How politicians under develop Malawi - Nation Online (2025)

Our leader delegation, Ms, Abiti Joyce Befu, MG 66 and Mega-1, is an excellent citizen who abides by laws or directives from serious government institutions like Ncheti. But she is still our leader. Certificate or no certificate; honorific or no honorific.

After all, this country has genuine professors. Those who have published one genuine ar ticle or eight articles. And that is all. Contribution to their country? Zero. To church? Zero. To their village? Zero. To themselves? Zero.

Today, we want to concent r ate on how government makes Malawians poor. It does not matter who the president is and where he comes from. In fact, it is the DNA of all politicians, mostly Malawian politicians, and all appointed civil servants, to keep Malawians poor. They enjoy it. Very much.

We are in that long

season when we average Malawians; Malawians who have been kept poor for four years, to harvest where we sowed. So, if some politicians come with chipondamthengo, brown envelope, facilitation, as journalists call the bribe, we will receive it. We will also tell our fellow voters in our respective villages not to be afraid to demand money in exchange for our votes. If electoral management officials ask us why, we will answer m’maso muli gwa, “that it is our time to eat”. Life is about eating. In fact, we leave to eat. We have struggled for a long time to get our CDF to work for us. CDF is K200 million per year per Member of Parliament. Multiplied by six years (the current will have served six full years and a few fully remunerated months). The answer is K1.2 billion. What have they each done for their constituents? Zero. It is time to eat. Felix Mnthali wrote that there is nothing so sweet as something whose time has come. Yakwana yokha. You give what belongs to Caesar and from Caesar you get the votes. Nothing for nothing. Those who still receive wages from government and salaries from the private sector will have noticed how much they part with as tax. Some pay as much as half in Pay As You Earn alone. If government did not want its citizens to fill the pinch, why maintain tax? To buy medicines? Why do we pay in hospitals for the drugs? Mention one thing that we get in Malawi for free. The poor aged citizens are sent back, pitani mudzikafa. Then you have another tax: Teveta tax goes to government. There is value added tax on nearly every item, in every shop worth a name 16.5 percent goes to government. If you have the misfortune of owning motorised means of transport, in addition 16.5 percent VAT, they are several levies (taxes) on every litre of that precious liquid from the pump. Natura l di saster levy; hunger levy; refugees levy; marriage levy; death levy. Now, for the President, Vice-President, and Speaker Parliament all these are free, tax-free for life. One former president, who aspires to be the future present, declared that he got over 16 000 50-kilogramme bags of cement free of tax. Ministers, senior civil ser vant, and MPs may appear to pay tax but they recoup that though other means, legal. They get an allowance. A huge allowance of K250 000 per night. Some for as many as 40 nights in a month. Free car, free fuel, free drinks, free girls or boys. We mean drivers or servants. Free medical insurance. Nanga inu? This is the time to eat from politicians. If they refuse to give aplenty, the date is September 16 2025. Happy Easter. He died for you, too.