The reasoning of hyena

There lived at one time a gardener whose one joy in life was his flowers and fruit trees.
He had neither wife nor children nor friends; nothing except his garden.
At length, however, the good man wearied of having no one to talk to decided to go out into the world and find a friend.
Scarcely was he outside the garden before he came face to face with a hyena, who, like him, was looking for a companion. Immediately a great friendship sprang up between the two.

The gardener invited the hyena into his garden, and fed him on melons. In return for this kindness, when the gardener lay down to take his afternoon nap, the hyena stood by and drove off the flies.
One afternoon it happened that an unusually large fly alighted on the gardener’s nose.
The hyena drove it off, but it only flew to the gardener’s chin. Again the hyena drove it away, but in a few moments it was back once more on the gardener’s nose.
The hyena now was filled with rage. With no thought beyond that of punishing the fly, he seized a huge stone, and hurled it with such force at the gardener’s nose that he killed not only the fly but the sleeping gardener too.
The idiocy depicted by the hyena makes one conclude that it is better to have a wise enemy than a foolish friend.
But it is such ‘hyena’ reasoning that former president Joyce Banda (JB) portrayed in her recent press statement on her nonsensical purported insecurity and her June 27 interview with Weekend Nation.
From JB’s philosophy, it is clear that Malawi’s two-year embrace of her and her People’s Party (PP) was no doubt an ‘until-death’ marriage with the conjugal rewards of dearth of a reasoned existence for the country.
Asked in the interview, for example, why she has “chosen to remain in self-imposed exile in South Africa”, JB responded:  “There is precedence [sic] [perhaps she meant ‘precedent’] that former president Bakili Muluzi stayed in the United Kingdom for a long time and nobody called that ‘self-exile’.”
To another question on her sour relationship with President Peter Mutharika, she responded: “I don’t remember any such cordial relationship between former presidents Dr. Muluzi and Dr. Kamuzu Banda. I was Cabinet minister in Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika’s government for a long time and I don’t remember any cordial relationship between him and Dr. Muluzi. So, I will not say anything on this matter.”
And seeking her opinion on Mutharika’s one year in office, she said: “Experience has taught me that when you engage donors and comply with all [emphasis mine] what they are asking for they resume aid.”
Not counting the George Orwell’s Animal Farm creatures’ thinking that donors are absolutely wholly and right, certainly one need not attend philosophy classes to detect the ‘false cause’ – a term covering variety of logic sins—in JB’s responses.
Before offering her causal explanation for her actions—self-exile and sour relationship with Mutharika—could JB not think that there are alternatives, and even better ones, to what her predecessors did?
Little wonder, right under her nose, as Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) chairperson,  the country reported between 2001 and 2002 a colossal ‘plundering’ of the grain reserves in the history of Malawi by some then ruling party politicians and top government officials while over 60 000 people were left to starve.
Between 2012 and 2014, as head of State, again JB presided over an unprecedented theft of public finances by some government and her party officials and citizenry of all sorts.  n