Kinnah regrets making speech at UTM rally, says he is DPP

November 8, 2018 Judith Moyo -Nyasa Times 50 Comments

Malawi national football team legend Kinnah Phiri has said he regrets making the speech at United Transformation Movement (UTM) launch in Mzuzu last August and endorsed Vice-President Saulosi Chilima as the “real hope” for Malawi, saying he remains a member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

Kinnah Phiri at UTM launch in Mzuzu last August but now has distanced himself from any links to  the party

During the rally, Kinnah, who is Malawi’s all-time top-scorer for the national team, said “My simple job, here, is to endorse you [Chilima] for President come 2019 elections.”

Malawi’s most celebrated football player and former National Team coach said He never registered as a member of UTM.

“I went to attend the rally in Mzuzu because it is close to where I stay, unfortunately I was asked to speak without prior information, ” he said.

But Kinnah at the rally was donning a UTM t-shirt and said Chilima will “change Malawi for everybody”.

He said: “I am endorsing Dr Saulos Klaus Chilima our President, 2019 Boma!”

However, on Thursday the football legend said he regrets making such a speech.

“This is why I have come to make my position clear that I am a DPP member,” he said.

UTM’s secretary general Patricia Kaliati said said their records does not indeed show that the former flames coach was a member of the UTM.

During a career spanning seven years from 1974 to 1981, Kinnah scored the 67 goals in 110 games, followed by his successor at Bata Bullets Lawrence Waya on a distant 29 goals from 125 matches.

He also led Malawi to the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations as coach for the Flames.

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50 replies on “Kinnah regrets making speech at UTM rally, says he is DPP”

  6. Kinna Phiri is chizeleza. Mad man. He spoke and endorsed UTM and Chilima at Mzuzu rally. Who forced him to do that. Wadya ma buns a old demented Mutharika. Stupid and silly old man. Too late for politics at this moment. Not fit to be in UTM but old irrelevant DPP or MCP.

  9. Koma mahule a ku lunzu nde ukudziwa Iwe kinna. Nthawi yanu inapita. No club wants u wants you to coach. Pita kwa mbavazo

  10. Kina wawona kuti panyanja pawomba mphepo tsopano wachenja golo kuyangana komwe kukulowera mphepoyo chifukwa chifukwa akudziwa kuti cigoli achinya mwachangu

  13. Ikadzawina UTM mr kinnah will come back and say i was forced by the cardets hahahaha very unprincipled man!

  14. Unprincipled leaders like Kinnah really belong to DPP sangakwanitse UTM principles of telling & doing what u promised the pple.

  16. Another Idiot. Probably a distant relation of Vagus. Trouble is he thinks he is a Somebody. Let him join the thieves.

  17. Mind you Kinnah is Director of sports in the DPP Govt ndiye amufinya kuti abwana ngati simunena kuti munalakwitsa tikuchotsani ntchito…..basitu!

  18. Kinnah is unemployed. Government promised him a job, which never came. Out of frustration, he joined UTM . His current posturing shows the job promises are back.

  19. I was privileged to watch you play Sir & I have total respect for you as a person BUT on this move I think it’s a big blunder. And money has exchanged hands. But anyway you’re just exercising your democratic right so all the best & good luck koma simunayambe bwino ayi you have to be principled not like a Windvane that goes where the wind blows.

  20. Kinna is the only prolific prayer ever produced. If DPP was ruling during Kinna’s time, he would have been in Arsenal like Henry or Man U like…. or Liverpool Like ….. or Man city like……. That besides the point. What I am saying is that to be a striker you need to be fast thinking and intelligent generally. Kinna is that kind of a person. Kinna waionela patali game. He knows how to win in football as well as in politics. Ndiye amene mwasala kumeneko ganizani bwino. Osamakwela dala yakuphwa kapena kulubwalubwa

    When UTM carjoled him they thought it was their biggest cat. Kinna has been DPP and will always remain DPP.

    Moto buuuuuuuuuu

    Ndipo wina kumati bola MCP. Kodi Mwamuyesa Kinna ndichisilu chanu? Leave him alone.
    He is DPP

  21. This UTM must now see that most of it’s members are not genuine.Kinna being a big man in Malawi has seen no substance in UTM.I can forsee this trend in the near future.Vuto lomanama kuti alemba nathu 1 million ntchito when there are no structures to implement that is bringing doubts to what can be the leadership.

  23. Hes just searching why he can get money hes been broke so now he found the phumbwa cause UTM is uptight on that kkkkkkkk! hes likely to lose as a shadow lets wait and see..cluelessness

  24. SOMETHING VERY BIG IS WRONG IN FOOTBALL FRATERNITY …..THIS REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER OLD PLAYER WHO LAST YEAR JOINED MCP IN BLANTYRE AND JUST AFTER SOME FEW DAYS RETREATED…….. THIS TELLS ME WHY MALAWI FOOTBALL TEAM FAIL TO MOVE….. BECAUSE WHEN MALAWIANS EXPECT THEM TO SCORE…. THESE PLAYERS CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND DECIDE NOT TO SCORE…

  25. Be primarily for the people and not for all this parties. Who knows what they are standing for? Their promises and manifestos are like loose leaves in the wind…
    Unfortunately aiming and finally holding a political office becomes more and more an income generating activity for the politician and doesn’t help the constituencies or wards they represent at all!

  27. Nde bola mukanapita ku mcp koma dpp mmmm ndakayika ngati mungawine adada uwu nde uchindere wakufikapo

  29. …and the t-shirt? Did you also put it on without prior information? Or were you forced to put it on? Even if you were ambushed, I am sure you are mature enough to have just greeted the people and sit down…..otherwise you should have known the significance of an endorsement before being too excited with the moment….on another note, just because the function is happening close to your place of abode doesn’t mean you should always patronise….it smarks of idleness, very common in our society where people just rush for any sort of noise/gathering and in the course wasting their precious time.

  31. I think many more people out there are regretting for being cajoled into UTM. One Kinnah Phiri has just come in the open…

    1. makanda pa ndale ndi omwe alibe nzeru ndipo amatsatira zilizonse ngati ka ka gulu ka utm. Kinnah ndi wa nzeru hence regretting his association with ka utm.

  37. How then have you missed the cabinet bus? Irresponsibility and unprincipledness a real politician does not change goalposts like ku mpheto moreover which people would you influence in Mzuzu in electing you? Chilima will still appoint Kinna the sports minister

    1. Kinna let me remind you what you said to a senior UTM figure at St. Peter’s Cathedral on that Sunday after the UTM rally on Saturday. Should I even remind you exactly under which tree you said those words…..tinakuwonatu ndipo timakumva ukubwekera……kkkkkkk……kapena ndikukumbutsenso ndi Mawu omwe anawerengedwa tsiku limenelo ndipo yemwe anapempheretsa……shaaaa…koma abale zinthu zina.

  43. CAN KINNAR STAND AS DPP CANDIDATE AND WIN AN ELECTION IN HIS AREA ?? ASK GOODAL GONDWE !!! WACHEPA
    MFANA WACHEPA !!

    1. WADADA AAAAAAAAAAAAAA APA NDE ZAKUVUTANI BASI MWINA MUKUFUNA KUTI MUBWELENSO PA U COACH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PALIBE PITANI KUNJA KUJA BASI KUNO AYI MUNTHU WANKULU ZENLU NGATI MWANA CHONCHI BWANJI PAPITA MWEZI INGATI KUSITHA ZIPANI SORRY ZAKUVUTANI LUTANI WAKA MUKWEMWE MKOTHO MBWENU KKKKKKKKKKK

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