Same old script! President Lazarus Chakwera is throwing caution to the wind by being extravagant by recruiting four Facebook addicts to be part of his communications team at State House with an aim of propping up his image.
President Chakwera has lately realised that he has lost favour with the public including his own MCP supporters and the Tonse Alliance members for his slowness and indiciveness in making decisions.
In order to prop up his image and destroy his critics, the President has hired 4 Facebook and social media addicts who masquerade as journalists to beef up his communications team.
The new media squad comprises of Master Chilunjika, Alex Botha, Fisimndipe Chibwe and Clement Mitambo.
They have been put on Grad G. (Principal 7). Ironically State House has already three senior members in its communication department. The department already boosts of Sean Kampondeni as Director of Communications, Brian Banda as Press Secretary and Martha Chikuni as head of Media Marketing.
The trio has of late been used to ‘terrorise’ their alliance partners, UTM without mercy and pity.
Two months ago, they led the onslaught against Energy Minister Newton Kambala, UTM Minister in Chakwera government and recently they have been given a new task to finish off Chrissie Kalamula, a UTM deputy in Chakwera government.
“Chakwera has already put in place his election team for 2025 bid. Some of seniors are busy collecting cash from ‘amwenye’,’ source to the team told this publication.
It’s yet to be seen how Vice President and UTM president Saulos Chilima and his UTM will react to these developments.
“UTM has been on the receiving end by MCP propaganda team and they have promised to continue shelling UTM from all cylinders,” an inside source revealed.
Political and economic Analysts argue that Malawi is at crossroads with the Covid-19 pandemic and people should concentrate on fighting the pandemic rather than planning for 2025 elections.
Bingu had a slogan. ‘Lolani ntchito za manja anga zindichitile umboni’. Bwana Chakwera the works of your hands will bear you witness. Nothing else. Just perform. If you don’t your borrowed English accent and your media officers won’t manage to save you when push comes to shove. Ntchito za Apm taziona. Ntchito za Bingu tinaziona. It’s your turn to show us that you are better than all the past Malawi presidents. You have all the support you need. The voters, the Judiciary, the bid media houses who are clapping hands for every Tonse government failure and painting a false picture, etc. So you have no excuse.
the good thing is, our politics is the game of regions with the northerners as scavengers who play their cards very well in a divide them and rule tactics. in fact ideologies and development don’t matter as we all witnessed mtambo redicalized kasiya nyau youth denouncing dpp’s initiated road projects by digging them and setting ablaze newly constructed schools by dpp and they violently won the court forced polls. or should we say trump’s experiment ahead of their polls? if we look at how things unfold in the US post polls the violence antics are in a similar fashion to ours only that it didn’t work. thanks we had a democrat who was leading. all this northerner mtambo and his bunch of justices achieved were that he was appointed a minister and two of his fellas reclaimed their almost lost positions of cj and mdf commander after their contracts almost finished. surprisingly hrdc and mls defended only the cj not the illegaly sacked lhomwe mdf commander. the northerners are good at bringing confusion. they marched against the end of contract of the cj and successfully sued apm and muhara and yet those positions are chosen by the same politicians with the president making an appointment and parliament approves it NOT the lawyers. we are yet in another dramma and 2025 is fast approaching to unfold it. this time around it would be deadly and i wonder if saulo will be trusted by other parties other than mcp to regroup into another bloody, violent political force to reckon with come 2023/24. are we going to be duzzled by new chichewa political adages by our right honourable linguistic master who is docile at the moment? 2024/25 ntchito idzakhalapo.