Some days before Callista married Bingu wa
Mutharika, I met her mother at their family home behind Mitundu Secondary
School. One aspect that characterized our discussion was how people in her
family were happy that their own daughter was going to be mother of the nation.
One thing that her mother said was that
Bingu’s had spotted Callista because she is humble and polite. Looking at the
mother’s etiquette I was so convinced that Callista’s upbringing must have been
constructive and focused.
The day came and Callista exchanged
matrimonial vows with the former Head of State. And she indeed became the “mother
of the nation”.
However, a few months into her “state
motherhood” she surprised us all when she adopted her husband’s battles as her
own and her first victim was Joyce Banda who at that time was Vice President.
Shocking is the fact that she took the lone
battle to every other function she attended including that at Zingwangwa
Secondary School where she was “Guest of Honor” at a Blantyre girl’s forum. At
this function Callista spent some five minutes attacking Joyce Banda. I never
understood why she bombarded these sweet teens with filthy and frustrated
rhetoric in an irrelevant manner like that. In any aspect she is supposed to be a model not these girls not an angel of hatred and confusion.
She was described as polite by her own family but where did she lose all that? |
This woman is a politician and her weakness
is that she has allowed her political character overshadow other aspects of her
humanity. That is why all she sees is politics in the recent arrests. She
deliberately ignores objectivity in some of these issues.
We appreciate that Peter Mutharika promised
Callista during Bingu’s funeral that “You will never walk alone”. We will not
stop Callista and Peter from doing what they deem fit for their promises to
each other but if she picks a bone with the Head of State then she draws the
daggers further against the majority of the citizenry.
Her interview on Zodiak Broadcasting
Station while at Southern Region Police Headquarters was characterized by a lot
of emotion and her voice was shaky and with full of anger; all this with very
little sense in the content she wanted to communicate.
Callista, as any other citizen, is free to
say what she wants but she must be responsible enough with her tongue because Malawians
will not allow their President to be insulted.
Despite being hit by Callista's insults, President Joyce Banda has maintained her stateswomanship even in the former's hardest moments (PIC BY MARAVI POST) |
Why is it hard for the former First Lady to
understand that this country is not a village operation? We are a civilization
that is oiled by laws and anyone who dares scratch the law card must be ready
to answer before independent courts.
She must be knowledgeable enough to
appreciate the roles that the Commission of Inquiry, the Police and the Judiciary
are playing in as far as this issue is concerned.
We even wonder why one day Callista is
trying to defend Peter while she is also at loggerheads with Bingu’s children
as she salivates for the fortune of the departed leader. Is Peter more
important than Bingu’s children? Are they not all one family?
Now listen to Callista when she accuses President
Joyce Banda of failing to forgive those that have been arrested?
Which law; religious or civil, does
Callista think bars justice to be undertaken?
You too Peter will never walk alone; Callista reciprocating his brother-in-law's gesture(PIC BY NYASATIMES) |
Who said forgiveness means overlooking the
mistakes and cutting legal corners just to favour a few citizens who nearly
caused chaos in a peace loving country a year ago? Does she know that God is
also happy with justice when it is executed rightfully by those commissioned to
do so in our societies?
We know Callista is trying not to walk
alone as per Peter’s promise at the funeral. Yes she will miss Peter (the
promise maker) but all she has to do is to wait for the law to take its course.
Peter is innocent until proven guilty so there is no need to stress.
Just make sure you don’t call our President
“stupid”. That we cannot swallow.
She will really pay for that insult on our president
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