By Che Gwedemule Adyamani
Brown Mpinganjira has had a colourful political career whose story spans from 1986 when he joined the list of people who were detained for fighting the one party regime, to his release in 1991.
It proceeded to the time he joined a team of fighters that formed a pressure group that lobbied for a referendum and made history in 1993 when Malawians voted for multi party democracy.
His political journey continued in 1994 when he won the parliamentary seat for Mulanje Central where he served his people for 15 years before they gave him an exit for not representing their development agenda.
By the way, BJ comes some one or two villages away from my late father’s village in Mulanje, so I have a very good understanding of the reasons why my people gave him that middle finger in 2009.
Mpinganjira’s political story continued. He became a darling of many when he fought Bakili Muluzi’s third term bid and contested as a Presidential candidate for his NDA in 2004 and as a running mate for JZU in 2009.
He failed on both attempts and that marked the beginning of his political fuss. The way he jumped from UDF, NDA and then MCP revealed how desperate he was, for power.
The way he abandoned most of his NDA cronies, the way he betrayed his NDA agenda, disappointed the youth who formed a bigger bunch of his NDA followers. The way he threw away all his manners and became obsessed with power. The way he normalised political prostitution, as long as it promised him some grip to power, Mpinganjira was ready to serve himself the dish to glory.
His story, is one that has seen him jump to bed with all political parties in power without shame, and made his way to some positions of influence.
Mpinganjira has appeared in almost all political fights in Malawi. In UDF, in MCP for JZU to pick him as running mate, in PP after JB’s loss in 2014, and now at the center of the fights within DPP. As long as there is power play, Mpinganjira’s name will appear somewhere leading and fueling the same.
BJ hates competition… He loves making headlines. He thinks because of his MBC and Ministry of Information background then he stands better as a communication specialist for all political parties he has worked for, even at 71 in 2021.
The truth of the matter is, 2021 is the time to get rid of him and all these old cronies of his that introduced politics of handouts to our people and promoted laziness. Politicians that normalised political prostitution and think politics in Malawi must evolve around them and them alone. Politicians who have used the youth for their political gains and dumped them.
The Brown Mpinganjira’s of this world who have brought down rulers with their bad advice and love for money and power. Remember he was once fronted by JB in 2014, she failed, APM made him part of his campaign team during the fresh presidential poll and chaired the media and publicity sub-commitee, and APM lost.
We cant keep having people that made the art of handclapping in this country our daily dosage. They introduced themselves as heroes and want us to keep worshiping them as long as they live….BJ? No please… Part 2 please… Loading.
Well articulated but, you will never redicalise us. Its foolish to keep on attacking the eldery as if they don’t play a crutial role in modern democracy. Mine are just few question because as one of the youth of today nothing can attract me rather than ideologies or do you mean no matter what we must only take in saulo at 50 and kho at 35 or even atupex in his 40s ignoring the vibrant ideologies at the back of the old brains that could move malawi to recognisable development levels. My few questions to you mr author of this useless piece: How old is trump? What about the US president elect? How old was teleza when she was the premier? Stop thinking like that useless woman who married a man with the age difference of 50 and in the end started telling us to divorce a 79 year old guy who was very sharp when it comes to development and management of crises. We tested youthful presidents before but their perfornances were far much behind the 3 big presidents who were above their 60s when taking the mantle? Can we compare jb and apm or bingu? How old was apm when he became the president? Your answer is as good as mine, 70s, of course yes and i hope you saw how he made our local currency a difficult ant hill to climb with help of great experienced goodall in his old age as well and how he surprised bigger economies in daring zero aid for good 3 years of his first term. Saulo is just too pompus and he is failing to turn things around. Look now, of course he raised the tax free band to k100000 and yet he has set our kwacha on the loose and k100000 of today is equal to k20000 of apm’s era. Can we then happily celebrating that our youthful life vp has increased the tax free band while on the other side devaluation is making a good job for him? Is there any logic here? How old was apm when he made vibrant infranstructure development and set the pace in rural electrification and rural telecommunication in establishing telecenters at nankhwinkhwi, njaya, etc? All what matters are ideologies not age.anyamatawa kunyenga too much.eeeeh mkabudula kuchita kumwera gondolosi and all they have is pomp. Remember that in 2019 apm won the polls and what happened in 2020 is a major blow to our dmocracy all started by the same youth. How on earth could the court restricted new registration and new contestants at current byelections and they allowed new faces on running mates? That court order is the one that robbed off apm his victory not bj. When we say intelligent people from one tribalistic region are just too dull you think we are joking. They even fail to interpret the constituion and they bribed that respect international law institute to award them on their balck and white blander, what a shame???!!!! Look now how your youthful brains are failing to bang heads to contain the deadly virus which is ransacking us. Hooo chineke!!!
I too believe in ideologies not age. Think of a youth who after been voted into power, hijacks the real beneficiary who could have accessed medical treatment abroad for the cure of a chronic ailment and instead goes for his hair inplant surgery as if we don’t have plastics specialists in the mother land.