is what once some learned dude from our esteemed university said during the DPP era that that administration was a failed state. Do you know what? if you want to see a good example of a failed state per se, just visit Malawi today and you will see what a failed state looks like.