By Vincent Gunde
Political activist Bon Elias Kalindo has advised Malawians not to focus their attention on the DPP infighting but to liberate their country out of the hands of President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera and his MCP led the government.
Kalindo has observed that the year 2024 will be a year of drama in Malawi with one prominent politician deregistering his party to join the MCP saying this is a clear sign that politicians are there not for servant leadership but for their personal gains.
He has assured the MCP led government that as long as it implements what is for Malawians be for Malawians such as raising salaries for civil servants, elections date to 21st May, 2024 not September, 2025, maize price reduction, ESCOM and water tariffs reduced, he will be quiet thanking government for standing with the poor Malawians.
Speaking through an audio clip circulating in various social media platforms, Kalindo said Malawi is one such country on the planet Earth blessed by God with everything to make it rich but its leaders do not have a vision for the country.
Kalindo said it is sad that the whole government’s machinery is busy strategizing on plans to silence him with arrests and prosecutions in court forgetting that many of its citizens are in a hunger crisis surviving on ripe mangoes.
He said he and Malawi First crew members will not keep quiet seeing Malawians dying of hunger, hospitals running dry without drugs but to rise up and speak nothing but the truth in line with the country’s democratic principles.
The activist has described all plans which the government is making against him either eliminating his life or to rot in prison as time wasting and resources advising it to only just do the much needful by siding with the poor Malawian’s he will remain silent.
“I am not retreating or surrendering, you can arrest me even 200 times but I will not stop fighting for the poor in Malawi,” said Kalindo.
On civil servants’ salaries, Kalindo has made it clear that he sees no reason for Parliament not to adjust salaries for public servants but when it comes to their salaries, the bill is passed without any objection advising civil servants to wake up.
He has warned the government on shady deals happening at Mulanje mountain and Tea Estates in Mulanje and Thyolo that Malawi First is coming for it to reclaim what for Malawians to be for Malawians not to individual politicians’pockets.
