Immigration officials stop ‘fleeing’ Ansah at Malawi-Zambia border

July 6, 2020 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 85 Comments

Former Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah has been stopped at Malawi-Zambia border in Mchinji while trying to flee the country to neighbouring Zambia.

Ansah:  Stopped

Ansah was reportedly travelling on a Toyota VX Land Cruiser registration number MG 236 AK.

Officer in-charge at Mchinji boarder Steve Chirambo confirmed that Ansah told officials she was going to Lusaka on holiday

The former chairperson was expected to jump into another vehicle once in Zambia, according to Chirambo.

But immigration officials asked Ansah – a judge of the Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal – to return as she could not be allowed to exit the country with permission from their bosses.

Ansah has been sent back as only essential goods and services are allowed entry in and out of the country.

Ansah resigned as MEC chairperson following accusations of incompetence.

Several months of Anti-Ansah protests after the disputed May 21 2019 Tripartite Elections last year saw property damaged and lives lost as the regular protests often turned violent.

But former president Mutharika described Ansah as “a distinguished Malawian patriot who has served her country well and selflessly.”

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85 replies on “Immigration officials stop ‘fleeing’ Ansah at Malawi-Zambia border”

  1. This woman has legally bolted. You will never touch her should there be any shady issues or deals associated with her performance as MEC chief?

  2. This woman is clever for nothing. Even the driver of the vehicle needs to be questioned and punished for taking the Court Car without being cleared Or call road traffic officer Lilongwe and find out as why the government vehicle meant to cross the border without any clearance. The MG 236K was deliberately used so that they easily cross the border. If was Mwanza they could easily be crossed because there are too corrupt staff. The woman did not even say bye to the Chief Justice who is her boss. UDERERA NDIKO KWAKULA MKAZIYU. Leave her with her driver and get the car back because it is been misused. ATHAWANJI IYEYU. KUBATU KUMENEKO UTHAMANGIRA NDALAMA ZAKE K2b Ku LONDON. I THINK MR ANSAH IS NOT STAIGHT FORWARD MAN ALSO.

  4. Mwaonongesa zinthu in this country mayi. azimayi azanu kwa nsundwe kugwililidwa coz of u. ena kuphedwa kumene. Uk mukaipeza ku Maula.

  5. patemba told us that the judiaciary is autonamous and free from the executive. why should she seek permission from opc. is it because it is ansah. mwaungulu is in uk where did he get the permission from.

  6. Koma sha! Kunakakha kuti covid 19 ndi ma lockdown kulibe bwezi anthu ambiri atathawa.

  7. A Malawi anzanga… ndati ndikudziwitseni kuti ndizonama kuti ndi mapita ku Zambia! Ndimakayendela pa border yathu kuona kuti anthu ntchito akugwira bwanji? How times have changed! Less than a year ago Jane Mjojo Ansah was patting herself on the back f0r a job well done and poised like a teenager while going for a gruelling interview with PAC at Parliament. Now she wanted to sneak away? Malawi anakonze!
    For those who dont know the Law…government has the right of “holding departure ” any individual that they have interest in. Osamangobwebweta apa!

    1. Werengani bwino bwino mupeza chifukwa amubwezera, analibe chilolezo from her superiors as only essential goods and services are allowed entry and exit in our borders. Chomde nyasatimes mudzi lembakoso chichewa

    2. She was traveling on a government vehicle that was not cleared to cross the border. One seeks clearance from Area 30 to cross the border in personal vehicle, what more government vehicle? That alone is a crime. In addition why would she use a government property to go on vacation with? That is a second crime. These people will need to adjust to the new Malawi of respecting government property. Kabwafu who was the leader of looting is no longer the president.

    4. Any judge of the Malawian Judiciary is supposed to report to the chief justice akafuna kuchokapo, within or outside the country.
      They also have travel bans as they aren’t allowed to travel after 6 PM. All this is for security reasons.

    5. Any civil servant amafunika clearance before going abroad. Nanga awa anachita kutenga galimoto ya boma clearance ya galimotonso analibe nyekhweee

    1. She is wise……that’s why as we speak she is in Zambia and you are still in Mw discussing fabricated and stale news.

  12. Ku holiday ku Zambia anapita pa galimoto ya koma? Kuzolowera kuononga dziko basi

  13. Holiday during lockdown??? Something is off who knows, u can run but you cannot hide. Payback time, you’ll test your own medicine.

  14. Shaaa so the following have to seek clearance first Kaphale, Muhara, Itaye, Malata, then Ansah?

    1. Only essential goods and services allowed to enter Zambia due to lockdown protocols….

    2. Galimoto needs clearance from Interpol (eg Area 30) to cross the border. Nanunso umbuli wake wakuti? Tamayendani pa Chipata pompa muzionako zina. Alhomwe kuzolowera kupatsidwa zinthu osagwira ntchito. Nyekhwe ndiye muzionatu!

  15. Bwezeni zomwe mwaba, makobidi aboma omwe DPP leaders adakupasani Kut muwononge chisankho cha 2019. Utsi siufuka popanda Moto wadabwa Jane Ansah Kut komwe zinthu zikupita sikuli bwino.Chakwera ndi chilima tawalemba ntchito yosamala Chuma chaboma.bwezani zomwe mwaba.

  16. Utsi siufuka popanda Moto,wadabwa Jane Ansah Kut komwe zinthu zikupita sikuli bwino.kkkkkkkk.Bwenzani makobidi aboma,omwe DPP leaders adakupasani Kut muwononge chisankho cha 2019.Mwawonatu Chuma chaboma ndicha amalawife.Yambani kubweze basi.Bora kuulula yemwe adakupasani and why? Kkkkkkkkk apa mavotes amalawi akugwira ntchito.

  17. Why was she still using a Government Vehicle, ndimayesa adatula pansi udindo a Malawi atakakata?????

  18. Jane Ansah and Peter Mutharika acquired houses in Nyambadwe thru corrupt means, remember?

    My good friend, Matiya, was fired as CEO of MHC because he spilled the beans. Ansah knows that the new govt will revive that case. She’s clearly mortified at the shame this may bring her once she gets convicted, after all, she’s a supreme court judge. She’d do anything to have APM still in power! N’chifukwa amathawa!🛩🛳🦘🦖🦎

    2. Yes, I remember. There was an outcry in the newspaper for them to return the houses, citing that as they could afford to buy expensive houses, they should leave the MHC houses to the poor. As usual, they never heeded the advice. The whole professor from USA buying a MHC house for peanuts at the expense of the poor.

  21. Tonse government is merely carrying out investigations koma kale aDPP have already held press briefings to complain that they are being hunted. Now Jane Ansah is trying to flee.
    If all these people are innocent, then why are they complaining and running away. If they are indeed innocent, the investigations will prove so… Moreover Jane Ansah is just incompetent, I don’t see why she is running away

  23. if someone is running from his home amidst of this colona virus, just knows kuti she has committed mega crime. anthu akuchoka kumaiko akutali nkumabwelera mmakwawo kamba ka kolona iye npomwe akufuna kumapita kunja.

  24. She is not fleeing she has the right to go to zambia on private trip. Bwanji sanathawe the time of demos? Inu a immigration mwatumikira ena ali mu ulamuliro watch out! Zija timanenazi ndi izi kuti a zipani amalakwitsa ma professionals kugwira ntchito yawo si izi!

    1. How special is she if only essential goods and services are being allowed to go in and out of the border? Is she a special goods or an essential thing? I doubt it. She is a thief and an incompetent ex chairman of MEC who was booted out of office.

    2. Kuganiza posakwanira @Chataika…That time she had protection from the president.now she doesn’t have and if she messed up obviously there’s something to worry about. If she is clean is this time the right time to go for vacation with Covid and all?? Penapaketu allow the brain to think further osamathera pa surface.

    4. She has no case to answer, she is privilged to travel anywhere she wants in the world.After all, if u wamt to disappear, u cant use a govt. vehicle and worse still use the formal borders, tima user porous borders to flee the country, nonsense.

      1. But we are talking about Jane here who for the past 12 months has shown that her reasoning is questionable.

      2. People still cross the borders into Zambia as Iam speaking. If Ansah is seriously contaimplenting of leaving Malawi, she can do so with no problem.

    5. She could have gone on a private trip on a private vehicle not using a government property.

  25. Jane Ansah is a criminal, and we don’t want to see her in South Africa or the USA. Many women were raped by the brutal police of Malawi because most of them belong to Molhako wa Alomwe. These people were unleashed to terrorize Malawians. That is the reason in 2019 Malawians voted the DPP terrorist regime out, but Jane Ansah imposed Peter Hitler Mutharika on them. The shivering of Jane Ansah started when the tall Centre was removed to University of Malawi. Many things were discovered how DPP and Jane Ansah stole our votes. She doesn’t want to hear this because there are too many smoking guns. Jane Ansah, we Malawians are going to change Malawi to make sure no region dominate others. A lesson learned from the terrorist regime, DPP, is that it manipulated the Southern region and politicize it by instilling regionalism and tribalism. A 50 plus 1 is still not a solution to make sure every region’s vote carries a weight. The Southern region’s way of thinking right now is very scary because to them think they should be a ruling region. We, the PROPONENT OF FEDERALISM as from now—-our struggle with President Chakwera will be to introduce Federalism in Malawi. We, the people from the Northern region cannot sit and stand aside like the Tutsis who just waited for the Hutus’ mercy if they gonna change the course. The end results was being slaughtered like chickens. I appreciate Northerners for voting Tonse Alliance but our struggle is not over—it is the beginning of it until we have a political system in one Malawi that will also respect us as human beings. That political system is FEDERALISM, otherwise we have to peel off from Malawi and be independent nation. We will set up the website for FEDERALISM or Nyika province will have to go on its own just like what happened in KOSOVO. Albanians fought and today they are independent nation. The politics of DPP and UDF have alerted us that some people still have medieval thinking which in the past triggered civil wars, world wars, and all kinds of wars. The Southern region has been brainwashed to believe that a good Malawi is for the tribes in the Southern region to rule other tribes in other regions. When Lazarous Chakwera and Tonse Alliance won—some people in Mangochi shouted, “we have just borrowed you the presidency—we will show you in 2025.” Is Chakwera not a Malawian? Lazarous Chakwera and Tonse Alliance did not borrow the presidency of Malawi, but they were elected by Malawians. Why such anger to the point of wanting to kill other Malawians that are from other regions? This hatred is deep rooted and a new political system is needed to unite all Malawians. We, the people from the Northern Region (Mocked as North Korea) are not going to settle for a 50 plus 1 because it has so many loopholes. We want a Federalism that we will have a rotational presidency among our three regions, Southern region, Central Region, and Northern Region, and not this shit that there is Eastern region otherwise we will walkout from the negotiation table and declare Nyika Province an independent nation. We will see other regions as an occupying forces. Each region will be allocated points according to its population. The Southern region 35 points, Central region 30 points, and Northern region 25 points. In order for a political party to win the presidency it must have more than 50 points. In this way the Southern region wouldn’t just rely on its majority, but they have to work with other regions because 35 points won’t produce a president. They will need to win one of the two regions. Rotational presidency means if it is the Northern region’s turn for presidency every political party must elect their presidential candidate in Northern region and so on. Each region will have a governor just like in the USA and South Africa. The governorship in each region must be rotated among indigenous tribes of that region to avoid domination by the larger tribe in that region. In this way Malawi will have peace. Each time we find that our political system has loophole we amend it because evil people can use that loophole to their own advantage just like what the DPP and UDF were doing. Alluta continua and forward with Federalism down with UNITARY SYSTEM, dictators producing system. FUCK IT AND ALL THE WAY TO THE PROMISED LAND, FEDERALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      2. Temwa: You said it won’t happen? Then you must be prepared to commit genocide against Northern Region people. You can’t stop us of being free from the bondage of slavery. Unitary system promote dictatorship agenda such as tribalism, regionalism and many other “isms” to oppress other people. The UDF and DPP in their 26 years rule have just demonstrated that. A peaceful Malawi that everybody can be proud to be a Malawian Federal system must be introduced. You can’t stop Nyikaland people to unleash their God given talent by using violence against them. Violence will just fire them up to peel off from Malawi and be independent nation. We, Nyikaland people are prepared to sit on the negotiating table and prepared to be part of Malawi provided the outcome makes every Malawian a winner regardless to region or tribe. Viva FEDERALISM. PASI NE UNITARY SYSTEM. FORWARD WE MATCH TO THE PROMISED LAND OF FEDERALISM AS ONE MALAWIANS.

    2. For the immediate past wrong doings for sure unless ubongo wako uli ngati wa nkhuku then you can’t see. Such shallow minded person calling yourself Malawi? Rubbish, please start with a small letter m or just call yourself lawi.

    1. Kodi inu sukulu yake iti mukuti a immigration sangamuletse munthu simunamve kuti munthu amamuzengera mulandu ali pa belo koma amukana chiphaso choyendela

      1. Is she on bail? And what crime? There isn’t even a warrant of arrest out for her. Kodi nde kuti she can not go out of Mw until there is another change of govt?

        1. Crime against humanity, crime against Malawians of good will,, electoral fraud, electoral mismanagement etc etc

    2. But she has been prohibited by the very same immigration. Don’t pretend to be wiser than Jane Ansah

  32. Poor decision by a certain government official,no warrant of arrest issued. Human right bleached plus witch hunting ..zayambika

  33. What a crook?she wanted to go out using government vehicle as if she is on a government mission then disappear into thin air
    Bravo immigration,that’s the most beautiful work done, she shd tell us why

  35. She will sue your incompetent asses. As far as we know she has no warrant of arrest she is not on bail. Why infringe her right to travel to Zambia

    1. She couldn’t be fleeing you idiets. She has not broken any law actually. Don’t mistake incompetence with crime. Tonsefe we make mistakes at work. Like this reporter for instance. Saying she was fleeing is gross incompetence. Should we have this incompetent reporter arrested?

    2. The statement says she was fleeing and the instructions from the above says Jane Ansah shouldn’t leave the country for pending answers from her. This means there is a smoking gun somewhere. She wasn’t arrested, but she was requested to return back for pending answers.

    3. No one is infringing her rights.As a matter of facts,no one is allowed to go out with government property without authorisation.So you better stop your baseless argument.Moreover she owe Malawians an apology with the role she took on 19th May elections.

    6. Why was she crossing the border with government vehicle? Was she travelling on duty, in which case she would have been allowed to proceed. What did she want to do in Zambia? Train the Zambian electoral commission or what? A bit strange.

    7. Koma anthu ambiri sukulu inabvutadi. kudzolowera kulandira salary ya boma chifukwa chobvina kapena u cadet. akuti only essential goods and services are allowed in or out of the boarders. Jane Ansah is neither an essential good nor service. She is already a persona non grata to mankind

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