Gadama family gets court order stopping Chakwera from paying tribute to ex-minister brutally killed by MCP
The family of late Aaron Gadama, a former minister who was brutally killed by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) regime has rushed to court to obtain an injunction stopping MCP presidential candidate Lazrarus Chakwera from going to his grave this Tuesday to lay wreaths.
Chakwera has planned to visit the grave of Gadama in Kasungu on Tuesday to pay tribute and lay wreaths before proceed to Chiwengo Village to mark Kamuzu Day, a public holiday to remember the birthday of founding president Kamuzu Banda.
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 Gadama family through Aaron Edward Gadama and Mary Gama (nee Gadama) took an injunction stopping Chakwera to enter the place of residence of Gadama at Mphezi Village , Traditional Auhtority Mwase in Kasungu and from laying wreaths on Gadama.
Law firm Taulo and Associates confirmed to Nyasa Times that the injunction has been granted by the High Court and served on MCP.
This effectively means Chakwera will not go to Gadama’s grave as scheduled but will proceed to attend Kamuzu’s memorial.
Commentators are arguing that tossing around Kamuzu’s name and image as a political tool is making Kamuzu into a heroic saint that bears little resemblance to the historical record.
A university of Malawi lecturer in media, communication and cultural studies at Chancellor College, Jimmy Kainja, simply reminds Malawians that Kamuzu Banda was a ruthless authoritarian that caused a lot of pain to many people whose relatives and parents languished in jails, exile and some were killed without committing any crime at all.
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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For confidentiality reasons , I will not disclose what really transpired in Court but you have presented completely a wrong version of story.
KHULULUKANI OSAKHALA NDI MKWIYO NGATI WA CHILIMA……
MCP supporters just dont understand the votws they lose whenever they start defending and excusing or downplaying MCP atrocities. You will never lead this nation ever again.
Kkkkkk …Chakwera akulamula dzikoli week yamawa yomweyi… ..DPP is finished…..
koma ngati eni ake sakufuna nde inu mukukakamila chani…..mcp nde imeneyo yeniyeni timaidziwa ife
It’s very unfortunate that the Mwanza three are used for political mileage by first by the udf and now by dpp yet nothing has been done to the family members. Even the commission of inquiry was politically assembled just to incarcerate JZU and Mama. That’s why everything collapsed. Why do parties like dpp come to sympathise with the deceased family members during the elections year. Is it not possible for the families to get a permanent court order to stop this nonsense. Dpp and udf want to be seen to be with the families. This is like “chikondi cha pa 30”. After elections all this will go. We have 20 people who were just Bingu in 2011 but no one is talking about them. We have Buleya whom dpp killed just a few months ago and no one cares. We must stop this. We know that dpp is targeting Chakwera who was not even there in 1983. You must be ashamed of yourselves to gain popularity from the people you don’t assist At least udf made one of the Matenje sons a top government official. They never did the same to late Clara Gadama who was well educated but died a poor young woman between 2003-5.
Eeesh. Can someone pay tribute to Kamuzu and Gadama on the same day?
This is an insult to Gadama family. It opens old wounds
Kodi a Chakwera, mwayamba kutamba masana? Ku manda a bambo awo akuti musakapondeko agalu inu, leave the family alone please, they have suffered enough.
At least MCP acknowledges the Past …I am actually Surprised that So Many Bad Things have happened in the Multiparty Dispension …Watching the Boy Who Harnessed The Wind there is a Scene Where Chief Wimbe is beaten by UDF cadets….he later Dies….Mwana Anatondifunse Kodi Zinachitika Nthawi ya Kamuzu? I hope the Other leaders after Kamuzu will also acknowledge the Brutalities that have Occurred during their Watch .
Or muononge mbiri ya MCP koma ife timuvoterabe chakwerayo amene adapha anthu aja Lero ose Ali Ku DPP
The family has lost an opportunity in our Christian values of forginess. Never the less it’s not Chakwera and any of the MCP administration nor a party member today committed it. God knows who did it popeza dziko lidampeza Kamuzu and other suspects that had no case. Kamuzu himself apologised and hope he repented from deep down heart for any atrocities. Ngati tivomereza machimo God cleanse us. Ndiye inu muzingochedwa. How have you blindfolded dont you see the writings on the wall
It also sounds ackward for Kainja statement. You better read well or ask what Kamuzu was for this country. Ana ngati iwe Kainja unali usamapole pa mchombo during HK or you capitalize only on the mistake than the good part he was. Mukamanyoza Kamuzu do not just do it out of ignorance. He had a better part than the bad you say. Unless if a person let alone the president has no weaker part
Those suffered under HK are just a handful than those suffered under this regime. So many killed by this regime cause of corruption. Money for drugs goes people dies. The living example is Dr Bingu (MHSRP) who died because there was no adrenaline. So be pbjective
I hope you are a youngster.
Kodi ana a Yudas Iskarioti alipo? Kodi tikumva china chili chonse choipitsa pfuko lake? Kodi pfuko la Yudasi Iskarioti akupanga nawo chitukuko cha dziko? Ganizirani bwino za mafunso amenewa.
To the Gadama family and Kainja, Guns don’t kill people but people kill people
Abale dziko lake la Mulungu lomweli losunga nalo mangawa mpakana kumadana ndi amene nkhanzazo sizikuwakhudza? If God himself says forgive and forget, who are we not to? Ndani asanalakwitsepo pansi pano, motero kuti lero lino tizioneka ngati oyera kuloza Kamuzu kumandakoooooooooo? Inuyo mukuchita kuchemelera kusaiwala ndiponso kusakhululukanu kodi mulibe mangawa ndi anthu ena kapena Mulungu kumene? Za chisoni ena akuchemelera zopanda pake komanso zopanda uzimu zomwe akunena Kainja za chikunjazo! Let us remember that our actions easily show who we belong to and how cruel or good we are in our hearts! If you’ve not yet forgiven and forgotten issues that happened in 1983 till now when shall you do that for a better relationship with God? Za ziiiiiiiiiiiiiii komanso zopanda Uzimu mukuchemelelazooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Poti mukanakhala inuyonso bambo wanu ataphedwa ndi MCP simukanalola. You Jack Ass.
As far as I am at pain for the loss of life for those great statesmen,take a leaf from one of the deceased’s son,he forgave them, my advise to the family members,is if you remain embittered,you won’t be different from those who committed the crime,alot of them died,but you still bitter,please forgive them.was it neccessary for you to take un injunction? Mafumu kumudzi ndiomwe amatsegula manda not a khoti,am sorry if I’ve wronged the family members,but as a Christian I thought I should share this.
Fuck your christian belief! Grief and pain is experienced differently by different people. That’s dictorship at it’s best! Why can’t people express their feelings the way they feel them?
You lack insight @ Chalula. Dictatorship for what? Lero? You need to change your mindset on that aspect of life and try to live one.
I have grown up and seen how the Gadama family suffered in Kasungu, as a young child Aaron jnr never had a chance to go out of the house and play with friends as any child could do. he was always in doors his mother never allowed him, i remember my father elling us kuti muzikasewera naye mzanu but dont go far. we used to go to his house and play, this was tough. he was nerveous akawona anthu achilendo kusewera in doors malire pa khonde lanyumba……… they can forgive yes but i don’t think they can forget, they went through alot of trauma
Jimmy Kainja is spot-on. Remember that Kamuzu never committed those atrocities alone. He had accessories like Ungapake and Tamanda. It is great that the fake accent ex-reverend has been stopped in his track from making a fake tribute the person his machinery murdered in cold blood for fighting for the rights of all Malawians. Thank you the Gadama family for preventing Malawians from being deceived by this fake ex-reverend and his fake nostalgia and hero-worship together with his killing machinery. To all Malawians, such a leader doe not deserve our vote.
Dont speak of Malawian, speak of yourself and your family. Ubulutu ni matenda nadi kwene, Malawi wangatukuka nthena….
The Gadama family thumb up
Kainja you are on the right direction
MCP has and will never change–
A hyena is a hyena even though it has changed the bush to stay —
Ehee! The Gadama family has rejected the pain killer, Chakwera was not there, we were not there,those who did this some are still alive and they are ministers in the Government of today, the family has been given a wrong dosage of advise, ndiye poti tili pa campaign ehee! Tiyenazoni.
Exactly, the family totally got a wrong advice. Whoever is behind this does not even have good intentions for the Gadama family.
Kudos to the family of the late Aaron Gadama of maboma 9 game. How insediative of the fake accent ex-reverend Lazarus Chakwera and his handlers to have re-kindled the pain in the family after the leadership of EMUSIPI, the party of death and darkness killed Gadama in cold blood in what Chakwera-wakwera-Joisi thinks is a normal painless act. Did you expect to be yavi-yavi where the soul of Gadama is resting with tmbala wakuda and clothes with Kamuzu’s face? This is the highest order of kumbwambwana. It is true that chipani chimechi chiribe nzeru ndithu.
Yes Kainja is saying the truth cos these days people want to paint a holy picture of Kamuzu. He did some of the things right BUT at the same time he was a cruel dictator, that goes without saying, some of us we were old enough we saw it all NOT heard.
poti azala kale nkhata zo ku mumawa kuno…..shame DDP progandists
They should have just told Chakwera not to do it. Why going to court for such a simple cause? This is more about politics which can haunt and harm the legacy of Gadama if not done properly. The MCP which killed Gadama is not the MCP of today so why dramatising the death of this son of the nation? Let me remind the Gadama family that those who committed this henious crime are no longer part of the MCP family so chill up,,,,,
whether old or new MCP, still more it is MCP right?
And they should also know that from next week he’s leading this country. Never will they hear of such kind of actions as killing a person for whatever reasons. The man has a vision
Do they have to get an injunction?????? The whole story is what these days call FAKE NEWS Mr Nyasatimes reporter. Did he plan this without consulting the family?? Kuyetsetsa kumuyipitsa Chakwera. He was not there when these people were killed and MCP never killed a person. You should mention individuals who did it if you know them.
Thus the first thing people forget, it was not MCP killing people but rather the people.
Situational awareness……….. Situational analysis.
Ouch!!!! Last year Kamuzu day inalikosotu, bwanji simunaganze zokaika nkhata? Why now. A family lose is not an opportunity for campaign. Bravo to the Gadama family for the injunction otherwise this was just being insansitive for oChakwe..