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Original Post Date: 2005-03-14 Time: 14:36:16 Posted By: Jan
Blantyre – Malawians prayed for their president on Monday after officials said he had left his 300-room mansion in the capital because of fears it was haunted.
Newspapers, however, slammed the spooky talk from the presidency and asked President Bingu wa Mutharika to get on with fighting poverty in the southern African state.
Officials in Mutharika’s office said on Sunday the 73-year-old president, a former economist with the World Bank, had decamped from the $100-million (about R600-million) presidential State House in central Lilongwe because he feared it was haunted.
‘I have not met any ghosts yet, I have never in my life been afraid of them’
On Monday, an official in Mutharika’s office charged with overseeing religious affairs said exorcisms were being said on the mansion’s grounds while prayer sessions were taking place in churches in Llilongwe and Blantyre, the commercial capital.
“We continue with prayers that not any harm, not any power, not any strategy designed from the pits of hell will be able to prosper against the president,” the Reverend Malani Mtonga said.
Malawi’s newspapers were less sympathetic, with one accusing Mutharika of “nascent paranoia” after a recent string of run-ins with his still-powerful predecessor Bakili Muluzi.
“The president does not have to let us make imaginary evils, when he knows pretty well that we have so many real ones to encounter, like how is he going to deliver on his (election) promises,” the Daily Times said in an editorial.
Malawi’s State House has had a chequered past since it was constructed in 1975 by former President-for-Life Hastings Banda.
Although he lavished a fortune on the Persian-style brick palace, Banda ultimately decided not to live there – a move some of his former associates said was spurred by the discovery that it was constructed on an ancient burial site.
Muluzi, who unseated Banda in 1994, also shunned the ornate official residence which he said displayed “obscene opulence”.
The building had since been used to house Malawi’s parliament but Mutharika ousted the legislature late last year to move in himself saying he needed to be close to other arms of government – a move widely criticised in a country which is one of the poorest in the world.
Mutharika has sought to downplay the ghost talk, telling reporters on Sunday “I have not met any ghosts yet, I have never in my life been afraid of them.”
By Mabvuto Banda
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click…/p>