Mutharika is right – Malawi needs more research

Malawians never cease to amaze me.

As if there aren’t more urgent things on which to strong-arm the president, they are picking on a comment he made about researchers not publishing enough in international journals to bully the old guy. How pathetic is that? I mean isn’t it all a bit………. lazy.

I understand that one of the reasons some people got riled is they feel the president’s comments amount to censorship.

But shouldn’t they focus their energies on encouraging the government and private sectors to up their efforts on job creation? Or on pressing the president to up the efforts in the fight against corruption (for example should the government not open an investigation into the wealth of Bingu Mutharika, Mulli and Mota Engil after Mulli’s recent claims?).

There are areas like Education, Security, Infrastructure development and poverty eradication, which need advocates, and which we can all agree matter…