Joyce Banda’s return to Malawi delayed: ‘Serious security concerns’

Former president Joyce Banda’s much-anticipated return to Malawi will be delayed, her office has said.

Joyce Banda: Postpones her return to Malawi
Joyce Banda: Postpones her return to Malawi

According to Banda’s spokesman, Andekunye Chanthunya, the delay has been caused by “serious security concerns “ following Malawi Government’s delay in providing a secure and decent house in a secure locality for the former Head of State and her family.

“In August 2015, the Ministry of Lands and Housing invited officials from her office to Lilongwe to identify a suitable house for the former President. The exercise was jointly carried out by the Ministry’s officials, officials of her office and His Excellency Chief Justice Richard Banda, RTD, the spouse of the former President. The house was indeed identified. However, one week ago, the Malawi Governmenta dvised Her Excellency’s office that the house is no longer available,” Chanthunya said in a statement released Thursday morning.

Chanthunya said the Malawi Constitution provides for retirement benefits for the former Head of State and former Vice President.

“These includes salary, a house in a safe and secure place, and personal security detail. None of these have been accorded to Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda since she left office in May 2014,” he said.

He said the former president request the government to respect and uphold the rule of law and provide Banda with her salary for 17 months, transport, adequate personal security and a secure home.

“Many Malawians, in general, and Her Excellency’s family in particular are even more concerned that recently, the Malawi Government withdrew security apparatus from her private residence in June 2015.

“This happened while there is total breakdown of security in Malawi where senior officers of governance institutions, such as Mr. Issa Njaunju of ACB, are murdered and police officers are killed in broad daylight.,” reads the statement in part.

It adds: “Malawians and the international community may recall that when she was State Vice President, Her Excellency’s security detail was drastically reduced and weakened in October 2010. On November 19, 2010, one month later, her official vehicle, a Mercedes Benz salon, registration number MG 2, was involved in a mysterious road accident at Kanengo in Lilongwe. This accident is well documented in Malawi.”

Chanthunya said the decision to weaken Banda’s security detail this time round and attempts by the DPP administration to victimize her in various forms are reminiscent of the 2010 events.

“History may be repeating itself here!”

Banda was scheduled to arrive in Malawi on Tuesday, November 2, 2015 through Chileka Airport in Blantyre around mid-day on a South African Airways flight number SA3172.

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89 replies on “Joyce Banda’s return to Malawi delayed: ‘Serious security concerns’”

  1. ngakhare utakhara okuba but still more security yako imafunika more overmayiwa is just a suspect it is nt comfilmed kut anabadi moneyo tiuzen zoona umbon wanu uli kut? amalawi lets thnk like human beangs mukanakhara inu mukanata?

  2. We surely dont miss Joyce Banda in malawi. Let her stay where she is, we are okay, even better without her in the country.

  3. All this about houses and security is total bullshit.What type of a house is she looking for?Why do Malawians presidents thinks are very special leaving in poor country.For your information Mwalimu Julius Kambalage Nyerere retired in a very modest house after serving Tanzania.Ayatollah Khoemini the prime minister of Iran used to live in a two bed roomed house in the oil rich Iran. Tseretse Khama of Botswana retired to his farming house after his tenure.Nkhani ya nyumba iyi yatitopetsa kwabasi.How many houses does she have in Malawi after shamefully stealing from Malawi with her sons?If she doesn’t want to come to Malawi,nobody misses her.She can as well die there.Its only her husband and the family missing her not Malawians.

  4. Dzikoli tikusowa anthu am’dalitso wausogoleri ngati mai-wa koma tisadandaule popeza misozi ya a Mbendera yatsala pang’ono kupukutidwa patsikuli ngakhale alomwe adzabvina nawonso akusowa mtendere chifukwa cha murupali wawoyu

  5. malawi government should be closely concerned with the issue of her excellency’s retirement and security.

  6. vuto lake amai mumkachita matama muli papmando paja mumkaona ngati pamene paja simudzachokapo, mukaona ngati anthu akuvotereni zopusa, pamenepaja tidati udikirire osati utilamule galu. nde pano ukuthawa chiyani pita ukatenge ma bus ako ku 30 uko nyani wa mchira iwe,

  7. I would love to discuss how can we improve to reduce the scarcity of Ho2 and electrity problem rather than wasting of our tym on joice Banda issues.can all theses issues of our former HE sort out our problems like the hunger.shortage of drugs in our hospitals? Just to mention the few.i cried for mother malawi timalimbani ndi zinthu zoti sizingatipindulire in our dairy life

  8. amai bwelerani kumudzi vuto palibe sindinu oyamba kapena omaliza anthu tikuvutika kuno olo atakuimbani mulandu koma sangakwanitse momwe mmakwanitsira inu,amai dziko peter waliika pa moto ndipo mitundu ya anthu ikumka ikupemphera ndi kusala kut munthuyu evn atamwalira coz tikuona kunzunzika tikanali moyo mdziko mwathu amalawi tisanayerebe kumaso munthuyu akhala kunja akulira kunja kwa dzaka dzaka ndipo mavuto aanthu iye sakwadziwa chomwe akudziwa iye ndi maulendo adzinjoy nkuononga ndalama basi komanso kuyankha mwano,kotero sakuyenera kukuopsyezani,tikakumbuka anafunsidwa pa tiuzeni zoona mu nthawi yanu mutangotenga kumene boma nkumati ayi palibe chomwe chikusintha pakusavomereza kwake koma lero chaka ndi miyezi yake palibe chomwe amalawi akuona cha nzeru kwa iye!!!shame to u mr president…

  9. Kunali Kamuzu,anaimbidwa mlandu zinatha,Che Bakili nawo aimbidwa mlandu, sitinawawone akuthawa,Malewezi zawo mukuzidziwa,a Chilumpha ndiye tisanene.Bingu MHSRIP ndiye eishh!!!!.Akanangoyerekeza kuuka kwa akufa during your 2yr rule !!!! Akanaona zomwezo.Ndiye inu musaope,siinu oyamba,after all kuli ma lawyer kunja kuno. Kodi Mukuopa kuimbidwa mlandu wake utiii? Tangobwerani zinthu zanu zikuonongeka kuno.Mukumalongolola mukasowa ulendo kunjako,mukutichititsa manyazi.

  10. This is Bullshit. we are tired of this noise about her coming. The country doesn’t need her. maybe just to answer cashgate cases. akhale kumene aliko. Nyasatimes tipatseni nkhani zina not this nonsense

  11. Didn’t we get told a few short months ago that her husband was maintaining their house kumudzi kwao in preparation for her coming. Nanu atolankhani muzikumbukira zinthu and learn to ask questions when people are contradicting themselves.

    You mean to say a person of her standing can fail to get to Malawi, her home, because government cant provide her a house? You mean after working all these years, including as president, and running some school, she hasn’t built a house to which she can quietly retire? Do me a favour Mrs Banda’s handlers, don’t say anything about her coming or continued stay abroad in the public domain anymore. Her coming or not is of no consequence to our lives, she I no longer president! Get a life! She stole money, she has to coke and face the music, period!

  12. A thief is always afraid whenever he/she sees a policeman even if the policeman has no business with him/her.

    You ( Joyce Banda) shall always feel insecure in Malawi even if nobody or nothing threatens you! You shall always hear voices even if nobody calls you! You shall always feel being looked at, if if nobody is looking at you! You have no peace of mind! You know it! And you know why.

    And Andy suggests that Malawians are concerned that the security was withdrawn from her private residence and other nye nye nyes? Which Malawians are you talking about? Your wife and string of girlfriends? What would the security be there for? Guarding her panties? Now listen . . .

    No any sane Malawian is concerned!

    And your gross strict narrowness of mind is very strange! And you may therefore wish to stop this cheap nonsense (you are advancing) as reasons for her feeling insecure hence not coming back.

    Now tell the thief for which you are the mouth, that we need our money back!

  13. Mai awa munthu sungawamvetse zonena zao zachuluka. Kodi asanakhale president amakhala kuti? Nanga amunao a kukhala kuti. A Boma don’t even bother to answer her muzingomuyang’ana alibe ntchito. She has nothing to contribute to this country. A bwera bwanji manyazi basi.

  14. NDALAMA ZA NDENGE ZILIKUTI UNANGULITSA INJA. UKUSOWA NTENDELE MUNTIMA. KODI KHANI YA CHATHUNYA ANAPHA STUDENT INJA ILI PATI? ONSE NDIWOTHAWA. kKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. TSIKU NDILIMODZI . YOU CAN RUN BUT YOUCAN NOT HIDE.

  15. What difference does it make whether she returns or not? After being away for so long during which time APM has consolidated his position she has nothing to contribute; she is an irrelevance. She may as well continue gallivanting around the world collecting meaningless honours and giving her talks and lectures to those who consider them worth listening to. Why should she be afraid for her security? To whom is she a threat? She clearly has money, or how else could she have travelled around as she has done for so many months? She should have sorted out APM and his cronies while she was President. They should be behind bars for treason – plotting to take over after Bingu passed away. There is something here that we are not being told. Watch this space!

  16. Joisi Bamda ndi kape ndithu. Were we one time ruled by this idiot? What security are u talking about. You are not even in Malawi. You were given the house and you did not want to take it. Don’t think Malawians are stupid

  17. JB is not a politician. Politicians do not fear being arrested.One can not be a president without being imprisoned. Ask Kamuzu Banda’s history, ask Baba Muluzi, remember what you did to mathanyula.
    Come here to find big mid night six. They are waiting for you to REVENGE. Khamani, gwira.

  18. The moment you said azungu andiuza,we knew it was about cashgate,lero masewera akuthera ,azungu onse akuthawa lero Ali ndi APM,security for what?kumene mukubitsalako who is responsible for your security?Mayo wamvanoyo ndiwochititsa manyazi,trust in the Lord and he shall protect

  19. JB is a coward. Come down here for you to face justice. Udamumanga mathanyula ku Lumbazi. Zoona mukufuna kuti mathanyula asabwezere. Ayi amai bwerani tidzakumangeni sabata imodzi yokha.

  20. once JB here we are going to surpport her bcoz ndimai okha omwe ali oganizira amalawi. let me myself promise u nonse mukuti mai ndiwoipa awamange. choti mudziwe kuzangotero muzaona kufa kwaanthu and muzamva kuwawa inu kutani kuziona oganiza dziko lakukanukanika kutibela tikuona zopusa ayi tionesa na ngati dziko lino futi sizinayambe zalira

  21. Inu nomwe boma likanalipira nyumba for over one year munthu asakukhalamo mukanamanena kuti Boma likuonanga ndalama. Munthu akudya kale ndalama zakuba ndiye boma limupatsenso security yachiani?? Joyce Banda abwere adzayankhe mulandu wa Kamanya? Ankati mwana MK280 Million ayitenga kuti usiku umodzi??

  22. Hmm! A Chanthunya mumakudziwa kuthunya inu.Listen we have had enough of this cheap propaganda. Tell this woman to get lost. We do not miss her and don’t ever say a Malawi because Malawians told her off when she sat in for the late Ngeazi the second MHSRIP. A few mistakes ago we though she could help us but the two year were enough to know that we were retrogressing. She scattered everything angwazi the 2nd made. Kenako tinamutulukira kuti a thief is thief ask me one day I will tell you za pant Ku st Marys girls secondary school.

  23. What kind of security are you talking about? How special are you Joyce? You mean you are different from us all Malawians? Stupid and useless lady with no grey matter in your head. Who told and lied to you that you need tight security than all of us?

    Mayi wochititsa manyazi azimai a ku m’Malawi

  24. Iwe joice usatinyanse wamva.Tazibwerako nsangansanga.

    By the way, isn’t it posible to pull her by force back home? Because her cowardice and fear are a clear manifestation that she indeed store our money and is afraid to come to answer cashgate cases with her kasambala. Why should she pose big and untouchable this way?

  25. Why should former presidents be given all these benefits? I don’t think our economy can sustain it. Imagine we have Dr Muluzi, Dr Malewezi, Dr Chilumpha, Dr Banda, Mr Kachale, and very soon Dr Chilima and Prof Mutharika. How is the economy going to sustain these retired presidents and including those in office at the same time. I think former presidents must be able to live a decent life from their savings and pensions. Or else there must be a cut-off point after which the benefits have to stop, say 5 years after being out of office.
    It doesn’t make any economic sense to look after these people for life. In the west that’s why we see the likes of Bill clinton, Tony Blair et al doing public speeches to earn a living. Unfortunately our retired presidents don’t have a clout, maybe JB, to command any space internationally to give a speech!!!

  26. Let government do its job.by the way who doea this job yopeleka ma benefits kwa opuma.he is to blame for that otherwise the president has nothing to do with this

  27. If mrs Banda didn’t do something wrong to our country she suppose to come back to Malawi.This delay it mean something didn’t go well at her time of being a citizen number one.The Government is right not to put security to the place where mrs Banda suppose to stay.

  28. Plz mama stay there and save your life from DPP beasts, otherwise u will die like Njaunju, the likes of Dausi are craving for your blood, asakunamizeni anthuwa ndiopa kwambiri

  29. this cashgate woman wants a house for what? ndalama zathu abweze! abweze!abweze! abweze! abweze! abweze !that’s will be a welcoming song when you get back, tizakuonera the first woman to steal alot of money from the government coffers

  30. Is it possible that the insecurity operates selectively … i.e. only when one is on home soil but not
    when on foreign soil?.

  31. zopusa azikhala konko by the way akumfuna ndani kuno? azikhala konko we don’t care about her, mdalama ndizo anatibera kale akuseweresa kuja ukozo ndiye azipasidwa nyumba ya chani? amalawi tikuvutika just because of this useless and shameless woman ndipo akangofika azaziwa tu ameyu abweze basi ndalama zomwe anabaza iwe chathunya uziwauzilatu aunt akowo kaya munagawa pa mbuba panupo muzazisanza ndalama zathu. forsake!

  32. Pati bii pali munga munthu anaba ndalama uyu nchifukwa akuopa.
    It is only those who benefited from cash have fair for this lady otherwise she caused great disaster to the nation of Malawi.

  33. Iwe kaliati ndi anzako mupaseni nyumba munthu after all simunamange using ur own monies its our money.Who wants to die soon? Even an HIV person amafuna moyo ndiye the way Ngaunje was brutally murdered u think Joyce Banda wud be spared? DPP is a party full of killers. Where is Robert Chasowa? Answer me where is Robert?So don’t fool us here.

  34. despite the reasons we may suggest or critic about the former president, she has the right to be secured, paid her salary and enjoy every of her benefits, then we may look into other issues, but depriving the former head of state all the above mentioned benefits it is very unreasonable and very unprofessional in doing things.

  35. Inu kodi Chanthunya akukambidwayi si mbale wake wa uja adapha Linda Chatha wa ku Zimbabwe ku Motel yake ku Mangochi. I think he can tell us more abt his Brother.

  36. The reasons given for the delayed return of JB are flimsy indeed. What is JB fearing in Malawi? This is her country. She is a Malawian. Why can’t she just accept that he likes globe trotting? I do not think that the Government will fail to give her what is entitled to her as the former leader of the nation. The current leader will also be a former leader one day in the future. There must be something that is disturbing her peace – some thing the nation will know in the next few days.

  37. Kodi Joyce akufuna azilandila salary pamene iye alidelu-delu kumayiko eniyake???? Abwele kuMalawi kuno salary ayipeza komaso abwele nyumba azafufuze yekha akapeza the government responsibility is just to pay fees basi basi!

  38. Kod agalu inu mukuwona ngat Joice anabandalama zokwana
    577billion? Amangidwe a chisiluwo apitalawo chifukwa ndemene anaba ndalama zoziwikabwino ok arrest Joice and surely conseques this time around expect the real demos
    Nkhope ngati maliro apitala

  39. Bodza iri inu a ndale mumatelo munthu wokonda dziko lake ndi anthu ake saopa imfa amati ndikafere anthu anga tengani chitsanzo chabwino kwa malemu a chakufwa chihana anati magazi anga akhale petulo yoyendetsera dziko lamalawi

  40. It was right n proper abwere n live in her own house as they say ya boma yachita disappear, nde pipo wud have judged okha kuti akulakwa ndani, kapena JB alibe nyumba yache, same time wait for her salary security detail to b provided, wolakwira nzake awoneke

  41. Mbava ikuopa mbava zinzake. You are so afraid yet you were not afraid to loot-off Malawians billions. Dressed up in Women’s Guild cloth but in the dark you and your kids, and cronies traveled across the globe on our tax money. You constructed those houses at Stella Maris, you have a school, plus an international foundation you and you are expected to live till you die in a mansion funded by our tax money. You must be ashamed. We Malawians don’t give a damn as to whether you have security or not, what we know is that Kalonga and Kasambara want you to testify and that’s what you are scared of, damn it. You are scared of your own shadows. Had you not looted the way you did, and being fooled by the Mphwiyo-Kasambara infighting, this time around you would have been playing with your grandchildren as a retired President. We could have accorded you some respect. But you wanted power, more power and those thugs fooled ypu to loot for a political campaign that was not endorsed by God Almighty. Now here you are, in exile. No-one sent you there, but you are there at your own discretion. You will continue to play with your grandchildren through skype. If you come back, Ralph Kasambara, the fool of a lawyer that fooled you and the son of the Nyungwe pub owner, Gogo Kalonga, are more than ready like hungry sharks with open mouths. be afraid, be very afraid.

  42. Zabodza basi chimene mukuopa si insecurity ayi, musavutitse kukumbutsa abale zamaliro amene analira kale. Inu mukuopa za ndalama munaba zija osatisokoneza mitu apa,cholinga timve chisoni.ndikuona ngati sizitheka kutero.

  43. The problem with JB was that she was stealing too much using couriers like Lutepo. Kind of stupid for someone who thought was a local leader with a global appeal. Her hypocrisy on the cashgate cost her votes. The way she handled the plane purchase was also childish.

    But I have notable good things for her: like floating the kwacha and managing it under very tricky circumstances. Reducing black outs; giving licenses to TV applicants like Zodiac and Times and as someone said reverting the stadium to Lilongwe.

    She knew she was not a know it all like the Munthalikas. So got teams to recommend to her. That worked somehow although if she had a personal vendetta against you, She would not take up any team recommendations. I think this was one of the weakness of her presidency: stubbornness. But as a Yao president she was better in terms of leadership attitude compared to these arrogant dishonest lomwe politicians.

    So why is not coming home? Hahaha. The guilty are the ones who are supposed to be afraid. Madam, DPP has enough problems to deal with right now than putting you in the cooler. For example they have to absolve themselves of tribalism which is crippling their ability to rule Malawi as nationalists. The need to look for money to fund their voluptuous appetites for travel and politicking. They also need to see who is sabotaging them from the other tribes using fake reports from Dausi NIB team.

    No no no they have enough on their plate madam.

  44. “Khwangwala wa mantha anafa ndi ukalamba” mwachita bwino Mama ingokhalani komweko kuno munathana nako kale.

  45. lero limenelo bakha iwe ukufuna ubwerelenso ku Malawi kuno?? ukufunako chani?? wavundulavundula ukooooo, kumunyasisa Malawi ngati kwanu ndikomwe unathawirako. I thought you wil never come back in Malawi. I’ve never imagined such a dull, shallow, unsophisticated, cowardly woman like you once ruled Malawi. What happened? Why did Malawians allow that to happen??

  46. Mai woipa wopanda nzeru atakanya iya mabodza ake uko akufunano nyumba ya bwino. Iwe Mai iwe siukuyeneranso nyumba iwe kwako ndinu prison. Ndi wosawa mtendere uliko iwe. A Malawi ukuwazuzitsa ukuona ngati angakulonde. Ndege gate ndi chimanha gate zikukudikira Mai iwe. Mulungu naye anakwiya nawe iwe. Unaoneka kuti ndiwe satana pa maliro a Bingi munthu WA mkazi kumatokota maliro Ali nyumba. Nkhalidwe la Mai wa chiMalawi wakuti. Mulungu anakufulatira iwe paja Mulungu yako ndi Tb Joshua ndi bushire eti. Unalisaukitsa dziko mdikulinyazitsa dziko la Malawi mbizi ya munthu. Akujawo akukupatsa udokotalawo osakumangira nyumba eeeh!

  47. How could the government give security to someone who was not available? Securing what and who? The shadow or the husband? The house she was given could not be idle for years when the owner was gallivanting outside. Its about money here.
    She is afraid of what she did and whatever Chanthunya her in-law is writing here is just to paint a different picture of the true story. But what is obvious is that THE SAME FEET THAT TOOK JOICE BANDA OUTSIDE MALAWI, WILL BRING HER BACK TO MALAWI. YOU WILL ALL BELIEVE ME. SHE IS A COWARD. LET HER PROVE TO THE NATION THAT SHE DID NOT STEAL GOVERNMENT MONEY INCLUDING THE JET FUNDS WITH ODILLO. NO MAN IS BIGGER THAN THE COUNTRY. KUNO NDI KUNJA

  48. You named beast msonda, Never again insult JB, This Is a lady who liberated Malawi from sugar,fuel and forex qu’es in two weeks but look at your cool today. In fact You are stupid.

  49. The good thing that Joyce Banda did to me is The relocation of the National Stadium to be built in Lilongwe other than Blantyre as previously planned by late Bingu. The worst thing that she has done is her gross “Financial indiscipline” at the Capital hill.

  50. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM DD PHIRI – WHAT DOES HE THINK OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT JOYCE BANDA STAY OUTSIDE MALAWI AND THE FEAR OF INSECURITY HER RETURN TO MALAWI. IS THIS TRUE OR THERE IS SOME HAMBA-APANSI (SECRETE) UNDERTAKINGS?

  51. Zoonadi mai,kupatula kutentha kwa ma offce a MEC ku LL,anakaba ku ma office a kazembe wa dziko la Germany chifukwa akufufuza katangale wa BIngu. Njauju anafa mosadziwika bwino,ndipo tikudandaulanso Tenthani . DPP youth Cadet ikhoza kuchta china chili chonse alibe umunthu ndi chisoni mpaka kumalanda nkhata pa malilo? Amafunanso aletse a Chakwela kuyankhula pa malilo a amfumu ku ntchisi anthu anawauza kuti zimenzo azikachita kwa goliyati konko.

  52. I didn’t know that Joyce Banda is such a coward,what is she fearing,her own shadow,I thought you are recognized worldwide as a fearless tough woman who pursue men head on to advance social justice issues.
    You think heros are made while sitting in their living rooms or high class hotels.

    You have to face the real world madam,Nelson mandela and all other heroes that we know had courage to confront their adversaries face to face.

    And again you mean that you are enjoying your life so much that you don’t want to die,I thought you are a very religious woman.

    Madam like it or not YOU WILL DEFINITELY DIE its just a matter of time,whether you will be in New York,Paris,Lilongwe or in Malosa

  53. Many Malawians in general are concerned about HE JB’s security? You are a lier, we are not even concerned about Muluzi’s security, not any politicians security including ruling party politicians because you are all thieves……..so you are afraid of your fellow thieves!!!!

  54. But she can afford a house, her own security etc. Why enslaving herself by staying in a foreign land where she can’t access her best local meals, fresh air, sun shine etc

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