What a Vision! Minister of Information told us to collect a folder that contained the Presidents vision of press freedom in Malawi... It turned out to be: 1) a blank notepad embossed with the Presidential insignia 2) a personalised Peter Mutharika pen 3) a white envelope containing a wad of bank notes that amounted to K50,000! What a vision! Blank, colourless and reeking of blood money! Clever crooks, Mr President, use brown envelopes! Hah! Hah! With hindsight, however, I guess we should all have behaved like the heroic George Kasakula who never thought twice but said, I dont deserve this; please have it back! I know as one wise man said, Trust is like virginity - you only lose it once! But, on behalf of my colleagues - who let our guard down, I apologise unreservedly for letting down the public that trusts us unreservedly. (Source: Blood Money - Muckraking on Sunday with Raphael Kinn L. Tenthani, Sunday Times, September 30, 2014) MY COMMENT: I have great respect for this scribe, he is in a class of his own. The kind Malawi needs. Bravo and brilliant! On vision of the President: I hope at least he might have one for Malawi, as a nation, having failed to have one for press freedom. I am still waiting, six months after he assumed office that maybe, just maybe, some day, before five years elapses, he will let us know where he is leading us to as a nation. So far, I have no clue and totally confused. Where there is no vision the people perish - King Solomon.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:44:16 +0000
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