I feel no remorse, says commissioner Mathanga over bastardised Malawi votes
Despite the constitutional court cancelled the 2019 presidential elections citing massive irregularities during the process, one of the key Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) commissioner Jean Mathanga told Parliament’s Public Appointments Committee (PAC) inquiry on Tuesday that she was not fealing remorseful for bastardised votes.
During the he May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections, MEC didn’t even try to cover their fraudulent election tracks — not bothering to try to hide their crude and wide-spread use of Tipp-Ex (a.k.a. White-Out) to change the tallies on thousands of results sheets.
But Mathanga, a close ally to MEC chairperson Jane Ansah, told the inquiry assessing the electoral body’s competence, that has not guilt on her participartion and authorisation of the compromised electoral system..
“I am not remorseful,” said Mathanga, who defiantly justified the appeal by the commission against the Constitutional Court ruling.
“What God is telling me is that you have done a good, I am convinced I have done a good job. I served the nation …I don’t regret anything. Things may have gone wronge here and there,” she said.
Commissioner Mathanga in her answers displayed impunity and defiance despite that the court established MEC were non compliant to electoral laws as no originals were used in the annulled elections, duplicates were used, fake sheets and tippexed sheets were used, in a number of cases no log books were used, presiding officers and assistant presiding officers never signed results sheets and log books.
Mathanga was appointed MEC Commissioner on June 6 2016 as representative President Peter Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Other DPP commissioners include Moffat Banda, the Reverend Killion Mgawi and the Reverend Clifford Baloyi while United Democratic Front (UDF) has Yahaya M’madi and Elvey Mtafu. People’s Party (PP) is represented by Linda Kunje and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Mary Nkosi.
Last Monday, February 3 2020, in a 500-page ruling that took some 10 hours to read, Malawi’s Chief Judge Healey Potani detailed a litany of electoral irregularities, declared that President Peter Murtharika was not duly elected and called for fresh elections in the next 150 days.
But it didn’t stop there.
The five judges, Potani, Mike Tembo, Dingiswayo Madise, Redson Kapindu and Ivy Kamanga, ordered the recalling of the current electoral commission and further ruled that the simple plurality standard, used in every presidential race since 1994, was against the “majority” principle in Malawi’s constitution.
The five-judge panel of the High Court of Malawi sitting as the Constitutional Court called for parliament to amend the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Act to require winners achieve an absolute majority of 50 percent plus-one votes.
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Even Jezebel had no remorse, not forgetting the devil himself has no remorse!🤣🤣🤣she must be the devils sister for sure!
Koma eeeee mau ndilibe ndi athakati pa malawi.Really???? no remorse????? something is very wrong in this land guys….satan ameneyu anachokela pati??
Jean has no remorse chifukwa akumva kukoma kwa ndalama anampatsa zija! In addition, her husband, who is at the Reserve Bank gets promotions because he is DPP.Choncho mungamve remorse?
Jean Mathanga has responded well, just like all other commissioners. Zangondikumbutsa nthawi ya debate ija. Its subjective…..
This is a lesson to political parties, please next time submit names of individuals that can save malawians not their personal gains. Do not submit names because they are affiliated to political party rather proffessionals that can perform wonders. we also need some lawyers into the new mec commission
remorse is for pple who still have spirit in their lives……i cud have wondered if u cud have said u have remorse….anthu inu ndalama inakuphani kalekale…..koma zindikirani kuti malawi is bigger than amene anakupatsani ndalamawo and ndalama zo amatenga from us malawians
A bitch with money.
Which comes last between Pride and Fall.
Still joy of this country is coming despite this arrogance
So the composition of MEC commissioners is based on party affiliations? In which era is Malawi? Medieval ?????
KODI SUMADZIWA? zipani zazikulu zomwe zikupikisana zimapeleka maina a anthu omwe akhale ma commissioner as their representatives.zili mu malamulo Baba kungoti inuyo ndiomwe simumadziwa
INU SIMUMAZIWA KUTI ZIPANI NDI ZOMWE ZIMAPANGA SUBMIT NAMES A MA COMMISIIONERS? NKHAN I NJAKUTI PAZIKHALA BALANCE AT TIME OF SUBMISSION OR INU MULI NDI NJIRA INA?
I applaud this lady for standing her ground against all these pressures and intimidations, its better to die saying the truth than to live at the expense of giving false and incriminating evidence for the sake of pleasing the masses.
It seems the so called expert, or political analysts are interested more on the negative side of the story than the positive one. Why are they all commenting on Nkosi’s testimonies only and not the rest of those who have faced PAC?
Makani a amiwa ndi osathandiza! If she accepts that things were bad and some laws were violated, why should somebody not swallow her pride and accept that certain quarters within the system didn’t do their work professionally!! Her behaviour has strongly vindicated Nkosi’s sentments!! Mayiwa awonekelatu kuti amadzimva ndipo samabvomela kuti zinthu sizinakhale bwino ngati akudziwa kuti she had a role in that!!
Secondly and to you Chiwavi, its time you knew that court’s operations do not start on their own….! Somebody has to move the courts! If you have issues about how elections of MPs were administered, then you were supposed to move the courts! Chakwera and Chilima moved the court on Presidential election because that was their concern! There was no way the five judges could have said anything about how election of MPs happened because nobody moved them and nobody brought evidence on the same!! Kodi ndi mayesa you have law professors, what are they saying on that…..! Si paja pa Njamba park somebody challenged that they know law very much, why can’t you consult them? If you are in Malawi then you should be aware that in some constituencies where those who contested doubted the outcome went ahead and moved the courts, and as I write some have been assisted accordingly! Awanso, zoona kukhalila kumbuyo zitsiluziiiiiiiiiiiiiiii My fooooooot
Inu mzimayi uyu musalimbane naye, aliyense akuyankha according to the best of his or her knowledge
What truth breaking the law? which country in the world uses tippex instead of fresh sheets and declaring null & void the misused one! Dont be an idiot, this was a plan (systematic) they supplied tippex national wide they know what they were doing unluckly the devil has shitted on they heads they thought rushing to swear in APM shit we will be swept under the carpet he will control the police to silence critics but lucky the judicial and army still uphold the supreme law of the land! Next if the ballot doesnt remove this idiots they will do down like Mugabe! People of Malawi are tired and relentless!!!
Yiwathera ntchito
Amalawi, kuchititsana manyazi. 2020 basi using white out on voting ballots 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
HI MALAWIAN
So these people were sponsored by parties and why? Commissioners should be appointed becoz of their capabilities not from parties. Automatically,these party sponsored commissioners of which DPP had majority of them, this shows that they were there to favour DPP at all costs.And the headquarters of MEC should be moved to Lilongwe.These guys they take MEC as theirs,not a government entity.Most of them they don’t care about Malawians as long they get there fat envelopes, they are happy.They should be fired and they should not receive any thing.This should be reasons for future commissioners.what kind of pple who just think about themselves and their families not Malawians.These people received money from DPP.They say in 2014 general election tippex was uses again last year’s election they used it again.What more evidence do we need .
THAT IS WHY THE CONCOURT RECOMMENDED TO PARLIAMENT FOR JUSTIFICATION OF ‘APPOINTING AUTHORITY’ PARLEY HAS TO COME UP WITH A LEGISLATIVE DEFINITION OF ‘APPOINTITNG AUTHOPRITY’!
Don’t underestimate Ladies. We have strong ladies like Kunje . No arrest. If you want go and arrest Ntambo and Chakwera.alsovNsundwe warlords.The whole world has known that all MPS went through the same tipex process . Yet they are enjoying the same fruits of tipex.when others are suffering to mention a few, Kalindo,Calista,Akweni email Kaliati etc Judges were incompetent they overlooked the MPS. They should be declared null and void. We go voting again even councillors. Munya muona. Mubweza bwanji ngongole
Rigging started at Commissioners appointments. 4 DPP, 2 UDF, 1 PP, 1 MCP?
Mathanga has clearly shown that she is the devil’s advocate.
mwaiwalatu UTM=0
very right
They are traitors. They betrayal Malawians.
They will all go down for treason. The idea was to bring down the executive and legislative arms of Malawi Government by deliberately tippexing election results and using fake papers to record the results. This is treason. Luck for mother Malawi we have another strong arm of government; the Malawi Judiciary which is now bringing in sanity.
MEC is the enemy of the people.
MP s who are conducting these questions are just a bunch of fools and hypocrites. They should go to South Africa and learn from Julius Malema on how to ask the questions. If it was me I would address these stupid people in a language they would hear. I have not seen any MCP representative who has asked an intelligent question. Eevn the judges who proposed that theses fools examine the competence of MEC dont know what they were doing. May be if they had given them TOR and questionares because the questions being asked are useless. MEC commissioners conducted tripartite elections and there is no way these MPs can isolate other parts of the elections to have been conducted well not others. I just heard Chakwera say he will now go to parliament. useless reverend. Certified hypocrite. Greedy and pompus.
Achitsiru inu, ingovomelani kuti you’re illiterate basi! If nobody moved the courts alleging that election of MPs was a sham and the courts had no evidence to justify the same, how then could they include such an issue in the judgement……………………………………..? Awansooooooooooooo, inu zanu ndi zomwezo zomangoyankha akakufunsani kuti dpp woyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Apa kuteleko mwayankhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, ndikunama!! Umbuliwu musamalondole kapena kuvomeleza zili zonse ngati zitsiru mukuziikila kumbuyoziiiiiiii!! Inu mumati zimenezi muchita kangati, Mulungu osakuonetsani poyela!! Chouluka chatela tsopano nde chatela pa moto, nthenga zonse zapsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Good job Mathanga. You are bright and your responses were excellent. Well done!
Umupatsa ntchito ina ameneyu, iwetu undivomeleza……….ulendowu wayambila pansi ndipo zikathela kodula mutu wa mkuluyo, kenako atumikiwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Mukafika august 2020 muli m’bomamu mundifunseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You will be sorry and remorseful once you lose you benefits kikikikikikikiki
These DPP commissioners have the support of their tippex president hence not regretting their action. They need to be eradicated from the public by whatever means available. They don’t feel the hardships they have caused.
All DPP MEC commissioners must be arrested for bringing the country to the state it is now. Such immaturity and impunity by some of these so called DPP sponsored commissioners prove how mediocre the people we select in positions to serve Malawians are.
Instead of trying to harmonise the already broken society, these so called commissioners are bringing further provocation, dividing the country further. Do these people like Mathanga know what it takes to be a good leader? Rather than sounding rude, these so called DPP commissioners should have shown some maturity and some form of diplomacy.
The MCP commissioner is the stupidest of them all. Kungoti ndwii akuwona bwana wake akuberedwa? Akapsys kujahen mmayi ameneyu
Some sense in Ndendeuli. Nkosi had the opportunity to act at the material time.
what do you think a drop of white substance can do in a 20 litres bucket
Yabvuta ndi gratuity and other benefits akuopa kuluza zimenezo akapanga resign…… but they will be fired/sacked anyway otherwise this country will be on fire
How can you regret about it when the god you worship is not the GOD of Abraham,Issack and Jacob,but one day when you’ll have an encounter with CHRIST JESUS like Paul the Apostle,you’ll tell the truth,as of now be like that because the forces of darkness are in full control of your life.
Unfortunately your are not God to know whether she prays to God or god. Leave the judgment to God for you may be far away from being holy
I have watched many shows on CI channel where criminals are so smug, thinking that they have got away with it. In some cases they even go to the extent of taunting the investigating officers, without knowing just how much the investigators already know about the crime. When these smug criminals are eventually caught and are appropriately sentenced, all the smugness goes out of the window.
The moral of all this is that if you are a DPP operative, don’t make the mistake of being smug and arrogant. You don’t know what incriminating evidence is already out there. There is always some paper trail, especially bank records. Be humble, you don’t know what your fate will be a year from now,,,
I was exactly thinking the same. You have kind paraphrased what I was thinking. Taunting Malawians with such arrogance will only come back to hurt this woman.
DPP MEC commissioners have been the beneficiaries of DPP criminal activities. Look at the size of houses Mathanga, Baloyi etc have built in a very short period.
How do such dregs like Mathanga, Baloyi get into positions of authority? What a waste. Such mediocre people!
Adzafa infanyowawa asiyeni.we know wher ur house is wher u go for salon,wher u go to chirch and th schools ur loved ones go.we shall hit wher it hurts most whn u least expect it.we know th hard cash youre keeping in your home we know th meetings u wer convening at ur house.we hav warned u.uzaona
These are the ladies we need. I followed her through though these fools wanted to intimidate her but she stood on her grounds. She really spoke and well impressive English.
Keep it up lady. The question on her stand in relation to the Bible,that was a foolish question. That question should go to Timothy Ntambo , Chilimaand Chakwera who have caused innocent people to loose their property and lives as well.
Takunyadirani Chemwali.Pat yourself at the back. Good job
issue is not english , please madam think like a human with brains
There is no way these people will be remorseful because they have respect for anyone and they know thee is nothing that will happen to them. That is why they have defiantly remained in their positions up to now. You should expect the same from Jane Ansah. SHAME
Usiku ungatalike bwanji kunja kumacha basi,tizawona kukazacha zoona zake