Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Bingu's Victory: Dreams, aspirations and the future
2009 POLLS: DREAMS, ASPIRATIONS AND THE FUTURE
Patrick Achitabwino
The will of the people is the will of God, so the wise says. The will of God has come out; Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika will lead the nation in the next five years, implementing the vision of nation-building and national development. The enthusiasm that drove millions of Malawians to cast ballots defying apathy fears and the perceived too-close-to-calls-results’ comments of our political analysts and scientists is a complete manifestation of the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the people of the land. Top at the agenda of the minds of Malawians has been continued socio-economic transformation.
Malawi as a country has wholeheartedly given Dr. Mutharika and his DPP government the mandate to advance socio-economic recovery policies. We are reminded by even the African National Congress (ANC) Freedom Charter that no government can claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people. Dr. Mutharika and the DPP government therefore wear robes of authority as per the mandate of the development-conscious Malawians.
The 2009 polls can be best described as a victory for democracy in the country. Several previously perceived political benchmarks have crashed. The pattern through which we have voted manifests that our democracy has matured beyond comprehension. We have broken the boundaries of perceived traditional African democracy that offer support to contesting presidential candidates along tribal or regional lines. Dr. Mutharika’s triumph is a symbol manifesting that gone is the chapter of politics of tribalism, regionalism, personalities, god-fatherhood, sycophancy, parrotry and pull-down syndrome. Ushered in is a new era of politics of issues and national development.
The perspective through which people have voted out some previously perceived political untouchables out of the national assembly demonstrates that Malawians now have redeemed their capacity to utilize the authority that belongs to them. It is no harm to express that every irresponsible and electorates-wishes inconsiderate behavior portrayed by some former lawmakers in the national assembly disfranchised millions of people they were representing. However, while the disfranchisement could have killed the people’s trust in politics, it served as a springboard for launching their power to remove underperforming parliamentarians from the august house.
As the political dust is settling down, Dr. Mutharika and his government are highly challenged by the electorates to deliver on the promises made. The president and his distinguished honourables in the national assembly have to be mindful that they silently signatured on the hearts of Malawians a binding contract on development issues to be carried out. Now the time has come to transform rhetoric into action. From the campaign promises articulated in the manifesto must grow a strong determination to satisfy the aspirations of Malawians. It is good to note that our votes are a sum total of our aspirations and our ballots mirror the future of Malawi we crave for. Our votes manifests our dream to wage a fierce war against poverty. Our dream echo the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
Our voting pattern has consolidated our nascent democracy. We are reminded by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja that democracy is a moral imperative, a social process, and in particular a type of political practice appealable to all human societies.
The best means to safeguarding this admirable new chapter of politics is only through delivery of promises made. It is worthy putting at the back of minds that democracy is meaningless to people without economic and social rights. Democracy means nothing to people who cannot eat properly, have no roof over their heads, are jobless, unable to send children to schools, and have no access to a minimum of descent health care. Our people will celebrate and sustain this admirable democracy if food security keeps being maintained, the K2 billion loan to the youth is disbursed, our pregnant women access maternal services without the fear of dying out of maternal complications, among several core fundamental needs. Our people need water, electricity and other essential amenities. We are proud that our dreams are well entrenched in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). Let the document be the guiding factor to national development.
In his David Anderson Address entitled: Challenges of pluralism, democracy, governance and development, renowned developmental economics Professor Adebayo Adedeji reminds us that democracy is more than just ballot baxes, the political parties and all the institutional trappings. It is a way of life, a culture and a lifestyle at all levels of society and in all spheres of human endeavors. Through our votes we have placed ourselves on the avenue of democratic progress that has to become a part of our life and living. Politicians will no longer take the trust of the masses for granted.
It is now the hope of the country that through Dr. Mutharika’s second five-year term, millions of Malawians will benefit from socio-economic policies that will fish them out from meshes of excruciating poverty, the people of the land would share in the wealth of their country. Thousands of people in the country are miserably paid, earning far less than what their labour befits. The votes of the economically-disadvantaged were a cry for the establishment of an atmosphere that restores their human dignity through the abolition of the exploitation of man by man perpetrated by some employers who pay their employees money too little to sustain a living. We borrow the words of Oliver Tambo, one of South Africa’s political icons: ‘it is unconceivable that some Africans should achieve happiness on the basis of the tears and grief of other Africans.’
The eyes of Malawians are now fixed at the national assembly. It is the hope of the people of Malawi that the DPP majority will work for the betterment of the people of the country. We anticipate the passing of national development bills and the appropriate scrutinization of budgets in the light of providing masses appropriate essential services. This is the time that lawmakers bring sanity in the national assembly then convince us that the august house is indeed the house for deliberating the wishes of the people. We are not far away from 2014 when we will use our prerogative rights again to hire or fire lawmakers. The miserable loss of previously outspoken lawmakers is enough wake up call to now parliamentarians.
Whereas African countries have and continue to be perceived as retrogressive in democratic ideals and fundamentals, Malawi has proved to have embraced democracy in totality: peaceful and transparent elections. We have finally extolled virtues of multi-ethnicism and have now embraced it as a tool for nation-building and national development. Now is the best moment to do away with feelings of political bitterness that characterized the campaign period. All the politics, all the campaigning, all the manifestos were all means of finding best solutions to healing socio-economic ills dogging the development of the country. At the end of the day, the best considered formula to socio-economic progress that Bingu unveiled to the masses won the peoples’ hearts hence the renewal of Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika’s tenancy at the state house. We congratulate you Mr. President.
Patrick Achitabwino
The will of the people is the will of God, so the wise says. The will of God has come out; Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika will lead the nation in the next five years, implementing the vision of nation-building and national development. The enthusiasm that drove millions of Malawians to cast ballots defying apathy fears and the perceived too-close-to-calls-results’ comments of our political analysts and scientists is a complete manifestation of the dreams, hopes and aspirations of the people of the land. Top at the agenda of the minds of Malawians has been continued socio-economic transformation.
Malawi as a country has wholeheartedly given Dr. Mutharika and his DPP government the mandate to advance socio-economic recovery policies. We are reminded by even the African National Congress (ANC) Freedom Charter that no government can claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people. Dr. Mutharika and the DPP government therefore wear robes of authority as per the mandate of the development-conscious Malawians.
The 2009 polls can be best described as a victory for democracy in the country. Several previously perceived political benchmarks have crashed. The pattern through which we have voted manifests that our democracy has matured beyond comprehension. We have broken the boundaries of perceived traditional African democracy that offer support to contesting presidential candidates along tribal or regional lines. Dr. Mutharika’s triumph is a symbol manifesting that gone is the chapter of politics of tribalism, regionalism, personalities, god-fatherhood, sycophancy, parrotry and pull-down syndrome. Ushered in is a new era of politics of issues and national development.
The perspective through which people have voted out some previously perceived political untouchables out of the national assembly demonstrates that Malawians now have redeemed their capacity to utilize the authority that belongs to them. It is no harm to express that every irresponsible and electorates-wishes inconsiderate behavior portrayed by some former lawmakers in the national assembly disfranchised millions of people they were representing. However, while the disfranchisement could have killed the people’s trust in politics, it served as a springboard for launching their power to remove underperforming parliamentarians from the august house.
As the political dust is settling down, Dr. Mutharika and his government are highly challenged by the electorates to deliver on the promises made. The president and his distinguished honourables in the national assembly have to be mindful that they silently signatured on the hearts of Malawians a binding contract on development issues to be carried out. Now the time has come to transform rhetoric into action. From the campaign promises articulated in the manifesto must grow a strong determination to satisfy the aspirations of Malawians. It is good to note that our votes are a sum total of our aspirations and our ballots mirror the future of Malawi we crave for. Our votes manifests our dream to wage a fierce war against poverty. Our dream echo the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”
Our voting pattern has consolidated our nascent democracy. We are reminded by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja that democracy is a moral imperative, a social process, and in particular a type of political practice appealable to all human societies.
The best means to safeguarding this admirable new chapter of politics is only through delivery of promises made. It is worthy putting at the back of minds that democracy is meaningless to people without economic and social rights. Democracy means nothing to people who cannot eat properly, have no roof over their heads, are jobless, unable to send children to schools, and have no access to a minimum of descent health care. Our people will celebrate and sustain this admirable democracy if food security keeps being maintained, the K2 billion loan to the youth is disbursed, our pregnant women access maternal services without the fear of dying out of maternal complications, among several core fundamental needs. Our people need water, electricity and other essential amenities. We are proud that our dreams are well entrenched in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). Let the document be the guiding factor to national development.
In his David Anderson Address entitled: Challenges of pluralism, democracy, governance and development, renowned developmental economics Professor Adebayo Adedeji reminds us that democracy is more than just ballot baxes, the political parties and all the institutional trappings. It is a way of life, a culture and a lifestyle at all levels of society and in all spheres of human endeavors. Through our votes we have placed ourselves on the avenue of democratic progress that has to become a part of our life and living. Politicians will no longer take the trust of the masses for granted.
It is now the hope of the country that through Dr. Mutharika’s second five-year term, millions of Malawians will benefit from socio-economic policies that will fish them out from meshes of excruciating poverty, the people of the land would share in the wealth of their country. Thousands of people in the country are miserably paid, earning far less than what their labour befits. The votes of the economically-disadvantaged were a cry for the establishment of an atmosphere that restores their human dignity through the abolition of the exploitation of man by man perpetrated by some employers who pay their employees money too little to sustain a living. We borrow the words of Oliver Tambo, one of South Africa’s political icons: ‘it is unconceivable that some Africans should achieve happiness on the basis of the tears and grief of other Africans.’
The eyes of Malawians are now fixed at the national assembly. It is the hope of the people of Malawi that the DPP majority will work for the betterment of the people of the country. We anticipate the passing of national development bills and the appropriate scrutinization of budgets in the light of providing masses appropriate essential services. This is the time that lawmakers bring sanity in the national assembly then convince us that the august house is indeed the house for deliberating the wishes of the people. We are not far away from 2014 when we will use our prerogative rights again to hire or fire lawmakers. The miserable loss of previously outspoken lawmakers is enough wake up call to now parliamentarians.
Whereas African countries have and continue to be perceived as retrogressive in democratic ideals and fundamentals, Malawi has proved to have embraced democracy in totality: peaceful and transparent elections. We have finally extolled virtues of multi-ethnicism and have now embraced it as a tool for nation-building and national development. Now is the best moment to do away with feelings of political bitterness that characterized the campaign period. All the politics, all the campaigning, all the manifestos were all means of finding best solutions to healing socio-economic ills dogging the development of the country. At the end of the day, the best considered formula to socio-economic progress that Bingu unveiled to the masses won the peoples’ hearts hence the renewal of Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika’s tenancy at the state house. We congratulate you Mr. President.
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