By Peter Dimba
One of the greatest Evangelists of the 21st century, CCAP-Nkhoma Synod has ever had, was the departed Evang.Shadreck Wame of Salima who was brutally butchered by the ‘devil’ himself for depopulating hell.
He preached the Word with neither ‘swag’ nor compromise.His preaching was with such great anointing and conviction that he won many souls for Christ.
He had this flair and originality that could make both the sinner and the saint want to listen on to his sermons.
I remember in our college days, whenever he was invited to preach at either CCAPSO, SCOM or UCC, the Main Lecture Theatre would always fill up to the brim. So powerful was his ministration that every soul would be convinced and convicted to live for God.
Privileged in our days to have led UCC and my Mesho, Joy Khangamwa at the helm of CCAPSO, we had the honor of interacting with the Man of God closely at our room.He exuded so much glory in humility and simplicity.
Like John the Baptist, the late Wame’s message was the now not so common ‘repent or perish for the Kingdom of God is at nigh’
One of the tape-recorded messages which was widely circulated at the dawn of the new millennium was titled ‘Ikugwa Ntola’.
It was based on a folktale that when a hunter killed his prey, he carried it up on his shoulders on his way back home.Since the animal was of a considerable size, the hind legs were hanging over the back as he walked home.
When a hyena, a renowned scavenger that usually feasts on what others have already killed, saw the hanging legs of the animal on the shoulders of the hunter, it thought the carcass would soon fall off the shoulders for it (the hyena) to feast on.
Despite the fact that the journey back home was long, the hyena never got tired of following the hunter, salivating all the way thinking ‘ikugwa ntola’(I will get it when it drops off).
There were times the hunter stumbled as he maneuvered his way out of the forest and the hyena could cheerfully grin thinking that was the hour the dead animal could drop off but the hunter held on to his kill until he reached the village.
Since the scavenger became so much fixated on ‘ikugwa ntola’, it did not know that the hunter had reached his home village and by the time the hyena got back to its senses and woke up from its fantasies as a result of the villagers’ shouts of ‘fisi uyo, fisi uyo’, it was too late to escape, got clobbered and prematurely returned to dust.
The ascendency of President Chakwera to power left some people groups, some Parties, Associations, Cartels, Families, Cronies, Business Associates, bitter, frustrated and heart-broken and they have hated him from day one of his office.
Some of them publicly vowed that anyone from the Central Region or the Northern region will never rule Malawi again.Others usurped divine authority and cursed themselves that Malawi Congress party will never rule Malawi again as long as they were alive.(May their Souls Rest In Peace), forgetting that there is a Sovereign God above who can do anything at anytime without consulting anyone and that Him alone reigns over the affairs of men and controls their history.
For these people, there is nothing good that Chakwera can do, they will appreciate.
They will always amplify his administration’s gaffes, balloon his personality weaknesses and trivialize his achievements in the name of ‘ikugwa ntola’.
HH across the western border will do something today for which they will loudly applaud and when Chakwera’s Administration does exactly the same the following week, they will ferociously bash him left, right and center.
We never knew the blue camp and their legal minds were really serious about bringing down Chakwera Administration through the Electoral Commissioners case until their leader openly spoke at Chonde in Mulanje that he was ready to be their torch bearer in the fresh elections that never were.They were so serious that they began to hold furtive meetings with some of President Chakwera’s traitors on possible combinations and permutations only to be frustrated by the Constitutional Court in a battle one of Chakwera’s Generals, Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda demonstrated that he is a legal luminary.
They got slapped with litigation costs of K200 million Kwacha all in the name of ‘Ikugwa ntola’
Not wanting to let Chakwera go, like the Pharaoh’s pursuit on the Israelites, they created the Bawn Calyndal demonstrations in an attempt to destabilize Chakwera’s Administration with inflation as a perfect pretext….inflation that is global and which has affected even the developed Western countries as Covid continues to wreck social and economic havoc.
Bawn Calyndal is like a political legion…possessed by several political big shots with ‘ikugwa ntola’ hyena mentality who in their wild and unbridled political fantasies think President Chakwera will trip and loose hold of power.No, he won’t.
A General who conquers a heavily fortified city, will always burn bridges he and his army used in their conquest lest another General uses the same to conquer them.
So after the Court case, this Bawn Calyndal demos strategy won’t work against President Chakwera in the name of ‘ikugwa ntola’
Many have a wrong caricature of President Chakwera because he is a man who hardly expresses his feelings.He is too careful and conscientious justifiably misconstrued as tardiness by his foes and others.
However his adversaries and those that have possessed Bawn Calyndal must never mistake his conscientious and magnanimous personality for naivety/ lack of sophistication.
He fully knows that in this political game, you blink, you’re gone and his administration won’t blink.
And those mischievously provoking his administration, must be fully aware of Newton’s third law of motion and be ready to get an equal (if not double) and opposite reaction in return.
He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.
President Chakwera will certainly soon hit a reset button for he knows exactly where there is a weak link and dead wood and all those fixated on ‘ikugwa ntola’ will have a rude awakening.Unfortunately it will be too late for them.
Flames Woyeee!
**Views expressed are those of the author, and post first appeared on his Facebook Page**
