Kabwila explains ‘stealing from corpses’ comments amidst backlash
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokesperson Jessie Kabwila has explained that her comments in relation to the controversial grants the National Aids Commission (Nac) gave to Beatify Malawi (Beam), National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) and Mulhakho wa Alhomwe were not insulting as being construed by some section of the society.
Kabwila described the release of money from Nac as “stealing from corpses.”.
She said: “Pa Malawi pano anthu afika pobera maliro, poyamba timangokamba zaCashgate za achina Lutepo ndi Mphwiyo koma lero anthu akumatenga ndalama zogulira ma ARVszimenezi zikutanthauzanji? Sikubera maliro kumeneku?”
The MCP spokeswoman said she stands by her remarks but defends herself , saying they were not deragotary to HIV positive people.
“What I said was that those stealing at National Aids Commission(NAC) are committing the similar crime like that of stealing from the funeral house, I said that just to emphasize the point on the gravity of the crime,” said Kabwira.
Kabwira said people should waste time in checking semantics.
“These things are coming in order to divert the attention of real issues[ economic turmoil and governance],” she said.
A Blantyre based Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) involved in advocating and promoting for health rights of all the people of Malawi and in particular HIV/AIDS, commonly known as Health, Rights and Education Programme (HREP) through executive director Maziko Matemba called on Kabwira to apologise to Malawians over her remarks.
Matemba said the statement has a potential to encourage stigma especially during the time Malawi is eying for door to door advocacy.
He said studies conducted so far singled out stigma and discrimination as major challenge hampering the fight against HIV and Aids in Malawi.
Matemba said it is against this background that various stakeholders involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS are making huge investments to stop stigma and discrimination.
Chairperson for the Supreme Council of Ulama Imram Shareef Mahomed said Kabwila has also added its voice on the comments.
“Jessie Kabwila is a respected person whom I believe reasons before making statements. We are concerned, however, on what she meant by connecting people with HIV/ Aids to death. As a person who has a big position we were expecting her, after explaining what she meant, to withdraw her statement since it has incensed some people,” said Shareef- Mahomed.
He said, the MCP publicist should have, before speaking, understood the fact that HIV/Aids is a sensitive issue and that it is uncalled for to condemn those living with the virus to death.
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chitsiru cha munthu chimenechi, kuyakhula ngati akubiba. Ngati kuti alibe abale akachirombo. uzafa imfa yowawa Jessie Chindere kabwila. Paujeni pa mako
chitsiru cha munthu chimenechi, kuyakhula ngati akubiba. Ngati kuti alibe abale akachirombo. uzafa imfa yowawa Jessie Chindere Kabwila
Zachabe, zonse zili chabe…atelo mlaliki! we never knew that Kabwila’s mouth could voice such filthy comments, what do u pipo take Malawians for? usay one wrong thing today n tomorrow ucome and talk even more nonsense. watch ur toung madame spokesperson!
thats why banja linawavuta amayi wawa, if one can speak like that in opposition what if she in in government , that can be worse u have to apologise, dont you know that some of the members in in mcp are on ARVS/ TIMAWAONATU KU LIGHT SHAME ON YOU KABWILA
Malawians wake up chilungamo sichipheka and God is the righteous Judge.Courts are clossed but God’s eye is ever open to see us.Let God punish the one with evil motive in this issue.
Winawe ukuganiza ife a congrss we hate Jessy iiii not a single bit we love her just as we love our mighty party
Proud of our Jessy she has no match ndipo she will take soo head-on. Inu a HIV ndimabungwe any mukudana ndimunthu iyi skyline.yerani nkhondo ndinu prank inuuu mukusangalala ndikuberedwa??? Inu simukudziwa kuti anzanu sakupeza mankhwala mmidzimu ndiye first lady ideas zinyalala ndi alomwe kukatenga ndalama inu nkumalimbana ndi Dr Kabwila? Mwatani inu thinking yanu njotani yomvetsa chisoni chonchi??? Mayi wakustatehkuseyo apepese iyeyo palibe good judgement of all organizations why target NAC for contributions towards petty projects,?? Wish a Malawi!!!!
Special request to Jessie Kapasula Kabwila. It is not too late please apologize because if you DO NOT, this will haunt you and your party later.
Ine ulemu wanga pa inu ndichita withdraw.
I have all along respected Jessie but now I think I gave my respect to a wrong person. Jessie to regain my respect you need to withdraw the statement and apologize to us people living with HIV. Otherwise we will condemn you too.
The statement is not even ambiguous for one to be talking of semantics or misinterpretation ayi. If you are honest apologize please.
Takhumudwa nanu mayi
Pali anthu ena ouma mtima motelo kuti kuba alibenako chisoni kapena, manyazi angakhale nthumanzi, kotelo kuti akhoza kumubela m’mphawi mbale yokhayo alinayo. Panopa a Malawi tili pa umphawi wadzaoneni m,mbali zonse za Boma chifukwa cha cash-gate. Anthu ouma mtima chotele akhoza kubela maliro atapeza mpata. Ine ndikuganiza kuti izi ndi zomwe mai Kabwila amatanthauza osati kunyoza anthu a HIV/AIDS.
Forgive her, she is not a health professional.
Lets hope she knows her status…
The more you speak the more you make mistakes …watch your bad mouth amayi……kunopepesapo apa
There is no issue here
lizweilithini mukunena mutayakana kuti…ndi dziko ili
Many people do not understand English. On my understanding Jessie didn’t mean that. That is just strong emphasis on how corruption has gone so far in Malawi.
she spoke in Chichewa which we all understand so perfectly you idiot. Za English zakozo wanvera media yake iti? Iwe woitsata English kwambiri? Shupiti!!!!!
mukava umbuli nde umenewo. pali za english apa??? tatsitsani fundo tive osati za uchitsiru mwalenba apazi
Jessie is a prophet of ‘ do what I am saying not what I am doing” calibre.
Kabwila you must take stock of your mouth before saying anything. Or else you must audit whatever your lips say and try to take action on the audited results. Kabwira you forced Mukhito to apologise or resign his post when you were at CHANCO. You travelled world wide up to Germany simply because somebody did not apologize. I thought that you understand the concept of apologizing better than anybody else. And you know the advantage of apologizing if you have wronged somebody. Why cant you apologize after the nation is crying for one from you Jessie Jessie. Mukhitotu anavutika. Bingu anavutikatu. DPP inavutikatu because of you demanding simple word, apology from Mukhito. Now you are failing to apology.
If you do not apologize that will mean two things: either you are SELFISH PERSON or you are IGNORANT or you are A PROBLEM or you feel sugar yourself.
MAMA APOLOGIZE TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE. Be aware that politics is a dead game. We will learn from your performance if intellectuals are needed in this game according to the tune Jessie will be dancing in her five year term.
kabwila must apologise now without which all AIDS victims will match on the date to be announced later. She said it. She ment that taking money from NAC is the same as taking and using money meant for dead people. Full stop. No two ways.
Let me warn Jessie that I am not a corpse at all as I am still breathing although I am at critical stage of the disease.
Mayo ineeeee!!!! odwala edzi mMalawi muno akuti ife tidafa kale. Mayoooo Malawiiiii wanga ine. Imfa iwoperenji, ndiye mkumati ndidafa pazana. Usanditero Jessie. Kodi kwanu kulibe wodwala edzi eti.
Kabwira must Apologise to the Nation or Resign!!!!!! theres nothing like being quoted out of context here!!!!! unanena anthu a HIV/Aids kuti ndi maliro basi!!!!! or Were you Drunk that you dont understand what you are saying?
People mmmmm caught her right please. She just wanted to emphasise the point by giving examples for people to understand it easily but she doesn’t mean that all people who are HIV positive are dead. We should also learn to pick out good things from what someone is saying. Let’s think that she speaks on behalf of our friends that if ARVs will be inadquate then we will be the one to suffer. We should not look at negatives only.
Kabwila should simply apologize to the nation because her defense does not make sense. There is no way she can cheat people that the context of her statement was misunderstood because it does not fit in her defense.
a FACT IS A FACT. kunena kuti akubera maliro nkulakwa? it’s a fact that Mrs Muntharika anabera maliro.wE SHOULD NOT PRETEND NOT TO KNOW THAT AIDS IS A KILLER .I nstead of people insisting on the dirt Mr and Mrs Munthalira are putting in NAC,they want to misinterpret Kabwira.
KABWILA NOT WRONG WHAT IS TAKE MONEY FROM NAC AND USE IT FOR WRONG PURPOSES. WHY START ORGANISATIONS WHEN YOU ARE NOT SURE WHERE FUNDS WILL COME FROM. MORE OVER YOU START ORGANISATIONS AND THEY DIE WHEN OUT OF POWER. STELING ALL THE TIME AND YET YOUR CHURCH MEMBERS CAN’ T YOU WAIT FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO START THINGS.
All those who have deliberately twisted Kabwira’s statement are fools and are not educated. You have constructed your own wring meaning out of a clear example Kabwira gave. She said its like stealing from the corpses.Did that mean those with HIV /AIDS are corpses there? To which school did you go to/ This is strange and bad politics by some fools who do not understand things better. You can cry loud but things will not change either for Kabwira or for you guys who are cooking falsehood out of nothing. You should otherwise join Kabwira in making sure NAC money is not abused because it saves lives of those infected. Let us stop this madness at once and that is why Malawi will remain poor because of illiteracy like this one. How does Kapusa support BEAM for goodness sake/ Are you sure and what do you mean? How do you say there is a connection between the environment and HIV/AIDS? How and where Mr Kapusa? You should pray that nobody abuses NAC money as this saves lives and no politics of this silly kind. In fact Kabwira was sympathising with you and not otherwise. Silly to all who were against somebody who is crying for your life.
Kabwila suja unkakakamila kuti Mukhito apepese nkhani ya academic freedom? Lero zakugwela ukukana kupepesa. Yakoyi ndiyetu nkhani yayikulu. Ungamanyoze anthu a edzi kuti ndi maliro? Wayishosha uyiwona. Upepese basi. Ukukanilanji. Ukuwopa kuti matako aphwa?
Mukungotaya nthawi sono akanena kuti ndapepesa nde kuti simufa inuyo muona mufa muzazindikile kuti Kabwira anali mbali yanu
Mukusekelera kubeledwa ndalama. Kupusa amalawi anzanga..
Who should apologies, wakuba ndalama ndi wofuna kuti wakubayo abweze ndalama? Malawi is sick.
Kabwila zowonadi upepetse basi. Koma iwe sukudziwa kuti unalakwisa mayankhulidwe ako.
Iwe ndiwe mbuzi kwambiru.
Kodi kunena kuti pepani ndalakwa mkupusa? Zinazi mumakakamira mtunda opanda madzi. Walakwa walakwa basi. Sanayankhule bwino panepaja. Sangamunene munthu wa hiv positive kuti ndimaliro.
Ingopepesani, osazimbayisanso apa ai. Walakwitsa kwambiri.
A Malawi be clever, dont you
realise that all what is said about
Jessie is a shrewed ploy to divert
the wrathof people from ‘malign collection of funds by Beam et al.
Otherwise the matter is highly
politicised.
I think there is need of serious lecture in semantics, literature and rhetoric. I don’s find offence in Kabwila’s words.
Mutha kumuwukira Jessie pa zomwe wanena koma sanabe ndalama za ma ARV ndi iyeyo. Madam First lady will not be able to handle the backlash if, God forbid, Global fund decides not to fund NAC. Oh I feel sorry for you madam, anthu azakuwukilani azayiwala zomwe Jessie anayankhula. Bwezani ndalama nkhani ithe mayi mutharika ine mukundimvetsa chisoni nkhani idzakukulirani iyi.
Jessie Kabwira implies: because HIV and aids people did not have a say in the authorization of MK5m it like stealing from a dead person. This money belongs to HIV and aids people but they were not contacted for their input. Is it not the same like stealing from a dead person? Let us NOT divert attention on the issue to Kabwira. What happened is bad. Kabwira is fighting for HIV and aids people.
Chitsiru iwe
shurrrrup yoor big fay mouyh Kabwila!! whay have u ever done for Malawi u dumb Jezebel!!! ? is this why your husbanf left u?? jusy mouthing irrelevancies and inanities and imbelicities and dullocrities!!! damn u Kabwila- please relocate back to Zim where u come from and where they tolerate idiots like u and Mugabe!!
Maliro…..,,,,=. Funeral
Mtembo……= Corpse
Please know your language before getting a lot of hot air about nothing. Jessie never used the word Corpse !
Nanu a maziko matemba tamumvetsani kabwira Pali nkhani apa I see nothing wrong in what she said tamangodyani makobidiwo basi bola muzithandiza I we Ali ndi matendawa za ziii
Matemba, you are the one who should be apologising to the people of Malawi for misusing aids money on nib, Mlakho and beam.
Don’t twist kabwila’s words. The only language that dpp will understand to stop stealing money is to shame it to the nation and Kabwila is spot on.
If people with hiv or aids are selfishly denied drugs by selfish nac and dpp who are stealing their money, is that not sending them prematurely to death? Is that saving their lives?
This is not about stigma and discrimination which matemba seems to be fond of telling us. Jesse has just exposed your blatant thieving of nac funds in collaboration with your dpp heartless master thieves and people are dying.
Ine I live with the virus. I am positive. I am offended to be called a corpse. Kambwila I need an apology from you otherwise uwona. Hiv is for everybody.. And you think we chose to be positive.
Inu a Malawi, my God will punish you. Why call First Lady a thief when you know that Bisika did it all. My God will punish you. Muona mwazi Chaka chino.
Nanga uyu wanena zoti fweee! Fweee! Walankhula bwino?
Kodi agalu inu mukulimbana ndi Kabwira bwanji? Momwe mkai was president amaba ndalama za NAC munagokhala chete, pano mwayambapo fwe fwe fwe.tafufuza tapeza kuti mukupanga phokoso ndinu a nyapapi nokhanokha, agalu
no need for apologies
Guys Kabwira is right koma mwasankha nokha kuti musamvetsetse zomwe amathauza. Jesse went to school & she knew wat she was saying. Ena mpaka kuzivetsa chisoni pa TV. Do u think Global Fund is happy with that?. Shld we say kusesa mu mseu ndiye kuti akusea HIV/Aids? dpp had a motive wihen they fired former NAC boss. NONSE AMENE MUKUDANDAULA DIKILANINI EBOLA
Kabwila satha kulankhula inu,ndale zimafunika anthu a nzeru zowira osati zopola zomwa mamina ngati za Mayi uyu.akuti spokesperson ?kkkkkk osamangoti sing’anga wa ziwanda.Inu kulankhula ndi ntchito osati ali ndi kukamwa koyadama zimafuna nzeru izi MCP yanga yaola. Mayi zipitani konkuja munali kuja Ndale si mbali yanu,Tikudziwa muli ndi njira zambiri zothandizira dzikoli koma ndale zokha chitseko tsekani.apo ai MCP 2019 sifika.iyyya Kupanda nzeru ngati mai Kaliyati!
Jessy is a learned lady. She thinks before saying anything. That she’s a public figure is well known to her. She’s explained wat she meant. The emphasis is on gravity of the act. Pliz don’t divert the real issue here. Moreover she never directly said HIV pos ppl are corpses. Ppl made their own interpretations out of their own inclinations. I don’t think Jessy need to say anything more than wat she’s already explained.
“Uthenga wa imfa ndi matenda” I quote Stonad Lungu. Therefore the chances of becoming a ‘corpse ‘ are higher to those who’re sick than …. well it requires boldness and intelligence to figure out these things without hiding behind ‘stigma’
Personally I find “stealing” money from NAC by Beautify Malawi more derogatory than Kabwira”s statement
If I were the president of MCP, I will come out and ask this idiot to apologise as well as to remove her from the position. Where are you Lazarus,you need to lay hands on this lady so that she should sensor before opening her mouth to speak. The term stealing from corposes is an insult to the people. MCP , I thought you have changed, but you are still the same old folks.
Come on guys kunvetsetsa nkofunika kwambili
Am mcp to the bone and positive but mai kabwila mwalakwitsa ndipo pakfunika kupepesa,or else mungousiya udindowo!what kabwila must know is that enafe takhala 15yrs positive yet abwinobwinowo afa ambiri pangozi!
It is really unfortunate for someone educated like her to say something like that
People are living good life positively and many are dying with it not from it-I am humbly urging MCP executive committee to expel this woman from the party with immediate effect-the statement she has made it’s unjustifiable
HIV is a chronicle ailment just like Hypertension and Sugar-and someone with HIV is likely to live longer than some1 with Sugar and H/B
Amayiwa xool sinawachotse uchitsiru
Uyutu is mayi Kapasula, what good do you expect from such a drunkard? She makes MCP is worthless as she is.
Kabwira_Kapasula likes to talk too much, unnecessarily. She will be instrumental in the demise of MCP. That is if Chakwera does not act soon, by removing the lady from what she considers to be a prestigious position of spokesperson.
Mayi Kabwila, ine ndi staunch supporter wa congress koma pokhapa mwawonjeza kwambiri. Ali maiko ena you would have been forced to resign your front bench position to avoid voters backlash. Ever heard of Emily Thornberry resignation of a white van man saga? She was a front bencher in the current labour party in the UK until recently when she was forcebly to resign.
I think people are taking this out of context.She did not literally mean hiv people are “death”.She was just emphasizing that Nacgaters did not show mercy stealing from people who were supposed to be felt sorry about.It simply means stealing at a funeral where one is supposed to feel sorrow not otherwise.It is like stealing clothes worn by a dead person in a coffin.No mercy or sympathy.
I think Jessie was right that stealing from NAC is just like stealing from PA MALIRO, what lacked here was the right phrasing/prononciation of the words.
The problem with words is that meanings are with listeners and not the speaker When speaking in public it is vital to be extremely careful with words
I agree with you Mbukavu. Indeed meanings of what we say are with the people so we ought to be careful with what we say.
Viva Kabwila chilungamo chowawa
Before you speak engage the brain. Sukulu imacotsa umbuli koma siyicotsa ucitsiruu. Wisdom comes from God not from much learning.
Zitsilu mukulimbana za zii anthu anaba ndalama za edzi, kodi akapitiliza kuba akubera miyoyo yandani nanga akhala ndi moyo?akubera akufa kumene ur running from real issues
Amaiwo sanalankhule bwino
I had not heard what she actually said but the quotation is very clear and if she was sensible and reasonable it was only proper for her to apologize or withdraw her statement. .
So this is how Kabwira and MCP thinks about HIV positive people. By refusing to withdraw the statement means she meant what she said “Maliro” “corpses”. MCP and Kabwira should know that people living with HIV are still Gods PIPO despite the virus. God who knows the minds of everybody knew what was in ur minds””anthu awa anafa kale tikadzalowa mboma tizachotsa free ARV kuti ambiri aferetu titsale opnda hiv anthu amenewa akuononga chuma cha dziko.” God knew this thats why HE dangled the leadrship of this country infront of your mounth. U have cursed urself and I pray for ur downfall, God has the purpose by keeping alive up to now. I call upon all plwas to condemn this womans and pray for her downfall.
mkungotaya nthawi ndinkhani yakabwira. Mungotenga ndalamazo nkubweza kenaka kabwira apepesa. Komaso olandila ndalamazo mupepese. Amalawi tichimina a Globlet akasiya kupeleka ndalamazo. Kodi beam izakwanisa ? Ngati ikukanika zinyalala? Bibi wa ana amwenye ali thooo muma Bp misinje. Go to zomba Bp.
This woman is a liability she will destroy the party. By the way what happened?
Ndimakupasa ulemu ngati munthu wophunzila iwe jezbel kabwila,but ur derogatory,stigma promoting,insensitive,foolish &stupid remarks shows what an empty tin ur upstairs!!!!!may u contract HIV AIDS so that u may appreciate what it feels like to be maliro…..
Akabwila Mayi Waulemu Wake Angafanizire NAC Ndi Nyumba Ya Chisoni?
No question of what Jessie Kabwila must at all cost apologies and after an apology she must resign if not Chakwela must fire her as MCP spokesperson with immediate effect failing to do so she will soon face the a big and dangerous result of what she said. Palibe kulumikizana pakati pa HIV/ AIDS ndi maliro, what a nonses. I don’t to insult her becoz people will not differnciliate between a fool and a wise person. Ena ambiri sanatenge HIV chifukwa cha kusakhulupirika ayi choncho kunyoza kutero ndi kopweteka kwa amene ali infected and affecte. I wonder the MCP is quit why? This stupid lady is not fit to speak for the party she is an educated savege. My appeal to my fellow friends who are living with HIV is that we must do something as for am ready I will do whatever I can to teach her a lesson and more over she must forget to become MP for Salima North West constituency come 2019.
kabwira like to make unecessary noise
people from NGOs dont waste time withe kabwila said but its better for you to claim your money which were misused by NAC. even if kabwila with draws those words but may bring drugs for people whom you are representing. kabwila’s words are second the first was misuse of the money where were you to claim your rights? dont be clever on words which have less impact or not even at all but claim the money which might have an impact even to somebody in a rural area who did not hear what kabwila said. and you who took the money and that should be the first to resign because many people will die if drugs will be missing.
A Quote from Richard Nixon:
” I know that you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I said”
And we all know Nixon was a crook, and we know what happened to him.
Msiyeni munthu wa mai….. palibe nkhani apa nanunso a mbc
Kunena zoona chilungamo chimapweteka, munthu amene ali pa ma ARV umoyo wake sukhala 100% ngakhale amati wakufa sadziwika, taonapo munthu wakuti akumwa ma ARV wathupi labwinobwino wonenepa komanso wamphavu koma zomwe zimachitika amangodwala nthawi yochepa kenaka umva kuti munthu uja wamwalira. Kabwira Kapasula ndi m’Malawi komanso ndi munthu ophunzira kwambiri chimene akunena akuchidziwa waona anthu amene ali pa ma ARV amafela, nde zikusiyana bwanji ndi maliro? Munthu akanena zoona tivomeleze.
Lizwelithini, mukuti wa edzi amafa chidule, my question is wa BP, Sugar, Cholera, Malungo omwewa amafa bwanji?
4 giv & 4get
It is the same statement which was used by the late freelance journalist Kaulanda Nkosi when a Clinical Officer leaked a sensitive medical report on senior officers living with HIV/Aids to the media! He wrote a scathing report on HIV prevalence in the MDF particularly attacking senior officers that “the MDF senior leadership was full of walking corpses”, soldiers went to the Times Printing offices at Ginnery Corner to stop the production of that story and it was removed!
So she is stressing what she said- ok! Tiona- kodi iyeyu aanakayezetsa?
MCP need to replace Jessie Kabwira very quickly . They need someone more sober . Kabwira is carrying too much bitterness within her to make a good spokesperson . She thought she was going to become a cabinet minister and cannot simply accept the fact that it didn’t work out that way . The longer she remains in that position, the more controversy MCP will find itself in .
JK was right to express her dislike towards these thieves. It is disheartening to see somebody dying because there is no therapy because there is no money. The AIDs victims should not feel stigmatised by the comments from JK, she is only fighting for them. Those feeling offended only do so politically. Go the hospital and witness how people are dying yet somebody has the nerve to get the money for merry making, what a shame!
Empty tins are always vocal.
I do not buy that explanation.
is statement is deemed offensive not by the person making it, otherwise they wouldn’t make it, but buy the people listening.
It does not mater which way you turn Kabwilas statement, an average person would understand it as meaning that “Those with AIDS are Mitembo”
Unfortunately in Malawi everything is seen through political glasses.
I do not doubt for a minute that she did not mean it to be construed the way it has, but what she intended and what has actually happened, happen to be different, and in life what matters is what is actual not what is intended.
Kabwila should apologise, despite the fact that she is a Malawian politician. Her explanation makes matters even worse, she is now saying People with AIDS are already in a funeral house. Semantics are very important in peoples perception of things that are happening around them, I will give you an example.
Sometime back in the US an earthquake destroyed a good part of a certain city there people died, and a radio station was playing songs that it had preselected long before the earthquake, and was of the songs that was played was “I am more shook up” by Elvis Presley. The City was up in arms condemning the radio station for being insensitive. The song I am more shook up has nothing to do with earthquakes, but semantics were at play. The station apologised, so should kabwira if she has any sense.
she must apologise for her own good
inu odwala ezi who is evil between kabwila and those who are stealing money for arvs? u are stupid
Nankha mukanatenga boma simukanatipha kuti mupezelepo mwayi.
Oooooo!! Ndife maliro????
That’s uncalled for, she might be highly educated but that doesn’t translate into a good politician. You can’t call the people living with the Virus “Maliro” that’s absurd. Un Malawian-like. The hounarable lady has crossed the line with words. As a public figure she is supposed to be diplomatic when speaking to the people who put her where she is. Politics has no qualification it’s only the way how you can handle the people.
NGOLWALA YAWA
Women can use their toung
The stigma and discrimination started long time ago, people living with HIV/AIDS are descriminated at the public hospitals,they are treated separately, they have their own hospital Light house for instance even in other hospitals have been isolated being treated away from those who are negative, so kabwila did nothing wrong even she could reached an extent of calling us rotten ,smelling people nothing will change…so choose right way of castigating each other
A Edzi?..Maliro??..u r a fool jessie
HIV positive people are alive because of life prolonging drugs. Take away the money for ARV they will die. Jessie wayankhula udyo koma mlandu wa BEAM ndiwaukulu kuposa zomwe walankhula Jessie. Jessie can apologise and BEAM should give back the money. Period
If MCP still want to maintain Jessie Kabwira as their spokesperson, they need to find medication for her verbal diarrhoea . I hear that the newly developed Ebola Vaccine could help do the job .
Dr. Kabwila, good luck in making especially our brothers and sisters ‘living positively’ understand your semantics.
She was wrong for sure she need to apologise to end the story not saying i maintained wat i said. We knew wat she meant but selection of words was wrong. But this matemba and kapusa u are bn wrongly used .
Eee Ngoma Yolilisa
Kabwila ur criticism is inhuman. U meAn all ARv users in malawi are Already corpses ?Stupid
u r right Jesse i understood u they just want 2 drive d attention away 4rm real issue unali mkuluwiko but imagine TVM headline on this ayambapo zao zija tizimvera propaganda ya DPP za NACGATE Mwazinenapo liti ?mxii
Palibe nkhani apa koma ndale kuzela ku ma bungwe osakhala a boma
The comments can traumatize Aids sufferers. She is subjecting them to mental torture by causing unnecessary fear and anxiety.
As an intellectual, having spent four years at the university, and great fan and follower of my beloved Jessy, I could not expect my law model to utter the quoted statement and later on trying to justify the unjustifiable. The statement is not good at all and the best thing my Kabwila could do is to apologise and withdraw the statement without reservations.
Come on my Jessy and do the right thing and not disappointing us as you want to do.
“Kulankhula kwa ndithe ndithe Nanthambwe anazitengera”. She says she said it in good spirit, so let’s forgive her and move on.
kabwira is right,i can not the mistake.koma asiye kuba ndalama zogulira mankhwala.
Stealing from the funeral “mbale ” is the worst type of theft, even worse than to robbing a child her last coin
That is how I understood the expression.
It is grave to steal from a funeral house or the dead. Those connecting the intended emphasis to stigmatization of people living with HIV or AIDS are haunted symphathisers of pretenders. It is grave to misapply resources intended for fighting HIV or AIDS, as grave as stealing from funeral houses. No one should pretend it is any less grave.
Kabwila you are right,Peter and his girlfriend Gertrude are thieves and more destructive than Masholowe,StuPete r Mutharika
Through our actions let us demonstrate that as a country we are in the forefront of protecting the rights of people with HIV and acting on our responsilities to stem the epidemic and ensure a caring and supportive environment. The people of Kabwila’s mentality towards the infected people to be honest they have no room in our country and even the world at large. Discrimination or stigmatisation itself is more dangerous that the terminal disease itself hence the one practing it is more dangerous than the virus itself. Kabwila should not just apologize but withdraw the statement completely though she is being backed by some of her family members to say they are too smart in all aspects to do that!! Remember the story of Prophet Job in the bible but God never mocked him besides the chronical illness Job developed. May God’s wrath fall upon you if you don’t repent and withdraw the statement Jessie Kabwila.
If you take money meant for HIV then you are denying HIV positive people the medication hence condemning them to death. It means you have no regards for their welfare but BEAM. What is the mission statement for NAC. We can even dig the first lady. She was a widow and knows the siyuation much better. She was supposed to the last person to do that.
The best this JK can do is to withdraw that statement and sincerely apologise. Having HIV doesnot mean its a death sentence. Pliz stop stigmatising HIV infected people. This is a very sensitive subject indeed. Do pple die from HIV/AIDS only. I hope Dr Chakwera will give u scriptures on how to tame that lethal thing called TONGUE. Ask wisdom from above and how God can help u put a lid on the door of ur mouth.Am disappointed with you JK.
This woman is mud he is looking for G O D panishiment.
Let’s suppose there is an accident and all travellers in the vehicle die on the spot. People gather around to help out and discover nobody is alive. Unscrupulous individuals start searching the corpses and transfer the valuables from the dead bodies to themselves. Terminologically, this is stealing. Now, someone, please help me; are these people stealing at a funeral ceremony or (stealing) from corpses? Kabwila may be respected in her status as an ‘intellectual’, but at least she requires to undergo for another status of ‘wisdom’. She seriously lack wisdom. She really have to make sure that she has facts in her statements before opening her mouth. Kuba ku maliro and kubera mtembo are totally two different things Miss MCP spokes person. Check this out with your village headman, madam.
Kuyankhula kwa mcp spokenwoman, kuyakhula ngati mwana wa std 2
People in high office need to avoid casual, uncouth talk. Believe me, Jessie, semantics do matter when it comes to statesman/stateswomanship. You can’t talk like you are in the writers’ workshop of the audio-visual center while serving as SG for MCP and as an MP. Own up and apologise…drop this crap of “I stand by what I said”. It’s called stubbornness. And it just is not a complement for a public figure. We expect more and better from you. We like your bravery. But please, please….grow up. It’s good for you. It’s also good for us that wish the best for MCP.
kabwina sanalakwitsepo pamenepa, ngati anthu akutenga ndalama za anthu a aids ndikungowamaliza, coz it is incurable, ukatenga munthu umadziwilathu kuti yalakwa, imfa nchifukwa mankhwala aja amati otalikitsa moyo which means ngati uli nao ndie kuti wafa kale iwe, anthu amene savomeleza kuti afa nao matenda aja ndiamene akudandaula, ngati mukutalikitsa moyo sikungosuntha tsiku lofela otherwise u r already dead.
Tisamaiwale kuti Kabwira paja amalezela ma Riders, kuno ku CHANCO nde katundu ameneyu anatitopesa kale. Amuna kumangosintha, I knew MCP is heading for colapse
No need for apologizing , it’s just as good as stealing from dead people. I am one of the HIV positive person and JK should stand by her statement.
I knew one day babie lathu linyula. Kupupuluma a sikana a ku Salima
A Jessie ali ndichipongwe chobadwa nacho ndichifukwa chake amalira ndi umbeta. Munthu wa mtuzu ngati ameneyu amayenda ndi ma vibrator chifukwa cha nyere yakathithi ndi mauka/libale lalikulu kuli konse ndi kumaliro komwe. Mtembo ndi iyeyu ndipo alibe mamuna wakewake. Kumeneku ndi kulira kwake.
Pepa Jessie…………….!
Komanso anthu enanu kaya munakhal bwanji? Nkhani yeni yeni apa ingakhale iti? Wina wakuberani ndalama zogulira mankhwala, pomwe winayo wangokunenani, as you are claiming. Ine ndikuona kuti wakubayu ndiyenera kumufinya mpakana ndalamazo abweze. Osati kumalimbana ndi munthu wongonena mau. Don’t try to divert peoples’ mind from real issues. Dziwani kuti amene wakutumaniyo akungofuna kuti mumuthandize pa ntchito yokuphani inu nomwe. Munthu amene ali ndi HIV/AIDS akalephera kupeza ma ARV, ngati zija zachitika ku Lilongwe (Kamphata), chiyembekezo cha moyo chimakhala chochepa. Koma munthu akamalandira mankhwala zake zimayenda ngakhale anthu ena atamamunena. So, apa nkhani ikhale ya ndalama za NAC, osati zoyankhula za Kabwira. So, let’s fight for the money, and life will go on.
ine sinkuonapo nkhani apa…amene ali mtembo let them request for an apology…iyaaaa
Abale palibe nkhani apa. Vuto ndikumvetsa zomwe wina akulankhula. Izi sizikuchitika pakuti timaona munthu oyankhulayo poti tili naye zifukwa. A Malawi tili ndi zambiri zoti tipange osati kusakana. A Imram Sharif’wo akumudziwa Kabwira poti amagwirira ntchito limodzi ku Chanco. Mwina pali zina zomwe samagwirizana naye Kabwira, mwina poti anthuwa ali zipani zosiyana. Izi tikudziwa ife. Akabungwe awa tikudabwa nawo. M’malo mogwirizana naye Kabwira pa stand yake iwo akumudzudzula. Funso langa kwa inu ndiroti, kodi mbali yanu pa nkhani yomaba ndalama zothandizira anthu a Edzi ili pati. I am suspicious that might be accomplices in all these malpractices. Mukubera maliro inu. Fotseki.
Dr wophunzira kwambiri dziwani kuti Mulungu i James.5 ears ago one of the famous ppl got sick and a friend who went to see him when briefing me told me he is going to die soon.Six months later me and the famous person planted wreaths on her grave.The guy is still around and still famous.Dr Dr dont take God’s place.Politics or no Politics,Kuphnzira or no kuphnzira,kutchuka or no kutchuka,matama or no matama.FINISHED!!!
Useless spokeswoman, chimwamowa!!
Very bad. Just forgive her sometimes she gets driven by events.
Tisakokomeze nkhani apa! palibe chimene walakwa Jessy. M’malo mowona nkhani yakuba ndalama ku NAC mukufuna muzembe. Nkhani ya fake ngati imeneyi mpaka pa TVM kuti Jessy ayaluke. Mwalephera, Jessy saliyekhatu ameneyu ndi wathu tilinaye limodzi. Jessy you are our Hero.
Ingobwezani ndalama za anthu odwala basi.
anthuwa ndi ageni amagulitsadi Maliro
JESSIE THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH UR STATEMENT. U MEANT WELL
anthuwa kenako atibanso ife tomwe. wInawu ndi ufuti kuba ndalama za NAC
Really statements are difficult to understand! Some of us are living with HIV and AIDS bt I feel the statement z not provocative! By this I understand it az saying getting money from NAC z like compromising health related services to clients! This means they may die earlier than expected!
Let us nt run away from the truth here, what the two organisations did waz really bad and shd never be supported!
Hence what Kabwila said shd nt be construed az bad as compared to what has happened on the ground!
Malawians let us be sober!
We respect your views! However,nobody living positively would love Kabwila’s statement. What you have written is a statement coming from blind loyalists. You will fall together with her,Kalanga. No explanation will make us understand it differently. The best Jessie could do was to apologize. People who can’t swallow their pride like Jessie quickly face a downfall. You may wish to be reminded,Kalanga,that Jessie took to the streets during Bingu’s era demanding an apology from Mukhito which was never offered. Then,she wondered how one can fail to say just sorry! Is it not amazing today that she is failing to do what she thought was easier then! Just like the Bingus,she is trying to defend herself when writings are on the wall,she offended us. The sooner she withdraws the statement and apologize,the better.
They are people living with HIV and AIDS not corpses.
What “semantics” is she implying? As a spokesperson for a party she must be the first person to think through her speeches before her foul mouth is put to work. As rightly stated from different circles, she has unilaterally sentenced all HIV/AIDS patients to death (is it by hanging, stoning, food boycotting, denying them drugs or what, Mai Kabwila?) Those are after effects of being emotional and subjective when it comes to addressing issues that concern everyone but you want to stand-out as being a genius; for what? If indeed she is what she takes herself as being – let her retrace her foot-steps and go back to climb the same anthill she climbed when she made the statement which is now haunting her then apologise to the affected people and the nation as a whole for her careless mouth-runaway attitude, please!!!!!!!! Mukuwachotsera abusa ma points Mai. Come 2019 we are going to sing the same song ………….. chisankho atibera, anthu amavota based on regional lines, aMbendera ndi woipa etc etc.
Mayankhula lankhulawa .. Inu she does not think at all I have scrutinized her how come kwanu kulibe anthu amene akudwalako eti?
Jessie pliz sensor ur language
I see nothing in what Kabwila said. In Malawi it is a common habit among many to check for errors when one is speaking or even English.
Zoona zake ndi zoti there are many ways in which one can represent a speach osati za ndale zimene akukamba enawo. Malawians are good at arguing but really very poor in decision making the thing which is making this country to remain in its poor state. Go mcp go chakwera rescue this country.
MCP should by now have known that this woman is more of a liability than an asset.
“Sikubera maliro kumeneku?” This silly statement can only come from an unwise person. Even then, she says she stands by this nonsense?
What this woman must know is that we are all in a state of degeneration, HIV infected or not. At her age her arteries are already clogged with fat and she can suffer a heart attack at any time. What about ‘BP’, diabetes, and cancers of all kinds.
Mayi wanga a Kabwila these words that you utter against this or that group will come back to haunt you.
I suggest you resign from your MCP publicity position; that would be good for everyone including yourself.
Choti JK adziwe nachi, munthu ukalakwitsa ndi bwino kupepetsa kapena kukhala chete. Zomwe wachita mzimaiyu ndizoonetseratu kuti umunthu mwa iyeyu mulibe. Ayenera azitsitse maphunziro ake sikutanthauza kuti ndi yankho la chili chonse. Mfumu Solomoni popempha wisdom Kwa Mulungu anadziwa kuti intelligence (nzeru za mkalasi) pena pache nzoperewera. Azimai oterewa (osagonjera akalakwitsa) nchifukwa chake samakhala pa mabanja chifukwa choti amakhalira kuderera amuna ao nthawi zonse. It is good always to play a second fiddle. Ndi ndale izi chemwali samalani nazo musamathe mau.
Embarrassing
I’m an MCP die hard supporter but I feel and think that Ms Jessie Kabwila should be taken out from the position of spokesperson for the betterness of the party.
Ng’oma yolilitsa siichedwa kung’ambika. Slow down Chemwali.
Kambani zotenga ndalama za.nac osati wasting your time kukamba za mayiwa apa. Nac officials wanted to please dpp or wat. Go to hell
amatemba tamaonani nkhani zokoka, mmalo mokoka awo adakubelani ndalama mukalimbane in Kabwira zazii!!!
Instead of apologizing,she is busy defending herself. Jessie,”kubera maliro” ndi “kuba kunyumba ya maliro” nzosiyana kwabasi. Its unfortunate you want to use your knowledge in semantics to confuse us.. There was no ambiguity in the statement and you truly meant those taking ARVs are corpses!! This is an insult of the highest order. Wish you saw it before uttering… Anyway,muli bwino ndi inu muli ndi moyo
I don’t see anything wrong with kabwila statement. However, should jst withdraw her statement as suggested by Dr Shareef.
In MCP, this woman is a thorn in the shoe. She is taking MCP down little by little. The funny thing is that all this is happening at Chakwera’s’ noses. Every time she opens her mouth, there is something that is taking MCP down. I am not happy that every MCP member is just watching this woman taking the mighty MCP down.
I dont c any prob,,,,,,here,,,in fact ha sy was ironical reflecting real facts,,,wch may hv made some ppo,,,,,deaf on understanding,,,,,,,,
Kabwila’s remarks are a gross violation to the dignity of people living with HIV/AIDS. Kabwila tells us who the maliro in your remarks? Simple logic, what you meant is people with HIV/AIDS are like Maliro and you do not count on them. What a Shame. and for not regreting what you said means you still look at people with HIV/AIDS as equal to dead people. I thought you are educated. anyway some people can go throught the education process and come out still uneducated though with evidence of their attendance like your degrees
Asakane ameneyo wayankhula mokhuta basi atule pansi udindo ayamba kuti phera chipani pumbwa ameneyu.
My free advice to Madam Kabwira is ‘she should swallow her pride and apologise to those affected by HIV directly or indirectly. Even my Holy Bible do say that “yense ovomoreza machimo ake adzakhululukidwa.
MCP on other hand should disassociate itself from this kind of remarks by its spokes person. Its also high time MCP to shut down the mouth of this Kabwira otherwise people will not be differianciating between the Old MCP and the new MCP of Chakwera, a man who also chose to rebuke the Biblical teaching which say; Muyambe Mwathanga Ufumu Wake (wa Mulungu) zinazo zizibwera pa mbuyo monga izi ndale za pa dziko lapansi pano”
Eti munthu M’busa kusiya za uzimu nkukayamba za satanic (devilsh politics) no wonder, u ended up a loser.
Kikikikiki!!!!! Ndangodutsamo sindinathyole mkhwani ine!!!!!
All in all, GOD Bless Malawi!!!!
Bwanji kuthawa choonadi mai,bwanji mungopepetsa zithepo.You should learn to think before you speak.Taonani mwagwa nazo apa.