By Wesley Macheso
We, as a country, are deep in crises again.
Presently, people are back to wasting their otherwise productive time on fuel queues, trying to fill up empty tanks as if there is a war going on in this country.
Many are times when these people spend the entire night on those queues and they never get to reach the pump as they would be told that the precious liquid is finished.
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What is even more infuriating in this is that the government was warned beforehand that this would happen, but they deliberately chose to ignore the counsel.
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Many months ago, Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) Executive Director John Kapito was all over the news, asking government to adjust the price of fuel because the current pump prices do not reflect the reality on the ground.
Kapito insisted that, if the government, through its agencies, did not adjust the prices to make them realistic, petrol and diesel shortages would resurface.
Indeed, this was a topic of discussion on our radio stations for two weeks or so, and others joined Kapito in these calls.
But as usual, the Tonse Alliance administration chose to ignore this and pretended that they had everything in order.
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Today, we are back to our struggle with fuel and Kapito is vindicated. Come to think of it, this is not the first time that the Tonse Alliance administration has goofed in their pretense at sanity when they know quite well that their administration is a madhouse.
This is a government that, from its onset, has championed pretense over anything else. They came to power pretending that they knew what was wrong with the economy–promising to solve all our problems at the click of their fingers.
They lied to us that the prices of maize and fertiliser would be drastically reduced.
They even pretended that they had connections with people from whom they would get the money to heal the land.
Four years down the line, we are beginning to accept that the Tonse Alliance is nothing but a hot air balloon.
