By Esteemed Oscar Fanuel Kameta
Music has been one of the greatest weapons used in condemning, educating, entertaining and at times this is done through prophesizing. This write up has been inspired by the prophetic nature of Mlaka Maliro`s Mukannenere song which is rich in content.
In this song, Mlaka is playing a role of a frustrated voiceless member of a community who wished and voted for change to elevate the living standards and welfare of the people in his land.
The hopes come due to the beautiful manifestos which the candidates then drafted to deceive the ordinary voters to vote for them and abandon it later.
In this song, Mlaka points out many hot issues that occupies many spaces of political parties’ manifestos including the ruling Tonse Alliance government.
In this context, let me hypothesize that Mlaka therefore foretold the performance of the Tonse Alliance government subject to validation in the end of this write up.
Mlaka is sending a mediator to remind the Tonse Alliance officials that they promised to elevate education standards during campaigns. Contrary, to what they promised, everyday we see Facebook posts from social media influencers about a student who is on the verge of withdrawing from a public university because of fees yet this government vowed that no one would fail to graduate on financial grounds.
Mlaka is pointing out how the education sector has been wakened during the said regime as a JCE holder is teaching MSCE students, students failing to write national examinations because the director of the school abused examination fees.
This shows how grave the negligence has reached in the education sector, planning to produce half-baked graduates who will be useless like all the graduates who have been buying academic papers.
Mlaka points health system malfunctioning as public hospitals are running out of stock yet in private hospitals owned by these doctors there are more than enough of such medicine favoring the elites as the poor are dying on daily basis.
In the said Tonse Alliance administration this has been visible indeed as we have seen many media reports of drug theft in various public hospitals which the culprits pointed private hospitals as where their markets are.
Security laps provokes this layman to plead for security tightening as people are being murdered frequently in many parts of this land on top of killings and abductions of people with albinism.
The weakened security has recently been visible as thugs for example have managed to invade police stations stealing riffles and other materials, the invading of other state agencies, theft in banks, rising cases of fraudsters and trickery on mobile banking truly asserts the claims of Mlaka being visible in the said Tonse Alliance reign.
The scarcity of money and the rising cost of living was another issue Mlaka couldn’t smile at than sending this mediator he trusts to remind the financial controllers to take note. “Mmukanenere kwa mkulu oyang`anira zachuma kut ndalama zayamba kusowa”.
Here Mlaka explains how painful life of ordinary Malawians has become as they cannot afford to buy 1 litre of cooking oil at MK4,700.00 which was at MK2,000.00 two years ago before the Tonse Alliance assumed its respective positions.
The most pathetic thing according to Mlaka is that the rising cost of living is coming at a time when there is massive nepotism in awarding contracts and job requirements.
Recruitment in security agencies which was then on merit has become a clan thing according to Mlaka that only those connected to the politicians are benefiting leaving the great majority in hell of their own land. Have you observed the recent Malawi Police service recruits?
Although the issues raised in this song are repetitive, this write up strongly maintain its hypothesis that this is more applicable in the Tonse Alliance administration which promised heaven, roses and honey, the journey to Canaan in the end bringing hell as popular majority claims in our localities, a performance based assertion.
In his faithfulness, Mlaka therefore warns the Tonse Alliance administration to remember that we, the ordinary members of the land who are living in hell are the ones who put them in the heavens where they are enjoying milk and honey.
He further warns that this should act as a turning point for all responsible leaders to consider treating well their constituents because next election is just around the corner. Should we go back to the old leaders, the tired and retired after being deceived by fellow youths? Mlaka asks.
It is therefore not too early to assert that indeed Mlaka`s Mukan’nenere song was a foretold story of the performance Tonse Alliance reign as has been the case with previous regimes, painting their manifestos white and bringing the black version of it. For the Malawi we live today, Mlaka saw it yesterday.
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