By Vincent Gunde
Political activist Bon Kalindo, has asked Minister of Education Bright Msaka SC to hold an emergency press conference to clear out so many issues surrounding the newly introduced free secondary school education in Malawi.
Kalindo said both primary and secondary schools will be open on the 5th January, 2026 and to this day, parents and guardians do not know what exactly is this anticipated free secondary school education and who is eligible to pay for school fees or not.
He said some parents and guardians have their children in boarding secondary schools and others are in night secondary schools saying all this Minister of Education has a duty to explain to them of what is being expected.
Speaking through an audio clip, Kalindo said the introduction of free primary school education in 1994 came with free exercise books, will this be applied to free secondary school education claiming that there many questions than answers.
Kalindo said already some secondary schools have written letters to their students of secondary school boarding fees, questioning government that in these secondary schools there are vulnerable students whose parents and guardians cannot afford to pay, what will these students do?
He has warned government that failure to explain properly on free secondary school education, the DPP led government is digging a pit for itself to fall down assuring it that the peoples’ expectations are very high.
“Parents and guardians need to be told exactly on wat they will do before sending their children to school, if care is not taken on free secondary school education, the DPP government must forget the dreams of 2030 elections,” said Kalindo.
He has asked government to tread carefully on the new system to be implemented by the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) of monitoring goods through machines claiming that the very same system was rejected in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.
The activist has warned the government that if it will insist on using these MRA missions in line with what the MCP government wanted by sending MRA officials to Rwanda to study on how the new system works, government should bless itself for more demonstrations.
He said the new system will force prices of commodities to skyrocketing at nobody’s care and as a result, people will be pointing fingers at the DPP forgetting that the system was introduced by the MCP who are now out of government and any queries, is none of their concern.
On a sad note, Kalindo has accused MCP Media Team of faking his death that he has died through a road accident at Bembeke in Dedza district assuring Malawians that he was busy in the field working and the Kalindo who has died is best known by the MCP Media Team.
Kalindo said in 2024 to 2025 people have been writing of his poor health and others claiming him to be dead saying he is all thankful to God the Almighty for proving to his critics that He is God of the living and not of the dead, shame to the MCP Media Team.