IG Jose maintains ‘I have demanded’ demos to end: Malawi army, police hold media briefing
Malawi Police Service (MPS) and Malawi Defence Force (MDF) on Monday held a media briefing at the Police Headquarters, Area 30 in Lilongwe in which the Inspector General of Police Rodney Jose maintained that he has “demanded” that protests against Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chair Jane Ansah should stop or else the law enforcers will use force to disperse the marchers.
The two State security organs media briefing was held ahead of a fresh round of anti-Jane Ansah protests by civil society organisations (CSOS) led by Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) set for Tuesday nationwide.
Apart from the Police IG, there was also the presence of military bosses at the briefing which included MDF Commander Vincent Nundwe.
In his statement, Jose confirmed sending a letter to HRDC chairperson Timothy Mtambo dated July 26 2019, that has been circulating on various platforms, ordering the grouping to stop convening demonstrations in the country.
“As Inspector General, I would like to put it on record that my office places supremacy on the Constitutional right to assemble and demonstrate,” said Jose.
He said the decision follows violent and criminal acts that have characterised recent protests and that it doesn’t require one to be a rocket scientist to know that the demonstrations have been violent and have provided an opportunity for criminal elements to loot.
“It’s now evident that some quarters of the society have now declared war on police,” said Jose.
Jose said police officers have been attacked during these demonstrations, making it extremely difficult for them to provide security to persons and property.
He used a quote of former US President William J. Clinton, saying: “A society that makes war against its police had better learn to make friends with its criminals.”
Jose said his letter to HRDC is a demand but hope the grouping will respond positively to the letter as Police are overwhelmed by the demonstrations.
“I have demanded. I stand by the words that I am demanding,” he said.
HRDC has blamed the country’s city councils and Malawi Police Service for allegedly fuelling violence, looting and vandalism that have characterised recent demonstrations organised by the grouping.
In a statement seen by Nyasa Times, HRDC national chairperson Timothy Mtambo said police should arrest all criminal elements in the protests but not stop rights of citizens to demonstrate.
Mtambo said HRDC is available to work with relevant authorities to prevent violence before, during and after the demonstrations.
A security studies lecturer at Mzuzu University, Euginio Njoloma said the IG’s decision to demand suspension of demonstrations shows that the police is overwhelmed.
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Jose you are over-stepping your boundary! please stay in your lane
Yesterday’s Police briefing was just a total waste of time and taxpayers money because JOSE did not know what he was talking about. MDF Commander sounded to be more knowledgeable of the Malawi’s Consitution than JOSE who came to the meeting with full of anger than dressing the matter currently at hand. I am at pains not to believe that he is Senior Dpp Cadet in the manner he handles matters of concerns in this Country.For instance his fellow cadets were openly busy beating up very innocent people at Shop-rite last week in view of about 30 Police officers watching like a football,do you want to tell the general public that you represent all types of Malawians in the Country? For attention JOSE a woman who was beaten up did neither wear any party color or whatsoever and when told to go and report at the nearby Police Station she vividly denied citing the reason that even if she did so police in Malawi will not do anything since they are the same with Cadets and any officer who might professionally act on this will automatically be transferred to any other rural place as a punishment. Only if those involving in the beating up of the woman were from the opposite side they would by now arrested and straight sent to Maula Prison and instruct your what you call police lawyer to tell the magistrate that my boss jose says no bail be given. Whether Parliament confirmed you or not better know that you are NOT a professional officer and you are misleading your juniors who always say Yes Sir ! Yes Sir ! seeking promotions from jose, thus not in order. The Army has a bigger task to carry out to protect the citizens of Malawi and police should not add some extra work due to your alignment with Dpp. Dont try to creat State of Emergency in this country MWAKULA TAZIPITANI ANTHU ANA AFUNIKA AGWIRA NTCHITO YENI YENI OSATI ZIMENEO AYI. WE ARE NOW FED UP WITH YOUR STORIES.
Police is now on top of things.Certain people want to create chaos in this country.
Courts are there to give us the injunction…..DEMOs will continue
Police has no powers to stop DEMOs…….
So Jane Ansah is more important than over 15,000,000 Malawians?
if you a failing to stop one person from resigning how come you think you can easily stop the matitude from crying?
which multitude are you talking about uli buuu azako ukuwapangila money buu shirt akukupusitsani inu kumangosatila basi with your master of mathanyula trapece .
iweyo KISHOBEH petala wakoyo MUMACHINDANA. ife kunsewu mpaka mugwa. A PUMBWA OYAMWA ZIMBOLO
Mbava za DPP achina Kishobeh. Mumva m’bebe simunati. Mwakhala mukuwotcha zinthu zaboma mukaba pano mukhaula.
Very professionally done with clear messaging. Congratulations to Police and MDF Leadership.
Police need to advise the President on how many people are against Keeping Jane.This is school periods of holidays. Shooting at cloud would definitely land the bullets on STD4 pupil.Jane is sang amongst primary schools. “Jane Asah sitikuna”
If the case is not to side of the president then with or without Jane the eq
Za midolitu izi.
Those who comment here that demonstrations should continue lets go and meet in the streets. As I have said, some of us are ready to die for apm. Tatopa nazo lets support our leader. Enough is enough. Nafeso tinapita kusukulu. Sizakuti mtambo and trapece should dictate to us what they want.
sukulu yake iti inu mtambo akulemela pamutu panu inu muli phwiii which school komwe amaka teacher zimenezo shame on you what do you gain after that? buuuu shirt sons of demons.
KISHOBEH KISHOBEH IWE WA STANDADI 1 ANA ADADI OLO CHIZUNGU MUMALEPHERA. KKKKKKKK
Shame on you Mbwiye siding with a thief of our votes
KAGWERE UKO PHWALA LUKUPHWA
I AVE DEMANDED, KKKKKKK
CASOWA, LULE,JUMANI ETC
MUNAISOVA BWA,??????
NTABA NDI MA ALUBINOS,
ZINATHA BWA?????
IDIOT FOOL
Go to hell jose! We know you are bribed. Don’t you know that elections were not just? Being IG don’t you know that Malawians have the right to demonstrate? You are among people who destroy our country! You and your colleagues (pitala, jane) are very foolish. We are the 3rd poorest country in the world just because our leaders have no vision, plans and knowledge of how to run our country. We did not vote for pitala as he failed to develop this country 5 years ago. it was jane ansah who vote for pitala. YOU CAN NOT STOP US BECAUSE WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF YOU!
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander General Vincent Nundwe has said the army will continue to protect Malawians when the police are overstretched.
The Malawi Army General made the remarks in Lilongwe where the police and the military held a press conference on the post-election demonstrations.
Nundwe said the constitution allows the MDF to provide expertise to civil authorities including assisting the Malawi Police in maintenance of law and order.
He noted that massive numbers of people have been joining the post-election protests and the police may be incapable of containing such large groups of people hence the military comes in to cover such gaps.
“The way the demonstrations are taking place now, the police have been overstretched. So that is why the military comes in because we have provision in the constitution.
“As the military we will always provide expertise to civil authority, whether it is the police or any other department,” Nundwe said.
The truth of your exaggerated matter is that massive achewa otuwa ndi magule amakolo awo are the ones joining ma demo. Akumatutidwa ku Kasiya ndi madera ena ozungilira.
Nundwe has said it all that the MDF is ready to provide support to the Police but the Police do not want. Am surprised
Congratulations Jose. Mtambo should not ask the Police to arrest the criminals. Those criminals are friends of Mtambo, Chakwera and Chilima. It is the responsibility of the trio to control the criminals since they are the trio’s friends and also have always been invited by them to participate in the demonstrations and rooting. Mtambo, Chakwera and Chilima are therefore directly and severally liable and responsible. Kuluza masankho sichifukwa chokhetsera mwazi. Mwachita expire, let others take over MCP leadership. I propose one of the following to succeed Chakwera: Hon. Lowe, Hon. Ken Kandodo, Joseph Njovuyalema, Dzoole Mwale and a few ladies I will mansion in the near future.
This is another useless “leader” stuck in the dictatorial past. What he needs to focus on is building capacity and competence amongst the police to deal with the demos and all other internal security matters professionally. Unfortunately the Police under DPP is behaving just like the DPP cadets to the point that MDF has to intervene. It is this uselessness under the foolish leadership of Dausi that has led to the police losing the trus of the people.
Even if he demands, people will still go en masse onto the streets because Jane Ansah has not resigned yet.
Is there a President in this country?
Military has gained credibility because it stood with the people. Now Mr IG you should know you’re losing credibility because you’re not neutral even though you’re not pretending not to be pro wicked Dpp. It’s imperative you should be more sensitive to the issues at hand ( Jane Ansah must resign)
a josy please talk to your boss,Mulibe mphamvu inu zoti constitution ya Malawi ndi kukulorani kuletsa Demo.Tell peter Mtalika to do so.Kodi mumaona ngati Malamulo a Malawi, anthu sawadziwa.Please lamulo la Police can not Overide Human Rights Yathu otherwise tell Peter to declaire state of Emergies.Komano mmmm,amulandatu a UN.which means kaya
Ukunamatu Jose wanva? Chasowa unapha uja akubweza ese. Pantumbo pako ndiposo wanva?
Huh…has Malawi degenerated to this level of replies? Cry my beloved country.
Theong arm of the law will catch up with you tribalistic nay idiots and your pay masters. Munya muona.
Police IG mustn’t demand the public stop demonstrating. Is he demanding the same of Jane Ansah that she resigns so there is order? If not then he rather shut it !!!!
muphweteka a jose cifukwa ca bribe.
ma demo saatha.
look mukulandila salary ndi nkhani zonamazi
uku nde kutipanil nkabudula, mmwado. shit.
popeza wavala cisoti ca polisi nde nde tiope,???
siyani zankutuzi.
tiex plus ma bribes mmesa mmazidziwa, a malawi analipo kaletu. lelo pokhapokha jane ndi pitala acokebsitikuwafuna. simple. utsilu otizolowera ndi maboza ife toto.
muuzane.
tikhale ndi plesdent wina ,malawi isinthe.
kapitol city ngati trading centre mpaka lelo.
MXIIIIII
That’s pretty true brother . These bastard they think all Malawians will toralate there nonsense. All what we want is good Governance. That fuckin Peter hd failed
I knew that soon Army isukuluka. Just wait and see
From underground reliable sources Money is exchanging hands. Muo a kuti kenaka Athuwa angoti ziiiii
Why not ask Jane Ansah to temporaliry resign so that people should not go to the streets, this is the same with what Bakili did by just asking the CSO’s to stop the demos instead of asking Jane Ansah to resign until the court the court ruling
Its simple, why not asking Jane Ansah to resign, people are going to the streets because of him
I WONDER WHY THE MDF BOSS DID NOT UTTER ANY WORD AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE. TO ME IT LOOKS LIKE THEY FORCED HIM TO BE AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE SO IT CAN BE SEEN AS………….??????
THE MDF LAWS ARE CLEAR ,,,,,,,MUNYA A DPP THIS IS THE YEAR
AND NOT IN A MILITARY LIGARIA TOO, I ALSO WONDER.
Who is him to stop us demo akabwela ameneyo akunana
Cause and Effect. Peaceful election has been violated and effect people are demonstrating the cause the cause to be removed and the IG in his inteeligence and wisdom is threatening the effect not the cause.
Hahahaha ! You killed me ! On point !!!
mukuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunama yu cant stop us
yu cant use force to solve problems now yu are making things worse
From Police Force to Police Service. I thought my grannie taught me the difference! See you tomorrow.
Zimachitika zotelezi tsogoleri akakhala dikiteta ndiye a jose mwaonetsa zimene akutumani dikiteta mavuto alipo pa Malawi ndithu policeman kutchotsa ufulu wawathu tiziona mene zithere
Most of the people who join the protest do not know it was their right to protest . I doubt if they fully understand the rights, the protest or indeed the impact on the nation.
It seem its you who do not understand rights my friend
It sounds rather stupid. That language will never help matters. Hong Kong took that route but you know what is happening there. Algeria did the samething and you know what happened there. Ghana under Gbagbo did just that but you know where the guy is now. In Sudan it was the something. Zibwana izi a Jose. A gun will not always silence people. Cases are numerous where use of a gun made things worse and in many cases saw presidents losing power.
Why Army Man not wearing Uniform
So MDF boss did not say anything right and one may wonder why?
Maybe not there official. Just a participant and laughing!
So the original message to HRDC has a new version today and today’s version is rather a demand. Very fascinating. The army commander should have been allowed to give a short briefing on the same agenda. Today, the 29th July 2019, the Inspector General of Police has officially declared civil war in Malawi. Once again, this is fascinating.
Lets go the Hong kong way then….no police permission but the people will still march! Just like we did in 1992, we did not ask for the partisan Police to march. It was spontaneous! Now the DPP police want to use force to stop demonstrations? People have declared war on Police because the police watch helplessly as the marchers are being attacked by DPP cadets! The Cadets are already friends with the Police!!
You cant tell people when to exercise their human rights. Let us come out in large numbers tomorrow comrates.
we are not shaken with our officers who are cadets. Jane Ansah Must fall…
Contradicting yourself. If you cannot tell people when to exercise their rights…. The organisers must stop telling the people to come out tomorrow in large numbers.
Zawakanika …. people demand accountability …..Ask the President to fire Jane Ansah period !
MALAWIANS CANNOT BE THREATENED UKUNAMA IWE WATCH OUT SIZINATI BWANAWE.REMEMBER THIS IS NOT CHASOWA.WAIT A MOMENT UONA WEKHA KUTI A MALAWI NDI A MALAWIDI.
Good thoughts ,we must think and see the route source of all what is happening ,Malawians are peaceful people but with limit.chapangitsa kuti njovu ivulale nyanga ndiciyani?