Malawi VP demands K100m from Masangwi over coup claims
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has demanded K100 million in damages from rulig DPP Southern Regional governor Noel Masangwi over his remarks that Banda was plotting to overthrow the Bingu wa Mutharika administration.
The Vice President has also demanded a written for defamatory remarks Masangwi made against her at Kachere when President Mutharika adressed a whistle stop rally on his way to Zomba on Sunday.
Masangwi accused Banda of conspiring with Public Affairs Committee (PAC) chairperson Rev Macdonald Kadawati to bring about “regime change”.
“It is clear that Joyce Banda along with Kadawati are seeking regime change in Malawi,” Masangwi alleged.
Lawyer Ralph Kasambara representing the Vice President has given Masangwi seven days to settle the damage.
Masangwi accused the faith group PAC of calling the meeting to propose a recall movement against President Mutharika, whose second term in office has seen growing discontent with his rule.
“Their aim is nothing else but get into government through the backdoor. But I would like to assure Kadawati and Banda that we [in the DPP] would not allow them succeed,” he added.
PAC official Reverend Maurice Munthali said the meeting had no “sinister motives apart from letting people express themselves to find lasting political and economic solutions”.
The Vice President on the other hand has always insisted her party will only use peaceful, democratic means to seek power.
Menawhile, the influential Roman Catholic Church has allowed PAC to hold it’s the much publicised March 14 meeting at Limbe Cathedral after government blocked it from being held at Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre.
PAC has released a programme for the meeting, themed ‘Time to reclaim our destiny: seeking redress to political and economic challenges.’
According to the programme, there will be a presentation on the current political situation in Malawi by University of Malawi political professor Blessings Chinsinga, economic situation in Malawi by Mathews Chikaonda and constitutional gaps and opportunities in the in the current political system.
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