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Return stolen cash - Former Malawian Prez to African leaders
Delivering the 4th Anniversary Memorial Lecture of the late Atta Mills at the University of Cape Coast on Monday, Joyce Banda called on African leaders to emulate the hard work and humility of the late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills.
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According to her, the rate at which African leaders continue to enter into politics for their pocket is rather worrying.
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Narrating how she came to know the late Mills, Joyce Banda said: “It was in the year 2008 that President John Evans Atta Mills won the elections in Ghana. I watched him on television when he attended a church service at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Nigeria to thank God for the opportunity he had been given to serve his people. I watched the testimony that he gave. This is the first time I saw the man we are honouring today standing before God with humility.”
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“I have seen how people in power behave, …I have seen how they feel so important even larger than God, and by the way, I have been in power myself, [but] what I learned from this great distinguished son of Africa was his love [of] and faithfulness to God,” she added.
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The former Malawian President also praised the late John Mills for his tolerance for the mass media.
She said: “His ability to forgive … and how he allowed press freedom in this country, the media in Ghana is indeed very free and any leader with a weak mind cannot withstand. I know so many countries on the continent of Africa where our sons and daughters who are in the media are being abused every single day for expressing or informing the nation , for being honest; people are being thrown in jail.
“A country where people are not free, that country doesn’t prosper,” Joyce Banda added.
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