A local Civil Society organisation, Leadership Institute for Transparency and Accountability (LITA), has expressed worry over the divisions among the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in the country.
LITA’s Executive Director, Goodwell Logeya made the concern on Tuesday in Blantyre during a half-day long CSOs and Media capacity building workshop.
Logeya said the division among the country’s CSO is denying the citizenry who are the ‘tax payers’ a right to development and to make their leaders accountable.
According to Logeya, CSOs need to work in collaboration in making sure that public office bearers are transparent and accountable.
He then challenged CSO leaders not to be shaken by ‘external forces’ such as ‘politicians’ who bring divisions among CSOs.
The capacity building workshop was held under the theme: “Building Resilient Civil Society Leadership in a Democratic Society”.
Everything happening in Malawi has a different name, with totally different goals and objectives when you compare them to those existing in other countries. This has come about because various sectors of the social wellbeing of people in Malawi is compromised by the behaviours displayed by those very same social groups. The biggest culprit is the politicians who have carelessly diluted and incapacitated the delivery of services by those CSOs by bribing, corrupting and rewarding them unnecessarily. All that is done in order to muzzle or silence their shortcomings, malpractices, crookedness and all other isms there are in society.
There was a time when I said that s country without a functional “Justice System” is as good as dead. Unfortunately, that sectoral fabric in Malawi stopped functioning years back. The people qualified or assigned to provide expertise in that field became the most corrupt, and as such professionalism was thrown out the window. One wonders whether the legal framework and references are applied across the board. You would at times think judgements are arrived at based on the judges individual whims and not the law itself. That having been said, no department, organization, society etc etc will adhere to the law because the ones meant to uphold, check and maintain its application have chosen to work differently. Possibly that is why a cross-section of people in the country have concluded that we are given raw judicial services because all those lawyers, judges, barristers, solicitors etc are churned from the same institution (Chancellor College), hence no variety of professionalism challenges worth writing home about. It is a shame really because that attitude has basically rattled and grounded all government expectancy to zero. Unfortunately, that favours those who are in the forefront raping the same government policies, rule of law, standard operating procedures and the constitution itself. Nothing is going to change until a proper sanitisation carriedout throughout all government institutions. Those many workshops will yield nothing. They have been there before and nothing was achieved, so why should people continue repeating the unworkable?
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