TIME, SEASON AND THE WRITING ON BAKILI MULUZI’S POLITICAL WALL

By: Peter Qeko Jere 2/4/09

The Malawi Electoral Commission has finally passed a political death sentence on the former president Bakili Muluzi who wanted to contest the 2009 Presidential elections though he already served his maximum of ten years. Many people came up with their own interpretation of section 83/3 of the constitution to determine the eligibility of Bakili Muluzi to contest this year’s election. Legal and political analysts had their own opinion on the highly debatable issue while the highest courts left the matter in the hands of the main electoral body to decide whether Muluzi was eligible to contest or not.

The announcement by the Malawi Electoral Commission means that Bakili Muluzi cannot contest this year’s election because he already served his maximum of ten years. It is a known factor that the Muluzi legal team will begin a long tiresome legal battle which they will by and large not succeed. In this brief article, my two main arguments are as follows; firstly that the words of Ecclesiastes 3 have been fulfilled in Malawi politics. Secondly is that divine darkness has covered the entire Muluzi team as they continue to fail to read the words of divine judgement written on his political wall.

In Ecclesiates 3, the bible clearly states that everything takes place within God designed time-flame. There is time when God opens the political door and there is also time when the same door can be shut and sealed forever. In God’s designed time-flame, there are activities which make up a season for a particular nation, political party or ordinary people. Nations, political parties and individuals have activities that take place around them. Activities determine the life-span of a particular Season. Seasons come, change and even go depending on the kind of activities that takes place in the life of an individual, nation or political party. For instance from 1964-1994, the nation went through the season of dictatorship and oppression under Dr. Banda. Then came the 10 years season of UDF’s oppressive rule where the UDF young democrats made Malawi hell on earth with the unspeakable brutality. Finally we are in a season of plenty with abundant blessings from the Lord as His Excellency the President Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wamthalika leads the nation.
In the life of any nation, God appoints leaders to fulfil specific divine mandate and this is divinely designed in time-flame and dispensation. Our lives have time-flame where God gives us grace to fulfil specific tasks in a particular season. The life of a nation is also divided into time-flame where God appoints specific individual to lead His people and fulfil specific divine mandate from Him.

When it comes to time and seasons, it is God who opens up a season for a particular individual, party or nation to fulfil specific mission from above. Nothing takes place outside God’s knowledge and He is always in charge. For instance, it was God who chose Banda to rule Malawi for more than 30 years. During the Banda era, the Shire River crocodiles and brutality were some of the major activities that defined the season Malawi went through. We define this as the season of death, terror and darkness for the nation where innocent blood was shed.
When Malawians cried unto the Lord to redeem them from the autocratic rule of Dr. Banda, God open up another season where Bakili Muluzi became the first president in the multiparty Malawi. The Muluzi –Malawi season was opened from 1994-2004. God chose Muluzi and He gave him specific mandate to rule His people. Unfortunately due to corruption, tribalism, regionalism, nepotism and many other “isms”, Muluzi ruled without the guidance of God as evidenced from the many indicators during the latter part of his reign.

However the oppression, UDF Young democrats’ brutality, tribalism, nepotism and corruption forced Malawians to cry unto the Lord again for a new leader and heaven responded by providing His Excellency Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wamthalika unto us. It is a known factor that before 2004, indicators were pointing towards the implementation of God’s plan for Bingu to rule Malawi. In this divine plan, it pleased God to used Bakili Muluzi as an instrument to have Bingu chosen. God did everything to create a situation where Muluzi had no option but to have Bingu chosen. Even if Muluzi was not around, God in His own greatness could still have created a way for Bingu to still take over from Muluzi and He could have done this in His capacity as God. What am saying here is that Muluzi was just an instrument or the tool that God used and not that it was him who did it all. Muluzi was just following that which was decreed by heaven before the creation of the world because according to God’s original plan, it was written before the creation of the world that His Excellency Ngwazi Dr. Bingu Wamthalika would rule Malawi from 2004 -2014 and no one has the power to stop the unstoppable God from doing His will upon the land.

Many attempts were made by Muluzi to remove Bingu but this has all failed. For instance, the nation went through the Muluzi’s third and open term bid, the impeachment and section 83/3 issues all of which were geared to remove Bingu. Muluzi’s plans and attempts shows that these plans were done with bad motives hence they couldn’t come to pass. In everything we do God checks the motives and if they are bad, He put a stop to them. All Muluzi’s plans failed due to bad motives behind them and God can not allow that and hence they all have publicly failed.

The failure of the third and open term was the writing on Muluzi’s political wall and his very signs of the times indicating that God didn’t want him to rule Malawi again. God closed the chapter for him and unfortunately he has ever been blind not to read the signs of the time and the writing on his political wall. The sign of the time and the writing on his political wall has ever been clear that God closed the chapter for him to rule Malawi. When God closes no one can open and Muluzi’s team needed and still need to read this clear writing on his political wall.

It is amazing that Muluzi and his entire team is so much in darkness that they cannot read the writing on the wall that God has hardened his heart so that he can easily be destroyed. Muluzi’s reaction to the MEC rejection shows how deep the darkness is in the camp and how publicly God will continue to humiliate him. Just as God hardened the heart of Pharoah, God has hardened the heart of Bakili Muluzi until he is fully destroyed. Due to this hardening of heart, Muluzi will not listen to anyone but trust his lawyers who are the very agents and instruments of his own political disaster story. This kind of darkness is unredeemable because Muluzi team is spiritually and intellectually challenged as they cannot understand, know, analyse or interpret the signs of the time and even read or comprehend the writing on his (Muluzi) political wall.