By James Kanyenda, Mana
Director of Communications at State House, Sean Kampondeni says President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera remains committed to fixing the broken system which has been long overdue in the country.
Speaking during State House Quarterly Brief, Kampondeni said President Chakwera spends much of his time tirelessly working for Malawians to identify broken elements in the system and finding mechanisms of fixing it to ensure there is an improvement in service delivery.
Kampondeni said as one way of fixing the broken system, Chakwera presided over the swearing in of Supreme Court judges in July to ensure effectiveness in administration of justice.
He also mentioned the National Anti-Corruption Conference held in July, 2022 where different stakeholders shared ideas on how corruption can be dealt with as one way of showing the president’s commitment in the fight against corruption.-( Story By
There’s an English saying which goes like this –
“If it is not broken, don’t fix it?”
Chakwera got into government on the pretext that a number of issues in the country were broken. To support his ousting of DPP from the Capital Hill he decided to come up with a narrative that not all was well with Mutharika and his subjects, that there was too much rot in the system, so much that he came-up with a cleansing mechanism.
If you ask Chakwera and his subjects what was conspicuously amiss in the previous government, he might not be in a position to specify. It is because of the absence of pin pointing the anomaly and therefore not knowing what he intended to fix that has led his administration to run helter-skelter like a headless chicken. Because they did not have a tailored aim/objective for going into government, hence the saying “If its not broken, don’t fix it” Chakwera went for a trial and error management style of doing things whereby he thought matters worth straightening would present themselves before his table. To hear his son in-law telling the nation that his father in-law is busy fixing the broken system must be total madness. If that is what he is doing, for how long will it take him to fix things because not even a single thing has been fixed, or is he fixing them in his dreams? Chakwera said he came to remove rubble from the system but surprisingly after 2.5 years he has created more rotten and substandard workforce, hence the creation of the unnecessary rubble, worse than what was there before. If stealing public money, having blackouts, running short of forex, having no medicines in hospitals etc etc can be called fixing things, then we must have mad people in the country who are unable to differentiate between building and dismantling. Chakwera has literally brought all important services in Malawi on its knees, Malawi is in ICU awaiting to hear that the country is no more.
Chakwera and Kampondeni should be ashamed of themselves by trying to parry away the dirt they have and are creating. All the injustices, stealing and incapacitating activities stops on their doorsteps. Instead of scapegoating, they need to be man-enough to start owning the blame. The country shouldn’t be managed as a family business. They need to incorporate all stakeholders in whatever is taking place in the country. There is no sense when you totally disregard the rest of the citizens who apparently are the tax payers. There will come a time when you will be required to make an account of all the criminality being perpetrated. Masiku amathera ku chitseko.