Albert Einstein is such a clever person in reminding us of things that we easily forget and consider as usual, basic and irrelevant. His voice is so loud and echoing in reminding us that we cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. This makes us recall of where we come from. Our country has never known a moment or period of greatness, milk or honey. Malawi has strolled in difficult moments ever since fifty years ago. Our children malnutrition, poverty bathed, bed ridden, medically insufficient.

Politicians have found a good playing ground in Malawi as noted by right Honorable Lord Steel of the House of Lords in Britain ‘Malawian people have lived under kleptomaniacs who have made a mockery of democracy.’

We are just embroiled in another circus as usual, a period of continuous strikes that threatens democracy and issues for human rights. When the judiciary strikes, there is no execution of justice and ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’ In short, it means the government is paralyzed.

So Malawians had an opportunity to read the executive mind of the whole saga on striking over salary increase. This is with the decision by the Minister of Justice and constitutional affairs to write a press release and address the nation. We need not to mention of the repurcation of such a strike as it is well documented that our cells are finally congested, off course they have never been empty! But with the rising crime (of which we know what makes crimes rise-economic hardships!) you can be assured that you have a lot of shenanigans to be arrested, what more with cashgate, what more with the judiciary striking. Following the press release, I decided to address the minister.

This government (the executive) lacks the skill to engage the judiciary in a honest discussion that will put into consideration the current economic status of Malawi on both sides. The fact that the executive is in denial that economy is ailing heavily, reflects to us why the executive fails to halt the strike. we the public, are quite aware that judiciary should not wake up and think of demanding because we are still supposed to foot whichever and whatever they are agitating for and that should come on the heals of good performance of which we have not seen. Count the lousy sentencing of one suspect in the cashgate case. Only three months! I be forgiven if I don’t think the judiciary is cashgate itself. For this reason, we would love to see you putting reasoning to its proper use. We would like to see the judiciary work on outstanding issues that we honestly and happily reward them in return.

Honorable Minister, engage the judiciary. Do not be like our president who failed to engage university of Malawi during the academic freedom fight. Your government track record is so dainted in negotiation skills that no amount of justification on strike will buy sympathy from the public. We would like to hear that you have met the judiciary and are discussing. Check this honorable minister: when Former Presidents of Mozambique and Botswana paid a visit to the state house on the Lake Malawi raw with Tanzania, our President told them the issue about Lake Malawi is non-negotiable. Little did the president know that we are already in negotiations and therefore what was needed at that time, was just to present why Malawi thinks it owns the lake.

We need to remind you honorable minister that your positions are representative in nature and requires you to speak only what you believe the public think. Here is what we are thinking. You have to engage the judiciary, teachers and all stakes that are about to strike in embarrassing your government. you are lucky honorable minister that you are in Malawi where we patiently wait for you to resolve issues. This is because we love the govt. If it were in another country, the current situation would have prompted each and every citizen to go on strike. What do I mean, do you know Honorable Minister that your citizens can decide not to pay tax though it’s an obligation? You know why, the government stole from them and they will be justified in any court if they decide to do that. So spare the citizens the time of reading your press releases and engage the judiciary. We already know the spanners around cash gate so we understand it is a tool now to buy sympathy from the same people who are victims’ ion the cashgate scandal. We need not to remind you honorable minister that, you represented one of the cashgate suspects before you got appointed to your position.

You have the opportunity to end the strikes now.