Deputy minister Abida mourns loss of husband Mo Mia 💔

January 13, 2021 Osman Faiti - Nyasa Times 29 Comments

Deputy Minister of Lands Abida Mia, who is also legislator for Chikwawa Nkombezi Constituency spoke out in mourning Wednesday following the death of her husband Mohammed Sidik Mia who was minister of Transport  and the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) vice-president from Covid-19.

Mia and his wife Abida, who is Deputy Minister of Lands

Speaking to Nyasa Times “through tears,” Abida  – comforted by messages of condolence led by President Lazarus Chakwera –   said the loss is  heart-breaking.

“The death of a husband is a loss no wife should have to bear,” said the widow of the MCP second-in-command.

She described the fallen minister as the “quintessential happy warrior.”

Abida said: “ Mo Mia’s death  has come as a big loss
 I am obviously absolutely devastated by what’s happened.”

She cried  and said: “I am very depressed.”

Abida said Mia was  father to four children and five grand children namely Ahmed Mia, Hurain Mia, Saudi Mia and Abdul Mia.

Late Mia revealed his illness in an open letter, calling for strict compliance with Covid-19 measures.

A businessperson-turned-politician, Mia, 55, was an unsung hero in the formation of the governing Tonse Alliance. Born in 1965 to a trucker at Makande in Ngabu, Chikwawa District, Mia vocally campaigned for the alliance in the poll and gave the alliance, particularly MCP a strong presence in the southern region  away from its Central Region stronghold.

MCP secretary-general (SG) Eisenhower Mkaka described   Mia as MCP’s “beacon of hope.”

Mkaka said the party and the government has lost, “ a humble person who put the national interest ahead of his personal ambition.”

His loyalists hailed him as ‘the Shire Valley giant’, a tag left by the late Gwanda Chakuamba, who helped MCP win all parliamentary seats in Nsanje in 1994.

During the switch from MCP’s one-party rule to democracy in 1993, Mia supported the liberal United Democratic Front (UDF), established by Bakili Muluzi who ended founding President Kamuzu Banda’s 31-year-old dictatorship.

When Muluzi disagreed with his chosen successor Bingu wa Mutharika in 2005, Mia dumped UDF to  join then newly-formed DPP. In April 2012, when Bingu succumbed to a heart attack, the Shire Valley politician and his 18 DPP executives swiftly switched to then vice-president Joyce Banda’s  People’s Party (PP).

He then quit frontline politics before bouncing back and returned to MCP in June 2017 and rose to become Chakwera’s running mate in the 2019 presidential poll cancelled by the courts due to widespread irregularities.

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29 replies on “Deputy minister Abida mourns loss of husband Mo Mia 💔”

  1. What’s wrong with reminding a widow to mourn in a dignified manner? Abida is now a widow and must behave as one fir at least 40 days. That is what every food Muslim does.

  2. But why did Chakwera and Chilima not attend the burial. Proves that both Chakwera and Chilima hate Muslims.

    1. I very much agree with you…it’s a big surprise for a president&his Vice not to attend Mia burial.
      They forget,they are in state houses without doubts,Mia campaigned tirelessly spent his monies.
      Telling the Tonse Government straight,apa simunapange makola.You could have attended the burial or send some ministers.Tomorrow,it can be on your heads,muzamuti uli?we have seen how you are and wait,kuno nkunja…..
      Are you telling me/us that those who buried Mia got Corona? apologize to the nation,mulikunanga.muzinyumba zanuzo kaya ku state house ko,you breath oxygen,so be careful or stop breathing otherwise
      02 with Corona isn’t seen
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      1. SAD! SHAME…! DISGUSTING…. IT TELLS EVERYTHING. SIPAFUNIKA KUFOTOKOZEREDWA. IT’S BLACK AND WHITE HERE! WOW! AM SPEECHLESS AND 💔😭

  4. He was a great man. A man who loved Malawi as a country. He wanted a better Malawi for all Malawians. May his soul rest in peace.

  5. A humble man. A humble leader. He loved Malawians. He understood the political winds blowing with changes. He did not misread the constitutional signals when JB’s star was in ascendancy eclipsing all the cadets. For the sake of a cadet-free Malawi he endorsed Chilima as the Tonse Alliance running mate. Malawi is in tears for the man who gave his all just to let smell real scent of freedom. I liked the man yet I never personally met him. May the Almighty give him the eternal rest for our freedom fighter.

  6. Abida now is time to mourn Sidik, per Muslim tradition for 40 days. Sidik was a respected member of the Muslim community and you have to be dignified and mourn Sidik. Maybe after sometime you will find love in another man, but now please be in mourning.

    3. Chitsiru kuononga dzina la masheikh onse
      Mwana wa nkhandwe
      Your dislike for the Mia family has been displayed by your own writing

  7. It’s too early to be interviewing the wife please…asiyeni alile kale malilo pilizi…even mourning period ya boma siinathe.

    2. Kodi olira salankhula abale basi azingokhala ndungundu Aaaaa zinazi tapolaniko moto. Chalakwika Ndichani pamenepa kuzolowera kumapezwra anzanu zifukwa basi.

    3. But why did she allow the journalist to interview her? Bwanji sanakane? So, let’s not just blame the journalist here.

    4. Busy interviewing the wife. Why not go interview who you think they might have the decency to say something or where were they hiding…..

  9. Mrs Mia, I wish you strength and may God comfort you.

    Politics aside, death of a loved one is so very hard to bare, only you truly feels it.

    Please know that people you have never met and probably you will never, are praying for you and wishing you all the strength.

    My sincere condolences to you, Ahmed, Abdul, Saudi, Hurain and your entire family.

    My heartfelt condolences also to all the Malawians families and friends who have lost their loved one to this disease.

  11. Mia is a hero and should be commended for helping to end the tribal dpp regime. People thought that with the picking of Saulos Chilima, Mia would dump MCP. He paved way for Saulos for the sake of Malawi. No personal interests. At 55, he is gone too soon. RIP papi.

    1. Za ziiiii. MCP would never manage significant votes in the south. The votes they got were courtesy of UTM. Ndanena mwamva

      1. Maybe yes in terms of Presidential votes UTM might have played a bigger part.

        Not when it comes to MPs though the numbers speak for themselves only 4 MPs.

        Anyways let’s leave politics aside please just this once.

        🙏

      2. ma MP 4 angabweletse mavoti angati??? MCP ku south inayamba kuoneka coz of Mia, Tonse Alliance inatheka coz Mia anavomela kuzichepetsa nkulola Chilila kukhala runningmate

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