Ansah still not resigning, keeps her freedom not to express herself
Embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah is not resigning from her position despite continued calls by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) that she goes, saying she is exercising her constitutional right to remain silent on matters surrounding escalating nationwide protests against her.
HRDC is holding demonstrations to Ansah to resign for allegedly mishandling the May 21 elections and handing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Peter Mutharika victory. The results of the elections are being challenged in the Constitutional Court.
Ansah, a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, already rejected any calls for her to resign on principle, saying she will wait for the court’s judgement on the matter to decide whether to call it quits.
HRDC are still continuing with ‘Ansah must fall’ protests which have plunged the country into a political impasse which is negatively impacting on the economy.
Ansah, while leading a normal life, has not changed her position not to resign and now is exercising her freedom not to express herself, insisting that she constitutionally has a right to remain silent.
The Weekend Nation newspaper on Saturday August 24 2019 reported that it contacted Ansah on WhatsApp but she said: “No comment”.
According to University of Malawi’s Chancellor College-based constitutional law Professor Edge Kanyongolo, freedom of expression enshrined in the Republican Constitution also includes “freedom not to express yourself.”
And columnist Steve Nhlane in the same paper, states that Ansah has dug in on the strength of the letter and spirit of the law.
“Her stand is that whether or not she mismanaged the elections, is an issue that is in court. Until the court pronounces its verdict, she rightly thinks she is innocent. But the legal or court route is just one of the many paths to the solutions. The more meritorious solution to the matter before the 18.5 million Malawians is not in the legal shenanigans in court.
“The political impasse the country is facing which is negatively impacting the economy needs a political solution. The President should think hard about whom he wants to serve—the interest of one person or 18.5 million Malawians who are suffering? Good leaders promote the larger good,” write Nhlane.
Billions of Kwacha worth of property is being damaged, looted, burned down and stolen every time there are anti-Ansah demonstrations in the country.
HRDC’s next demonstrations have been scheduled from August 26 to 30. Initially, they wanted vigils at airports and the country’s border posts but the High Court through judge Jack N’riva denied the organisers the right to demonstrate at such places.
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KODI ANTHU ENANU KUMVA KUMAKUVUTANI??? NKHANI ILI KU COURT SIYA MAI WANUYI KUTI ATULE PANSI AI.ZISANKHO SIZINAYENDE MOKOMELA AMALAWI AMBIRI…….AND MAI WANU UYU IYE ANALI PAMWAMBA KUSOKONEZA ZINTHU NDIYE IFE AMALAWI TIKUTI AI AWA CHINYENGO ANACHIIKA PATSOGOLO ACHOKE,NDIYE PALINSO NKHANI PAMENEPA? KOMA NDAONA INE APA AMBUYAWO AMAIWA AKUDZIWA KUTI AKACHOKA MAI UYU ZAWO ZADANSO KUPOSA MMENE ZILILI PANO.MORE FIRE MUDZIWANSO……KAYA SIPANO KOMA 5YEARS IYI MUZIWANSO EVEN KU NYUMBA YA MALAMULO.
inde amalawi zionongani malawi wanu chifukwa chofuna udindo. mukamaliza kuononga muzalamulira achewa ndi atumbuka okha okha alomwe onse mutwafinyafinya tikukuonanitu
Malawi is on the map interanationally as a laughing stock.
its where the victims gets arrested and the corruptors remain in positions, kuyambila pitala
caponda
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ben phili
ma dc
ma ps
accounyants
acina mphwiyo
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joice banda, misozi cathunya
the list is endless.
even kusiyitsidwa ncito anta. now the fuel os spilled and fire is on. akulephela kulozana cala poti ose ali mu licelo limodzi instead akuti atinyenyanyenya ndipo army igwilitse the necessary force on its citizen pomwe iye wangobwera dzana lomweli .pali nzelu apa? nkamwa ngati una wa kapida kuphochokaphochoka. you think ife tikuuopa by saying that???
ma petrol bomb mwayambitsawa its sad Dausi akalandila mgonelo ndikumagawa ndalama rite after coming from mass!!!! la ci 40 lifika.
musatinyase kuti mwabweretsa timabwato towedzera nsomba ,ifeyo kuti titani, bwato la nkhondo,??? dont brain wash us. kuno kulibe nkhondi. ukuibweretsa ndiwe pitala kutiopseza kaamba kokakamila u plesdent. galu sitikukufuna babisala.
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Mtambo, Chakwera, Chilima and Trapence are the ones destroying Malawi. Mulungu akuona. 18 pple are suffering just because of you.
unlike millions suffering because of thieves deeply rooted in Malawi government
Guys inu HRDC you are not above the law by destroying property of fellow Malawians. Chokhacho ndi chimene a Malawi chikuwapsetsa mtima.The government has done its best by not allowing the police to be having arms with live bullets. The best thing for you is to be demonstrating peacefully. Otherwise, you have behaved foolishly so far. Kodi kumeneku ku HRDC sachita impeachment? Ena apiteko anzeru. Tatopa nazo izi. On another note, one reason people have no respect for our police officers is that they are so corrupt. They exort money from individuals under the guise of locking them up. My wife does business and eish we have lost too much and through the nose. Even myself, panopa I am crying I was robbed of 250k this week. Ndiye zichitike ngati izi do you think wapolisi anthu amulemekeza? Forget, people have too much anger for the police not because of the demos, but the demos are just a vent for the people that feel have been oppressed by the police big time and too much. So authorities, after the demo embers have died down, go ku police uku and mukachotse the so called ana a kumpanda. They have spoilt the name of the other good group of police.
It’s funny that Jane Ansah had a lot to say before the real facts of just how she messed up the TPE results management started to come out. Now that the audit report is out, she decides to keep silent. Jane Ansah’s reputation is in tatters – clinging to her post as MEC chairperson will not change matters; in fact it just makes matters worse…
The idea is not for Ansah to resign but for Peter to resign. This has been planned on a brick trickling effect. You fall one brick it falls the next until the last. The ultimate goal is the president. So the opposition should not hide behind the finger here. Anakutulukilani kale. Ansah WILL NOT resign. Zifukwa zaotsutsa ndizosakwanila. Ndiposo xosamveka ndikomwe. If Ansah resigns, then what next??? Can they pledge there will be no other demoz???? If there will be then Ansah should not resign. Otherwise aMtambo alembe fundo zawo zose ndianthu ose ofunika apange resign kenako azipita bwino kumseu.
If Jane ansa made a mistake that deserves her resignation then automaticaly Peter is a mistaken president, ndipo usakaike aise Peter is not gonna rule this country.
Peter is already ruling the country. Politics ain’t gonna feed you. The sooner you accept and move on the better. If the courts nullify the election, it’s also alright. Just do your thing.
He is 4 months into his 5 year new term..I Doubt he will go anywhere..you are wasting your time.
He is ruling at Chikokobay? kkkkkk
go ask them for the pledges
JANE ANSA WHERE EVER YOU ARE PLEASE DON’T RESIGN. LEAVE THESE DUNDERHEADS TO ROTE. AKAYESA NDALE NDI MASEWERA EI..ANTHU ADYERA ODZIKONDA AWA AKHALE CHONCHO. THAT’S WHY ANATHAWA KU UBUSA WINA WATHAWA YOGULITSA MA UNITS KUFUNA NDALAMA ZOCHULUKA…GOD IS PUNISHING THEM SEVERELY. SANATI….AYIONA BANGWE
Jane ansah will surely go. She is already out except for the mafia pressure.
Jane ansah is a supreme court judge.DO u know what it’s takes to become a judge of the highest court??.She is not going anywhere man..ndi Mayi wolimba mtima osati masewela.Akagwila mfundo sayisiya.She is not going anywhere.Olo a Chakwera atabibidwa.
Tiona mmene zithere
No Osman, the president does not have to think any more carefully than he normally does! Even Jane Ansah is one of those 18 million Malawians you are talking about!!! she does not get sacrificed for anybody because she is just Malawian as any Malawian and she is subject to the same rights and laws as all Malawians.The question should be the other way round: why do the two party leaders with their spokesperson Mtambo want to destroy a whole country because of one person?
Jane has said that she will resign if the court finds her guilty of mismanagement! She herself believes she conducted her job as she is meant to.. Let me tell you the truth! Its not about Jane Ansah its about some incompetent leaders wanting to over throw a legally elected government for their own selfish reasons. Any leader who wants Malawi to prosper will not allow any form of distraction to happen because Malawi is struggling already as it is!!
God is good to us! Can you imagine if one those ….. was a president of Malawi now??? I shudder to think!!!
Greedy person’s comment – be very careful if you are a part of the rot as your family will face the cosquence silently. The whole Malawi will not know but you will know.
Ufiti basi..Let people express their opinions
Anthu a nyau nkukhala kwanu kuopsyeza, kuba, ufiti ndi kuvulaza amzanu timakudziwani mwa chikhalidwe chanu. Apapa mwanenazi dala sitikudabwa, dambwe style.
Thumbs up Nambewe!
Most people who are writing on this matter only look at one side and ask the wrong questions.
In addition to what you have rightly said. Who is destroying the country – Jane Answer or the demonstrators, who have also gone to court for redress? Do they see our legal system as useless or is it that they know they have no evidence beyond a reasonable doubt? The political solution is clear: change the electoral system not by only targeting the president as they tried to do last year but the whole electoral system including election of MPs and Councilors. We cannot have two different electoral systems one for president and the other for MPs and Councillors. The opposition had the numbers and they can muster the numbers if they have good arguments to be able to pass a bill for review of the electoral system. The problem is they dont have good arguments and the MPs, besides being selfish, know that none can muster 50+1% votes in one election. So they want to force the President to unilaterally dictate the review of the electoral process. That is undemocratic.
These are the questions HRDC must be adressing rather than ride on the back of politicians. I for one can never trust HRDC to be appolitical and neutral because they have already shown their bias in the name of speaking for Malawians as if DPP supporters and those who dont support any party at all are not Malawians.
Nambewe, You are very right. I totally agree with you my dear
IT IS NOT MTAMBO WHO IS DESTROYING THE COUNTRY. PLEASE A MALAWI REASON LIKE A NORMAL PERSON SOMETIME DON’T SUPPORT FOR THE SACK OF SUPPOTING. ITS PETER AND JANE WHO DESTROYING US A PEOPLE. THERE IS NO LOVE IN THIEVES, SO WHY SHOULD WE BE LOVING THEM. ACHEWA AMATI CHOSAMVA CHINAMVA NKHWANGWA ILI MUTU.
What have they stolen if you can’t prove it..so far in court there is zero evidence ..zongonena pakamwa basi.Miseche ya Gwalidi
A satana awa amwene!
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The solution to the anarchy, theft of property and widespread deliberate and malicious damage to property is not for the Judge to resign her position at MEC. Rather, the solution is to stop the demos, sponsored by MCP/UTM – election LOSERS. And the solution is also partly, according the Judge and every reasonable Malawian, in the case currently in Court. So, what’s the matter?
Ansah’s resigning would set a precedent, and give the demonstrating Malova, including oChakwera and Chilima, power they so crave.
Furthermore, her resigning would circumvent principles of natural justice she, like everyone else, is entitled to.
Ansah, stay put.
Akomananazo.
Well done Jane don’t betray your emotions to these good for nothing people bent on criminalizing your role as MEC chair…only the Courts are better placed to fault you and not the Nyakyusa from chitipa
Yes leave her alone.She did her work properly but Satanist are misguiding Malawians.God will see the way to punish them.
The court is for 18.5 million Malawians
Let the evidence be presented in court for everyone to see
So far no tangible evidence of vote rigging
I think it is wrong to think because my candidate lost then there was rigging
The biggest problem is the 2 parties UTM and MCP did not unite
Now why join hands crying foul
It’s too late
We also expressed our right to vote for a candidate of our choice which she denied us. Does she think her constitutional rights are greater than ours? She denied us our freedom of choice and she expects us to respect her choice to remain silent? A very wicked woman.
Prove you case in a court of law not this fucking mob justice.
I agree with Jane Ansah not to resign. The law states clearly that one is innocent until proven guilty by the court of law so in this land there is nobody, no institution to judge someone wrong other than COURTS that is why even MCP, UTM knew that it is only courts that would determine the wrong doing in these elections. But also let us remember this that the commission comprises monitors from different parties represented in parliament in other words what MCP is saying to its monitors that they failed their job so from now let them change tune; stop castigating Jane Ansah. Mind you parties chose monitors and Judiciary chose judge to chair the commission so the president in his powers just make an approval for what parties and judicial services did. Ndiye inu HRDC, UTM, MCP i say stop any castigation to Ansah. Inu mzipani mwanu mulibe mavuto? A Chakwera ma district governors anapanga protest to ask for early convention did you bow to them? Why didn’t you? Kabwila, Kaliwo ndi Felix Jumbe was on your neck did you bow to them? nanga lero mukumutola mzimayi kuti watani or MEC kuti yatani? Inu a Chilima we malawians protested that you should resigned, have you ever resigned? So mudziyamba mwachotsa chitsotso chili diso lanu wawa before taking out somebody’s. Nanunso a Nhlane nkhani ndi yakuti these demos have hidden agenda they send those thugs ndi kumakaba. Let me ask you this: DPP had two or three marches have we ever heard of thugs looting? What about Seode did anyone came out looting: Why was that so? Do you mean some disguising themselves would not come to loot? All this was possible to have peaceful marches because they made sure that amongst themselves were security ppo other than police so that whoever could attempt to do anything against could be dealt with immediately. Now what is stopping HRDC to do likewise but instead pushing a blame police? It is calculated move. They can do likewise DPP and Seode why dont they follow the same? Ife tidzimva iwo wokhawokha a chitetezo atibula onse amene amapanga zaupandu akadzatero yea will believe what they preach about peaceful demos has now substance!
Yes !!! She should not resign!! Not only for her sake but all of us professional women. We are all praying very hard for her to stand strong in the midst of all these beasts of men. God is on our side!! One way you came, seven ways you will run. God is God!! He is supreme!!!
She will resign when the demos go to her house and property these people seem relentless like Hong Kong folks and sudanese KKKKK
Well to those with time please would you go on YouTube and search for Erica Mukisa’s testimony of witchcraft and hell part 2 , She is exposing the devil’s work how Presidents are being chosen made me to think about my country Malawi with the current situation.
Chonde A Malawi omwe tingapephere we should keep our beautiful country Malawi in Prayers and cover it with the precious blood of Jesus.
Kuchedwa finding out what the devil is doing instead of worshipping God. Please remember Jesus came for the gospel basi. You weren’t created to be detectives of what the devil is up to. Read your bible otherwise people will lie to you
Jane Ansah and her position are more important than Malawi and the president himself.
Liar liar pants on fire!
IF WERE JANE ANSA WHICH AM NOT I WOULD JUST STEP DOWN THAN TO SEE MY FELLOW MALAWIANS SHEDDING BLOOD AND THERE PROPERTIES BEING ROOTED BECAUSE OF ME. TWO, BEING WOMAN OF GOD WE ARE TOLD TO BE HUMBLE AND SAY SORRY EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT WRONG, SO FOR JANE ANSA I DO NOT KNOW IF SHE IS SAVING GOD OR SATAN
Ansa should not resign. Why should she resign? Mutopa nokha ndi ma demo anuwo ana anjoka inu.
Only people who don’t have a job can tell someone to resign. It is foolish to resign before finding alternative employment, self or not. Ansah has mouths to feed and fools want her to fall into their trap, resign and then go hungry.
She knows the right to do. We know she does not act independently thus she does what her masters tell her to do. Good news they are not our chosen leaders. We rejected them and she imposed them. Good lesson to all futures elections chairpersons. You must be very dull to repeat this mistake.
This woman ANSAH is an evil woman and she doesn’t have morals to say the fact.People with integrity could have resigned long time ago.To ANSAH,its like this MEC sit was meant for her for her entire life.She must be ashamed wherever she is though she called herself a Judge.
Shut up sell out Hlane grumpy old madala.Shut up! 18.5 suffering how? Uwawuze anzakowo asiye mademo awowo adikile ma court .Kapena sukuziwa nkhani ya chisankho ili mu Court?Udakalirabe iwe ndi u opposition wakowo.Uzafa choncho basi..zonvesa chisoni.
She’s a very selfish/ adamant woman immensed in executive arrogance. Malawi is deteriorating daily due to self imposed leadership with autocratic tendencies. They’ll be consequences & repercussions in the end, in all honesty why shield a few corrupt individuals for your fragile legacies sake? I would advise you to seek wise counsel because time is not on your side. Malawi is burning for justice & change is imminent.
The issue of demonstrations is now beyond Ansah. Even a local person in the remotest part of chitipa where Mtambo comes from knows that Mtambo is serving the interests of MCP abd Utm who lost the election. Chakwera knows that his time to contest as President on MCP ticket is closed .?Saulosi we are all aware that is a bitter person because he thought by now he would be at plot no 1 with tight security. Today he is at his area 43 residence and is now called ex vp. Thus painful
Good move. Jane Ansah is by far the most resolute and strong woman we have in Malawi. People of good sense must celebrate this colossus bravery in the face of unprovoked intimidation from cowards who hide behind illiterate crowds in the name of demos. These egotistical selfish CSOs with an opposition agenda know in their heart of hearts that these elections were free, fair and a true reflection of the people’s will. Just because Dr Chakwera, their preferred candidate lost the elections now they want to elect him through DEMON-strations. We, the majority who love peace have remained silent for far too long and allowed a minority of disgruntled losers to do their street gay parades smashing private and public property with impunity. Imagine a whole former Vice President failing to prove that he has a case. When all is said and done, these demon-strations will surely be seen for what they true are: TEARS OF UNELECTABLE SPOILT BRATS WHO MUST REPAY NGONGOLE OF FAILED ELECTION BIDS!!! PERIOD.
Jane Ansa is clever if the rumours are true that she is currently in UK. She knows that the way things are now in Malawi, she is safe in UK whether she resigns or not. So some of you better start looking for safe havens before things get worse.People in so called government that is.