If I were

Francis Kasaila

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, I would realise that in the spirit of transparency and accountability—the cornerstones of our democracy—Malawians need to know where our President Arthur Peter Mutharika is and what he is doing weeks after his colleagues returned home from the ended United Nations General Assembly.
If I were the honourable minister, I would appreciate that APM is not a leader of a katapila grouping— but a State president—and it would do no harm to tell Malawians what he is up to even if he might be on private business.
Bwana Kasaila, I would realise that all costs that the president incurs are not from his pockets, they are hard-earned contributions from every Malawian from what we call tax.
If I were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would also appreciate that Malawians pay a lot of tax. Now and then, my finance colleague Goodall Gondwe talks about new tax regimes and expenditure control. If Malawians do not know where their president is, is that not an unaccounted expenditure?
If I were at the ministry of foreign travels and migration issues, I would tell Malawians why they should not raise questions, but smile broadly, while the President handles the secret business overseas.
That is, of course, if I happened to be Honourable Kasaila. Unfortunately, I am not that gentleman. n

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