By Linda Kwanjana
President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has been in power for only three years. With two years to spare before the completion of his first term, Malawians have observed a number of noticiable differences to the leadership we had before him.This is a leader working tirelessly to improve the lives of people.
Women in Ntchisi too have seen a lot of praiseworthy things in their leader, they have ended up composing a song “Msamaliya” in honour of him.
The women were heard singing during the official launch of AGCOM in Ntchisi before the “Msamaliya Wa Chifundo took the podium to address the gathering.
This has been long coming but someone had to say it, either through a poem or the way it has been done-through a song celebrating a leader who is changing lives for his people.
“Msamaliya Wa Chifundo is a story of a Good Samaritan inspired from the Bible. The story was told by Jesus Christ in the Gospel of St Luke Chapter 10 vs 30-37.
This is a story of a man who was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. On his way he was attacked by the unknown assailants who stripped him his clothes, beat him up and left him half dead. A lof of his people including the Priests and the Levites could not take pity on him. It took a traveller who was not even of jewish tribe to stop and attend to this man. Jesus called this man a “Good Samaritan or “Msamaliya Wa Chifundo”.
The story has resonated with people for centuries and it will continue to do until the end of human race.
In our case, these Ntchisi women are not misplacing it, calling President Chakwera a Good Samaritan.
The irony between the two scenarios is so revealing. Chakwera is a person who inherited a broken country in need of repair. A bleeding society in need of stitches. Before him were leaders who never cared about the suffering of Malawians. They looted resources meant for the poor with careless abandon.They did not feel pity about the plight of Malawians.
People are still asking, why did it take long to have a leader like him. Msamaliya Wa Chifundo wabwera.
