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| BY JAMES CHAVULA |
THERE is no more mystifying way to say farewell to a dictator than the confusion which has erupted over President Bingu wa Mutharika’s date of death.
For starters, dictators have this terrifying tendency of cutting a figure of immortals and it was not peculiar that even the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) was caught napping and seemed unsure when Mutharika breathed his last.
Even if medics say the fallen dictator was pronounced “clinically dead” on arrival at Kamuzu Central Hospital on April 5, the OPC has been experimenting with several dates just to prove that the president was alive when they airlifted him to South Africa that fateful day.
The OPC took two days to announce Mutharika’s death and has been changing the date of demise willy-nilly. Following their inscriptions on the crosses placed at the head of Mutharika’s casket in the past week, one would get the impression that he died several times between April 5 and 8.
Recently, they told the nation that Mutharika was officially departed on April 5, yet the cross at his burial on Monday shows he died on April 6. I wish the big brains who preside over boardroom meeting that decide the country’s destiny learnt to tell the whole truth and realised that “clinically dead” simply means “dead and certified as such by a competent medical practitioner".
The confusion over Mutharika’s death is a stinking legacy of a government that is too mean with truth and there is nothing which can stop the brains behind the make-believe tales of Bingu’s death from sexing up such vital statistics as disaster risk assessments and crop estimates to paint the rosy picture our readers love to hear.
To hell with the tongue-twisters! I am afraid, this misinformation and abuse of statistics will not get us anywhere. It will only distort our history and blind us from the truth, the only thing which will set Malawi free from the shackles of dictatorship, disease, poverty and speculation left bu Mutharika.
Maybe all this jazz about death dates is just another metaphorical epitaph to the tyrant who hated the truth throughout the latter days of his reign of terror. Here lies a Nero we will never understand.
For starters, dictators have this terrifying tendency of cutting a figure of immortals and it was not peculiar that even the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) was caught napping and seemed unsure when Mutharika breathed his last.
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| NO TRUTH ON BINGU'S CROSS |
The OPC took two days to announce Mutharika’s death and has been changing the date of demise willy-nilly. Following their inscriptions on the crosses placed at the head of Mutharika’s casket in the past week, one would get the impression that he died several times between April 5 and 8.
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| DID BINGU DIE MANY TIMES BETWEEN APRIL 5 AND 7 2012? |
Recently, they told the nation that Mutharika was officially departed on April 5, yet the cross at his burial on Monday shows he died on April 6. I wish the big brains who preside over boardroom meeting that decide the country’s destiny learnt to tell the whole truth and realised that “clinically dead” simply means “dead and certified as such by a competent medical practitioner".
The confusion over Mutharika’s death is a stinking legacy of a government that is too mean with truth and there is nothing which can stop the brains behind the make-believe tales of Bingu’s death from sexing up such vital statistics as disaster risk assessments and crop estimates to paint the rosy picture our readers love to hear.
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| OPC WRITING ON THE WALL |
Maybe all this jazz about death dates is just another metaphorical epitaph to the tyrant who hated the truth throughout the latter days of his reign of terror. Here lies a Nero we will never understand.
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