Chakwera and Mia hopeful MCP gaining ground in South: ‘Malawians have a simple choice in 2019 to reject scandalous govt’

Thousands of opposition Malawi Congress Party  (MCP) supporters on Saturday converged at Balaka Primary School grounds where its president Rev Dr Lazarus Chakwera was addressing a rally alongside seasoned politicians who included Sidik Mia, Ken Kandodo , Wakuda Kamanga, Halima Saudi, and scores of MCP Members of Parliament.

Front line MCP troops at Balaka rally
Mia speaking at the rally
Hijab wearing Muslim women attended the rally

Speaking during the rally, Chakwera started by welcoming scores of people who had joined the party  in the South and Eastern Region.

He said the large crowds in the south is a vote for “hope” and that MCP is making inroads in the south.

Chakwera beamoned high  corruption levels in the country,  saying DPP is the ruling a “scandalous government.”

He said: “The corruption levels among DPP  top officials have reached a critical stage.”

MCP President said  corruption in DPP government is now in a state of “national crisis.”

“We demand to see justice in all the identified ‘gates’, abuses of government offices and see that the Constitution is adhered to with no one being above the law.

“Malawians lets demand not to be and remain the poorest of all nations, fellow Malawians we need to draw a line and say ‘Enough is Enough’,” said Chakwera.

Speaking earlier , Mia accused the DPP led government for the poor policies governing the nation.

Mia gave an example of poor prices of different crops such as soya beans , maize, cotton, and other crops .

“Voters are seeking for a credible alternative in leadership and that’s  Chakwera,” said Mia.

“MCP is the alternative to the politics of despair and division,” he added in an interview with Nyasa Times.

Mia said: “What happens next is difficult to predict, but one thing is certain. The people have declared their willingness to begin constructing a new Malawi and MCP is today the name of this popular desire for a new beginning.”

During the rally MCP MCP Vice President, Richard Msowoya , who is also Speaker of Parliament. did not attend the rally.

 

 

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35 replies on “Chakwera and Mia hopeful MCP gaining ground in South: ‘Malawians have a simple choice in 2019 to reject scandalous govt’”

  1. Mr. Msowoya you have written paragraphs and paragraphs just to reply to a few wise statements in which I tried to school your medulla that Mia is not an Arab. You claim to know the history of Malawi yet you fail to find the origin of our own citizens in the Lower shire. I once asked you to atleast spare one week and come to your beloved country to see things on the ground. If you did, you would find the truth that people like Mia, Issa the MP, Halima Daudi are not Arabs but pure Malawians. I would like you to bring evidence from somewhere to back your claim that Mia is an Arab. I would also ask you to mention the specific Arab country where Mia is coming from. If you come to Malawi you will prove for yourself that Afford as a party is in the political dustbin. I wonder why your brain can still think and join a party which is not in the minds of Malawians. Remind yourself about the history of Afford, how many MPs it got in 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009 and the last elections. We believed the party was a dorminant force in the north. Tell us Mr. Msowoya why is it that people of the north have now abandoned this party leaving it to you and a few dunderheads of your caliber? Mr Msowoya, you are pointing me to what EDTA has commented on my name and you take it as a point. I don’t know how you faired in class. Why are you failing to see that EDTA is commenting on Satan, not SANTANA. These are two different names as everyone can see except Msowoya and EDTA. Mr Msowoya, we need facts on this page not a million paragraphs from which no one can grab something. So Mr Msowoya tell EDTA to comment on SANTANA not SATANA. Lastly I ask you Mr Msowoya to come back home and see politics on the ground not from what your biased reporters on Nyasa are writing. This is your country why are you afraid to come?

  2. Mr.SATANA,I THINK ONE MALAWIAN NATIONALIST BY THE NAME OF EDTA,HAS EXPLAINED IT ALL HENCE,YOU LOOK DEHUMANISED!!!!!

  3. Please forgive Mr Winton Msowoya today I have understood why comment like this he is too OLD to adopt to changes. KUNO VINTHU VILIKUSINTHA. We can not be crying for Atti , Yatuta, Dunduzu mpaka liti? Zinachitika Kamuzu anapepetsa ,ife kuno kumudzi Tinakhululuka. We have Dr D D Phiri Wankulu koma wazeru Zomanga. Mkapanga comment please be constructive not with grudges of 1983 or just stop contributing because you are not helpeful to the Nation

  4. Satana,Iam not sure whether you are a stable and an upright person,because what you have written on me is purely bunkum and personal vendetta from a deranged tribalist without border.I still vehemently accentuate that Mia being an Arab Muslim,can not rule us in our own continent and our birth-land beloved mother Malawi,that will never happen in our life-time,if you are on the line of receiving PETRO-DOLLAR to mortgate our beloved mother Malawi,you are a lost lamb.We chased the British colonisers only to be colonised by Arab Muslims? Satana,you think that an Arab Muslim Mia is more important than Richard Msowoya an indigenous of our soil just because is a Northerner? Satana,you can not pump sense in me because Iam not a satan (devil) like you.Your Journalism is flaud and corrupt at best.Satana,I can teach you the History of Malawi and Africa right from STD one to University level because you are a nitwit and know absolutely nothing about Malawi and Africa.If Mia is not an Arab,who is he? A Sena? Lomwe? Tumbuka? Ngoni? Yao? Or an African? Satana,can yo go to the Middle East today and stand for leadership of any kind and expect to live for 10-20 minutes without being blownup you fool? Satana,stick it to your brains that Malawi and Malawians are not for SALE!!! Chilembwe did not sacrifice his precious life for Arabs,Indians and the lots,he sacrificed not only for Lomwes,Yaos,Tumbukas and the rest of Nyasalanders and Africans in general so,Malawians are not going to betray Chilembwe’s sacrifice and indeed,Malawians are not going to betray our heroes who lost their precious life on the 3rd of March,1959 fighting for our freedom and dignity,only people like Satana are willing to do so for PETRO-DOLLAR,SHAME!!!!! Satana,you can not even differentiate between Muluzi and your boss Mia in the sense that,Muluzi is pure Malawian and African and also pure Yao,what is missing there? Mia is an Arab and a foreigner.do you see the difference there you foolhardy? It would be a tragically offence if Muslim Mia becomes the President of over 16million Malawians while Mia’s Arabs are not even 100 people countrywise,Satana,are you really abreast with your own history? You are giving an instance with Kassim Chilumpha.Kassim’s reference is contrary to your beloved Mia,in the sense that kassim is an African Malawian while Mia is pure an Arab and a foreigner in our country.Again,Iam astonished to note that you distancing and contradicting yourself by removing the MCP from the map.What is your political stand? Again as you have said in your gobbledygook comments that Iam not a political follower,how at the age of 19 years,I supported the Chipembere side and condemned the Banda neo-colonialist puppets in the 1964 historic Cabinet Crisis? Satana,you have stated without proof that in my age,my head does not work delegently,you are wrong moffo and after all,you do not know my birth date,what kind of a liar you are? that’s why you are writing bunkum.I was born on March 1st,1945 and my brains are still as sharp as a human being.Banda ruled you fools at age of 95 years and Mugabe is ruling his fools at the age of also 95 years,Iam waiting for for your another gibberish and I will respond with tenacity at my disposal.Lastly,Iam a diehard AFORD supporter which brought you freedom and democracy,you untutored rogue.

  5. Wapsa Tonola,I have no time to waste with untutored punk because nobody will judge who is a fool.Mia is not a Yao,Tumbuka,Lomwe the list goes on.Obama is a Luo from a Luo father in Kenya and his mother is a white American,do you see the diffence you uneducated fool? From which tribe is Mia from in Malawi? Marcus Garvey once said Africa for Africans,India for Indians,Europe fo Europeans so on and so forth.Have you heard that an African is an MP OR Vice President in an Arab land in the Middle East? Do you know that Africans/Blacks are treated like wild animals in Arab Lands? Mia knows that and he does not care!!! Do you know that Christian are not allowed to pray in their Churches in Arab Lands and if they are found,they are being bombed and killed,it happens there whether you defend them or not.Iam not speaking from nowhere,I have been in most of Arab lands in the Middle East,and I know what my African brothers and sisters go through.White people have most recently opened their gates in Europe for the Arabs to enter because their countries have become rivers of blood and yet,the same Arabs are randomnly and brutally massacre the very same people who gave them shelters,water,food,security and every human necessities. In the 16th to the early 18th centries,Arabs came to Africa to take our forefathers slaves under the most inhuman condititions human beings have ever encountered.Arabs come to our countries and they do whatever they want to do freely,build their Mosques everywhere they want to build and I think you are seeing it.So Wapsa Tonola,what a nasty name? You want our magnificent Christian land be ruled by Muslim killers and racists? What would our brothers and sisters in Sub-Saharan Africa think of us? lastly,i won’t waste my precious time on fools like you WAPSA TONOLA and what you must know is that MCP will never again rule our country with bloody hands.I still maintain that MIA is not qualified to rule us,we shall look fools in the eyes of our fellow AFRICANS!!!!!!!!

  6. It is well known to every keen political follower that MCP cannot make it into government even if they use the most powerful juju in the southern part of Africa. That aside I don’t ascribe to Msowoya reasons that MCP should not be allowed to rule Malawi because of Mia being a muslim. Let me pump sense in Msowoya’s medulla oblongata that our constitution does not bar any religion vying for any political post. Msowoya does not know anything about the history of Africa let alone southern part of it otherwise he could not make such a silly mistake that Mia is an Arab. Who can be easily spotted as a foreigner between Mia and Sonkie or Bisnowatty? Without shame you want us believe that there can be holy wars in Malawi if a muslim is given a chance in a higher post like president or VP. My dad, your shallow medulla has made you to forget too early. Don’t you remember we had Muluzi as a president of this country, where did you hear about religious wars in all his ten years of rule? There was time when Cassim Chilumpha was VP of this country for five years, did you hear anything smelling of a religious war? You squeeze yourself into something which does not fit you. You are not a political follower but you involve yourself commenting on politics with too many blunders along the way. I do not support MCP and I don’t even wish it to rule Malawi again but my reason should not be Mia’s religious affliation. Why don’t you come to Malawi and assess its political situation by meeting people on the ground and find out what percentage support your party Afford? You went into exile in 1964. If those born in 1964 look old I can picture how old ypu look by now and I can easily assess how your brain can work at this age. No wonder your comments are full of what you don’t know.

  7. 2019 ikuchedwa,, achakwela alowe mboma.. enanu muzingofunilatu dziko lokakhala popeza 2019 ikukhaulitsani heavy..Chakwela yemweyo woYYeeeeeeeeeee

  8. Hopefully winstone msowoya you know nothing about world leadership and politics had it been you have knowledge on politics u would never comment like that.Mia is not foreigner he is Malawian same as you are ,all Malawian tribes came from other countries of Congo ,Mozambique, south Africa and the like….Go to south Africa you will see people of different colour in front line of politics, in Zambia Michael Sata chose Zambian of Europe origin to be his VP and he performed excellently may be u was too younger that time..Did u know Barack Obama the former President o U S A and that his father is from Kenya.Should we say that all Americans are stupid for electing Obama???? Too childish bro…ingokambani za ndale osati za mitundu

  9. Indigenous Malawian and Mtondo thanks a lot for your comments on my comments.Yes I have red a lot of my country’s history because when I went into exile in 1964,i was living with our ex-brilliant first Cabinet Ministers: H.B.Masauko Chipembere,Kanyama Chiume,Willy Chokani,Augustin Bwanausi,Yatuta Chisiza,Orton Chirwa and later Attati Mphakati who helped me join Madi University College in Moscow then USSR to study Journalism and African History in 1978.Two days after his brutal assassination in the city of Harare,Zimbabwe by Banda,s thug Mr Liyabunya the Armed Forces killing machine in March,1983,I also escaped an assassination attempt at my Bulawayo home.Attati Mphakati was a top-notch Economist who taught economics at the former Namibian Institute for the exiles in Lusaka,Zambia.So my dear brothers,during my exile life,I have seen and learnt a lot of things.You will agree with me that at this juncture,we lack leadership in our country and it will take another 5 decades to have leaders like the Dunduzus,Chipemberes,Chirwas,Bwanausis,Attatis, Kanyamas so on and so forth and remember,Malawi has been throwned into the jaws of the atrocious LIONS.GOD BLESS MALAWI AND AFRICA!!!!!!

  10. Kunali anthu!! This cameraman just chose to select a few of the millions who were there. Kaya how can I share the pictures!!

    1. These Nyasa times editor chose on these pics for the palm oil to continue flowing.Some friends were there but said were Thousands upon Thousands.Iwish Icould see

  11. By thousands of supporters are you talking about those kids in the picture? They can’t even vote. No chance for MCP in the South. And who is Mia speaking as? This lebwedelebwede party will likely cry again pyoooo.

  12. The most intriguing statement is that the reporter starts with ”thousands of MCP supporters”. Who told this reporter that these people are all MCP supporters? The reporter should take us back to 2014 elections and let us know how many thousands did MCP get from this area. If the votes were very few as all of us know, what have MCP done this time to these people that have made them turn to MCP in their thousands? This rally comprised people who are not even known to the area. What can Wakuda Kamanga and Kandodo tell Balaka people about the goodness of MCP? These two have been Ministers in previous governments, what did they do in their time that those governments should not be dubbed failures? Chakwera campaigned vehemently in 2014 to make MCP win but failed. What is it that can convince Balaka people that he can do wonders if given a chance? People just wanted to personally see the man who succeeded JZU and failed to clean the MCP of the past atrocities. With the Kabwila, Jumbe, Kaliwo issues unresolved people are reminded of the cruel MCP which was not accommodative of any different view. The MCP think it will win the 2019 votes by hoping on an individual in the name of Sadik Mia. This is total myopic. We had Chakwamba from the area who was once called ”Giant of the Lower Shire” in his peak days but failed to bring MCP in government yet he was not second in command as Mia but was at the top most post which the lower shire people knew that if he wins he was to be state president. People of the lower states know how MCP tortured Chakwamba just by being a man from the south. At the end Chakwamba threw-in the towel giving the chance to a man from the centre take the mantle. And Mia thinks he can turn the tables for MCP while on the second seat. Hussein, a political analyst from Chanco has just cautioned MCP through Nation on Sunday on the runningmate issue that the Shire valley vote being sought in Mia is much less than the Northern Region vote. Dzimvere Mtolo.

  13. Hon Richard Msowoya just swallow your pride and join your friends for the good of the party.You must bear it in mind that you are not MCP,the party doesn’t belong to one single individual,not even chakwera.Afterall if MCP gets into government in 2019,you will benefit.Plz don’t be selfish.You were runningmate in 2014,and don’t expect things to be the same in 2019.The president will decide his runningmate.Ooodii uko,Chakwera ndi Mia adutseko.Kuti vuuuuuuuuuu!!!

  14. Chakwera and your bed-fellow Muslim Mia you are just wasting your energy and time in thinking that you will win in the coming general elections in 2019.Firstly,both of you are not up to date politicians but,opportunists and religious misguided zealots.Malawians had for 32 years lived under one of the most brutal regime in the world under foreign-bred Hastings Banda and are not ready for another foreign-bred leader S,Mia a Muslim fanatic.Malawi is not an Arabic State and therefore,it would be shameful and illogical to be ruled by an Arab Muslim whose knowledge of Malawi is faint and zero.Malawians,what are you loosing in your life to be ruled by an outsider? Chakwera is not a political leader per-se,he is money monger who shamelessly abandoned his God in favour of luxuries on earth,he is not the Desmond Tutu of Malawi.As Muslims are now targeting to dominate the world with their Islamic faith,they can try anything on their quest for religious dominance and Mia is their emissary in Southern Africa.Malawians would have learnt a lesson from Banda whose nationality hitherto is still a miracle.Malawians,we must not repeat the same thing with S.MIA,he is not a Malawian and indeed,he is not an African.It is better to get rid of him now than regret the following day. ONCE BEATEN,TWICE SHY!!!!!!!!

    1. Winston Msowoya I salute you for your well articulated comment.Keep it up.By the way you seem to have deep knowledge of Malawi’s political history just before and after independence.Keep on exposing MCP’s regime past.Chakwera should not pretend to be an angel when his party has commited the most brutal atrocities in living memory.

      1. Kaya zanu izo, mulira ndithu. mayazi mulibe? Mia has been in politics for many years with other parties, you never came here and speak these shupiti comments but soon after he joining the Mother party now that’s when you are coming with your silly comments, thats jealousy kaduka sanje, uchigawange, ufiti, uchisiru, upalamava, ufwenthe, unve, ugalang’anga. umbuli, mukodza magazi ulendo uno. In fact it can be better Malawi being ruled by Arab wachifundo than mbavazi. Go back to school and learn mmene timakhalira andi anthu, ngatitu ungavenso shame!

    2. Winson Msowoya you are 100% right.Indeed Arabs are the most cruel people on Earth.They are the architects of slave trade.During the time of slavery, Arabs inflicted untold sufferings and miseries on our forefathers.For example, upon arrival in Arabic lands all male slaves were being castrated.We must put a stop to Arab colonization of our country.

      1. Indigenous Malawian do not make sweeping statements on things you are not well versed in. Do you know the history of the slave trade? Where were the slaves taken to? Were they taken to Arabic countries? Did the Arabs not just act as middlemen especially for east and central Africa? Who were responsible for the slave trade in west Africa? Was it the Arabs? Read again the history of the slave trade and you will realize the worst group of people were not the Arabs. When you talk of cruelty,do you follow what the Jews do to the Arabs? What about what Americans do in poor countries that cant defend themselves? May be you should define cruelty for me.

    3. Devil is a liar! Christians will remain Christians. winauso ndi umbuli eti? Mutharika is a Catholic member, are we all Catholics? Kodi kwinaku ndikuseyenda eti? schools sinakuthandizeni. chimzimu choipa basi.

    4. how is an update politician supposed to be like?
      for your own information Chakwera is still a pastor and has not abandoned the call upon his life,
      He is still active in ministry today.
      If he is wasting his time, y bother mentioning it at all?

  15. At the heart of Balaka Town, even a dead dog attracts an audience. In fact a bigger audience than this one of MCP.

    MCP and Chakwera are maloto achumba.

    DPP boooooma 2019 .

  16. I am from the North and I doubt the reasoning of Richard Msowoya. He cant read the signs such politians are the ones that are led Malawi down

  17. Apart from the hijab ladies who came from Chikwawa, the rest were under aged children. Congrats to Msowoya for not attending zachamba.
    Was Kaliwo there? How about Kabwira, Chatinkha, Njovuyalema, Jumbe and others?
    A wakuda Kamangawa has he not crossed the floor? 2019 ifike msanga Tambala wakuda aone zakuda in the presence of Wakuda Kamanga.

    1. M C P kulowa kuchipinda chawo ndikumayala mphasa M C P woooooooooooo yeeeeeeeeeeeeee Prof Chakwera 2019 Boma wina athawa chaka chake ndi chino

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