By Vincent Gunde
Revolutionary President of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah the Utopian, has proposed to President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika the establishment of Inter- Party Organization for Dialogue and Reconcilition (IPOD- RE) in Malawi so that 2026 onwards this country embraces genuine and fruitful democratic nation.
Jumah said despite the united efforts that started immediately after the “cabinet crisis in 1964” that teared the country apart and marked the birth of one party state and dictatorship, the country has not healed for dialogue and reconciliation.
He said even though on the 14th June, 1993 majority of citizens voted for multiparty democracy from one party state, 33 years later, the country remains disunited, fragmented, unpatriotic, and hatred saying multiparty dispensation has breed so much hatred, violence, disunity and discrimination resulting in the country failing to show a new face of prosperity.
Writing in a Revolutionary statement, Jumah said once the IPOD- RE is established, the hatred, tribalism and discrimination which have blanketed the country, will be done away observing that democracy demands peaceful transition and good heart when power change hands.
Jumah said it is through this organization that the wounds, scars and diseases of the past and present are healed claiming that seven governments have so far ruled the country since 1994 but citizens and the country have not witnessed or embraced prosperity and growth in politics, economy or social welfare.
He said in 1994 Malawians misunderstood multiparty democracy as a source of enmity and hatred bypassing dialogue and reconciliation observing that the truth of democracy is that 80 percent of ideas in the government seek advice from 20 percent ideas from those in opposition.
The Revolutionary President said Malawians have a wrong mentality and belief that 80 percent of ideas in the opposition brings “problems” not solutions to the ruling party in government saying in multiparty democracy, the 20 percent out of government must produce 80 percent of solutions to the 80 percent in the government.
“Malawi democracy must know that the 20 percent of people in opposition have 80 percent solutions of the problems and challenges of the country,” reads the statement in part.