HRDC writes embassies on Malawi airport shutdown
The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has written foreign embassies in the country notifying them on their proposed anti-Jane Ansah demonstrations to take place in the country’s airports and borders from 26-30 August 2019.
The airport shutdown will take political crisis in Malawi a lurch for the worse as President Peter Mutharika has said the demonstrations are about usurping power from him.
Mutharika warned that he will take all necessary measures to defend and protect the country’s airports and borders from those who want to disrupt them and has since directed the police and Malawi Defence Force (MDF) to stop “these demonstrations” and use “necessary force”.
But HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo and his deputy Gift Trapence on Thursday August 21 despite Mutharika threats to stop the demonstrations, notified embassies of Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe about the demos.
In a letter seen by Nyasa Times, HRDC states that the decision to hold protests in the airports follows government’s failure to heed to people’s demands to fire Jane Ansah as Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson.
“We regret any inconveniences this may cause, but it is our hope that our government will heed to the demands of citizens,” reads the letter in part.
The grouping has also notified border district councils of Dedza, Karonga, Mwanza, Mchinji and Ntcheu of the same.
HRDC has been holding demonstrations since the announcement of the May 21 presidential election results to force Ansah to resign and pave the way for investigations to identify and prosecute those who supplied Tippex used to alter elections figures.
Ansah, a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal, has dismissed calls for her to resign for allegedly mismanaging the presidential election, saying she would only step down if the court hearing an elections petition case found her leadership to have failed to discharge its duties.
LONG LIVE OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS !!SALUTE !
..mercenary Mtumbo uR wasting ur time tell Joyce Banda that..start counting ur days and have a sigh of relief everyday that passes and uR still alive
This guy is too stupid
This dude is too stupid he thinks he is untouchable
“Munguru ndi munthu wakuba”. Mwatiwonongera dziko aNguru munya simunati. Lithe kumene dziko lino ngati nsaza lithe, shupitiiiiii
Choncho..very tribalistic. Mungatenge boma ndi malankhulidwe opusa otere? Mwauponda, simudzalamuliranso dziko lino ndithu.
amatamba ndi khalamba ili ku state house yo.
kukakamila udindo Kuti azibabe , or kufuna state funeral. osamupatsa mpata more fire
NONSE MUKUDANA NDI ANTHU OMENYELA UFULU NGATI A MTAMBO NDINU AFITI KWAMBIRI…..KODI MUMAONA NGATI DZIKO KUTI ZINTHU ZIYENDE BASI KUMANGOMVELA AZITSOGOLERI OIPA NGATI A DPP??
MUMBIRI YADZIKO LATHU NDANI ANAPANGAPO MAKANI NGATI NKHALAMBA ZANUZI ZIKUPANGA AND MKUPAMBANA? U THINK ZOMWE AMAPANGA MAIKO ENA NGATI ZIMBABWE PETER APANGANSO KWATHU KU MALAWI???? MWALEMBA MMADZI.MORE FIRE MA DEMO ZINTHU ZILONGOSOKE KUTSOGOLOKU.KANI MA UDINDO AJA KU ARMY KUNALI KUSINTHA KUTI MUZIOPSYA ANTHU??? KKKKKKK MUNYA NTHAWI YANU SIIKULOLA AI,KAYA SILIKHALA LERO KOMA IKUBWELA.BY THE WAY MUNAONAPO MMENE MA PRESIDENT ADYELA AMAIKO ENA ANAFELA MPANDO ATAUSIYA KAPENA SIMUKUDZIWA? SATANIC KAPENA NDIYOMWE YAKUTENGETSANI??? KUSAMVA UKU SINDIKUKAIKANSO ANTHU INU SIANTHU ENIENI AI.
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why did you leave out Southern Region Borders and you go and tell the guardian about nepotism kungofuna pofera uku,. Kungofuna ana ako akhale amasiye, peace, justice, za zii, osawapasa ana ako mayina azinyama bwanji, nyani, galu, ndi fisi
Choncho ndiwe galu akhale a masiye ndi ana ako chitsilu cha munthu lwe pusi
Is Mwanza in the centre mbuli iwe???
mtAmbo munthu akamafa sava makutu amagontha . dziko ili sila mtambo kapena amutharika koma ndila mulungu mchifukwa chake mudziko muno muli anthu abwino komaso oyipa.choncho sibwino kutiphwanyi ufulu anthu okonda mtendere , komaso ulemu ndi umunthu ndi zofunika
Dziko la Mulungu? which Mulungu do you worship?
Koma kwachema zedi Muthalika mutu ukulatu umenewo mumawona ngati anthu ngogona eti
Apologizing to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa “for any inconvenience caused” but not to Malawian businessmen and women whose livelihoods will be worst affected by your closure of borders, whilst you draw your salaries financed by your foreign donors. So you are concerned about people of other nations. No wonder some people think you are foreigners.
poor Malawians with no capital to run business, which businesses are u talking about, kugulisa mandasi.
Can one start a mandasi business without capital? People earn a living through these very small businesses.They deserve respect.
THEY WILL BE UNDER THE COVER OF PETER AND HER TAUBAB JEAN ANSAH.
JOJO, ZILIBE NTCHITO ZIMENEZO
Muuzenso ma international organisations but i don’t think Nundwe will help to scrap off people’s right to demonstrations simply like that, because mutharika is nothing to our Constitution.He is not above the law.Stupid mutharika is nothing to us and we do not recognise that OLD BULL as the President of this Country.
So Mtambo and the rest are above the law? Nonsense. Kagwereni uko anyapaphi inu.
Mr Mtambo, self appointed, Imposed freedom fighter. Malawi has Borders in the South, Nsanje, Mulanje, Phalombe, Mangochi and Chikwawa. But you have chosen Mwanza, Dedza, Karonga and Ntceu why? it means you are not fighting for Malawians but you are fighting the Government. You are planning to paralise and weaken the economy to put this Govt on its knees, therefore you are not a freedom fighter but a Saboteur to destroy Malawi and its businesses and its ability to survive and be competitive. You dont reason like a human being and your tribalism had gone beyond tolerance, Malawians will not sit and watch you and the Criminals destroy this Country, your handlers are about to divorce you and you are a treasonous person and you know what it means.
tikunena za ma border amene amabweretsa phindu mu dziko
Drake, Border, Borders, Border, understand Drake???????????????
Drake kaya umadztcha choncho, ukuyankhulira ku nkhwapa eti galu cadet wachabechabe
True, those who don’t have eyes can not see what these peoples’ agenda is. God will fight for Malawi and they will be history soon.
Sad
Amatamba
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