Law expert warns Malawi Law Society losing its relevance, ‘captured’
A highly respected professor of law at Chancellor College, a constituent college of the University of Malaw, Garton Kamchedzera has warned Malawi Law Society (MLS) of losing its relevance and dependability as a profession body of lawyers.
Kamchedzera says this amid concerns in various social media platforms that MLS is now perceived to be serving the interests of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
Writing in his Facebook wall, the law professor hits at MLS over its letter entitled ‘Management of electoral complaints and the determination of electoral results concerning Malawi presidential elections of 21 May, 2019.
“If indeed the society has written the letter…I am still in agony. It is agony for me to read the society’s letter to six financial and business offices requesting their ‘preliminary and urgent expert evaluation on the short and/long term economic and financial implications to the nation of the political impasse that has gripped the Republic of Malawi following the presidential elections of 21 May, 2019,” says Kamchezera.
MLS says it wants this for what it says develop further strategies and proposals for managing the situation in accordance with the law as it seeks to protect the people of Malawi as a whole.
In its earlier statements, MLS said it wants to prosecute organisers of the anti-Jane Ansah demonstrations.
“Really? The letter is dated 30 July 2019. The deadline for the six offices to provide such information is 1August 2019.
“I shudder to witness the Malawi Law Society losing relevance and dependability as a professional body of lawyers,” says Kamchedzera.
This comes at a time MLS president Burton Mhango has come under intense condemnation for driving the professional lawyers’ body to advance the ruling DPP agenda.
Mhango is young brother to the DPP director of Legal Affairs, Charles Mhango.
Kamchezera is pro MCP and was waiting for u minister of justice under MCP kuti asiyane nacho chalk chomwe akhala akugwira for over 30yrs. He has lost substance at chanco and better he goes on retirement now
Akulu, tangoneni nkhani yomwe muli nayo kusiyana nkunyoza munthu. Look at what he is saying then make your analysis based on those facts.
MLS ought to refrain from acting as a substitute prosecutor. Regarding representing the likes of Rev. Mgawi or any victim of vandalism., the Police have the mandate to investigate, apprehend crime mongers and prosecute vandals. The MLS ought to work with PAC, parliament and other stake holders, to address Gaps in the electoral laws, the so callef quota system (what is it doing to the country as a whole), ethics and standards in the delivery of health services, standards regarding motor vehicles plying roads (certifying fitness), Food standards, looking into transanctions between, farmers and Admarc, inquire with ACB why former President Muluzi’s case is not seen to completion (why is he being treated differently? what is the ststue of limitation for his case?) , etc. The poor and the weak are forever exploited doing business or while in hospitals. Where is MLS in diatricts or is this a city based organization only? MLS or CLS or (Citt Law Society)?
aha!!!! am not a lawyer and do know nothing about law. nut we all know ansah messed up eerything that is why we have this malawi today. because of too much lying and lies from the educated peole like these.
ansa and team preached pre election chapters a malawi azanga.she was on every paper,radio, you name it am sure she enjoyed her popularity on this-her voice on air. queen jezebel.
we know most law pepole have been abroad for various reasons and am sure had a chance to read high rayed newspapers , watched news, watched 24/7 parliament discussions live read local news pending where they go. ,, they have leant somehing on how the law goes.
as lawyers, i dont think hey only learn from malawi books.but as it is now ,it appears their curriculum is a local one.,woth all teaching materials produced or made in malawi, mot international one..MASANJE aculuka zikukhala ngati za mnyumba tsopano
MLS publicly serving DPP instead of Malawians.Let me agree with somebody who commented by saying that if these are kind of Lawyers produced from Malawi University, then we better just close it because Malawians won’t gain any goodness from such nosense and MLS must be closed as well.
I personally cannot have answers to date that is our University Of Malawi teaching these Lawyers to STEAL. Believe you 95% of type of Lawyers we have in Malawi are thieves. Swindling clients money, stealing cars, plots etc and one cannot admire this profession these days because its a butch of CROOKS. I met one lawyer yesterday outside court crying citing the reason that A JUDGE WAMUBERA K30m ANKATI A WINA NKHANI YAKE KOMA WALUZA. He is trying to meet the Chief Justice and seek the solution. Kkkkkkkkkkkk! I laughed on top of my voice kuti WABERANA OKHA OKHA. So MLS ONSEWA NDI MBAVA ZOKHA ZOKHA IMVANI A MALAWI.
‘Corruption shall Prevail’
Kkkkkkkkkkkk. !! Paja Chakwera anawalonjeza uminister of Justice a Kamchezera.
For those who dont know Garton Kamchedzera, he is very level headed and has issues of human rights. He has worked (full-time) and consulted for the UN at local and international levels. Judge him by the substance of what he is saying in the context of the MLS and it’s behaviour recently. Werengani kalatayo before throwing stones at the Professor.
The Expert, I guess in Law beats me. I guess he has taught what is called “SUBSTANCE OVER FORM”. He may wish to reread this in one of the text books. What and How the Law Society says is immaterial but its INTETIONS is to ensure that INNOCENT PEOPLE like Rev. Mgawi do not lose their properties or suffer unnecessary injuries etc.
Now the Learned Expert wants to make us believe that Law Society has lost relevance because it wants to promote peace? Ai Bwana mwalakwa apa!!!. You are alone making these worrying assertions while the Law Society is a group trying to find a formula for peace. Join them and argue with them not always on Nyasa times platform
ENJOY THE PEACEFUL ATMOSPHERE OF ZOMBA with its civilized people!
‘Corruption shall Prevail’
We better just consider closing the law school if these are the kind of lawyers we are producing.
@Demo Kayende
I think you are onto something here. Perhaps we should indeed close this “MCP Law” School; and to be sure, we should open up a new one. Afresh, and untainted by the likes of Makchedzera.
We badly need a non partisan law school around here: and in that vein, the current one does not cut it.
DPP has destroyed everything, full stop. They have infiltrated organisations which were there even before they came into being. All that is being done using tax payers’ money. But they will not last, Malawians will last. Intentions for creating such organisations were very good, to remind those in power that Malawi is bigger than an individual. It becomes dangerous to see those organisations siding with crooks like DPP top brass. I dont know what more do they want from Malawians after accumulating so much wealth that even if they stopped working, they will use that money for the rest of their life, yet they dont want to give up. Please, for the sake of ordinary Malawians, reflect on your actions you the MLS. Malawians are suffering. All countries around us are much much better than us and yet some were at war. Please, please may those who are true religious leaders pray for this regime to fall. I say true religious leaders because DPP has infiltrated even the church. We used to have respected faith leaders, but today they are busy forming parallel ‘NGOs’ akuti to counter act. These people were our hope, but they have abandoned us for love of money.
Thumbs up for Kadzanja. Well said and Excellent stuff. I am so shocked that people do not love the beautiful Malawi. They have been so preoccupied with being in power and and getting filthily rich, at the pretense that they are serving Malawians yet it is at the expense of the ordinary poor Malawian population. True Religious Leaders, please declare a Fast and Pray that Wicked Leadership should fall for the good of Malawi.
It has lost already credibility already, no doubt. I hear they started this during the last elections and they are doing it now. But now we have known you and your motives.
Uninspiring law professor.. Dull in my assessment..
The MLS President, dont be perturbed by what the so called professor is saying. The only respected Professor of law at Chancellor College is Kanyongolo not uyuyu ai. MLS as a grouping I am proud of you. Please obtain information to prosecute the organizers. If prosecuting has nothing to do with law, let the fake professor, like Chakwera, say so. Ignore the sentiments coming from Kamchezera, the surrogate of Chakwera.
Kamchezera is MCP anayamba ntchito ku Chano nthawi ya kamuzu. He can’t say anything constructive. After all he is old now and needs to go for retirement. His minds are full of sheets. He taught me some years ago and I fhought by now he was retired. Leave the MLS to do its job. Prosecute the demo organizers
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@Shand Kamende
@Apwiya’s sentiments are well explained.
Perhaps, your understanding is deficient. Have you considered that possibility?
If that is the case do not allow him to soil the entire profession. I guess there are procedures to remove such compromised leaders
A bunch of useless lawyers whose interest is to serve the devil other than the innocent Malawians, but whichever way still God is in control of every situation and is taking care of it and not these dunderheads learned lawyers under the MLS. Just wait and see your fate will come.
MLS is a club of misguided minds that has completely lost direction because of its opportunist values. The grouping is a legal arm of DPP which is busy terrorizing Malawians. It deserves extinction.
If I were a lawyer, I would withdraw my membership in that organisation. What a waste of time and money.
GARTON is s beneficiary of the brutal MCP regime. He received a lot favours from the late Prof. Kamulongera, an MCP informanta at CHANCO IN the 80s.No wonder he has always made pro-MCP comments.
Mbuli iwe, your thinking is too myopic and can’t see the would be outcomes Kamchedzela is seeing…………….., cadet ngati iwe all you know is bootlinking………… pamene Kamchedzela is worried that if he remain silent and say this after the negative fruits start going into MLS basket people would blame him of unprofessionalism!! After all when did Kamlongela become the sole MCP decision maker and shared benefits? Boma la Kamuzu never shared benefits……………… zimenezo nde maloto a chumba!!
Bakha
Up to this time you are still blind folded with stupid points?When are you going to open up your blind eyes you fool?
Just try arguing with @Patrick Phiri on substance, instead of calling him derogatory names. This applies also to you @Kaitnao and @Central: That’s all you seem to do when you don’t agree with someone’s views.
Gulu likuononga dziko ndilimeneli mothandizana ndi adpp chifukwa chake dpp imalimba mitima pakhani yakuba chifukwa amadziwa kuti kumbali amaloya akapilikoni ndi ambiri Malawi anaola kalekale ndithu zomvetsa chisoni
Malawi law society please trade carefully! This case is bigger than you – your body might be found wanting. The public is judoing too.
You are just a professor not a business person. The demos have negatively affected the operations of many businesses in Malawi. Businesess have incurred serious losses through damages and vandalism. The MLS is not representing the professor in college who is on monthly salary but innovative men and women who have visions to develop their lives and that of the nation through business. Such men have their visions shattered and frustrated because of these demos. It is therefore imperative that the organisers of these demos be held accountable for the damage of property and businesses. Therefore your comment is useless because you are not sharing the pain of losing property and incurring serious losses in business because you are on gvt payroll. I can just advise you to shut your mouth.
Ngati mukuba nawo don’t think people of integrity who are in formal jobs are stupid. Corruption is not innovation
Demos are happening because of this type stupid of thinking you have, the law should be above all of us, if the law is so low like the way it is to day by siding with Government than standing on its own, stupid people like you becomes very important in your stupidity to stupid people like MLS, Bakha
I would rather accept my business to be affected by demos for few days or months than being rooted by DPP through MRA for 5 years and robbed big time by u Cadet Joloza and company.
Yakoyo ndi bznz kapena geni yanthochi or geni yambatata yootcha. Shame. Tikukamba bznz apa osati geni zamandasi a mubigiri la 5 litre
HOW I WISH THE MALAWI LAW SOCIETY MOVED SO QUICKLY TO REMOVE THE COMPRISED MHANGO.I KNOW MALAWIAN POLITICIANS VERY WELL , AS LONG AS THIS MHANGO IS A BROTHER TO THE DPP JAPPIE MHNAGO, LAWYERS IN MALAWI CAN AS WELL FORGET ABOUT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THEIR LAW SOCIETY.IT WILL NOW TURN IN ANOTHER DPP CADETS SOCIETY.WHERE IS THIS MALAWI HEADING?
Kamchedzera has always been anti DPP. So never cheat us.
ndani wanzeru za umunthu angaikile kumbuyo umve wa dpp wu……………….other than yourself and your fellow zombies!
Watsala wekhatu cadet
watulukiranso mkulu wa academic freedom atinyase. chomwe amadziwa iye ndikuukira boma. a wasted fellow
These are some of the people contributing to Malawi’s poverty and stagnation. Law Society just for their own bellies while concerns of the majority are disregarded. They think that being lawyers means they can control everything including impeding justice for the robbed.
Prosecuting organizers of the demonstrators in what capacity and on what offense? This is all rubbish coming from a group of people that thinks it has wisdom and smart thinking while not serving the interests of many Malawians. They are promoting the elite that steals from the poor starting with fraudulent elections. We must guard against this prevailing evil force.
Prof Kamchedzera can “”shudder” all he wants until he collapses. And whose fault is that?
The lawyers body has a right to a professional opinion, and it is ok too for people like Kamchedzera to challenge the opinion: Taking politics out of the equation.
To be honest, this is the most stupid and inept leadership of a law organisation ever assembled on earth
The problem of electing inept leaders. Of conflict of interest.
They would fall and it will be a big crush. It may take longer for them to revive but Malawi will win.
Truth pains
MLS ambiri are under DPP even attorney General serving the interest of DPP . We will see the judgement in Lilongwe . Its when we will know that MALAWIANS mainly poor Malawians are under fire because they never get proper justice in Malawi.
Look straight to the point elections were rigged and irregularities everybody knows but people like Malawi law society knows and saw with their nacked eyes . Koma failing to see behind jane ansa motives..
And for that matter threatens those against the results …? PLEASE LETS BUILD NEW MALAWI GOOD FOR EVERYONE.
MALAWI LAW SOCIETY SHOULD OPENLY REGISTER AS A DPP CADET PARTY —-
Was there Malawi Law Society on 20 July 2011? Did it help to prosecute those who massacred demonstrators or those who destroyed property including Mulli’s?
I THINK THIS IS VERY INTERESTING!!! MR KAMCHEDZERA YOU ALSO UTM/MCP!!! THE GAME IS SSOOOOOOOOOOOO EVEN!!!! YOUR COMMENTARIES MR KAMCHEDZERA ARE ALWAYS BENT AGAINST THE RULING PARTY!!! I HAVE NEVER SEEN YOUR MOUTH UTTERING ANYTHING GOOD DPP HAS DONE!!!! WHO TOLD YOU TO BE A GOOD COMMENTOR YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE IN THE OPPOSITION?
The question can be why? Should he just sit phwiii watching people behaves like the know everything in the name of law?
MLS has turned to be one of the Cadets for DPP looming around in Malawi Courts.
They are not professional body but Cadet body which represent the interest of DPP.
I stop giving credit to this body when it’s president the lecturer from Chanco resigned.
I have no respect whatsoever for our Law Society. And now the justice system. Full of ‘legal corruption’.
Now I know why he resigned.