CCAP endorses Dec 13 demos as Malawi Muslims Association ’eating the scone’
All Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) synods in the country are in support for their flock to participate in Public Affairs Committee (PAC) nationwide demonstrations on December 13 to push for the enactment of the Electoral Reforms Bills, including the 50+1 provision for electing the President while Malawi Muslims Association (MAM) leadership are reported to have been ‘eating the scone’ from the regime not to take part.
CCAP General Assembly chairperson the Reverend Timothy Nyasulu, who is also PAC trustees board chair, said the CCPP are supporting the protests as Malawi Council of Churches has endorsed them.
The Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), an ecumenical mother body comprising 25 member churches and 20 para-church organisations nationwide, issued a statement in support of the protests calling on all church members and its congregations to join the protests.
Meanwhile, MAM officials have in their mouths full fluffy floury ‘scones’ with spokesman Sheik Dinala Chabulika saying government should not be pressured to table the electoral reforms bills.
He said at a news conference in Blantyre that there is commitment from government as it has already circulated three bills to be tabled and they are hopeful the other bills will also be tabled.
“As Muslim Association of Malawi, we would like to make it clear to the whole nation that we don’t have any problem with the Electoral Reforms Bills,” Chabulika said.
He appealed for all Muslims “not to participate” in the December 13 protest “and give dialogue a chance.”
Apparently, government officials are said to have palm oiled the MAM leadership to denounce the protests and that Shiek Idrissah Muhammad pocketed millions of Kwachas and shared little with other sheiks for their stand.
“We are not poor people, we are not madobadoba [beggers]. We cannot be bought, as a matter of fact, we are the ones who can buy others,” Muhammad said.
Secretary of Mangochi Majilis Ulama Council, Sheikh Maleat Twaha Mubarak said the Muslim community want to be enlightened on the bills.
“It is a pity that if you ask most Malawians, especially those who stay in rural areas, most of them will not tell you what is contained in the Bill and what it is all about – and these are the people who take part in voting,” he said.
Mubarak added that, “Before organizing the demonstrations on the electoral reforms, PAC should have first prioritized sensitization of the public on what the 50+1 is all about.”
MAM Vice Chairperson in Mangochi, Sheikh Fahid Kamsuli suggested that PAC should engage NICE Public Trust to create awareness about the electoral reforms bills to the general public so that Malawians understand the issues surrounding the reforms.
“We are not against PAC; we just want things to be done in an orderly manner and that the Committee should always stick to its obligation,” he said.
Kamsuli viewed that, “We will take part in any peaceful discussions to ensure that all Malawians are aware of issues contained in the electoral reforms bills.”
But Quadria Muslim Association of Malawi publicity secretary Sheikh Jafaar Kawinga said the issue is not about an individual religious institution, but PAC as an umbrella body.
Chancellor College political analyst Ernest Thindwa has also backed the decision, indicating that PAC as an organisation that represents people of all walks of life, it has every right to hold demonstrations as stipulated in the Constitution.
However, he said the possibility of dissenting views cannot be ruled out as PAC comprises so many stakeholders and having opposing views is normal.
PAC executive director Robert Phiri has since assured the nation of a peaceful march.
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I expected this fromMAM, most moslems arenot educated, samadzisata zinthu. Koma mukananena zopita ku south africa kukagwira ntchito mwa ukapolo, akanachita demo. Muone za ma albino.asilamu ali chete koma albino ambiri asowa ku yao belt kwa asilamu.kapenaz. Ikakhala zonyoza muhamadi ku france akanakhala ali pefupefu kuguba za njeeer. Dziwani ichip nsomba zinatha mu nyanja ndiposouth africa ikutseka makomo ake, mudzipita kuschool mukhale ozindikira.
Well done MAM. Stand your ground. You are the only sobber religious organisation in Malawi. PAC, the Catholic church and CCAP are political organisations who keep on wasting our time with useless things and call for demos. By the way, the Catholic church is full of hubris – thinking it is the ONE that brought democracy to Malawi. It DID NOT. We Malawians are the ones who did.
Eeeeeee please isiyeni mijomba ilinso pangati manolity. Ndi chifukwa akusintha akuona palibe chomwe angaphindulepo oluza ndiowo ndi bwino adyepo Zikomo.
Bravo MAM. Thanks for choosing peace. A ECM asiyeni choncho, akhuta vinyo osasa. Ayamba kuthamangila kunsewu mmalo mopita kwa Mulungu.
Dialog for how many times Santana ? Have you also eaten Scones, this is a constitutional issue its straight forward the idea for dialogue should therefore be laughed off if you want engage dialogue yourself with them.
Akuka, you are one of the idiots who has immensely benefited from the fight the Catholics put against the one party system in the country. You are now able to participate on this forum without facing any reprisals because the Catholic Bishops challenged the Lion, Ngwazi Dr. Kamuzu Banda. Do you think if this country was an Islamic state, Malawi would have been democratic today? You are cowards, that’s why you resort to suicide bombings to resolve the differences while the Catholic Bishops openly challenged mkango and shot it down – osayamika bwanji? Your women are now able to wear hijabs and yet during Kamuzu’s era no Muslim woman would do it. Now you have the courage to push Government to add a holiday to its annual calendar so that you can celebrate the birth of your Muhammad. Would you have dared say this nonsense to Kamuzu if there was no democracy that the Catholics sacrificed for? During Kamuzu’s regime some of you were even using Christian names instead of Islamic names like because you didn’t want to be associated with your own religion for fear of Kamuzu. Some of you have even benefited from the schools that the Catholics built in this country and obtained university degrees, but you can’t acknowledge that and yet Islam was already on the ground but its members were just waiting for Eid celebration to go to the mosques to get a pound of goat meat provided by the Pakistanis.. What kind of human beings are you that fear a fellow human being and not God? I am not surprised the majority of people in your faith are still backwards – they are the ones working for amwenye and be used as slaves. You can’t eve develop your own family with that myopic attitude.
MAM is just straight forward. It is good that the reporter has written almost every reason why MAM says it is not necessary to go for PERETE. Since those commenting here are not giving facts to show that MAM is in the wrong I would ask PAC and the so called men of God to give facts to show that MAM is in the wrong. MAM is saying let us give dialogue a chance. MAM is saying people should be consulted first so that they have knowledge of what their MPs will be discussing. MAM says many demos were done in the past but none achieved anything except loss of lives and destruction. The point by Quadria cannot make any sense because PAC is not supposed to bulldoze anything just because it is an umbrella body. The people who make the body are individuals who have party affliations so they should not use the body for their gains. MAM says wants to know why PAC decided not to consult people who are the voters themselves. In this case it is PAC whose thinking is shallow and myopic. MAM has given reasonable facts that even PAC itself can get some sense.
Yahya Jammeh is talking about things which are irrelevant with the story discussed here. You talk of slavery. In any trade there is a customer and supplier. If muslims were suppliers who were their customers?
You got a point Brother
Dialog for how many times Santana ? Have you also eaten Scones, this is a constitutional issue its straight forward the idea for dialogue should therefore be laughed off if you want engage dialogue yourself with them.
I HAVE ALL ALONG KNOWN SHEHE BRIGHTON CHABULIKA AS A GUY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES.
BOLA APEDZA KANGACHEPE KUTI ADZIDYETSELA MITALA YAKE.
WHAT CHABULIKA AND IDRISSA MUHAMAD SHOULD KNOW IS THAT DAYS ARE NUMBERED. ALMOST ANTHU AMBIRI ARE SUPPORTING THE 50+1 , THE TWO OF YOU ARE NOT BECAUSE OF THOSE SCONES.
When u say “almost anthu ambiri ” ..what’s that???
Did you make a research??? It should be you and your Mulomole and Chingota.
MAM have clear facts that cannot be just trashed by anybody. Even the ECM have agreed to the fact that people haven’t been consulted as expected.
Alhomwenu ndi AMENE mukukana 50+1 chifukwa you already know kuti simungawine.
INFACT research is that atsogoleri achisilamu ambiri ngosapunzila , the likes of your SHEHE CHABULIKA ndi MUHAMAD Idrisa being the least educated chairman.
Yes, they’re eating SCONES, but for how long ?Once again, PEOPLE ARE watching !
Pac is jst a bunch of mcp aythersizers, greedy,power hungry,tribalists mixed with peodophile so called priests from the VATICAN organization
MAM ndiye akhaulatu poti Government yagonja. Mumangodya ma scone pa zinthu za ziiiiiiii
You see we in the DPP use the same taxpayers money we have stolen to pay off the sheikhs or any other greedy fellas or groups. We know how broke most of these guys are.
We don’t use our stolen banked money in such projects. That is bagged forever. The Sheikhs think we dip from our stolen bank accounts? How gullible of them if they think about that. We dip into Government coffers. Afterall we have DDP plants all over in the Civil Service and parastatals such Muhara, Collins and Evelyn and this ENGENCO CEO Liabunya?
We are too mean to use our personal money. We will spoil a few more religious groups in the next 48 hours with thus orphaned money and with some chance thwart the protests.
Bravo Muslims for propping us and giving us a breather.
If we go by History Americans got so many slaves to work in the sugar plantations mainly from the Muslim countries of West Africa because Americans noticed that Muslims were weak in may respects. Coming back home, Jumbe and Mlozi had their share of slaves from Malawi in the districts where there are Muslims such as Nkhotakota, Salima and Mangochi. This simply shows that Muslims are traitors and can easily be deceived by a packet of salt to sell their own relative as a slave. It had to take a Christian by the name of David Livingstone to slop slave trade. So the behaviour of MAM is not a surprise to some of us who know history and the DPP Government is capitalizing on the same history to buy off these guys in order to keep them away from the demonstration. But does their absence really matter as far as Malawi is concerned? Research conducted in India in 2012 showed that Muslims in that country were the poorest because they don’t exercise their rights as they accept anything the government puts to them while the Hindus were the most prosperous group of the society because they take their government to task when they feel discontented. I am able to liken the same scenario in the Malawi case – Muslims are the weakest link and a big disappointment. I will rule the Gambia for a billion years.
I agree!
In my opinion, many Malawians do not follow issues surrounding them. These issues have their genesis back to 2004. The government has all through played hide and seek games ‘mpaka pano chaphulika’.
Shame on you MAM you think we don’t know how greedy you are,MAM Take note muslims we take part in thase demos whether you like it or not and leave the holy Quran alone the verses you are referring to do not prevent us from exercising our rights as citizens of this country I urge my fellow muslim brothers and sisters to ignore this corrupt MAM lets take to the streets Allah will not be happy to see the majority suffering in the hands of MAM greedy officials they are not representing us on this movement.
adya ma banzi a chabulika shaa zamanyazi
Akuti kuteteza timipando ta ku board koma achawa amwene sadzatheka.Thats why Atupere akugonabe ,Zoti Chilima anazuka sakudziwa.Bagonani and MAM how many even Muslims trust YOU?Ife tikupita kumeneko.Zidyani achabulika ndi anzanu kuti minofuyo ifufume kumene.Infact we dont need you, QMAM is enough because its there to serve majority muslims not MAM for your belies and famillies.And dont you check yourself kuti popularity yanu inatha and even mumbiri yadziko lino palibe chomwe mungaloze kusakhala kudya ma banzi kuchokera ku Boma.Nyansi izi sitikuzisowa.PAC is right and has already won the battle.Boma likapereka lero ma bill tikufunawa.MAM osamagona tulo mu 21st century.OK!!.MAM LEADERSHIP IS FULL OF COWARDS!!!!!.Christians will fight for your freedom enjoy becuase you are malawians.
Muslims ok lets wait and see. They are thieving together
Palibe bill yomwe aphungu amakambiranna ku nyumba ya malamulo imapita kaye kwa anthu kukafunsa maganizo awo. Ntchito ya aphungu ndi chiyani? Ndimayesa timawasankha kuti adzitiimirira. Kungoti asilamu ndi akipirikoni kuyambira kale, dyera ndiye lao, kuzolowera kudyay zotsalira ngati mitu ya mbuzi ena atadya nyama yonse. In any case their absence will not be felt. How many are they after all if you compare with Christians? They are just pretending to be holly and yet they are the worst of all believers around the world. Who is Trump targeting from entering the US? Not Christians of course.
These MAM leaders are stupid and they are trying to blindfold their already blinded followers whom the majority are the poorest. Can they mention how many bills of those that have been passed did so after consulting ordinary citizens or even civic-educate them first? Nosense, ofcourse you might not be poor but your people are very poor.
Kodi abale alipobe wina ku Malawi kuno asakudziwa, olo kumvetsa bwinobwino kuti 50+1 electoral system ndi chani? Mwinadi ndi sukuludi achamangwetu! Mpaka sensitization zomwezi?
Ngati sakumvetsa ingowafotokozelani kuti system iyi ya 50+1 ndi yokomela a Malawi tonse! Ndi yofuna kuti president asamangotsankhidwa ndi chapantundu umodzi wokha ayi, olo dela limodzi la dziko ayi. President adzitsankhidwa ndi a Malawi onse chifukwa ndi state president (wa dziko lonse) si ufumu, siza u Ngongoliwa ayi, olo u mulankho, chewa, tumbuka Gonapamuhanya ayi? Ndi za dziko lonse la Malawi! Sizapa ntundu ayiiii!
Put it simple they will understand.. Of course it’s natural kuti anthu timamva zinthu mosiyana. Kani olo ku sukulu that’s why timasiyananso makhodzedwe.
Chabulika nosence
Asiyeni amenewa. Ulendo wina akadzafuna kuchita ziwonetsero tidzawasiya okha!
Very true, Gogodasi, parliamentarians have carried people’s views to the National Assembly. Besides, the radio has been the most powerful communication tool through which the 50+1 was aired. Radio stations such ZBS, MIJ and Times Radio have been instrumental in disseminating information on this electoral reform bill. So far, with an increase in rate of literacy, rural people are knowledgeable about this 50+1 issue. However, when changes are inevitable conflicting views are bound to occur. The stand taken by CCAP, the Catholic Church and other religious bodies are reminiscent of the stand by the Catholic Church that issued the famous pastoral letter in 1992 that set the wind of change in Malawi. This time they have ganged up with others for a national cause. The 50+1 looks set to replace old electoral system that enabled a candidate to be voted as president even with fewer than 30%.