MUCRACKING ON SUNDAY.
Ach, my people! Sunday has come again, and while the rest of us are nursing our hangovers from Saturday’s kachaso or fighting with the sermon that went too long, your humble Muckracker is here with the usual dose of truth served with a smile.
Today, let’s talk about our Vice President, the good Dr Jane Ansah. Or, as she seems to prefer these days, the Vice President of the United Churches of Malawi Incorporated!
Since she landed that big seat at Capital Hill, the woman has clocked more pulpit hours than a full-time evangelist on a crusade. One Sunday she’s at Area 25 laying hands, next she’s inaugurating a new church choir in Blantyre, then off to the North cutting ribbons for another House of Prayer.
My friends, at this rate, we might as well amend the Constitution and make her official “Vice President in Charge of Prayers and Anointing Services.”
The big question dancing in every Malawian’s head like a gule wamkulu mask is simple: Is this lady running the country or running revival meetings?
When government business knocks, who answers? Not Jane. She’s busy delegating “hallelujahs.” Instead, poor Dr Justin Saidi, the SPC, is the one being thrown into every fire: receiving dead bodies, chairing meetings, and generally behaving like the real spare tyre while the actual spare tyre is busy getting filled with the Holy Spirit.
Now, before the DPP faithful start sending me angry prayer requests, let me balance the scales like a good Christian. It’s not entirely Mama Jane’s fault.
There’s serious kitchen cabinet warfare in that party. Some big people inside DPP are not comfortable with a strong, intelligent woman sitting too close to the big chair.
And the real dirty work of sidelining her? They whisper it’s not even coming straight from the President.
No. They point to two certain powerful women operating from the corridors of State House and the other from Capital Hill at the Ministry of Ngombe, the real architects of these quiet orders. Classic infighting, they say. The DPP eating its own children again. Victimisation with a polite smile.
But still, my brothers and sisters… a Vice President must vice preside! You can’t spend more time singing “Ndidzaitanira” than fighting for fertiliser subsidies or fixing our terrible roads.
The people voted for development, not just deliverance services. Though, to be fair, with the way things are going in this economy, maybe we all need more prayers than policies right now!
Look, I admire Dr Ansah. She’s sharp, she’s educated, and she clearly loves the Lord. But right now, her real speciality is church vice presidency and she’s killing it! The question that remains is: Did the Constitution hire her for that particular pulpit?
Only time,and perhaps the next big DPP family prayer meeting will tell.
Until then, keep smiling, keep praying, and if you see the Vice President, tell her the country misses her in the office too.
Mucracker out. God bless Malawi… and please, somebody send Jane back to work! 😄
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