Concerns citizens back Chakwera over ‘Mutharika has failed’ remarks
A group of men and women from the central region calling themselves concerned citizens have warned chiefs who recently attacked Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader of opposition Lazarus Chakwera to stay away from politics.
The chiefs who were led by Paramount Chief Lundu held a news conference reportedly funded and organised by government at Bridge View Hotel in Lilongwe, which was covered by state-controlled media including MBC TV to attack Chakwera following the leader of opposition’s earlier statement in which he described President Peter Mutharika as a failure.
On Wednesday, the group told news organisations in Lilongwe that they are not amused with the chief’s conduct, saying what they meddling in politics was against the Chewa culture because even the Chewa King Kalonga Gawa Undi does not allow his chiefs to take part in partisan politics.
“Chakwera was speaking for us the ordinary people over the problems rocking this country, such as water electricity, high maize price and other social economic problems,” said one of the concerned citizens Jabesi Malungama.
“W e will find ways to report these 13 traditional authorities (T/As) to His Majesty Kalonga Gawa Undi and am sure he will discipline them,” he added.
Malungama said his business is currently dead as a butcher man because he cannot keep the meat in fridges due to epileptic power blackouts..
Another concerned citizens Roderick Banda said people in the villages have high expectations from chiefs.
“But these chiefs have overstepped their mandate as custodians of culture and if that is the case let them leave their posts and join front line politics,” said Banda.
The concerned citizens have since asked government to address the concerns which Chakwera raised other than sending the chiefs as attack dogs on behalf of the President.
But in an interview, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa said he cannot comment because he is not aware of the chiefs meeting.
“Can you ask the chiefs themselves because am not aware of that meeting,” said Nankhumwa.
Some of the chiefs who were present during the press conference include; Paramount Chief Lundu, Senior Chief Nthondo, Senior Chief Tsabango, Senior Chief Dzoole, Senior Chief Lukwa, T/A Mwase, Senior Chief Kalonga, Senior Chief Dambe, Senior Chief Kaomba, Senior Chief Kasakula, T/A Chauma, Senior Chief Khombedza, T/A Chapananga, and T/A Mwase.
In his address to the nation, Chakwera said the President is living in a fantasy in what he described as a ‘Mutharika Republic’, whose capital is the State House, where he is enjoying himself while Malawians are enduring a great deal of suffering under his administration.
In response to Chakwera’s statement, government came out with guns blazing accusing him of provoking and insulting the President.
Government has since been mobilising several interest groups, including church leaders to be on state-controlled MBC TV castigating Chakwera.
But Chakwera defended his statement, saying he spoke for Malawians, who are suffering, and are the best judges of Mutharika’s achievements.
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Somebody with dead-brains,ponders that Chakwera will rule Malawi after 2019 elections.This is day dream.Malawians had enough of the dreaded MCP under brute Hastings Mphonongo Banda.Handreds of innocent Malawians were brutally killed,some became crocodiles’ lunch,supper or breakfast.Mind you,these were Malawians,Africans and aboveall,human beings to meet such inhuman and abhorrent demise.Chakwera does not feel in his blood the sufferings of Malawians under Banda’s most tyrannical regime in Africa,but what he is after,is power and money and again,this is the motive that coerced him to abandon the services of GOD.He boasts,himself that MCP brought development to Malawi.What humbug the high Priest wants Malawians to believe? If Presidential Palaces are developments,then he is not fit to be the next President.Malawians are tired of being ruled by zealots and thieves,please comes 2019,Malawians do not vote for Chakwera and his murderous and tribalistic MCP and remember the 32 years the people of Malawi had suffered under the rogue regime of Bnda,there is nothing Chakwera will do to uplift the lives of Malawians,but he is fighting for his own economic well-being.Malawians,wakeup,we have been hoodwinked for so long,we must not allow the Muthalikas,the Bakilis,Bandas to rule us like slaves which earned us the names: Mabwidi in SHONA MEANS,”FOOLS” and in SWAHILI, “WASHENZI” which means also “FOOLS”,but our brothers and sisters in Zimbabwe live in hell under Mugabe’s brutal and corrupt regime Afrca has ever seen.”FORWARD AFRICA AND LONG LIVE BELOVED MOTHER MALAWI”
Lukwa anali kopolo wanga pa c company ku Moyale Barracks ndipo anali munthu wakuba zedi atachoka apo anayamba bizinesi yogulitsa zovala za ku Tanzania ndipo amabweretsa ku Cobbe Barracks ndikumazigulitsa mwachinyengo ndipo anandiberako ine ndi malemu Mtaya atatinamiza kuti akatitengera zobvala ku TZ KOMA WOMWEWO sanabwerenso ndiyeno aliyense vomamvera this STD8 Malawi Army x corporal akungothandizira kuzunza mtundu wa a Malawi Malangizo anga ndi oti inu a corporal Banda chonde lekani nkhanza zija mumachitira atsilikali anjanu zija asilikali aja anali ochepa koma aMalawi ndi ambiri Mulungutu akuona zimenezi ndipo inu aku Kasungu mumati muli ndi mfumu kunena mfitiyi ndiye ngati ziri chomwecho nonse ndi afiti because like disolves like
He is useless Chief, an embarrassment to society.
CHIEFS IN MALAWI ARE A SETBACK & IRRELAVANT TO DEMOCRACY. HOW CAN THE WHOLE CHIEF ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE PARADED ON MEDIA,EMBARRASSING HIMSELF FOR MONEY. THE MONEY WILL FINISH BUT THE SHAME WILL REMAIN. SHAME SHAME ON YOU!
Don’t confuse people with your nasty tribalism,, those who vote are Malawians, never be fooled that in 2019,we will vote just because A peter ndi mlomwe, tazindikira kuti utsogoleri sintundu wamunthu ai, ,,,koma nzeru ndi umunthu wake wamunthuyo,,,,,..never think kuti popeza ndachokera Ku mulanje ,ndiyekuti iam qualified to be Malawi president, no no,no ,even aku thyolo ndi chiladzulo tikugona ndi njala,,,,,,pitalayo sitinamuone akubweretsa even ka basin ka chimanga,kupatsa anthu osauka,,,,,, kodi akuona ngati kusamamala anthu ndi kumanga misewu, ndikuba ndalama zaboma. Ai Ife anthu mmidzimu tikuvutika kwambiri,,, nkhani yake njala…,…….ndiye don’t fool us with you tribalism strategies,,,,,, they will take you no where,,,,,,,, amalawi ndife anthu amodzi tonse tikuvutika ndi njala limodzi,,,, tikudziwa ndipo tikuona,………..2019 tikusankha capable leaders only,,,not just staying in state house,, you claim iam a president..,. Southern region yake yiti?you think ndife ng’ombe ZANU eti,,anyapapi inu,,,,. Ife aku south tinamuchotsa KAMUZU pampando, mogwirizana ndi zigawo zonse,,,,,,,,,nokhanso mukudziwa support yomwe kamuzu tinamupatsa mu zaka 31,,,,,,,,,tinamuchotsa chifukwa cha ulamuliro wa nkhanza, osati kulephera chitukuko. Chitukuko amakwanitsa, koma tinasankha UDF, kufuna kusintha ulamuliro……ndiye sitingavote chifukwa choti wina ndi mulomwe kapena muyao , kapena mtumbuka ai,,, oramula pano muyiwale vote ya tribalism…. Its over, enough is enough. We voted kamuzu out, we can’t fail to dismantle oppressive regime, now. We all Malawians will fight for a good cause. Yours ngoloñgoliwa ya Ku phalombe DPP2019 maliro.
Kodi a ddp mykutsimikiza bwanji kuti mdzwina? Mukuwona mayiko amene kunali mavoti, awina ndi aboma kapena otsutsa? Mudzachita manyazi mutayandama. Mukaberetu, koma Mulungu aliko akuwona momwe anthu ake akuvutikira. Ndipo adzayankha. Mavutowa akhala mtolo osasezeka kumene tikupita, adzakhala a who are you. Mpaka mudzapangaso ndalama ina yayikulu yoposera K2,000. Kuyendetsa boma simasewera ai. Mwaziwona, ndipo sizidati.
Lukwa and Kaomba mumatsogolera zopusa mwanva? Mulungu akuwoneni ndithu ndipo achitepo kanthu pa dyera lomwe mumachita inu. Boma loyipa ili koma inu mungamayamikire zowona? Ndalama zomwe amakupatsanizo zikusowetseni mtendere
Lukwa tikutimbenge, wapulika iwe mchewe lukwa na mchewe zinyinu monse. Guys lets work under the ground and give these ignorant chiefs a bitter lesson. one by one not all at once
nakhumwa sangayankhe nayeso is an arse hole licker ya dpp. inu mafumu dikilani mnkuja buno.
paja wankulu akakhala kuipa kumuuza kwake kumavuta olo udzele mmbali sazindikilatu koma kukalowa mphepo amadzaziwa kuti wa
I think Malawian chiefs they have been engulfed with politics
and big,strong buns from government side.
Government you are loosing marks through attacking opposition
it means you have failed to rule this COUNTRY.Please step down
the tools
MALAWI IS HOPELESS IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS SOMALIA,….
H O P E L E S S!.
Dangerous lawless primitive place
Only Chewa Chiefs? Some thing fishy here. Does this mean all other Chiefs are in agreement with what Chakwera said? Someone is being used like a condom here. Just following as the stories unfold.
Those who think Chakwera will rule this country should give us reasons for his win in 2019. Just give 3 things which shows that he has chances of winning the seat in 2019. And say why these winning chances were not there in 2014. E,mpty tins make a lot of noise. The Chakwera supporters are in their dreams and will stick to these dreams till the voting day when they will wake up to another defeat. The DPP can give lots of evidence as signs that they will have another win in 2019. Don’t talk of electricity, water, university fees, high commodity prices as things which will make people not to vote for APM. Malawians do not vote for what a candidate will do for them. If APM goes to Nkando today and tells people there that he cant see what to do for them in 2019. And Chakwera comes to the same area promising them 100 kiosks if he wins, obviously during elections people of Nkando will still go for their man APM. This is Malawi not America or Britain. This is why we are saying Chakwera with his central region votes he can not win any election in Malawi.
You could be empty tin yourself for defending mediocre leadership the country is having
By fronting chewa chiefs only, it ONLY shows that fumbling dpp knows where the real power lies.They can not use ngolongoliwa the only romwe chief.DPP is afraid of chewa voters and the fight will become dirty because they will start killing opponents in the centre soon.You can not cling to your romwe greed and then expect chewas to vote for you.
MAFUMU ACHICHEWA NDINU ZITSIRU, AGALU. INU MULUNENETSA KUTI
PETER DZIKOLI AKULAMULIRA BWINO? CHIBOMA CHA TSAKHO NGATI
ICHI INE SINDIDACHIONEPO CHIBADWIRENI.
MAFUMU NONSE PITANI KWA ANTHU OZITSATA AKUUNIKIRENI MMENE
DPP IKUYENDETSERA BOMA. MUDZADABWA. AGALU A DPP
SIOFUNIKA SAPOTA YANU OLO PANG’ONO.
CHIMENE WANAMA CHAKWERA NDI CHIYANI. ZOTI MA BUSINESS
ODALIRA MAGETSI AKULOWA PANSI CHIFUKWA MAGETSI AKUNGITHIMA-
MATHIMA NDI ZA BODZA?
NANGA MMAKUKA MWANUMO NDI ANGATI AMENE AKUTHA KUPITA
KU ADMARC KUKAGULA CHIMANGA?
INU NDI BOMA KUTI MUZIKAMBA ZA MAGETSI KUYIKIRA KUMBUYO DPP?
ZIMENEZO ASIYIRENI A NICHOLAS DAUSI NDI ANZAWO OSATI INU.
Correction: It’s Genesis 6 v 5. Not Genesis 5 v 5.
Lundu is but a rotten asshole.He neuseats me.A man who is more greedy than the devil himself and fact Lundu is the devil incarnate.
I am shocked with this. My question is are you having conscious Chiefs. Justify (40 marks). How relevant are you in our democracy? (25 marks).
In line with questions above, we should review the role of our chiefs in our democracy. They fight for useless things. They are believed to be very corrupt. Giving them senate will be a waste of resources. Kikikikik
Which concerned citizens? Just say “Achewa” – we, the Lhomwes, are there for 2019 DPP landslide victory. Dzikoli tagawanapo basi – Keep talking, we are listening and you will hear our voice in May 2019 through the ballot box.
Chewa chiefs mitu yanu sikungwira ntchito bwinobwino eti? Maka inu a Dambe ndichani chomwe chasintha ku Mchinji DPP Chitengereni dzikoli? samalani malankhulidwe anu
All Chewas and tribes of centre region are ashamed of Chewa chiefs who were paraded on MBC TV. Its a disgrace to the region and tribe.
How can a thinking chief trust and support Dirty Peoples’ Party. A party characterised by evil, massive corruption, inefficiency, hunger, tribalism, poverty, nepotism, regionalism. Lundu by the way isn’t a Chewa. My history tells us he is Mang’anja and he should have used his lower Shire Mang’anja chiefs for his sinister agenda. May Gawa Undi whip the nutty chiefs!!
Either the chiefs are cheating Dirty Peoples Party henchmen because they know their subjects who they claim to represent are politically inclined to MCP. Their MPs and counselors are all MCP. And you cant separate culture and development from politics because it is politics that shapes development and influences one’s culture. We will record the shameful characters of these greedy chiefs in our history. May our children and children of our children know how some few misguided chiefs acted towards a party of wolves. History will judge, shame and condemn them
If Chakwera was wise enough he would have respected himself by taking it easy on APM. We don’t need Chakwera to tell us that Escom is not doing the job. We don’t need him to tell us that prices of goods are high. We even don’t need his press conference for us to know that there is water problem in Malawi. We can see all these things clearly and we know that after 5 years we will be asked to choose who we think can end these problems. So its just a waste of time for him talking about something which has its procedures if we need a change. However, I don’t blame him for keeping on making noise because this is the only way he can make himself known that he is there. But surely he knows that this noise will never make him win the 2019 elections, especially with only votes from one region.
you r lacking intergrity unfortunately there is no school for that ,,,,, the best you can do is to know Jesus .
This is a sad news and unfogetarble sinalio to these Chewa chiefs. What made you to do that? Whom were you representing at that meeting? Your people from your desinations or who? Do you want to tell Malawians that your people whom you represented are not suffering with present predicament? What realy were you opted to? Chiefs why are happy when people are in living in measery life? Do you fear God? What you should know, what you did, The Almighty God saw you. Gennesis 5 v 5. So you are happy to see blackouts, poor economy, warer shottage, no enough drags in hospitals, hunger, rising of goods, bus fare, fees which caused other Colleges shut and lectures are getting their monthly salaries from tax payers money of innoncent Malawians, while students are loafing at home and they don’t know when Poly shall be opened. Then you celebrate that things are good. Chiefs you should always be good leaders to your people and protect them, by asking the Government to give them better things for their lives. That’s how a good and perfect father should do to his family. Cry and seek right and proper Wisdom from Almighty God always to guide you.
Bola tisungitse maina a mamfumu amenewa kulipammawa mtsogolomu.mongobwereza popeza ndiyo imawala: 1.Paramount Lundu-Chikw 2.SC Nthondo- Ntchisi 3.SC Tsabango- Lilongwe 4.SC Dzoole- Dowa 5.SC Lukwa- Kasungu 6.TA Mwase- Kasungu 7.SC Kalonga- Salima 8.SC Dambe- Mchinji 9.SC Kaomba- Kasungu 10.SC Kasakula- Ntchisi 11.TA Chauma – Dedza 12.SC Khombedza- Salima 13.TA Chapananga Chikwawa This is de list, they are just very few out of more than 170 chewa Chiefs in Malawi, lets memorize dem for future use. Yoo Gawaaa!
Yo gawa
Which group is this now? Very interesting; I guess this is Chakwera’s group to counter the group of chiefs that told him brutal facts! Kkkkk! Kachepa kagulu aka mwa mafumu kkkk!!
You see chiefs are our number 1 government and you can’t remove them out of the equation. They do have what you many call silly power because if they would want to punish you with this silly power,you can feel their relevance.
Chiefs authorize grave digging, rejection of funerals for unknown people whose relatives claim them to be the village citizens, authorizing entry into a village for those who purchase and register land, refusing marriages and wedding traditions that do not abide with village tradition etc.
And for those of you in diaspora or living in towns and are totally disconnected from these chiefs, you would feel painfully if a chief is rejecting you and nothing you can do to enforce your way. He is a Chief with traditional power and protected by law and fortified Indunas.
So don’t say that they are irrelevant pamene mukafa komwe muliko ndi pamene abale anu amafuna mukaikidwe kwanu komweko kwa mafumuko. Ndi pamene angakhaulitse abale anu pa maliro anu.
This is a sad news and unfogetarble sinalio to these Chewa chiefs. What made you to do that? Whom were you representing at that meeting? Your people from your desinations or who? Do you want to tell Malawians that your people whom you represented are not suffering with present predicament? What realy were you opted to? Chiefs why are happy when people are in living in measery life? Do you fear God? What you should know, what you did, The Almighty God saw you. Gennesis 5 v 5. So you are happy to see blackouts, poor economy, warer shottage, no enough drags in hospitals, hunger, rising of goods, bus fare, fees which caused other Colleges shut and lectures are getting their monthly salaries from tax payers money of innoncent Malawians, while students are loafing at home and they don’t know when Poly shall be opened. Then you celebrate that things are good. Chiefs you should always be good leaders to your people and protect them, by asking the Government to give them better things for their lives. That’s how a good and perfect father should do to his family.
peter akupita 2017 mfune msafune that guy is a dead man walking.
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I had a vision about the same.
A Kaomba ndi a Lukwa mumatipangitsa manyazi kukasungu kuno pa nkhani za ndale. Dyera lamtumdu wanji lili ndi inu mafumu awirinu pa zandale. Boma lili lonse always mumakhala pa frontline za ndale kubakira boma ndi nyasi zomwe chifukwa chani. Mukuoneka kuti ndinu ma politician osati mafumu amene ndimadziwa ine ayi. Anthu tikulira ndi cost of living pamene yafika pano, madzi mmene adulira, magetsi kudula ndi kuthimathima, inu ndemukuti mumakatumikira kapena kukayankhulira ndani ku conference yanuko? Munauza ndani kuti mukupita kumeneko ndipo mumakayankhula zokhumba za ndani apart from zanu? A Kaomba, graduate like you koma school sinakupindulireni. Ife mwatitopetsa ndi khalidwe lanu lonyasa. Mudzamufunatu Chakwera 2019 ndipo mudzachita manyazi. Chosecho kutengeka ndi masikono anakuikani mkamwamo.
By parading the chewa chiefs into attacking front against a chewa leader who is speaking matters of a nation,what does it mesns and who sponsoted these chiefs?
It mesns those who sponsored them are more tribalistic than patriotric.It means those whose sponsorerd them are determined to divide and rule. It means the poor chewa chiefs dignity is in tartars.We can draw many meanings from this.
Free advice: avoid tribes in dealing with political issues.A hole on dike lead to the collapse of the dike..The use of tribes in Malawi can lead to choes. Find altenative ways than this.From look of things, the chewa people seem to be furious towards what their chiefs have done. Happy new year,2017. THINK ALOUD.
Kutengera umbuli wa mafumu the walking devil dpp is using them, it is wise for us to know who these chiefs are, they are useless and stupid, very immature so that they are manipulated by dull dpp cowards. God is not a coward so that He can also be manipulated by this evil dpp. These chiefs are cursed and will face the consequences very soon. GOD IS IN CONTROL
Mungolalatapo oChewa inu! Mukudziwa 2019 simuwothela! You are starring an embarassing electoral defeat the likes of the one you suffered in 200 and you would do everything to throw tantrums over nothing and everything. MCP will never rule this country from a central region vote yokha. That party is now a Central Region Nyau Club if you like osati a serious contender for national leadership. That is the serious truth and reality which you should learn to live with.
Mafumu sakulakwapo – they worked with Bakili, they worked with Bingu, worked with Joyce Banda, and now working with Prof Mutharika. Where is the problem? Gawa Undi kumene works with the government of the day there is absolutely nothing amiss here.
Mutharika inherited a bankrupt government with nothing in the fiscus. Joyce Banda and PP looted ndalama zonse. Kenaka atsamunda they refuse with their money what is Mutharika supposed to do?.
Mutharika is doing his very best under the circumstances and should be commended for getting this country this far. Bomali likanagwa kale kale as it hobbles on without crucial budgetary support. Zoti walephela you are simply casting nasty aspersions like Dausi said. I don’t see kuti walephela pati.
We cannot continue as a country of beggars. We have the human capital, we have the intellect, we have the resources as a country and we should use the same to develop our own country. Donor support is not an infinite ndi iyo akukana ndi ndalama zawo.
We should be appreciating his efforts and stop all the hullabaloo and unintelligent noises about nothing. The reality is Malawi does not have any serious opposition to unseat DPP that is the reality and learn to live with it maBP akuchepelani!
Palibe chimene Mafumu mupindulepo chifukwa amalawi anataya chikhulupiliro mwainu Khalani pheee muzaluzira limodzi ndipo mwaziwika