[Civsoc-mw] Was "Noriega" not a Hero?

[John Lwanda]

Adamson,As O'Malley's publisher and possibly one of the few that can ask some of the dramatis personae involved my view is that Noriega was a hero and he should have been rewarded.My information was that he was not.When the compensation board came into being, some of the VIP claimants got priority.In this atmosphere the deeds of those who helped them were lost in the fog of their accumulative urges.
Our political culture is  a winner takes all and has not been reconfigured, or as Saleta Phiri said: zinthu zasintha, malamulo sanasinthe [in the sense of both the law and the rules of the game.
Even now we see and will see johnny come lately politicos getting heroes funerals when deserving cases never approach Heroes Acre!john
John Lwanda http://pamtondo.com Where a little of Malawi meets the World in Scotland! 

    On Wednesday, 16 May 2018, 16:23:25 BST, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:  
 
 Practically, Noriega may not be on Nyasanet or on this forum. Colleagues on this forum know him as sadly, they had to interact with him under those conditions. It may be helpful for people to get in touch with him (if still alive) and get to learn whether such a recognition may be acceptable to him.
I read the O'Malley book with a lot of sadness. O'Malley was also a good man who perhaps out of his goodness did not wish to offend/embarrass people. He referred, for example to the Principal of Chancellor College without naming him (all principals at Chanco have been men!); the Head of Department and others in such terms. What a good man he was! But these people (some of them ) who danced with and fed the crocodiles are still among us and we seem to not demand accountability. The naivety that many of us believe in that it was all Banda and him alone (and his triumvariate) needed to be unmasked. There seemed to have been many collaborators and people doing things in the name of the president. How conflicted and confused we have been was not surprising exemplified when UNIMA awarded Honorary doctorates to JZU and Prof Peter Mwanza on the same day. What an ironic day it was!
On 16 May 2018 at 13:27, Louis Nthenda <louisnthenda at gmail.com> wrote:

Prof,We've had this conversation on Nyasanet, as part of the obituary of Fr O'Malley, in which some of us regarded "Noriega" as a hero and that he should come out so that we can honour him if he is still alive. Good of you to bring up this issue again.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Adamson S. Muula <amuula at medcol.mw> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,
I am a reading Patrick O' Malley's book in which he chronicles some of this interactions with Chanco brains jailed at Mikuyu. One man known as Noriega emerges. Was he not a hero deserving unmasking and national recognition?
adamson

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