And talking of needless defences, DPP publicity secretary Hetherwick Ntaba never runs out of rejoinders to anything even that is way over his head.
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation and Eye for Development took to task President Bingu wa Mutharika to withdraw his statement he made that DPP youths would be prioritised in the Youth Enterprise Development Fund.
The president’s statement was callous, in bad taste, discriminatory and hardly befitting a head of state of Malawi on a matter touching on national policy.
Malawians of all political persuasions sweat to contribute their taxes into the fund and so why Mutharika become so DPP when it comes to sharing the cake around?
Ntaba, however, felt otherwise. For starters, so said Ntaba, the president was being open in his discrimination unlike ‘others’ who are not. Further, like any responsible parent, the president is taking care of his own first, the members of the DPP, before MCP, UDF, Aford, MDP, MDU, etc, can have their turn.
Well, discrimination is discrimination by any definition; whether someone celebrates it or goes about stealthily or is hypocritical about it is neither here nor there.
There are moments when Mutharika is the leader of the DPP but we expect him at all times to act as the president of the country which has DPP followers, UDF supporters, MCP zealots, Aford fanatics, a lone MDU member ... and surely there was no better moment for him to put country first before party than this. But he blew it away (pun intended).
We know some fathers are irresponsible but Mutharika, irrespective of his prejudices against other groupings, was elected to be a father of the nation and to act one like when the occasion demanded — as it did on this one.
We don’t get discriminated when paying taxes, so why should the colour of my politics matter when we have to share the spoils around?
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