Defiant Chakwera lays wreath at Gadama tomb: Ex-minister brutally killed by MCP

May 14, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 51 Comments

Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate  Lazarus Chakwera  was on Tuesday defiant in the face of a court injuncting stopping him from going to the  grave of  late Aaron Gadama, a former  minister , as he went ahead  to lay  wreaths  on his tomb in Kasungu.

Chakwera tribute to Gadama who wa sbrutally killed by MCP regime

The family of  late Gadama, through law firm Taulo and Associates ,  earlier obtained an  injunction stopping  MCP leader from going to his grave  the  former  minister who was brutally killed by MCP regime, to lay wreaths.

But Chakwera and MCP proceeded with the function.

Aaron Gadama  is one of the three Cabinet ministers and a legislator murdered under the MCP administration in 1983.

Gadama is  believed to have been assassinated alongside Twaibu Sangala , Dick Matenje and former member of Parliament (MP) David Chiwanga during MCP’s one-party era in 1983 in Mwanza.

The four were driving in the south of the country when, by official accounts, their car went off the road and plunged down a 100-foot embankment.

The MCP failed to explain why the bodies bore the marks of gunshot wounds. There was no state funeral, or official condolences to the relatives of the dead – courtesies that would have been usual after a car accident.

A commission of inquiry after the dawn of multiparty democracy  said police acting on official orders had killed three of Kamuzu Banda’s cabinet ministers and  MP in May 1983 and disguised their deaths as a car accident.

Kamuzu Banda, who ruled Malawi from independence in 1964 until he was ousted in the first multi-party elections in May 2014 by his successor, President Bakili Muluzi, is remembered on May 14 a public holiday- a day which was his official birthday.

In a published article, Kainja states that Kamuzu ran a state without a justice system.

“He was the sole arbiter of truth. This is the side of Kamuzu that is slowly being erased from nation history, deliberately or not, and as we blur the lines of our past, it becomes more and more difficult to understand our present.

“ Airbrushing Kamuzu’s legacy and creating false nostalgia that is only aimed at diverting the national psyche from current leadership failures is not only injustice for those that suffered during his reign, it also stifles national progress and development,” he pointed out.

Kainja states that Malawi will not develop if nostalgia and hero-worshiping are drivers of its leadership.

“The country needs visionary leaders ready for public service. Leaders with policies that can drive the nation forward; this has nothing to do with anybody’s age, gender or tribe. Here the electorate have a role to pay: look beyond personalities and focus on their policies instead.”

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51 replies on “Defiant Chakwera lays wreath at Gadama tomb: Ex-minister brutally killed by MCP”

  3. This is a family issue and it means the allowed Chakwera to go there and lay a wreath. In a Chewa culture one cannot go to a cemetery without permission unless it’s in HHI or Area 18. There must have been permission from the family and village headsman. I really don’t know how Jimmy Kainja comes in here. He has issues with Kamuzu. There must always be closure to such issues. Why should Chakwera ignore the families of the victims? Enanu munapangapo chiyani?

  4. The responses by the pro Chakwera MCP diehards on this page is exactly why you dont win presidential elections. Once you humble yourselves and accept MCPs atrocities you might have a chance. As for Chakwera’s actions, he has lost votes today.

  6. A Cahkwera mwalawapo apa baasi. Shame on you.
    By his action in defiance of the late Gadama’s family wishes and the law (Court injunction), and the very fact that Chakwera’s Party was responsible for Gadama’s murder, laying the wreath by Chakwera is a form of desecration of the grave. Tradition requires a cleansing, and possible reburial.
    This action might have lost you some votes.

  8. Stupid court Injunction. Chakwera Gadama, Chiwanga, Sangala and Matenje when the brutal murders were committed. In fact Chakwera has publicly apologized on several occasions for the wrongs committed by MCP during the Ntaba/Dausi era. The Question should be: for how will this hatred continue?

  9. How do you forcefully conduct a political ceremony on someone’s grave after the family told you not to? Especially when your party killed the deceased?

    Mr Chakwera, have you no shame? First you kill their father, then you dance on his grave?

    1. chakwera didnt do anything unless ndiwe mlendo malawi muno just focus on your party ideologies leave chakwera n new MCP alone .. we will still vote for him n de mighty mcp

  11. My fake accent ex-reverend colleague demonstrates a lack of regard for the rule of law. The tombstone has always been there since EMUSIPI murdered Gadama and company in 1883. Why did he never lay wreaths 1983-2018? Because he was not contesting for the Presidency? Is this not fake like his accent? Total hypocrisy. No wonder he run away from the heavenly path due to greed.

  12. INU MUYALUKA NAZO NKHANI ZANUZI…ZITAYENI !!!! MUKULEMBA , KENAKA KUMADZIZITSUTSASO NONKHA .. KODI MUKUPANGA MANTHA NDI CHANI.?. CHAKWERA IS WINNING THESE ELECTIONS DON’T EVEN WASTE YOUR TIME.

  13. Kamuzuism in Chakwera. Thinking he is above the law…..Chi tcheni cha zo….I cant vote for beneficiaries of cashagate and cashgaters….

    1. Find out how many people wtih cashgate court cases are in UTM. Fins out how many people who are in DPP now are finding UTM because they know DPP is dead. Albino killers are donating to UTM.

  14. sindikukhulupirira kuti kuphedwa kwa a chi Gadama ndikumene kukupangitsa kuti peter abe k145,000,000.00,

  16. Bingo gunned down 22 defenceless and peaceful protesters in Mzuzu a few years ago. His brother was there last week and we all expected that he would pay homage to the dead. He didn’t, neither did he shade tears. If it were crocs they could have shade tears. My brothers and sisters in the north before voting on 21st May hold a 1 min silence to pay respect those that died at the hands of DPP in defence of your freedom and basic human rights. May your tears not dry so quickly because it could been you or close relative. Their lives were as dear as yours. Why does DPP think that death of 3 people is more important than that 22 people? Is it because they were poor as you are? Not long ago APM went to Mangochi, passed by a fresh grave yard of a patriotic Malawian, Njaunju, he looked the other side, and once again never shed tears. May DPP be reminded that the souls of the 22 and Chasowa vs Bingo’s are in the courtroom in Heaven standing for an eternal trial. Njauju’s case is on hold waiting for souls for APM and others for their trail too. Kumene aliliko kulibe mpumulo wa bata. Don’t be fooled a soul of a murder doesn’t rest in peace.

    1. Awanso awa okhodzokera akuti chani? What has this to do with the impunity and arrogance clearly displayed by the fake accent ex-reverend at the resting place of the late Aaron Gadama (MHSRIP)?

    2. You stupid fuck! In defence of whose freedom? Mbava zinaomberedwa malo oti sanali route ya ma demo zija?

      1. Who do you rafian call mbava? Becareful. Stupid for calling heros mbava.

  17. Contempt of court while in opposition. Be careful Malawians. Make no mistake on 21st May. Reject such leaders.

  18. So he went ahead and laid wreaths without family members? Ndiye misalatu! Well, at least I know one family not voting MCP on May 21

  19. Fake accent ex-reverend Lazalo Chakwera displaying ultimate arrogance, typical of EMUSIPI. He has taken himself above the court of law that issued the injunction. Not even embarrassed by the presence at the graveyard of cloths with faces and labels of the killer of late Gadama. By the way, I never heard that EMUSIPI reconciled with the Gadama family in a truth-and-reconciliation style. What a display of ultimate hypocrisy. And people, nanji titachita tsoka iyeyu nkukhala president, the same “zonse zimene….”will return. Voters will on 21 May throw out both the baby, the water and the rusty, cracked and fake accent basin.

  20. My fellow Malawians, lets understand this; Guns dont kill people but people kill people.

    1. Kukhululuka ndiye ndakhulululka KOMA Mabala akupweteka. Adzatiphanso uyu.Like Father like Son.

  24. Justice system is the custodian of the constitution of any other country that its citizenry has to abide by rule of the law. Probabbly Chakwera is above that rule of the law.No person in all democratic countries is above the law except the Supreme Leader of Iran and you know who he is; probabbly Chakwera is a duplicated copy of such a leader.

  25. LATE GADAMA MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE DIED AS MCP DIEHARD, HIS BLOOD WAS FULL OF MCP,EVEN IF HE WERE TO BE ALIVE TODAY,HE COULD HAVE BEEN MCP NOT DPP,NOT UTM,LATE GADAMA EARNED MOST OF HIS WEALTH FROM WITHIN MCP. A FAMILY AKUTI CHANI? AKUTUMANI A DPP KUTI MUPANGE ABUSE MA COURT?

  26. Kumanda mwini dziko ndi fumu osati za sataniki za khoti zanuzo,ma judge akumalawi ine ndinasiya kalekale kuwapatsa ulemu,boma likati ma plastic paper akuononga nthaka,makampani akukatenga injuction judge akupeleka bola adye ndalama, boma likati ma building awa amwenye tagumulani akunyasitsa town, judge akupeleka injuction,lero ndi izi mafumu yakuonetsani kuti mulibe nzeru, coz kumanda amatsegula ndi mfumu, nanunso akubanja mudzakhululuka liti kodi, Jodi simunalakwepo kodi?

  27. Chakwere wangotengapo thembelero pamanda a Gagama. Iwenso ukuti ndiwe “Central” uziziwa kuti anthu opha Gadama abanja la Gadama anawakhululukila ndipo anayiwala, koma chilichonse chimene chingabwele kubanja la Gadama muzina la MCP chimawakumbutsa zachipongwe zimene MCP inachita kwa mbale wawo malemu Aaron Gadama (mzimu wake uwuse mumtendele). Tele ngati a Chakwera mukufuna nkhata yanu ikalandilidwe ndi mzimu wa Aaron Gadama pamodzi ndi akubanja la malemu Aaron Gadama, muzayale nkhatayo in your individual capacity or any other capacity other than MCP official.

  28. AKUBANJA AKUKU KANIZA IWE UKUPITABE AAAAAAAAAA NDAKUONA SUZALEMEKEZA LAMULO SINDIKUVOTERASO BASI NDASINTHA MAGANIZO UTM WOYEEEEEE SKC WOYEEEEEEEE CHOOOONGU-DIIIIINDUU

  29. Iwe ukudzitchula kuti ndiwe Nyasa Times Reporter, ufufuze bwino when Kamuzu Banda was outsted ndi Bakili Muluzi. It was in May yes, but not in 2014. Koma ndalama mumalandira inu apa mukunamiza mtundu wa aMalawi? Zamanyazitu izi ku Nyasa Times’ko!

  30. Defying the law and he is not yet state president. How is he going to behave given real power?

      1. Mbuli ndi iweyo. Why do we have courts in the land? To uphold the law, maliro no maliro defying a court order is contempt and our leaders need to respect that. Blind loyalty is what is killing Malawi and it is because of people like you.

    2. Agree. He has disrespectEd the Gadama family. He went ahead disregardingredients their pain. If he can injure the this better off family, what about poor families without a lawyer

  31. Kuderela Court asanalowe pampando….Nanga akakhala President… he will surely be above the law? Ng’onaism mmadzi siimaopa kanthu.

    1. Za kumanda eni ake ndi amfumu mogwirizana ndi a Banja…a Mfumu sangatsekule kumanda popanda chilolezo cha kubanja….awo anapita ku court samazitsata zinthu otherwise abanja enieni ndi amene anali kumudzi komanso anali pamwambopo…..I’m sorry but this is another cheap propaganda and a waste of time by the writer.

    2. Nanu inu don’t just believe whatever is written as gospel truth. There is no injunction whatsoever

  32. Kudos to the Village Head and Chakwera for the action, za 1983 sizikukhudza ataaaaaaaaaa………………….!! Kodi mudzakhululuka liti ngati mukusungabe nkhani za 1983! Ndimayesa mwini wake Kamuzu anapepesa za nkhani imeneyi? Who are you not to forgive and forget when God tells you to do that? Christianity is not going to church but acting what God tells us…! Nawenso Kainja why promote vengeance, what type of leader are you! Are you not satisfied with the apology Kamuzu gave? Iweyo ndiwe mng’elooooooooo? Komanso kodi Chakwera zikumukhudza pati? Kodi ndimayesa ena ambirimbiri anatiphera abale athu ambirimbirinso like the British through forcing our fore father to participate in a world war they knew nothing mbuyomu? Why are we in good term with them today? Kodi zolakwilana zinayamba ndi Kamuzu? Iweyo Kainja ukukhala dziko lake la pansi lomwe la Mulungu li? Awanso musatinyanse ndi za usatana zanuzoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Kuipa mtima osachita nako manyazi bwanji? Iweyo anthu akamapitilila kusungilana mangawa iwe ku mtima mbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Mwana wa njoka iwe! Nde wauponda, Chakwera sizikumukhudza zophanazooooooooooooooooooooo! Komanso based on Kainja’s writings, one can tell he too can also kill for nothing!!

    1. Poti a Gadama wo sanali a bale anu. Dont worry MCP for the attrocities that you committed you will forever remain in opposition. UTM ikonze zinthu apa.

    3. Mukuyankhulatu ngati mukutiuza kuti akubanja amene anakatenga injunction wa ndi opusa kwambiri ochenjera ndinu.

    5. But I think it’s not fair to theGadama family . Mukubwera kunyumba kwawo ndi nsalu za nkhope ya Kamuzu ndi tambala wakuda amene anawaphera bambo wawo and you want the family to accomodate that nonsense. Come on Chakwera, that’s a mockery to the family. Komanso court laletsa and you don’t obey. Ndiye if you become president mudzakhala above the law kuponsanso Kamuzutu

    6. You can say that again, again, and again. Ana anjola awa. Ntchito kukanganilara kubera mavote. Wakuba ndiwe wakuba ndiwe. Mwauponda Chaka chino. God is punishing you today next week.

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