Dausi sues Chilima for defamation over ballot torching allegations

May 8, 2019 Wanga Gwede- Nyasa Times 45 Comments

Minister of Homeland Security, Nicholas Dausi, has filed a lawsuit against  State vice-president and UTM Party  presidential candidate Saulos Chilima for defamation over the 2014 Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC)  warehouse torching allegations made against Dausi.

Dausi: Sues

Defamation is a “cause of action”: a basis for commencing litigation and seeking a remedy from a court.

Chilima  made the claims during a campaign rally in  Chtipa last week that the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)  was behind the missing of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at MEC offices in Lilongwe, saying he was “not surprised” that people broke into MEC offices in Area 3, Lilongwe and went away with the CCTV cameras  “because it is the same DPP, led by Nicholas Dausi, that set a MEC warehouse on fire in 2014.”

The UTM leader challenged Dausi or DPP to sue him over the claims “ if they want to”, saying “we shall meet in court.”

Now, Dausi, who had initially downplayed Chilima’s remarks as campaign talk, has decided to sue for defamation.

Ironically, Chilima was in the governing DPP when, on the night of July 15 2014, fire burnt the warehouse and destroyed some property, including ballot boxes scheduled for a vote recount in a contested Lilongwe City South East parliamentary election.

MEC declared DPP’s Bently Namasasu as winner of the parliamentary poll with 10 956 votes against Malawi Congress Party’s (MCP) Ulemu Msungama‘s 10 854, a difference of 102 votes.

But two days before a High Court hearing of the case, which followed a failed recount due to an injunction restraining MEC from going ahead with the process, the warehouse caught fire.

Hours after the arson, both MEC and MCP said they suspected arson.

Special Assistant to Chilima, Milward Tobias, said that the vice-president  has not yet been served with the court documents.

Legal experts say the mere threat of litigation, or the burden of defending litigation, might be just as valuable as a court order: each may serve as a political weapon.

For politicians, re-election – or being voted out – is a far more potent remedy than a damages award from a court.

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45 replies on “Dausi sues Chilima for defamation over ballot torching allegations”

  2. Dausi, SKC wouldn’t have made such damming revelations unless he had credible evidence. Muyaluka and, with you, APM/DPP.

  3. People please read the game.
    Dausi is being clever. By taking this issue to court he has an excuse not to answer or comment on this matter. All he will be saying is he cannot comment as the matter is in court. Basi duu.

  4. The problem with many here is umbuli and kusayenda to different countries. If people followed politics in Europe, America, Canada and Australia bwezi zopusa zilipo kwathu kuno kulibe. Chilima is coming from the same family of thieves. He is still using government taxes and doing literally nothing to be enjoying the resources of tax payers. We are giving a bad example to our children. Do people in America and Europe earn money for cheating? What is wrong with Malawi? We clap hands for this. Chilima was not forced out dpp like the way Chilumpha and JB were. Yet we want to give such a man power.

  6. Poor Malawians, just making noise for nothing, you don’t even bother to read the constitution of the land you live in.

  7. DPP burns evidence in all cases! Maizegate, Escomgate etc.! That’s their style.

  8. Let Saulosi Chilima also tell Malawians that 2014 elections were rigged in favour of him APM. MCP just buy a lot of whisky he will vomit the beans of 2014. Ndumbidwa sizingalamule dziko taa.

  9. Adausi samalani, mwana uyu atha kukaku sheretsani ku khothi, don’t downplay him, he seems to have done his homework quiet well, don’t forget he was once in your blue camp, he knows all the corners! ohoooooo muziona!

  10. Everyone here says SKC has evidence. I thought the court has asked him to go present his evidence in his defense. Akapereketu. It’s that easy. Sizowophyezana that he has this or that. He is a man of his word so let him produce the evidence. Ena mukuti ma plan, anyamata amene anatumidwa this and that. Let them take the evidence kwa judge kuti this is what Dausi promised etc. Whoever has stronger evidence will prevail.

  13. ndine wa MCP ndingowalangiza aDausi ndi anzawo kuti angozisiya nkhanizo chifukwa mapeto aziwonongera mbiri chifukwa mwanayo ali ndi umboni wokwanira mwinanso nkhani imeneyi iwutsa mapiri pa chigwa

  18. You fools why do you want to intimidate Saudi? Let them meet in court. Chilima must know the evils of making careless utterances out of drug influence. He started vomitting the beer he overdrunk in full view of security personnel and general public; what a foolish veep ever!!!

  19. A Dausi, anyamata mudawatuma ajatu adaembenuka, malinga ndikuti sidamusunge lonjezo lanu, Akuti nchito mudawagwiritsa yabule, Akuti you forgot them once you got into power.

  20. A dausi please leave it alone, this is going to bring down DPP!!!, ndapota nanu SKC ali ndi evidence heavy, tiyaluka … the problem is anyamata aja simudawasamale mutalowa mboma, SKC ali ndi umboni kuyambira ma meeting, ma plan, and execution of the whole plot,……..zisiyeni!!!

    1. Dausi should not leave. It will also bring down the crook Chilima. Ife a MCP kunangowonera ku ma stand Molungu akutimenyera nkhondo

  21. Mr Dausi, chonde ndagwira mwendo ingozisiyani, mwanayu ali ndi air tight evidence including audio-visuals and transcripts, plus the guys you gave the instructions to are willing to testify against you, You did not take care of the boys as you promised now they are ready to spill the beans, chonde pepani muyaluka.

  24. Chilima is foolish because some of the things he is revealing implicate him. Since he made the claim regarding Dausi burning ballothe papers, he has refused to substantiate it despite repeated questions from Brian Banda. Wazolowera kumwa bibida ndikusuta chamba – he thinks he can win through ‘ndiulura.’

    1. You are foolish yourself. Do you think Chilima can just say such a sensitive issue without having a good evidence against your friend killer Dausi? At Chilimas level my friend, he has his legal team that can advice him on what to say and not to say on a podium. Mr Dausi knows he is kindling a fire he will fail to put out. U cadeti wanu muzipanga moganiza. Palibe munthu wanzeru zake angamabakile the Dausis and his team of thugs including their caltel boss APM.

      1. Chilima doesn’t listen to anybody, including the said lawyers. He thinks he knows it all – dolo.

      2. Aalex, you are very very foolish.In this world there are no two thieves who can go out and steal, thinking that one thief can betray the other to police alone successfully. No way. Its only the myopic caliber of Chilima who can dare that. The drama played by Chilima is, he wants to put DPP and his own UTM out of game for MCP after realising that the game is too big for him and UTM. SKC is a useless he goatie. No choice DPP is winning on 21 May.

  25. Apatu a Dausi mchitapo manyadzi, mnyamatayu ali ndi vast evidence such as recording of your instructions ; movement instructions and more witness in his side.

    Mkanangodzisiya izi kuti zithe zokha natural death koma apa muonekela ng’amba kwambiri.

    1. dausi ndi MBUZI yeniyeni, this man is so stupid, he is single handed bringing down dpp – all the problems of dpp is because of this fool dausi

    1. This will not contribute anything to Nsungama but to Chilima s foolishness of hiding things like woman.

  29. Nicholas just withdrawal the case. Those are political tantrums as you often times say.

  30. Shaaaa zomwe timafuna , a Dausi remember ‘chouluka chingauluke koma chimatera’ ndithu ..time time….koma please anyamata a ma news paper aja kumawakumbukula… pitaninso ku court…

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