CDEDI’s Namiwa nabbed over unauthorised Parliament vigil
Police have this morning nabbed leader of the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI), Sylvester Namiwa, for organizing a vigil at the Parliament Building in Lilongwe.
On Monday, CDEDI announced that it would hold a vigil to force Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani Hara and Clerk Fiona Kalemba to address questions lingering on the smuggled Loan Authorisation Bill Number 22 of 2021.
Gotani Hara and Kalemba paid a deaf ear to calls from the human rights watchdog to provide answers on what had happened for non-parliament employees to smuggle the Bill into the National Assembly.
The two had up to Sunday evening to address the nation on the matter. This has riled CDEDI, which has now resolved to hold a vigil at the National Assembly, just a stone-throw away from the Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) where delegates are holding the 41st Summit of the Southern African Development Committee (SADC) Heads of State and Government.
Briefing the media in Lilongwe on Monday, CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa vowed that they would go ahead with the vigil despite the Lilongwe City Council not giving them permission.
But barely two hours into the vigil, the police pounced on the human rights activist, with his followers running through different directions.
A police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity confided that Namiwa is likely to face the charge of conduct likely to cause breach of peace.
Nyasa Times is yet to establish where he is being kept.
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Ati kulera dpp. Za ziiiiiiiiiii
Zokopela ndi zovuta, ndi za a Mtambo izi osati enanu ayi…find your own approach
There is nothing wrong here, thats what democracy is all about. Let me do it and this is how democracy works, mumuona, atuluka ameneyo. Is this is so worse than what Mtambo and his colleagues did by destroying citizens property and injuring people. Nonsense, pali chani apa. Thats how its done in the western world, just as it has been done here. People who are disgruntled with things, they wait for global or big functions like this and then demonstrate, this is indeed one pay state regime.
Za ziii
Ma cadet kuphula njelwa zamoto. Pezani zina zochita.
Please spare us the drama Mr Namiwa, we don’t need it, especially now with the SADC meeting here……
When you have issues in your home family you don’t discuss it in front of visitors.
Lilongwe city council denied him permission instead of seeking Court intervention he does it his jungle way. This embecile is stupid and empty upstairs, Malawi is a democracy, governed by the law not arnachism and jungle law.
Charge him accordingly by the law kuti next time azaziwe kuti even CSOs aren’t above the law
He has been paid to cause havoc during this time of sadic meeting. You show your dirty linen in front of visitors. He just wanted to impress the donors that he is working. Stupid idiot. Chindere chakufikapo
Shame in free and Democrat societies the grounds of Parliament are owned by the citizens who have rights to hold vigils and demonstrations.
If this the freedom wanting to shame ur govt then its stupidity at its best.
Kapange iweyo, oune zimene waziona mzakoyo!
Ufuluwu amalawife tikuutengera pamgong’o
Attention seeking is a psychological disorder…
Anangomva kuti ma demo awa. The issue is the hands of Police ndiye akupupuluma chani awa.