Ansah set to resign as PAC says Malawi electoral commissioners fired
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has revolved to resignfrom her post following the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal judgement upholding the nullification of the May 21 2019 presidential election and querying the electoral body’s competency, Nyasa Times understands.
Ansah has confided to one of the MEC officials that she is “throwing in the towel”, saying her position and that of the commission is “untenable” after a botched presidential election last year.
The MEC chairperson, who is judge at Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, vowed forcefully that she could resign if Supreme Court upheld lower court decision.
On Friday, the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld the February 3 2020 decision of the five-judge panel of the High Court of Malawi sitting as the Constitutional Court.
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) which led nationwide demonstrations demanding Ansah’s head for presiding over a flawed electoral process has asked her to step down.
HRDC leaders comprising national coordinator Luke Tembo, Central Region chairperson McDonald Sembereka and executive members Billy Mayaya and Andrew Salima said the Supreme Court’s decision vindicated their demand to ask Ansah to go.
“We remember that when we told Malawians that MEC did not manage the election well, we demanded that the commission should resign but they said they will resign if the Supreme Court judgement faults them,” said Sembereka.
But one of the commissioners said Ansah has decided to go back to Judiciary as a Judge.
“She is going to announce her departure at MEC,” said a source in the commission.
Meanwhile, quasi-religious body, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has said Ansah and her fellow commissioners should leave the pollster offices immediately because the Supreme Court ruling has fired them.
PAC spokesperson Gilford Matonga said:“President Peter Mutharika no longer needs to fire them. The Supreme Court ruling is self-explanatory on what should be done. They just need to leave the MEC offices, they have been fired.”
He said the commissioners should not wait for some people to push them out of office.
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the Constitutional Court ruling of February 3 which annulled last year’s presidential election over alleged irregularities.
MEC had appealed the historic decision of the five-judge panel of the High Court sitting as the Constitutional Court.
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If you add chakwera/chilima votes in 2019, it’s almost 2.8 million, Peter / atupele adds up to 2.2 million votes that’s minus tippex ones,a gap of almost 600000 votes I can’t see all this pipo changing and voting for dpp/UDF alliance..copied
Jane Ansah for president. Now!
Ha mfiti siingachoke iyi!
Jane and an has proved to the nation that she not a good judge at all. How I wish all the judgements she has delivered in the court be revealed
She and her entire group of leaches should have fallen on their swords even before the initial court ruling to pave way for the court case and an investigation (if ACB decides to initiate one). That’s how mature leaders / people in mature democracies handle things. People respect you for humility as opposed of being a hard ass!
Since she said she would be heading back to the judicial / legal circuit, I wonder how people would look at the court cases she would preside on and the eventual judgements from now on.
Personally I would straight forward ask for her to recuse herself is she were to preside over my court case.
I hope the church she is pastor at is profitable (and can still attract people after this saga) – Jane Ansah, maybe that is God’s answer in case you are pondering your next move!
Useless Ansa just resign now. We do not need you.
The damage she has caused to her reputation is irreparable and that to the country is long lasting. One wonders what this woman has gained? This woman has caused tremendous pain to a lot Malawians. Let her now enjoy her blood money till the day God decides to take her away from this life
and commissioner kunje kuchita kuyankhula mwa thamo kut mupite kulikonse we are still holding our offices olo atakhala kut masiku ake mpaka athe okhala mu office watsala ndimasiku angat kut utulukemo mwamgwilizano kut uli delere dziko motelo uli ndi mphamvu zochuluka bwanji mpaka kudelera dziko for the better of our Jane Ansah SC sikut akasiya pansi udindo ndekut apusa ayi ndibwinonso kutelo than kut zisankho zina zikubweranzi zikasokonekela ena kuluza mkuzapita ku court azakalipile dollah zake ayi mama jane ndikukuvomelezani paganizo lanu losiya pansi udindo mukapitilize zomwe munkachita tione kut dziko lipanga chani akunenani kwambiri ndinu mai wambiri yanu makolo ena azatha kuwauza ana awo zammene munachitila kudziko lamalawi muyende bwino mama
Akanangotuladi mwaulemu, sizabqino nkomwe kuti tipiteso pa sewu
Nobody is remaining, everyone must pack and go. Thieves!!
Shame on MCP, UTM, HRDC, PP, CFT, ConCourt and Supreme Court bullies. Ansah is an intelligent and strong woman. Keep going – you are an excellent role model.
You should be ashamed of your self.
Izinso ndiye ziti? Kumva kuwawa cadeti ndichigamulo?
Jane Ansah should NOT resign. She and MEC administered parliamentary and local government elections well. The courts have not annulled that so let her stay put.
Jane Ansah we love you for being a strong woman. Continue being strong against MCP, UTM, HRDC violent thugs
Kulira kwa cadeti. Uwona kuti ucadeti wanu muzikachitira kuti after the elections
Please Malawians understand this,Alufandika is a big snake,Jane Ansah and sangwani these are followers,so if u want to fire all
MEC has demonstrated total lack of professionalism as such the current leadership is supposed to step aside allowing for fresh blood to referee the flesh elections.
Please don’t go Jane, Peter is going to be lonely. He loves you very much. Please stay with him. You promised until death do us part remember Jane. Please don’t leave us alone. APM is going to commit suicide. He loves you Jane.
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She’s incompetent to be a judge.
Incompetent judges are at Concour and Supreme Court.
That’s where Jane claims she belongs pumbwa iwe
Olo kachizungu kutuluka mkamwa mwa Jezebel sipoti kunalibe ma private or high school, kkkk kopyapyala ngati primary school teacher ku Thyolo thava, kkkkk. A Jasitisi?
A lot money has been wasted and a lot of property damaged due to these selfish evil commissioners led by Ansah. It could have been way cheaper if they were let go and given full benefits the very last year after elections. Don’t forget lives have been lost and women raped in the process. These commissioners have blood on their hands.
It’s a shameful time to Jane ansah and his colleague mntharika to be forced to leave the office….. After challenging the nation so long
Pronoun for Jane Ansah is ‘her’ and not ‘his’, she is a woman.
She is also a man judging from khalidwe lake lokula mtima. So, its okey to use he on her.
It will be a very cold day in hell the day that Woman resigns .
Like your comment, really funny.
The best is to resign as MEC Chair as well as Supreme Court Judge. She is untenable at both institutions.
What you don’t understand is that the whole Malawi Judiciary is like that.
Too late. Her actions have already destroyed Malawi not only financially but also she has facilitated division of Malawians along tribal lines. Who will trust her judgement when she returns to the Supreme Court. I recommended that the new government should charge her for financial loss to the state and should pay back using her own money. Jane Ansah and all commissioners should also not hold any public officers the rest of their life. We know many of commissioners have already passed their usefulness to the society save for Mathanga
Jane Ansah should face charges of treason for intentionally smuggling wrong candidate into the high office,for bringing the country into state of lawlessness and for subversion of fairly established laws governing elections in Malawi.
She should also be ordered to pay hefty fine for the loss of lives in Malawi,for the suffering she has caused to the nation and for the loss of both public and private property.
She is the fitting symbol of moral decay the Malawi society will struggle to forget to times indefinite.
Bata libwerera ku Malawi if Asah resigns
Please Mr tippexed President why not just give these commissioners the prados you promised them? And all their terminal ‘dirty and bloody’ benefits so that they can go and rest in peace? Do you people really care about Malawi? What’s a prado as compared to lives of multitudes of innocent Malawians now being held ‘hostage’ in their own mother land by a few greedy souls?
The supreme court had been conniving with the opposition but they fell short of removing APM because they knew it will result in chaos. Ansah should indeed resign not that she messed up the elections but her friends at the court want to shame her because they are jealousy of her appointment to MEC
Mmm, wonder why they waited this long to show their jealousy. Oh wait, they were waiting for Jane herself to bring to them a case with no substantial evidence, oh wait it was the opposition that sent Jane and MEC to try and hire matsotsi from JoBurg to embarrass themselves in from of the court and the whole nation, oh wait may be it was the opposition colluding with the supreme court that ill-advised Jane that it was ok to to take sides in a case in which they were supposed to be a neutral player. Listen mate, I don’t know what kind of cool-aid you are on, but if you take your head out of your ass long enough, you’ll see that there’s nothing legal about Jane’s conduct and by the standards she’s set in mismanaging this election and consequential court cases, you’ll find that there’s nothing for the other judges to be jealous about. GET REAL.
While you are at it, can you explain why Jane herself was n to turning up at the court to listen to the verdict of the cases she herself brought to the court.
Cry louder Zio ine……other wise a condom could have saved us from your nonsense
Go in peace. Koma mwatizunza heavy. Mulape kwa Mulungu otherwise you will never find peace throught your life.
accepting our wrong doing is a major step to attain forgiveness
The woman is a disgrace to the legal profession. She has damaged her legacy.
Regarding her decision to Judiciary, this is a joke of 2020.
Anthu osakonda dziko lathu ananyoza achina Mtambo ndi azinzake a HRDC kumanena kuti ndianthu osokoneza gulu lachifwamba kkkkkkkk lero siizi ndiye ndalama waononga mfiti iyi Jane Ansah ndi afiti anzake eeeeeeshi koma Amalawi tizinzimvera chisoni kwabasi mfiti mr tippex ndi chipani chake chaafitichi eeeeeshi ndlibe chonena eeeeeeeeeeshi👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥wolusa upitilire kukuwambani 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
So stupid Malawians think that a sensible person can resign 20 days before his retirement date. Now stupid Malawians can we expect. new MEC to conduct UN EREGULAR elections by July 3.
‘UN EREGULAR’ what language is this?
What a superficial analysis! And you think you are wiser than the high court and supreme court judges? For sure you cannot pass a law exam with such kind of a brain!
Great ! We our prayers have been Ansah-ed!! 🙏🏾
I sincerly hope this satanist pastors wife will be arrested for all the money she pockted from DPP.
And i wonder why shoul we have her as a judge in malawi again.and all the members of Christ cetadel church pls quit that church
Koma mmayi uyu, why all this time?pitani kumudzi mukapume.
Ansah has nowhere to hide.
Ansah and APM are fully responsible to the state of affairs in Malawi. She has proved to be a biased and arrogant woman who does not fit to be a judge. No one will have confidence in her being a judge. She just have to go to her family in UK and leave Malawi alone. She has caused so much destruction to Malawi economically and politically.
Ansah is massive liability to Malawi.
let these yudasi bastard betrayers go.
they messed us and our voters. thinking they can rule us.
we voted faithfully but they thought they can swindle our minds. God is always with his fairhful. We do PRAY.
This is good news and let pitala reverse his stayement.
AMEN
Waiting on the stands..
Jane Ansah should remain strong as MEC chair. The courts have not cancelled parliamentary and local polls results which means she and MEC did well.
Ambuye ndiwabwino amatha nkhondo eniake tili chete
That is the only noble thing she and her commissioners can do, at least to save some of their reputation.she has been branded a bad person because of the 2019 elections poor management, otherwise i believe she is a good person and she has the conscious and human, this definitely will haunt her forever. we can only say to error is human we have to move on, from now it is History.
AND WHAT IS DAUSI SAYING?
Good bye Jane Ansah, citizens has fought a good fight and have won.Kkkkkkkkk.Glory to God.At last she is leaving MEC to the citizens of Malawi.Dpp and UDF alliance it’s only nyekhwe after nyekhwe that you will get mpaka tidzavote.The people shall govern the country.
Things are moving so fast towards freedom day 02 July 2020.July a very lucky
and historic month indeed for Malawi.
Unbelievable!!! A whole supreme court judge with zero (nyet) integrity!!! or willing to draw down her integrity capital to zero (nyet) to please a wicked, murderous, corrupt and incompetent (WMCI) regime of clueless Mutharika and his DPP!!!!
Sometimes the majority gets something wrong, go well ansah, history will one day absolve you. ✋
On the contrary. History will reveal the true cost that she needlessly made the country pay in terms of financial resources and time lost. Maybe history will also reveal why she did it. For a supreme court justice, to act the way she did just boggles the mind…