In the name of democracy I greet you all. In the name of tolerance and popular democracy and freedoms that I am one of the fighter and beneficiary I am writing this letter condemning and disputing the actions that your party has promulgated ever since you came into power with 36% of national votes.
First of all I would like to school your leader who was not and has not been part and parcel of the fight and subsequent consequences we faced in order to get the freedom that your party is destroying today. Secondly I would like to remind all supporters and followers to realize that party politics is but short living while national politics is ever living. I will give an example that has happened recently in your party. You have just received a diehard supporter of Orange People’s Party into your party DPP and this is none other than Kenneth Msonda. Another example is the marriage that Bakili Muluzi and his son just got involved without lobola with DPP the party whose founder Bingu Wa Mutharika was and has been their enemy number one. Mr.Msonda has been castigating DPP when he was under the Orange flag. Bakili and Atupele Muluzi went into police cells and jail because of the very people whose blood is their best friend today.

These examples must teach all of you out there and some of us a lesson that party politics need and must be treated with cautious for we never know where we will be tomorrow. On the opposite note we must trade carefully when we are doing party politics that involves national politics. Am saying this in light of helping you in the blue league and under blue flag to realize that each and every evil you do today will judge your political career tomorrow.
At 23 years of our freedom and democracy from the dark days of one party state and iron fist we were supposed to be enlightened and shaped towards making our country tolerable and coexistent.
At least we are lucky in Malawi that no single party has dominated our politics and that we are the living witnesses that have seen four different political parties and five different individuals rule our beautiful nation. This was supposed to be our lesson that could make all citizens more tolerant towards one another and coexist in disregard to political type of flags and ideologies. Citizens of Malawi were supposed by now to have realized that it is us that must drive the vehicle of politics to the destination of our prosperity and development not the vehicle driving us.

We need to know that how expensive, how sophisticated the vehicle may be manufactured it will still need a driver to operate. Citizens of Malawi we are found wanting for we have failed to drive the political vehicle on the path that would make Malawi successful. Unfortunately citizens of political parties have accepted to be led by political vendettas of parties that have and are threatening to tear our nation into pieces.

Events that took place at municipal offices in the capital where common citizens affiliated to the blue flag which is DPP after the ruling party lost mayoral elections is deploring. Citizens were used as weapons to beat fellow citizens instead of exercising tolerance particularly in a democratic dispensation where public office is subject for voting. DPP followers and cadets caused untold suffering in the capital just because the ruling party lost elections. Recently on a national holiday at Chilembwe day the very same party victimized loyalists of other parties in Chiladzulu district. It is appalling to realize that this was happening in front of the leader of the party who happens to be the national president Peter Mutharika watching.
My letter is directed to mainly the supporters who are perpetrators used as tools to destroy national peace. We must not allow or accept politicians to short change us to kill one another when our neighbour is from or supporter of a differen flag. As citizens instead of being used by politicians we must be vigilante against politicians whose agenda are national destruction.

When we voted for multiparty democracy we swore that we will live side by side with all political flags as well as different leaders. When we chose multiparty democracy we were not signing the declaration of war. Today political parties have infiltrated individual mindset to think that differing ideas and opinion is war and hatred. That’s not true!
Multipartism is the best tool of development only if citizens know our responsibilities. By undressing, victimizing and beating citizens who came to grace the national day at PIM shows that we are ignorant of the true meaning of multiparty democracy. It also typically indicate that our torch bearers that are leading politics in Malawi are dunder heads who are suffering from myopia of the concept and agenda of our generational democracy and political system.
This is why I condemn the dreadful actions perpetrated by members of DPP on a national day.
Politicizing national events has dreadful consequences that can breed war and anarchy.

John Chilembwe is a national hero this is why he is depicted on the national currency because he represents the country not political flag or a faction of people.
The ills that DPP is doing at political and national level are appalling and deplorable, we cannot sit back and watch when our country is being taken aback by few greedy individuals who know nothing of the cost of freedom they enjoy today.

DPP is failing Malawi on both hands. It has failed citizens on national level by encouraging and promoting corruption and state theft. On political level on the other hand has failed to maintain political tolerance among citizens.

I warn you citizens whose support and flag goes to DPP not to destroy the culture and foundations we painfully and collectively established in 1993 to 1994. You cannot buy allegiance by force. You cannot rule the country with iron fist and you will not manage Malawi by infusing destructive ideologies of fear, intolerance, cupidity, selfishness and greed.

The 17 million citizens of Malawi may look vulnerable now but when they stand up no conventional or intentional weapon will stop them. Your party has instilled the climate of fear across the entire country but I warn you the last time a political party achieved this was in the 1980s under MCP.
After 1994 no political party or political leader will manage or achieve bringing back MCP era into a new dispensation of multiparty democracy.
In my appeal I caution all of you to exercise tolerance and coexistence because after five years you will be judged by these actions that you do now thinking you are protecting and defending the party.
You must know that in a multiparty democracy you have no permanent friend neither do you have permanent enemy. Citizens have the right to jump ship whenever their ideologies match with the opposite. Above all else we need to remember and realize that multiparty is about tolerance and co-existence. You have tied national radio and television station to your pants restricting others from using it. Do not be hurt when others do the same to you tomorrow. The quest for multiparty was not aimed at castigating, molestation, muzzling, intimidation, killing and threatening the way your party is doing. We fought for unity in diversity but you are pulling this country backward. You need to stop this nonsense.

Being a Ruler for five years does not mean you own Malawi. In actual fact you are our servants on contract, it is not up to you but us to extend or cut short the contract. Treade carefully otherwise your history is being written into the archives of doom.

Saunders Jumah the Utopian
People’s Movement for the Restoration of Malawi.
Mzika Za Mdziko Movement
Malawi Freedom Network and
Malawi Watch.