HRDC threatens anti-Tonse demos for duping Malawians, $50m oil deal
Apparently fed up with the current Tonse Alliance administration’s slowness to govern and a clear lack of direction, the Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has threaten to mobilise Malawians to demand what they deserve and what they were promised and signed for.
Ironically HRDC was instrumental in pushing for change after the courts declared null and void the 2019 elections which the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were declared winner by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) through electoral fraud.
But a few months down the line, the stakes seem to have changed with the popular non state actor telling President Lazarus Chakwera that Malawians are already losing hope and openly expressing dissatisfaction with his administration.
“Unless we see genuine change and drastic steps to implement campaign promises, we will soon start to mobilise Malawians to demand what they deserve and what they signed for,” reads part of the HRDC statement.
In the statement, HRDC chairperson Gift Trapence and national coordinator Luke Tembo says his organisation finds it imperative to comment on the status of the Tonse Alliance following numerous concerns and queries from the public regarding the loss of direction of the country.
“It should be recalled that the current government led by Malawi Congress Party (MCP) campaigned and won the June 23, 2020 fresh Presidential elections on the Tonse Alliance philosophy. The alliance campaigned and won based on a merged blue print that consolidated some of the promises from the manifestos of all the alliance partners,” further reads the statement.
HRDC says in the statement that Malawians are shocked to see that these promises seem to have been abandoned altogether except the affordable fertilizer pledge.
“Malawians are now openly expressing their loss of hope and feel duped as there is total silence from the Alliance leaders including Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima who is also UTM President.”
HRDC has since demanded that Tonse Alliance leaders jointly address Malawians on the state of the Alliance in reference to the joint and consolidated manifesto that Malawians voted for as well as give a clear timeline to Malawians how the merged campaign promises will be implemented.
The coalition has also demanded that “that government institutes a clear, professional and independent investigations to verify how the K6.2 billion Covid -9 funds under Dodma – which is under the Office of the President and Cabinet – were disbursed and used. Receiving reports alone will not give a complete picture of the whole situation.”
HRDC also stated that some top government officials believed to be from State House and Office of the President are threatening the Malawi Energy Revenue Authority (MERA) to award oil contracts to two suppliers for them to share the proceeds.
“We have information that high profile government authorities are allegedly threatening MERA and NOCMA (National Oil Company of Malawi) officials to award a contract to their preferred suppliers (two) whose cost will be USD 50 million more,” reads the statement.
HRDC has since demanded the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ABC) to quickly move in and stop the un-procedural award to these two companies.
There was no immediate comment from Tonse Alliance members on the statement that has been as the first scathing one on the current administration.
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ife tonse boma. Ife tonse ziphwisi msambidwe wa chipani cha imfa ndi bodza Malawi congress party . Olo atasamba perfume wa ten million still smells like chiphwisi. A leopard doesn’t change color
Atupele Muluzi anakambapo kale za utsogokeri ophunzira….see now, we have all been fooled by these two idiots
I once said: MCP is busy kuzozedwa matope ndi chilima. Lero ndiizo you are failing to implement chilima’s childish manifesto. You are failing to create 1 million jobs; K15 000 stipend for our grannies ikukanikanso; free water and electricity connections kuli ziii; K14000 passport kuli ziiiiiiiiii; non renewable driving license kuli ziiiiiiiiii; bullet trains kuli ziiiiiiiiii; medical schemes and soft loans for civil servants kuli ziiiiiiiiii; infrastructure development kuli ziiiiiiiiii, not even a single bridge has been constructed. Misewu ndima project omwe APM anasiya near completion mwaimitsanso. Mia ndiuyo mwamuphayo the way you killed Jumani. Kodi iwe chilima sumachita manyazi ndi bodzaa? Abusa Chakwera mwangokhala phwiiii ku state house ko?
MCP Chipani cha imfa
HRDC should begin to demonstrate outside the offices of corrupt politicians and their homes. Time for HRC to gear up for peaceful demos and campaign to free Malawi of corrupt politicians and the corrupt businesses. We need dedicated HRDC leaders who are not bribed by being made Ministers. Time to wake up – Kwacha!!!
Give the guys time but remind them the way you are doing so as for them not to lose direction… it’s highly good to keep them in the lane…sort of putting blinkers on them
Time to do what/ To steal some more? Its not politics but what we Malawians deserve.
Talks with no bite. I voted for this government but I can now say it was more for lack of better options.
What are you waiting for?
Tribalism and familylism has played out right in front of our eyes.
Having seen what I have from this Tonse government, which is so not tonse at all, is the fact that our politicians are the same. Malawians, we are on our own.
Chihana the leader of Aford is neck deep in corrupt deals. Taget individual leaders who are corrupt. Chihana is the Rasputin of Malawi
Talk- Talk Chakwera, Chakwera is far, far more corrupt and incompetent than Bakili, Bingu, JB, APM put together. Always a fish rots from head down. MCP is rotten head down. At this rate, by the time we get to the next election Malawi will be a failed state.
Sadly Chakwera things he has a God given right to be as incompetent and corrupt as he likes. The rot has to be stopped. HRDC we look to you, free Malawi please from the corruption and misrule.
Tonse are Liars….
These stupid promises were made by Chilima and his UTM. He forced them to be part of alliance. Where on earth can you create one million jobs within one year. Opusa ankamvera za Chilima. Passport K14,000? Yakuti? He mentioned nothing about building roads, hospitals, etc. A Chakwera ingopangani zoti zithandize Malawi basi. Schools, good roads, etc will obviously create jobs but not up to one million.
Never mind Tonse is an alliance and Talk Talk Chakwera is as much responsible for the corruption and failure as Chilima is. Support HRDC.
Request to HRDC please provide Malawians abroad with your bank details so that Malawians can donate to keep up the right.
We support the demos or else MCP should come out clear whether it is implementing other parties’ manifestos in the alliance or it’s only MCP’s manifesto they are implementing. Asamatipusitse. Sizoti we will only take this from this party. No. HRDC should not forget the campaign promise of a BULLET TRAIN. Ife tikufuna titayiona kuti ndiyotani. Tidavota pofuna imeneyo.
Ma demo akufuna kwambiri vuto ndi korona koma ma demo akufunika sife ana kumatinamiza anane okha universal fertilizer subsidy aliyense anamva dzuwa likuswa mtengo thumba la fertilizer lili pa phuzi liri bodza tsiku lifika tithamangitsana ndithu
Muzizikanda ndi chala choncho koma dpp wl not bounce back
lack of direction pali ntchito zina zinasala pang’ono kumaliza koma kuliziii
These guys are looking for jobs and want to hold the government at ransom. Once the ransom is paid through jobs, we will see them become very quiet. Bakili silenced them and APM silenced Bamusi. Please H.E. Chakwera and Saulos do not follow the foot steps of Bakili and APM. These guys should just form their own party and contest in 2025. Do they expect everything to be fulfilled within one year? Let’s be honest when doing some of these things. We know that the whole world is under attack from the novel coronavirus. Schools are closed. Businesses are closed. Nothing is moving forward. Hospitals are overwhelmed.
How long does it take for the president to write a letter to ESCOM and Water Boards to remove connection fees. How long does it take to instruct Immigration to peg passports at 14000. If I were a President I would do this in 30 minutes not even one year.
Go and ask Chilima about his promises.
It6 because you’re not President that’s why you say like that.
Ine would do it in 5minutes bwana sizovuta
tell them
Akupanga ma demo in 2019-2020 mmati anthu abwino, lero poti palowa mbewa mwati mkumba nokha hahahaha….he silenced Mtambo thinking he will end the grouping nononono…this is just a beginning and it will even be worse than before because even those in government are also feeling the pain I mean pheyini
Tinkanena anathera mu “ si izi” . People told you that us that chakwera can not run Government.He is just mbusa wa nkhosa Mu Assemblies of God Church . HRDC are justified to call for national wide strike / demos. We are there to support the demonstrations. AChilima Matama onse aja atheratu. He has been squeezed on a corner by Mkaka and Chimwendo. He can’t speak anything now .za ma reforms zija it’s just on paper and it’s now gone . Nothing will come out of all what was signed. He is dead Saulosi can’t act on thefty taking place in government chifukwa akuopa amuchotsa pa unduna
Zanu izo dpp tinathana nayo basi
Chilima can’t be removed pa a,unduna,iwee ukuteta.
Things change slowly by slowly,passport will be as they promised,jobs will be there,give them time…10 months in Government,you expect miracles?
DPP Muthalika left Government in tattles…let them settle,you will see wonders with Chakwera&Chilima(C&C)
HRDC…No noise,wait,give them whole 2021,ask them next year if nothing change will be seen.
Salute them,fertilizer subsidy/don’t just look at negatives …
Chakwera,iwe khala pheee look into what your mouth said during campagain nicely not in hurry.
58+%they voted for you..
Ndi mamemba a DPP that make noise,they thought they will be in power forever….Unfortunately,Allah is powerful,Charo ni Mazgola,from Sanjika tu mubaruku,kukaweja…kukakoka khoka….Charo ichi Mwa wanthuuii imweee chikutembenuzga/kugadabuka,chagadabukira Muthalika kikikiki !!!
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I am very sorry to say that when we voted for TONSE we did not give preference to a single party despite their strength in parliament.What Malawians wanted was change of governance as things seemed to be out of control which was vindicated by the cement gate, misuse of funds in companies owned by government and nepotism in employment circles.Therefore it is very absurd to see that the group we thought could bail Malawians out of suffering is busy doing what we rejected DPP for.There are so many able leaders in Tonse who can rescue from this vicious evil.I pray God hear our cry we may have made a mistake as we did not read their hearts when we were voting.Correct them and give them your will to bless Malawians as they deserve better life now.
We know you are paid to back nusence. Any sane person cannot waste time to post such trash. They have failed to run the government.
Too many corruption gates going to open up from cash gate to covid gate and oil gate now its time malawians showed these thieves Exit gate
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HRDC, bring your gang to the districts in CR and lets have a show down. We will protect the TG at all costs. Msundwe is ready to face HRDC, so are Mponela, Santhe and many other citizens battalion in CR. Gift this will be fought differently from what you experienced last year. This will be eat or be eaten affair. Go to villages in CR and ask them. You go to those who lost elections and ask them how Govt is running. What do you except Dausi, Mphepo and APM to say?
Another useless comment full of shit. When the time is right, you will face it
Ma Minister amene atchuka ndi kuba ndi katangale alipo awiei all these from MCP. Can you mention them?
Nothing for us without us
Just mention the two top officers mukubisa chani apa!!
Nothing strange from hrdc. They now realize that they supported and backed useless leaders bent on jealousy who disguised themselves as servant leaders. It has now turned to be the opposite. They just want to cover their faces.
Recall APM warned us that we will regret and here we are within months, we are complaining. What a waste.
Sinthawi ya ma demo inu pangani chabe stay awa osati za umbulizo mukudziwa kuti kunja kwaoopya. A chipatala okha apitebku ntchito komavena onse one week pakhomo. Kuli covid eee sizomakamatcha zo. Lupanga limene unamuphera nzako nawe udzafa ndi lupanga lomwero. Muyezo umwe una muyezera nzako nawe udzayesedwera lomwelo. Tiyeni nawoni. Achite step down.
KKKKKKKKKKK Boma lanu limene munalisapota lero mukuliukila KKKKKKKK. Chackwela / Chilima, the same method you used to deal with Peter Munthalika is now following you. Please DDP and UDF never join such demos. Do not copy what Chakwela and Chilima did. Mpaka Chilima ndi mkazi wake kuvala Tshirt yolemba OSAOPA. You can not trust crooks. Since MCP is a party of death, I doubt if Tranpence will survive with this approach.
Unlike the old man, Peter, the man of God, Chakwera has so far proved that he has better and transparent ways of handling issues hence there will be no demonstrations.
As long as Malawians change government from hyenas to foxes nothing will change.. Tonse alliance has a sleeping president who is sleeping on duty.. Malawians let’s wake up this president by telling him, the way he comes in as president is the same way out…
HRDC polani moto???
Here we go I knew this will happen chakwera he doesn’t act bcoz of family working with him and he is benefiting toatl faillour
Saulos is finally realising that dpp wasn’t bad, it’s just that it was election time. And to be fair dpp performance was much better than this
Eyetu. When you turn a blind eye to the past government’s transgressions and you are slow, the bullseye automatically turns on you.
Politics is theater. Give people the low hanging fruits for crying out loud.
MR. CHAKWERA?! WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR HEAD?
JACK UP MAN!
Stealing Covid19 money, losing your party VP, which way now tonse alliance? Nanu a hrdc musatibowe, you are also part of the failing alliance. Infact hrdc is key member of the alliance, enough with the pretence.
Woganiza bho uja alikuti timuone, paja tonse alliance promised to use him properly unlike dpp.
You have now started biting. That’s wat we want from you as our watchdogs
OILGATE
Shut your stinking mouth. It’s our time to eat. Bambo nkaka and chimwendo Banda can not be threatened by your stupid threatss
Ndipo zikukoma
Wa khate samunamiza nsapato.
HRDCCCCCCC KKKKKK.Very selfish indeed these pigs.Tonse Alliance was formed out of jealous and envy of DPP lead government.These people are just amateurs in politics.They have failed drastically,
I sympathize with the Southerners especially people from Zomba and some from Thyolo who were very against DPP.Phalombe,Mulanje Chiradzulu part of Machinga and the Mangochi were the true friends of DPP.Ntcheu outsmarted DPP with the hope that Chilima with MCP would care them.And I pity the way how Chilima used to molest Chilulirenji.Kumunyogodola ngati siwakwawo eheee.Sambi koma ,lero ndeziti.Saulosi devil ngati ameneuja odzikonda ngati manyi ang’ombe yamkaka kkkkk.Lero ali kuti Zeze kkk.Kungowapusitsa achinyamata ndikuwavotera heavy.kkkkAchinyamata lero ndalama za Covid19nakugawana kkkk.MK6.2 Billion kwankaizi sizikudziwika kkkk.Naati National Address yachiyani kkk
Dont talk about Chimulirenji as if he is anything to be proud of. He was a shame as part of the Presidency put there by Chisale both Chisale & Chimulirenji cant even read a text message in English
Getting rid of DPP/APM was probably the greatest achievement by Malawians. DPP was worse than sin. In fact you will find, after investigations have been concluded, that the rot at DODMA started during DPP administration and that literally all those involved in the mess have DPP DNA.
Tiye nazoni tilikonko ku nseukoooo