Dear judge Mbadwa,

When we talk of the ironies of life, my lord, you just don’t have to go very far but look at the comedy of errors the current administration is enacting.

I laughed my lungs out my lord when I heard that ‘they’, meaning those people who want the current Marita-led anti-corruption drive to be on a downward trajectory, started implementing a plan that they long conceived in their conclaves.

This is the plan to get rid of her at all cost regardless of whether it will land some corruption enablers into some frightful ditch in Chikwawa.

My lord, when I first heard that the political landscape is fraught with corruption so much that one cannot separate yellow from green and blue, I was a little bit skeptical but I am now wiser.

The corrupt indeed speak the same language regardless of the political or apolitical garb they all wear.

Wasn’t it so comical, therefore, to see the Nyasaland Police Service, an organisation so-much maligned by the citizens that don’t trust it, summoning Marita to quiz her on some conversation with some person who has not been taken to task up to now? They make a decision to interrogate her and after receiving intelligence that they are actually turning her into some cult hero by this interview, they rush to suspend it.

My lord, how would an institution that the citizens regard as the most corrupt draw the moral ground of questioning Marita on anything, anyway?

My lord, I don’t want someone to give me the crap that the issue they wanted to question her on is not related to corruption because it is.

Nyasas are not as dim-witted as the anti-Marita strategists think that they can hoodwink everyone into believing that the significance of her fight against corruption can be superseded by some worthless probe.

The citizens, my lord, are tired of seeing the fight against corruption being derailed at an available opportunity by the compromised.

If there is a thing that politicians will never learn about is how to read the times.

In these times the public views that any fight against Marita is coming from the Nyasaland government itself for its selfish reasons.

It’s only citizens who understand how political opium intoxicates the minds of those in power and impairs their judgement to believe that they can manipulate the masses.

Well, the truth is that authorities do not have the power to dump Marita in the first place because they did not hire her anyway.

They never liked her from the beginning but Marita was hired by the citizens who were impressed by her work as Ombudsman and that explains why even the Nyasaland’s Legislative Council’s Public Appointments Committee had no choice but to reverse their earlier decision to reject her as anti-corruption chief.

This fight against Marita, my lord, will end up turning some popular people into villains and is it worth falling into a frightful ditch for?

I don’t think so,

Regards,

John Citizen

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