Chilima pays tribute to Kamuzu: Brands Malawi first leader as ‘champion of democracy’
Vice President Saulos Chilima has hailed the first President of Malawi the late Ngwazi Hastings Kamuzu Banda on Kamuzu Day – May 14 which was declared a public holiday by government – for his zeal to develop the country and that he was a brave person, who liked order, hardworking and also very decisive.
Chilima joined family members of Kamuzu Banda and president of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Lazarus Chakwera with his party officials on Wednesday honoured Kamuzu by laying wreaths at his mausoleum in the capital city.
He said Kamuzu [Alidzi] is the first champion of democracy because he allowed Malawians to vote for a multiparty democracy when he called for a referendum and then gave up gracefully to Bakili Muluzi when he lost in 1994 elections.
“Had Kamuzu not agreed to a referendum there would be no democracy. Had Kamuzu not conceeded to usher in multiparty democracy there would be no democracy. So Kamuzu is the champion of democracy in Malawi,” said Chilima, who took an active role as a university student to fight one-party dictatorship and champion multiparty democracy.
Chilima further said Kamuzu should be hailed for fighting to liberate Malawians from colonial rule and that the legacy of the Father and Founder of the Malawi nation is the fulcrum around which the country will always hold.
He said Kamuzu upon arrival in Malawi he declared that he has came to end the “Stupid Federation [Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]”.
Chilima said: “ That’s where we take our cue from; when you speak with decisiveness like when we say we will win [elections]! We mean just that we will win.”
He said: “There are three types of people; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder how things have happened. We want leaders in Malawi that make things happen not who wonder how things have happened. We do not want clueless leaders. We want people who can and who will.”
However, Chilima stressed that Kamuzu Day is an important and historic national event which must be remembered by the whole country.
Kamuzu Day falls on May 14, believed to be the birthday of Malawi’s founding Head of State.
He ruled Malawi for 31 years before losing power in 1994 to Bakili Muluzi following winds of change blowing at the time in this part of Africa.
He died in 1997 and hailed from Chiwengo village in the tobacco growing district of Kasungu.
Apart from speeches, the ceremony saw Chilima and others in wreath-laying on the tomb where Kamuzu—the country’s ruler from independence in 1964 to 1994—now rests.
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Facts:- It’s a fact that Kamuzu called for a Referendum, Its a fact that Kamuzu conceded to Muluzi after multiparty elections. Those who disagree live in their own world or were born after 1992 and can’t know. All the killings apart from late Gadama, Matenje,Chiwanga+ Twaibu Sangala are hearsay. People who can explain better about these deaths are Bakili Muluzi, Dausi, Ntaba (DPP/UDF) but pretend not to know. Those who went into exile were supposed to be compensated through an act of Parliament (24,000). But after UDF/DPP politicians pocketed the money (500) the rest (23,500) have been left in the cold to this day. Who is the real Satan?????
Kamuzu who refused to go for 30+ years and only called a referendum because he was too old he was shitting himself and had lost his trusted allies support?? osamayankhula zopusa!!!
called a referendum after brain surgery and became so frail he was frequently falling down when inspecting a guard of honor. Kamuzu ruined malawi
This is one of the foolshiest comment I have seen. We’re not there when Kamuzu with his concubine on the bench.
what democracy is this guy talking a bout? he is getting confused now talk of kamuzu on other sectors not democracy . cheap politics.
Those killed by Kamuzu Banda and MCP regime – Aaron Gadama, Dick Matenje, Twaibu Sangala, David Chiwanga, Yatuta Chisiza, Atati Mpakati, Orton Chirwa (imprisoned and killed), Aleke Banda (imprisoned) Gwanda Chakuamba (imprisoned) Sam MPasu (imprisoned) ……. the list goes on up to over 100, 000 people
Our poor subsistence farmers had readily available structured markets for their farm produce under Kamuzu unlike these days when they are robbed by market vendors
This current years is 2020 the world is moving on from smoking tobacco. Move along. Even Kamuzu would tell you
Kamuzu and John Tembo belong at the International Criminal Court for crimes against Humanity and Mcp disbanded!! Not celebrating this nonsense that brutalised people.
Maybe lack of maturity or political experience but every time Chilima speaks it’s mostly trash. One day Lazarus Chakwera will get enough of this. Watch this space.
Listen to what the VP said, don’t just bark like useless cadets.
Vice means on behalf of somebody
So when you do not agree with the body
You can not be vice anymore
Vice of who
You accept to be vice and later you disunite Malawi by thinking you are deputy
President wanu akugona ku nyumba zomanga kamuzu,akuchoka pampando pa 2 July opanda kumanga chinthu chooneka ndi maso,
Nzake ndi bakili kumangomanga mipanda ya masukulu omanga anzake 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TAX payers money and card money for something as simple as crossing a bridge or entering a market. people paid with their freedoms, while he built himself compounds and impregnated white women and built them houses.
March 18,1990 police shot dead 20 people during protest in kawale… Many of the victims we passers-by whose crime was they witnessed the protest.
T/A failed to control his tongue during 1973 mcp convention in mzuzu, bandas militia mercilessly beat him and arrested him. He was deposed as chief and replaced by his son. Mwase was sent to prison where he died. His chiefdom was divided into with a bigger chunk given to another man who was not a chief at all.
Chilima sold his brain to mcp but should not mock Malawians.
Is dictatorship one branch of Democracy? Chamba ichi. Can you review your notes when you were at Chanco and you seemed to fight for DEMOCRACY IN MALAWI. Which democracy did HKB championed. Probably you were mocking your Boss Chakwera? ARE YOU NOW OPPOSING THE BISHOPS AND ALL PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL who fought for Democracy?
Kamuzu a Democrat? But this business called politics sizinthu ndithu
Oooo mayo mayo mayo, baby chilima is indeed a professional shameless liar. Or was this Arafat Hamdan born in 1993 kapena? Does chilima know the meaning of democracy at all? Awatu kuwasiyira boma akhoza kumangotibwatika nalo bodza.
Iwe chilima ngati uli mwana chonde werenga mabuku a history. Or ask Catholic Bishops who kamuzu was. Pathological liar kachilima. Shame!!!!
We were paying K10 Tution Fee in Secondary Schools. Selection was on merit my two good friends of mine went to Kamuzu Academy BUT nobody could question their selection cos they were the cream of the crop yet coming from the disadvantaged families. That was Kamuzu.
My father had to change his name to sound Chichewa like to be selected to secondary school. Shut your mouth u folks who never experienced anything
A lot of people who lost fathers and mothers and gogos will beg to differ from the glory you and your fellow tribes men enjoyed.
You must have been living on different planet. My neighbours had the thickest children alive in those days. They all ended up at HHI. Chichiri sec. BSS even after failing primary school leaving certificate. Many who selected cheated after being handed exams papers in advance by the mcp fathers and corrupt maneb officials. Secondary schools were full of mcp party children who never passed exams. Proof is the quality of people in public service now . Useless. All beneficiaries of that corruption. Kamuzu academy was full of mcp officials children too. In my school those selected to take part in entrance exams for academy were children of mcp officials, sons and daughters of teachers and headmaster or those who had connections to government officials. Our universities churned out useless characters hence lack of development and leadership in malawi today. Universities are supposed to educate. Tell me how many of the graduates have gone on to build industries. Excel in science. Adminstration. Arts. Legal and justice. Engineering. Very few. They all wait to be employed by somebody else and once in steal /Rob and lazy about. That’s kamuzu legacy.
Kamuzu was as bad and as good just like all of us the only thing that made him exceptional is the fact that he was a very good leader like no other in the history of malawi. You can point on a man’s weakness but you can’t take away his achievements, it will be along time coming before another leader like him will stand in front us yet we’ve already experienced the same dictatorship we hated in him from those we expected otherwise.
You know what, the biggest idiots are those who despise and hate a man but they sleep in a house built by him, and the worst idiots are those who praise useless leaders who are failing to provide basic medicines in hospitals yet they are stealing billions from you, with the same billions they fly themselves and their families overseas for treatment when you and your families die like cockroaches.
Multiparty governments in malawi have killed more people than Kamuzu through hunger/malnutrition and failing to provide medication in public hospitals where the poor masses faces unnecessary deaths as a result.
He was good because nobody could do or speak as they wished. Those who disagreed were killed
Good reasoning!
You are an idiot. You probably were not born when people were being harassed left right and centre by those bandits or maybe you were part of them. Being murdered just for religion. Being murdered for building houses on hills. People were being killed and thrown into the shire river. Corpses being pulled out at nkula in the siltation dams . When that occured the powers that be would arrive to do away with the evidence and people just turned a blind eye. Let us accept what happened and not cover up. It’s a huge step in reconciliation.
These 2 tambala opinions of urs had no place in Dr Banda’s time. People disappeared for merely saying “ mdala uja “ at bars as this was taken as disrespect at the old and ageing Ngwazi. He was a brutal dictator who caused misery to a lot of people. It’s a mockery to be celebrating this nonsense. He belongs at the international criminal court.
Martin I pat your back, Tell and Educate these Bafoons.
Am not surprised with what this Zeze is saying. He is preparing Malawian to embrace the Kamuzu style of leadership. If he is saying Kamuzu was a champion of democracy when many people were killed for simply exercising their freedom of speech, surely we have eveey reason to be afraid of MCP taking the mantle of power.
If he says Kamuzu was the champion of democracy when people had no freedom to assemble nor to form political parties then none should be surprised to conclude that voting MCP into government will be the death of democracy in Malawi.
In short elevating Kamuzu to the status of being a champion of democracy is an insult to Malawi both living and dead who withstood the pangs and horrors of the dictatorship of MCP headed by Kamuzu for 30 solid years!
Some Malawians do have short memories indeed. Or maybe selective memory to suit the alliance with MCP. This nonsense from chilima makes my blood boil. Kamuzu was no democrat. Life President. A man who imprisoned and forced opponents into exile. A man who thought he hand entitlement to women to the point of forcing them to dance for him on his stupid engagements. would you have been happy to let your wife/mum/sister shake their booties for that old man and his cronies. School children forced to miss schools and line up for him to clap hands as he cruised past in luxury rolls royce and bentleys. A man who claimed everything belonged to him. Multiparty acceptance was forced on to him he had no choice. The winds had chnaged and his grip on power like all dictators had wained. The myp and youth league were all aging and unable to continue their terror. Malawi should have been further in the 31 years he had a grip on power. He failed. He surpressed knowledge by forcing everyone to accept the chewa analogy as a foundation of a whole nation. Noone could watch TV as he was afraid peoples eyes would be opened up. Please Chilima do not rewrite history. Speak to victims of Kamuzu terror and hear what they have to say. Cut this crap you have lost my respect now. I was gonna vote for you guys but now you have reminded me that crocodiles and snakes never change.
Shut up idiot siukudziwa chimene ukunena
Dausi ali kutiko????
Chilima akunena zoona. Yang’anani nyumba zaokhala ogwira ntchito mBoma, maofesi aboma, misewu, sitima zammadzi mmene zinkayendera, ndege mmene zimkayendera, kamuzu kumvomereza referendum ndiponso kamuzu kumvomere kulephera chisankho cha 1994. Kodi zikuchitika panozi ndidemocrase?
Chilima is right!! Kamuzu accepted when he lost elections. Kamuzu paved a way to Muluzi.
Not Zinazi mpakana kubela election kukafika ku Court. Well done Chilima for saying that.
He accepted because he was a foreigner like Hamdan himself. History is very important
Rubbish Cilima. Were you there when people we were being killed and toutchered? Then you call that Democracy.Kukamwa ngati chimbudzi. Undilakwisa Galu iwe. You don’t know how much we suffered during this idiot Kamuzu. He was the worst dictator in Africa
Stop that nosense. I will never vote for Mcp. I have changed my mind. He called us from the north that its dead north.
Nosense
Ma Cadet keep on Wasting your Time …Kamuzu akanatokhala ngati Mbwiye Wanuyu sanakatolola kuchoka pa Mpando….Mutoona ngati Tippex Kunalibe .Just look at what DPP and Jane Ansah are Doing to Understand that It Takes a Democrat to Have Free and Fair Elections .It takes a Democrat and Statesman to level the playing Field ….Pali Yemwe anakalimba Mtima ndi Kumuuza Kamuzu kuti Bwana tibere Zisankho ? None .People around Him knew that the Guy Valued Integrity and Honour …
He was tired and rejected from all angles
What sbout thise who are being killed today???????
The story is about Kamuzu being called the champion of democracy. It’s bullshit and one has to be an arsehole to believe it
Good question.
Bull shit you and I were in chancol . Remember the happenings of 1992. Why did you join Dumbo Lemani. Mwanayi wapengadi. Power hungry basi
Chamba
Chilima you continue to prove that you are an opportunist, power hungry power grabber. You are a liar and a detestable person. May history judge you to be from the gutters. In fact as a gutter rat
Kamuzu champion of democracy? Everyone knows that is not true. You are saying that simply because you are part of that camp now. People died for speaking against Kamuzu. Others for no reason at all other than being a threat: Gadama, Matenje, Sangala. Kamuzu was NOT a champion of democracy!!!!!!
Malawians are still suffering even now, there are good things to remember Kamuzu. We need people to have powers of uplifting the poor.Not kuwabera amalawi.Education system was good during Kamuzu.There are reasons to celebrate if a person want,ndizotheka Kut omwe anamuzungulira Kamuzu ndiwomwe amapha amalawi Koma zonse zimakathera Kwa president.
So, we are all going to vote for Jane Ansah for president! Zeze, too.
Champion of democracy Hon VP are you serious was there democracy in the day of Kamuzu really. Your arrogance in the days of Kamuzu was abomination which could have helped you to stay in one of his luxurious hotels Mikuyu Dzaleka Mpyupyu. Anadi ndiachibwana Chikugwa’s bravery when you were doing kindergarten is what freed us from his so called democracy by you. Think before you talk to pease your political bedfellows it shows you not serious you don’t know or you don’t bother what Malawian went through during his despotic diabolic inhuman reign just because you want to be a speciality VP
We need to avoid M CP they are as bad as Kamuzu from Nkhata Bay Mangochi and Ntcheu.
Bulutu. Wazelezeka eti. FOTSEKI with you Malawi CROCODILES party
koma abale. which champion of democracy? Were you not there what happened during the over 30 Years of Kamuzu rule. Koma zinazi ukamava abale.
The ragamaffin was in Mozambique so he doesn’t know anything.
This will backfire and will haunt chilima his whole political life. This is a huge mistake. Sometimes it’s like he doesn’t think things through, just does things for the moment. Celebrating a dictator are you serious?????
Celebrating a dictator just to get votes. He he he God has left the group chat.
What nonsense
Chilima stop lying to Malawians. Kamuzu didn’t develop that country Malawi. He built 7 state residences which is madness because he was a bachelor like him. He owned 40% of Malawi economy and left millions in poverty. Love mcp it is your right, but don’t laugh in the face of Malawians because they suffered under kamuzu
How can someone Own 40 percent of an Economy ….and leave People in Poverty ? Was that 40 percent in his Bank Account or Under his Bed ? ….He left companies which are Employing People up to Now…although some like Press Agriculture have gone under …Compare that with Some leaders that Have Died with Billions in their accounts or under their beds …..Mukamatoba ndalamazo pangani ma company alimbe anthu Ntchito …Ntchito zamanja ake zimatomuchitira umboni…
The 7 state residences were built for Malawi government and are still being used by govt. to this day, anything wrong then??? The infrastructures built under him are there for all to see and use-Still being used by current generation including capital hill. Are yu a Malawian????