SHOULD GOVERNMENT BEGIN TO SPEND WITHOUT PARLIAMENT AUTHORISATION?

As Opposition Parliamentarians abandoned their responsibility in the August House

By: Peter Qeko Jere

It was section 65 then the budget and this time around those who hate this nation are asking, why should government begin to spend without parliament authorization? The UDF and MCP have said that government should not spend any tambala because it has not been told to do by parliament. They want government to stay phwii and wait for the sick in hospitals to die and fertilizer not bought in time so that Malawians should die again of hunger as it happened in 2002. Now what do we say? Should government go ahead to spend from the national coffers or wait for parliament and have people die?

Due to poor worrisome behavior of our opposition parliamentarians and their abandonment of their responsibility in that August House, Malawians have no choice but to ORDER government to begin spending what it has in the coffers because we don’t have MPs anymore this time around. We had no idea that we were without MPs in Malawi until this last budget sitting when those in opposition openly declared war on the budget and on all those who love life in the country.

Government in Malawi has to go ahead spending because if it fails to do so, one day we will blame it for not providing food for us through the budget. Section 30 (1) of our constitution says that all Malawians have right to development and we believe that this is in the budget which opposition MPs don’t want it passed. Without the budget, all our rights to development will have been infringed upon by MCP and UDF parliamentarians and therefore, government through this constitution has the right to do something about it. Also section 30 (2) says that the state shall take all necessary measures for the realization of their rights development where ordinary Malawians should have access to education, health, food, shelter, employment and good infrastructures. In section 30 (4) its says that the state has a responsibility to respect the right to development and to justify its policies in accordance with this responsibility. Therefore, the government has huge task of making sure that Malawians have food on the table, that there is medicine in all hospitals, that schools are not closed and this is through the budget. Now in a situation where some confused MPs think they are clever than everybody else, government need to use whatever it has to provide these services. When it comes to providing basic services that are life saving, we put our foot down and do the right thing and in this case, use the money even without parliament. What is parliament after all if it fails its responsibility? What do they think they are to go against the voice of the majority poor who voted them into those honorable positions? Don’t they think that in 18 months time they will come back asking for mercy from us? Will John Tembo or Muluzi give them what they want to get back to parliament? We the voters are the ones who shall determine their political destiny and as of now, they know that their political careers is absolutely over.

Government need to spend money this time on all necessary services that will directly benefit the poor Malawians because this is about saving lives. When it comes to this process, we don’t play games because Malawians have the right to life and no one has the right to create a situations that would lead to many death just because they don’t want the budget. Life is life and we don’t play jokes with it. We only live once on this planet. Even those in opposition knows that we live once and that they should not do something sick this time around that will lead to death of many innocent Malawians as it happened in 2002 when they sold all the maize.

In this line of thought, we agree with every thing that took place in Blantyre at Njamba Park where concern Malawians demonstrated openly that they need the budget and that if MPs are not careful they will this time around know what representative democracy is all about. We voted these MPs into parliament and they are our servant and need to pay attention to what we MABWANA AWO tells them to do. They don’t have to listen from what John Tembo or Muluzi tells them because these guys never voted them into office. I mean Tembo and Muluzi didn’t cast any vote for these MPs but we did and therefore they need to listen from us.

As regard threats of prosecution that MCP and UDF are talking about against finance Minister in future, this is just wishful thinking because we have the doctrine of necessity when its comes to life saving in Malawi. So government is saving Malawians from death hence spending of this money. No one will prosecute anybody in future and we shall not watch and sit phwii seeing somebody taking this action because we know why this government has done this. So keep your threats and let Malawi be saved from evil minded men. May God bless our land and our president Bingu Wamthalika in Jesus Name!