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Bingu brings back Kamuzu's name


by Gedion Munthali, 16 September 2004 - 14:22:17

The opposition MCP Wednesday hailed as “emergence of sanity” President Bingu wa Mutharika’s surprise order that three institutions named in honour of former head of state Hastings Kamuzu Banda revert to their original names.
MCP second vice president Nicholas Dausi, whose party was led by Kamuzu Banda from 1959 to 1997, said the party was “extremely happy with the sanity that is emerging, and we hope it will continue.”
Mutharika, during an impromptu lunch-hour press briefing, announced that from Wednesday Lilongwe Central Hospital, Lilongwe International Airport and Chichiri Stadium revert to Kamuzu Central Hospital, Kamuzu International Airport and Kamuzu Stadium respectively.
“These announcements are made in order to recognise the important role which first president of this country played,” said Mutharika reversing the decision of his predecessor Bakili Muluzi with whom he addressed joint rallies on Sunday and Tuesday respectively.
Questioned if he was not bruising his relationship with Muluzi, Mutharika said: “I do not think it will affect the relationship. I am doing what is right. I stand for the truth, and the genes of telling lies are very weak in me.”
Mutharika said he will not change the Masauko Chipembere Highway in Blantyre which used to be called Kamuzu Highway because Masauko Chipembere, after whom the high way was named, was also a national hero.
He also announced that he will be personally interested to ensure that an appropriate and befitting resting place is constructed for Kamuzu “without further delay.”
“Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda contributed to the establishment of a framework for growth and development in this country. In that vision, Dr Kamuzu Banda constructed various buildings and other physical structures that have now become heritage of our nation,” he added.
Both UDF spokespersons Ken Lipenga and Mary Kaphwereza Banda could not be reached. But a senior UDF executive member who did not want to be named saw nothing wrong with the decision.
“I think the initial decision to change the names was done at the height of the anti-Banda feeling. But when we look back now, I think it was not made in the interest of national unity,” said the executive member, who, however, felt Muluzi would not be amused.
“Let us see whether this decision will help achieve the national unity,” he said.
But Dausi said Mutharika will need to do more to achieve national unity by, among other things, making sure appointments in his government are not based on regions of origin. Mutharika has come under fire for appointing more cabinet ministers and permanent secretaries from the Southern Region where he comes from.
Human Rights Consultative Committee chair Rodgers Newa commended Mutharika’s decision, but cautioned that it should not be habit that everything built by a leader must be named after him or her.

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Kumeneko ndiye kudza!I believe Kamuzu deserves that.Man, is Bingu full of surprises.The guy makes more sense than Muluzi.I believe he has given Malawians hope that the country still has a chance to change (positively to be precise).

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Originally posted by: Mesmerise
"Kumeneko ndiye kudza!I believe Kamuzu deserves that.Man, is Bingu full of surprises.The guy makes more sense than Muluzi.I believe he has given Malawians hope that the country still has a chance to change (positively to be precise)."


I totally agree with both of you guys.That was a very wise move by Bingu coz Kamuza surely deserves some legacy thing in Malawi and Muluzi just made an idiot of himself by changing the names.But of course it doesn't mean that every leader should have every building etc named after him.They have to earn it and Kamuzu surely earned it!

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