There is jubilation
amongst Malawians as news from Sirte has it that Gaddafi was captured a while
ago, with many people seeing it as a good omen for a hopeful Malawi which is
undeniably becoming a new Libya.
Aljazeera is in fact
reporting that he has been killed but the US state Department cannot
independently confirm both the capture and the death of the deposed military
leader of the oil rich nation.
Malawians over the cyber sphere are eager to see what this
means for Malawi, already Zimbabweans are tweeting that Mugabe should be next
and a few Malawians are saying that Malawi should be the next one since Bingu
has become a Gadaffi of some reputation.
“It shows that the world is running out safe heavens for
dictators. We have one in #Malawi,” said Jimmy
Kainja, a passionate academician and blogger
Many University
Students see it as a triumph for US greed with many saying that the capture
means that America will easily swindle Libya’s oil; this view is also that of
many of Gadaffi’s loyalists.
Steven Sharra, another blogger, when asked to
comment on Gaddafi said: “They wanted him dead so top secrets would get buried
with him. This is no justice”
All in all Malawians still see a bleak future ahead
especially because many believe that the international community doesn’t care
about countries with no oil a view shared by some Zimbabweans on twitter.
And as the picture of his capture gets clearer by
the day, one wonders how Mutharika is swallowing the news as many people the
latest and most vocal being the four arrested FDD activists, have been calling
him dictator.
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