Malawi airports, borders will operate normally – Government

August 23, 2019 Wanga Gwede - Nyasa Times 33 Comments

Minister of Homeland Security Nicholas Dausi  and Minister of Information Mark  Botomani  have a addressed a news conference  on Friday  assuring that all airports and land borders will remain open and  operate normally despite Human Rights Defenders Coalition’s (HRDC)  planning five-day demonstrations targeting the country’s port of entry and airports.

Minister of Homeland Security Nicholas Dausi disclosed details of the gazette laws

The two Cabinet ministers said people should know that there will be security to be provided by the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and Malawi Police Service (MPS)

Dausi said closing of borders is an act of treason hence government will do its best to protect the boarder.

“The government will strive to make sure that Malawi is a peaceful country and stable. We will not allow anybody to shut dhown the airports and loand borders,” said Dausi.

He said the planned demonstrations will have a negative economic effect to the country, citing the cancellation of International Monetray Fund (IMF) two mission visits to Malawi due to security concerns over political unrest.

The two ministers stressed that  airports are protected places and areas according to a 22 August 2019 Malawi Gazette supplement of Government Notices Number 59 where the Ministry of Homeland Security has the power to make orders to declare airports  and  borders, Capital Hill protected areas.

“Plans to disrupt border and airports are not in the spirit of peaceful demonstrations. Clearly, they are an act of aggression with the aim of undermining the State and threatening national security,” said Botomani, who is also government spokesman.

He said government will not allow the national security to be breached and the rights of those not taking part in the demonstrations subverted.

“The point has to be emphasised that the right to demonstrate is not a supreme right. As such, government wishes to assure the general public and the international community that measures have been put in place to ensure that our airports an borders continue to operate normally during the period of the planned demonstrations,” Botomani said.

The Cabinet ministers statements come after President Peter Mutharika has ordered police and the MDF to “stop the demonstrations”, accusing the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera and his UTM Party compatriot Saulos Chilima of attempting to take over the government unlawfully by supporting the HRDC demonstrations.

Mutharika said previous demonstrations the HRDC have conducted to force Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah to resign for allegedly presiding over flawed elections have been unlawful as they were marred with looting and attacks on people.

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33 replies on “Malawi airports, borders will operate normally – Government”

  1. The damage has already been done. Meetings and flights have already been cancelled for the initial four days of the demos. With aeroplane you book, its not like minibus where you just go and board.

  2. UTM, HDRC and MCP you are realizing that you will lose the case in court and you start another way of Coup d’etat through demonstration. Professor taught you a lesson of non violent demos and his ready to deal with you.
    You have to accept your defeat and prepare for next run.
    Shame on you

  3. Mwabeledwa ma voti ake ati? Ine i didn’t vote for your party so don’t you come here and say mwabeledwa ma vote…. Don’t you understand the term LOOSING? Akumbwambwana nzanu anakuyambisani kunena zoti mwabeledwa uja uko ku Court….. Since y’all gays n lesbians u wanna match with your hidden agenda of movements for civil rights promoting LGBT.

  4. Dausi what are you trying to protect. We know you are the ones pampering that Old man Peter to stick to power when his mind is shutting down. DPP has failed Malawian in so many ways. Up to now, we cant fly from Chileka to UK, USA, SINGAPORE DUBAI. Malawi is a laughing stock in southern Africa. Our airports are terrible. The school system is broken down. Yet you and your Aunt Ansah are sharing our resources. We have so many professors yet very little work on the ground.
    We thank God for people like Mtambo who are bold enough to confront the vices. VIVA MTAMBO VIVA HRDC we going for DEMO muwonaso. Come 26 kuvuta come rain come sunshine we will demonstrate. MDF do you JOB we are proud of you.

  5. I like it now the pot is burning,, I hope where ever Jen Asa is she is going to die with stress

  7. That’s the RED LINE. If Mtambo dares to fly too close to the sun the wax in his wings will melt. This economic sabotage stops here.

  9. Mr Dausi, demos should go ahead because you and your DPP are the ones destroying Malawi and bringing negative economic effect.

    Party full of thieves, all what you know is to drain the Country.

    Dausi, call your fellow DPP and ask them how many villages or singapores are building across Malawi with Tax payers money?

    You guys are joking with Malawians. The plunder is just insane.

    Do not think Malawians are stupid and naive.

    We know , you are protecting this tippex govtto cover your evil acts.

    Go to Kamuzu Central Hospital and see how people are suffering and you have no sympathystealing from poor Malawians.

    #Tippexgovernmentmustfall

  11. Am happy that the government has started working. This is the way to go. Mtambo and trapece must not disturb us. If you have a case against government go to court or if you want to demonstrate peacefully, teach malawians on how to demonstrate peacefully. Otherwise pipo are against demonstrations because of destruction of property.

        1. Courts don’t always have answers. Court failed to convict anyone I’m Mwanza murderers case even though the police officers who were involved in the actual killing witnessed in court as state witness.

        3. Read audit report cadet man, if you uneducated ask people who can help to follow it. If you come back with a similar comment you are a thief.

  13. Dausi kuda kwako, ukuwona ngati dzikoli ndi la amako?.Pamtumbo panu mwamva, MDF siingaletse mademo bcz siimalamulidwa ngati anyani apolisi.

  14. Some disgruntled Malawians are giving credit and pumping too much gas into Mr Mtambo, Mtambo has been a failure thru and thru. He has been a tribalist, hating mainly the Southerners, he was a laughing stock in his class at Chanco and he has been trying to hold demos in the past but all have been flopping because people know his agenda mainly involves hatred, regionalism. This time around its not him managing it but there are his handlers from MCP and UTM using him as their foot soldier to march mainly in Lilongwe. Mtambo is trying to build his personal identity and MCP and UTM are creating a very dangerous individual in Mtambo, he has no constituency to represent or speak for not even his home in Chitipa but he has been given a Constituence in MCP and UTM. In his statements he mostly says he is speaking for Malawians, which Malawians? and on Whose Mandate did Mtambo become a spokesman representing Malawians and from which Legal Mandate is he using? What we know is that his Organisation HRDC represents lesbians and homosexuals, its legally mandated to speak for them through the funding of some Donor states. Unless Malawians have suddenly turned themselves in Lesbians and Homosexuals otherwise he has no right to claim that he is representing Malawians, because he has never been voted in any of the legally acceptable voted office. MCP and UTM are creating a Monster in Malawi which we will fail to manage once he achieves what he wants and Malawi will e worse off if we are not careful. MALAWIANS Lets not give this man the Popularity he does not deserve, he has no respect for others, he has no respect for authority. Look at how he reacts after staging his destructive demos, he gets satisfaction where ever there is destruction, he has no vocabulary of Apology and sympathy in him. He dis not feel remorse when Rev Mgawis property was destroyed, when innocent Police officers Houses in Falls were burned and Property gutted, he did not feel bad when properties of Lilongwe Business people Got destroyed by his people. So what type of a person are we trying to built, Are we not building up a Character of hate, destruction and a tribalist in the likes of Bin Laden, Charles Taylor ?

    1. Very true. This dude I know him personally, I was one year ahead of him at Chanco. During his days at Chanco, the guy was pure tribalist. Mostly we used to laugh at him because he was failing to speak Chichewa properly. We used to encourage him to speak the language he is comfortable speaking and not Chichewa. Maybe because of that he became more and more tribalist, but honestly, to all honest-hearted Malawians, let us not destroy our nation all because of Timothy, Chilima and Chakwera. Slowly but surely Malawi is becoming Zimbabwe, all because of these three gentlemen. I know some may say it is because of Mrs Ansa or Peter Muthalika. Me I believe we must all be sober enough and let another arm of the government, which is duly independent, the Judiciary, to prove these later two guilty. What Timothy, Chilima and Chakwera are doing is mob justice; killing someone before you have clear evidence that they are wrong. Because I know Timothy so well, me I believe why he is doing all this is because he is a tribalist, a person filled with anger and hatred. His activism is definitely now misplaced.

      Let us close our airports, let us close our borders, let us exclude Malawi from the rest of the world but I assure you all, the consequences from all that will hurt all of us, including pregnant women, babies, young children, all of us, the working class, business persons etc. There wont be life saving medicines in hospitals (including pvt ones), there wont be fuel, no doing business. Such effects that even HRDC, UTM or MCP won’t be able to fix. Let us not be childish; these people are heavily paid by distabilizing the country.

      I am not saying people should not march or protest, but when doing that, let us be sober, mature enough and always protect the integrity of Malawi. We are in a global village and most of our partners are damn sensitive, it will take several years before they can trust Malawi again. Let us give the courts a chance and never be lured by tantrums by Timothy Mtambo. (ndatukwana ngati?)

      1. The majority of people who march have no access to internet nor have laptops like we do! So I would suggest you use proper channels for your message to get across to those demographics! For someone who has been to Chanco with Timo and wrote so much I have reason to believe you know better otherwise I would have labelled you a brainless cadet KKKKK

    2. He is fighting for us whose votes were stolen. Do not fool us you are part of the rotten Government.

  16. IMF imabwerera inu akulu akulu osati ife anthu wamba. Tinasauka kale, palibe kusiyana. Borders will close or unarmed people will die. “bakakakikila ise kuti tifwatulike, …. madindi ghakazula, …. sono tili banangwa, …” Nyimbo ya malemu Mjula Mkandawire tiyi yimbanso popeza ambiri afa.

    1. Among the 18 million Malawians are intellectuals with robust brains who crafted the law and can understand it in its entirety while Dausi, a Malawi Young Pioneer graduate is posing to be significant and busy holding a dictionary in his hand commenting on law. kkkkkkk. shame

  18. ADAUSI NDI ABOTTOMAN NDINU AMENE MUKUMUONONGA PITALA DO YU THINK MENE AMAKHALIRA MA DEMO AJA NDANI ANGAYEREKEZE KUBWELETSA GALIMOTO EVE OUR NEIGH BOURS CANT DARE TO COME AND OPERATE BUSINESS ADAUSI YUA RE LYING

  19. We better hear from HRDC. MDF will be protecting citizens including protesters in case you think they only protect DPP

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