Chilumpha faults Malawi VP Chilima on Machinga ‘shootings’ 

June 7, 2020 Stanley Nkhondoyachepa- Mana 75 Comments

Former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha, who is also Assembly for Democracy and Development (ADD) leader, has condemned the alleged shooting of unarmed civilians by the county’s estranged vice-president Saulos Chilima’s personal bodyguard in Machinga, saying it raises fears of the worst should MCP-UTM alliance leaders be elected into government.

Chilumpha: Firing unarmed civilians was frightening

Speaking at a political rally he addressed in Nkhotakota on Saturday alongside alliance partners Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) officials, Chilumpha said firing unarmed civilians was frightening.

UTM leader Chilima reportedly cancelled his campaign whistle stops in Machinga on Friday after unknown people blocked the road he was traveling.

The incident led to the shooting by Chilima’s body guards. Some people are reported to have been injured in the process.

Chilumpha told the crowd the three people shot in Machinga were in critical condition and battling for their lives in hospital.

Despite calls by different leaders, including political leaders, political violence in the country continues to rage as both, the ruling and opposition sides have their share of victimization and aggression.

“The President chose to use a bypass road in Lilongwe when people blocked his motorcade despite having the power to order his security men to use force and clear the way.

“And his running mate Atupele Muluzi recently in Mponela left the place without such incident despite people blocking his motorcade,” he said.

DPP secretary general Grezelder Jeffrey said the DPP was poised to win the court sanctioned fresh presidential election, citing a number of development projects by the DPP-led government.

UDF Member of Parliament for Nkhotakota South East, Yahard Ibrahim Sadala said President Peter Mutharika was a humble and patient leader who needed to continue ruling the country for continued peace and development.

He said the president had managed to develop the country within a few years despite finding empty coffers in government.

Speaking at the same rally, Traditional Authority Malengachanzi bemoaned lack of respect, love and justice in the country, saying it was causing problems.

He said jealous, envy and the pull him/her attitude by many Malawians was retarding development in the country.

ADD, UDF and DPP regional governors for the Centre, Kennedy Njakama, Alhaki Moyenda and David Kambalame respectively were some of the people who spoke at the rally and called on people to vote for DPP, UDF, ADD alliance torch bearer, President Mutharika during the presidential fresh election.

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75 replies on “Chilumpha faults Malawi VP Chilima on Machinga ‘shootings’ ”

  1. chilumpha hates Chilima to the core!!! Given a chance he can do bad things to Chilima. Mwinatu anawadyera mkazi nanga kuzitenga personal chonchi? Coz at every level Chilima is far much better than chilumpha.

  2. If others say chilima is vice president can’t be blocked then why the president of the republic of Malawi is blocked in Lilongwe? Talk with sense. The home of violence is central region u don’t conderm it because those violence are backed by the courts.

  3. A Chilumpha mwapusa nazoti izi, chomwemukuvutikila ndi chani za eni izi a Chilumpha.Kodi a DPP akamachoka mubomamu inu muzaloza chani poti a Lomwe ndi dyela lawo lija amatafuna okha?

  6. Chilumpha and Atupele were misinformed, there were no live bullets at Nselema shooting and Chilima with his security never reached the mentioned place. It was the Liwonde Police who used teargas carnister that landed on a lady and a certain man not live bullets. Where are these guys getting these misleading information? Eastern Region police has refuted the shooting claims…………………Nyekhweeeeeeeeeee

  7. I hear there was no shooting,,live bullets were not even used but only the teargas. The police has confirmed. So Atupere and Chilumpha are misinformed, they shld have verified with the police before rushing to criticise.

  8. There was NO LIVE SHOOTING. Mbuzi, mwasowa chabe zolankhula. If if it did happen, no one would blame VP as he doesn’t command the security to open fire BUT rather security personnels judgement of the risk. That’s the reason either head of state or VP have security. They are not there as flowers but rather provide security which if necessary, fire at enemy. You also say you fear what would happen if HE GOES INTO GOVERNMENT, really? Don’t you know that CHILIMA IS STATE VICE PRESIDENT, HENCE ALREADY IN GOVERNMENT? Koma UMBULI winawu abalee? Why don’t you blame YOUR DULL THUGS and question as to why they weren’t arrested?

  9. I feel sad that former VP Chilumpha has been in the news for wrong reasons lately rather than showing statesmanship.Whether it is former President Muluzi, Chilumpha, Joyce Banda, former vice president khumbo Kachali, please learn from what former VICE PRESIDENT RIGHT HON JUSTIN MALEWEZI does.He keeps quiet and advises quietly where necessarily.This idea of behaving like spoilt little brats that wish to be in the news even when speak BS does not earn you the respect you deserve.

  10. Chilumpha is one of the useless politicians we have in Malawi. He is both selfish and arrogant.

  12. That was a good lesson..those who block roads burn tyres snd stone vip should be treated like that. Thats a better treatment for everyone whether in mponela rumphi Ntcheu Mulanje and phalombe …‘This stupidity should stop

  13. SKC is the State Vice President. Nobody should be not be naive to threaten him or the President. Let us learn to respect these two offices. Mr Chilumpha stop comparing Atupele with SKC. Atupele ndi mwana wosaphunzira

    1. A Chilumpha is just jealous of SKC. He overrates his political stature, he maybe an astute academic or lawyer, koma ndale or u khansala kwao sangawine awa

  14. Making an effort to be relevant in the party’s hierarchy, as Dr Chilumpha is striving to do, can sometimes backfire and make person stupid.
    My understanding is that a competent security detail for VP Chilima is provided by government. The bodyguards are trained when and under which circumstances they should act. The protected person who might be a President or his Vice does not give orders for engagement.
    Don’t they say “it’s better to remain quiet and be thought of as a fool than talk rubbish and remove any doubt that you are indeed an idiot”?

  15. How are the security police officers or body guards trained? This comes from the training their receive. I don’t think the president or his vice gives them orders to shoot. They are told what to do as body guards.

  16. So you could be very happy if the vice president killed or injured by those thugs. Chilumpha is a politician with no clue but there to fill his stomach and people of nkhotakota expect nothing from you just shut up or else go back to poly and teach rather than wasting our tax payers money.
    In malawi we are very tired with such empty heads who will offer nothing to malawians but to fill their stomach.

  17. Ndizoona zakuti Chilima ndiwosawugwila mtima
    Tsopano muutsogoleli mulibe zachoncho
    Ndie kuti AMADEMO aja akanakhala mtsogoleli panthawiyo ndi Chilima
    Bwenzi atalamula kuti mupheko muombele 30 kuti awope

  18. Anthu ena ndi opppussa kwaaambili
    Zaku 24,ndi chifwamba chochita kukonza a oposition
    Ndicholinga kuti a ziipitsilana mbili pakampeni yomwe imayambika.
    Tapitani komweko ndipo muzikafunsa mwapakatikati mosaonetsa kuti mumasapota ziti
    Ngati mutafuna kudziwa zenizeni zake.
    Kapena wanani mau oti false flag

  19. Chilumpha is a waste of space. He has nothing to offer to the populace of Malawi.

    I he was to be involved in such an ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT as SKC was to fall into in Machinga, what gonna his bodyguards would have done? The answer is SIMPLE – USE ORDNANCE. The ruffians at Nselema were bent at eliminating a political figure by the name of SKC. Allah didn’t allow that and instead, some individuals got shrapnel as SACRIFICIAL LAMBS for others to get a lesson from that Allah is the most Graceful and Omnipotent. Alhandullilah

  21. A chilumpha mumandivetsa chisoni kwambiri.
    Mwafika mpaka pamenepa?
    Pomati mukayankhulira boma ndikukupatsani ya ndiwo?
    Eeeeee umphawi ndi matendadi ndithu
    I used to respect chilumpha up until he started talking nosense
    After all, he is jealousy of Chilima cos the lad has outsmarted him in everything despite him once served as a Vp as wel

  24. President Mutharika bodyguards never shot people who stoned his convoy in Ndirande. Chilima has learnt MCP violent acts.

    2. @ Guti, there is a different between the Vice President and a Thief. I think people in Ndilande they wanted to do what we call Mob justice after seeing a Thief passing by, how do you think?

  26. Who listens to this idiot former president anyway……..a poor innocent family in area 24 were petrol bombed and this idiot and the president he supports said nothing. The Vice President was stoned in Phalombe Nd chilumpha said nothing…..this is why I stoped listening to these used condom politicians.

    Those people who were shot in Machinga were sent to kill a sitting a Vice President, whoever sent these poor people to do their dirty job are the ones to blame and the people themselves who allowed themselves to be used……this should be a lesson to all those who think they are more Malawians than the rest of us.

      1. @ Bauleni ……Such ignorant speculation Fact burning tires on the porch,.
        If true Government should have made a statement of the evils of storing petrol at home. FACT Government did nothing,
        Police have failed to investigate DPP Cadets,

  27. Who the hell is this idiot, cassim get a life. We dont need ur stupid and baseless comments on anything. Go raise farm animals like pigs goats chickens etc. That job suits you more. So shut the fuxk up and disappear from politics. You are rotten politician. Expiry date has long expired just that old mbavaa moron, claiming to be the president of the country.

  29. The president and VP bodyguards are not there for decorations. So should one take pangas towards the president or VP, he or she is not unarmed. Congrats bodyguards for teaching these damn criminals.

    1. True boss. That boy is a maniac criminal in the making. How does a sane person charge over a VP motorcade throwing stones??? That idiotic boy. Those who threw stones at APM, a thief, in Ndirande were just very right. Thieves must be felt with

    2. mcp will never change with violence. we pray to GOD not bring this bad people to power.

  30. kaka inu munatha and ku ndale mulibe tsogolo. or titati tipikisane ndi ine pa u president , nditha kukuwinani live live.. sano muli pa expedition unknown with dpp.

  31. Chilumpha is expired and irrelevant!

    The VP body guards at first tried great restraint but the thugs never retreated going by the videos in circulation. They were geared at pleasing whoever had given them money.

    Again the attack on the VP convoy is happening for the second time in a week after Phalombe and Mulanje

    Chilumpha ngati wadya sikono zako izoooo…..

    Bakili Muluzi and APM should blame themselves for sending their maroons to block the road.

    This issue yachitika being because yachitikila macadet ASOVENGE

  32. Udf has been given a glimpse of hope because of the imminent death of Alamu Pumani Mwakalamba. These udf guys know that APM can’t finish his and that is the only chance left for these thugs. I have no doubt Chilumpha is an extremist. Typical of ISIS or Boko Haram or ISIS because he leads a very isolated life. Bola Muluzi is a moderate. Atupele can’t even read the Qur’an.

  33. Achitsiru Awa inu osataya nawo nthawi. Bingu adawazunza mpaka dziko osadziwa that there was a VP. The only thing we know about him is his teaching at the Polytechnic and his girlfriend Olivia Kunje whom he bought a house in area 18. APM is a dead man walking. Nzukwa. Both are useless lawyers.

  34. Ophedwayo akanakhala chilima kukamwako yasaaaaaaaa… mukumatuma anthu kuti azitero cholinga muziwapezera zifukwa???

  35. Retard expired Chilumpha and his Admarc ADD party should be told the truth. The president failed to build a bypass road in Machinga so Chilima had nowhere to go hence clearing one for himself. So please don’t block the roads again if you haven’t put bypass provisions !!

  36. Chilumpha is another expired brain still roaming this country. Not surprised he remains the weakest ever vice president . So you wanted the Yaos to kill Dr Chilima? Chilumpha think like an Associate Professor please. You were a great teacher at university but now, poverty and greedy has taken it away

  38. Chilumpha is a mad man. His girlfriend Grezzeder was involved in the famous schools project in the early years of Bakilli Muluzi government corrupting contractors and getting paid for nothing. She got a lot of money paid by Chilumpha when he was Finance Minister.
    Chilumpha also has a pending case of treason against Bingu.
    He is a dejected politician in Malawi. He is irrelevant. He is trying to be relevant. But he is a briefcase political party leader. He is one man party.
    Only Grezzeder and Chilumpha know what they want in Malawi politics. Nobody else is following this “Mfiti ” woman and her husband who seems a lunatic.
    Shame on you maybe you are smoking too much mbanje from Kotakota.

      1. You need to follow the court proceedings in any cases of the above mentioned @namulondola. The cashgate scandal mphwiyo and his other 15 are answering the case the Jet gate isn’t supported the tractor gate has its people answering even the maize gate the court found not guilty to the accused. You can go to international criminals court proceedings if not certified with the judgement made by both high court and supreme court.

        1. Zaitwa, musiye finye wachabe chabe uyu, school inamukanika ndipo amadwala misala. or ukuonapo munthu wovutika naye kuyankha pamenepo?

  41. Chilumpha Kodi akanalipo? Paja akuyankha mulandu wofuna kutiphela President wathu, akufunika timutsatile bwino mkuluyu mutu unasiya kale kuyenda. Stupid!

  43. Foseki
    The body guard did the right thing because the life of the vice president was in danger. In fact APM used the bypass because it was available but in the case of SKC there was none. We understand that Kaka was responsible for sending thugs to block the road. In fact this was also untsocial behavior

  46. Chilima is reckless. Such is the man who has done nothing in 6 years as Vice President and promises to develop the country in another 5 years? Walephera he has nothing to show Malawians that he can deliver

    1. Foseki
      Mbuyanu remember he promised that Malawi will be like Singapore. Koma madala awa ndi a bodza. The man is just too old to think properly. He came back to Malawi after spending many years abroad with only a suitcase. Koma now he is very rich with many houses.

  47. If they yawos they don’t behave shoot them the same way Bingu killed people in Northern

  48. Chilumpha ndi chigawenga amafuna kupha Bingu lero akufuna kutiuza chiani a Malawi so amafuna kupha Chilima ndiye anakakondwa

  49. Ulibe mavoti iwe. You dont have a following. You follow yourself. Ukhala choncho. Chilima is not in your lower league. Iwe saizi yako ndi Chimulilenji osati SKC. Intelligent but very unwise.

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