Ansah defiant amid quit calls at Malawi Electoral Commission
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Mjojo Ansah is defiant not to accept calls for her to stand down from her position at the pollster fir presiding over a “fraudulent” the May 21 Tripartite Elections.
Several stakeholders have said that the election results “lack credibility”.
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition ( HRDC), has since called for the immediate resignation ofAnsah, Judge of Supreme Court of Appeal, saying she and her commission are “compromised”.
But the embattled MEC chairperson will not abdicate her office, according the commission’s spokesperson Sangwani Mwafulirwa.
“The chairperson is not resigning,” said Mwafulirwa in quotes reported by Times newspaper.
He added: “It is high time HRDC stopped behaving as self-appointed authority for public officers. There is overindulgence from this clique to call on resignation or firing of public servants unnecessarily even on matters they don’t have connoisseurship [on].”
HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo said Ansah must step down in the next two weeks ( 14 days) from 4 th June, 2019.
Mtambo warned that rights activist would use “all legally acceptable means and actions” at their disposal after the 14 days against Ansah if she fails to resign.
“We find your approach and altitude in handling electoral stakeholders’ complaints about the results management component of the 2019 tripartite elections, scandalous and unacceptable,” reads HRDC letter signed by its chairperson Mtambo and his deputy Gift Trapence and four other regional chairperson – made available to Nyasa Times.
However, during the announcement of the presidential results, Ansah said MEC gave all political parties scanned results sheets from polling stations so that they can also cross-check with their monitors.
Both Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party are challenging the election results and have since gone to court to seek a rerun of the poll.
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Disruption of govt business by mcp at the capital. Which govt business as if there is any jere in mw.
Pipo go to work kukangoceza busy on their fones sending each other,listening to video clips ,playing computer games, watching porno videos from the govt properties, or show their dressing. ,the so called bwanas notreportingat office at yhe rite time, so are the juniors, leaving the offices before time.Nothing serious happens in the mw offices when it comes to work. Let alone pipo getting hired without job descriptions ,
Heee what govt business we are talking about here in Mw. All is crap. NO ACCOUNTABILITY ON ANYTHING, dziko kumangoyenda ngati ngayi madzi a mu licelo
Zotsatila zake ndi izi. Olamulila ma party after party celebrating on lies.
Imagine the whole presdent kudandaula pa nsonkhano kuti dausi anamenyedwa -sha ,ndi zacilendo izi, ? Yes he had to pay for his sins if he was doing the a wrong thing at wrong place ,wrong time ,yes he had to face it.
Osakambapo zzakumutu kwa wanthu bwa.
WHAT A JOKE!!!! Cheap politics….
Who are HRDC after all pieces of ……….
Mtambolo and thirapansi munya
Sangwani is right, Jane will not resign since she reports where she was appointed together with her team. Inu a HRDC know this the issue of elections is at the courts wait until the court of law make its determination. You are failing to condemn what MCP supporters are doing to disrupt government business at capital hill. MCP shows total ignorance infact i feel sorry on what is happening. The late Shadrick Wame once said and i quote; “Mbuli zophunzira zikuwononga dziko” He was quite right because how can you be chasing civil servants at capital hill? Do you want to say that all the civil servants are employed by a particular party specially the one in power? Civil servants are a backbone of governemnt business they serve any party that comes into power. Civil service is always there since federation but only ruling parties do go. We had MCP for 31 years, we had UDF for 10 years, we had DPP for 8 years, we had PP for 2 years, we had DPP for 5 years and now DPP again. So civil service is intact even the so called Chakwera if (on assumption) he assumes power his party will find the same civil service his supporters are chasing. Now my question is if takes over power and DPP supporters come to chase civil servants from offices what will be his reaction? I want rev Munthali to answer me this. Secondly, Rev Munthali denies sending their supporters to chase civil servants now tisamve if police accidentally injure one of the protestants MCP isadandaule kuti wavulazidwa ndi wawo bcoz the party is distancing itself from this. In short onse akuyenda mmiseu ndi zigawenga zofuna kuyipitsa mbiri ya mcp so inu a police chita nawonu mmene mungathere bcoz mcp yakana kuti si awo.
Too shallow and irrelevant!! I wish you dug deep enough through the horses why they whatever they did than blame it all……………………………………….!! They may have a reason why they did that……………… don’t forget mafias are still using the hard earned tax while the disagreements are continuing…………!!
My brother mbulinzosaphunzira ndi izi zimaba K145 million ya Pioneer investments plus other shoddy deals
Tchito kupasan pa vibwezi Muthalika and Jane Ansah
If she can’t resign then she should just commit suicide
SANGWANI NDIMAONA NGATI NDIWE NTUMBUKA WANZERU NDIWE CHIZELEZA
Sangwani, i feel sorry for you are a pathetic soul, what are you defending? Cannot you see how this regime has eliminated northeners and other tribes from the public sector? Pali ponse anthu a mtundu umodzi, even the unqualified ones being given positions they they have no expertise for those positions. That is why we shall remain very poor. Look at the recent promotions of Directors and deputy directors in Ministries, Departments and Agencies, qualification being from this tribe. Pathetic!! Almost all PSs, Directors, CEOs being promoted are from one tribe.
My brother inuyo zikuwoneka kuti mwabadwa dzulo because amene anayamba kuthamangitsa northerners or ndinene kuti kugawa mitundu ndi MCP. It is mcp which said all teachers should go to their homeland north thats this time you dont see a teacher getting transfered from chikwawa to KK or Mchinji to Karonga why because aliyense komwe walemebdwera ntchitoko especially teacher will rot there. Fatsani dni akuluakulu achimwene akuwuzeni mbiri
Baba, two wrongs don’t make a right! A right thinking Malawian cannot be happy with the widespread nepotism today. There is no special tribe to be given all key positions. These are people who argue with their stomachs and not brains and will defend any piece of rubbish.
So to you its normal to do the same evil becoz others did it!! Iwe chitsiru chenicheniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
So why always you Ansah? disobedient to the nation? your defiant is only showing your ruddiness
Bravo! Sangwani for your brilliant response.these so called HRDC must keep quite we did not vote for them to be incharge of anybody .They have done all the damage they could to APM but have fallen over with their Masters they serve.
Jane Ansah, we dont want a woman without integrity like you in Malawi. Resign we dont want you.
Mbuzi imeneyi siyikufunika kumalawi kuno ndipo ndi ndani amene anamulemba ntchito yaujaji tambwali ngati amene??.Limbikirani guys khoswe ameneyu achoke nthenda yake yakumweziyo akadwalire kwaamake galu wachabechabe.
Let them cry, if they got scanned resurts, they know nothing will change, only that they r used to cry since the dawn of multi party
poor malawian we dont know where we are going now because of this stubidity of the mec chair
Leave Her she is going no where, Soon she will be a complete nuisance together with her master
My foot! What is the MEC PRO saying? Is it his jurisdiction to defend public officers let alone the MEC Chair? He equally must resign as he is part of the same corrupt MEC system. Kwinatu public officers are forced to resign for not following even basic traffick rules. Poor Malawi.
If she cant vacate the office will come up withplan B. Where is mbendera? She is not a maffia.
This woman has more integrity than the thug mistaken as pastor lazarus chakwera chatsika. God will defend her. Just sit there and watch as you eat your deceased tambala wakuda.
Back to sender
Not surprised by the MEC chair response……. Has any Malawian ever resigned from a lucrative post? Not even the dcated. Zakuazungu za resignation.
mayiyu anali mfiti poyamba ndiye ka element ka ufitiko sikanamutherebe paja mfiti yayikazitu
This woman is a disgrace to the nation and does not deserve to live any more.
She will pay a heavy price for the disastrous act she has done to Malawians.
Very terrible woman that loves money like no other else.
The country is on the verge of fire right now because of her.
Shame on you!!!!
Sangwani ULICHINDERE CHOMENE! WHY DO YOU BACK THIS DEVIL OF A WOMAN. AM TOLD EVEN HER HUSBAND ABANDONED HER COZ OF CHIBWENZI NDI APM!
Never knew that her Ghanaian husband abandoned her … separation then divorce. Could that be the reason she has sustained the fault line between the south and the centre in the manner she has handled the electoral process? It seem she took sides in the electoral process.
Cursed woman. Cursed family. Inu a sangwani kunalitu anthu amayankhula mopusa mene mukuyankhuliramo koma lero ali kuti? You may think you are pleasing your paymasters koma pamene it is our taxes poor malawians. Inside yourself you know the truth to what real happened. Watch your mouth lest it turns against you. Kulira kwa A Malawi mupeza nako tsoka and its not far
You can’t curse what God has blessed. It is because you don”t know Jane ansah that you have the audacity to curse her. You know her from the media. I know her personally for a long time. She is a blessed woman. Your curses are baseless baba. Otherwise becareful they can backfire.
Let love lead
Sangwani Mwafulirwa, Bravo! You are spot-on in your description of the MCP henchman and connives with the failed leader of MCP, fake accent ex-reverend Yona Lazarus Chakwera to cause anarchy in Malawi. The Youth Leaguers over-values himself and deceives himself that by simply turning his coat, he can speak for Malawians. He has no professional, moral or otherwise to interfere with the functions of public servants.
@Yasser Arafat Hamdani, you are a disgrace both to your family and the nation at large. To hell with your corrupt mind…
Yasser ndiwe galu chindere cha munthu mxiiii
Mantha Wada kale ndalamazo