The Malawian Roman Catholic in their yearly pastoral letters commented on the activities of the year 2010.
Since the year was dominated the year, much of the issues covered were political.
Considering the current situation of events, I feel I should comment to break a loop of a series of conflicts that arise from the old issues and the current.
People of Malawi are angry. The government has failed. The demand the government to admit they have failed. If the government does not admit, they will keep on making noise.
Why has the government failed, there is no fuel. But today there is fuel. Maybe tomorrow it will not be there. The government is not folding hands. But indeed it has shown that it is sweating and cracking headaches by increasing the fuel price.
Why has the government failed? Because The First Lady has some responsibilities the vice president has. They are indeed both ladies. And they can share lady activities. The Vice President can't be the AU ambassador while The President is the AU chairperson. Otherwise for activities that need both, would leave Malawi without a leader. The Vice President is supposed to lead when The President is at AU. The first lady who always accompanies the president everywhere he goes, on the basis of being his wife, can't be a stay at home wife while she is capable carrying out responsibilities herself, so indeed responsibilities that the Vice President had while there was no first lady could right be given back to the first lady while she is present.
What does the constitution say regarding the duties of the president? Has the First Lady taken any of these duties? No she hasn't so indeed the first lady has not taken the duties of the Vice President. And the Vice President has not complained about these things.
The only thing she has complained about is the way the media ignores her. For she too has a voice to communicate to the public. The media thinks that her voice is small for she because she is a lady. The media blames the president because the voice of the vice president is small.
Is the media making sense?
How can it say that president has to make her voice bigger? The president has made her vice president. She is big enough. Bigger than any other lady in Malawi. She is the deputy of the President. But the media forgets that. The media sees a woman where the President sees her deputy. The media blames the president because its eyes(the media's eyes) sees a woman.
The media needs to wash its glasses.
It is because of this senseless media that the people of Malawi are angry.
I have to get some sleep now. I should not get a headache from sleeplessness because of the senseless media.