Minister Chiumia condemned for threatening chiefs to support Mutharika
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned Minister of Civic Education, Culture and Community Development Grace Chiumia for threatening chiefs to support President Peter Mutharika or risk not being elevated.
The controversial Chiumia is reportedly to have made the threats at a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rally at Katoto in Mzuzu also attended by DPP secretary general Greselder Jeffrey and national campaign director Jappie Mhango on Saturday.
Chiumia warned the chiefs against siding with the opposition, saying that will not help them because it is Mutharika who has powers to elevate them, not the opposition and they should “support him wholeheartedly.”
MCP president, Lazarus Chakwera accused the Peter Mutharika administration of dragging chiefs into politics which, he said, is dividing the nation.
He emphasised the need to revise laws governing chiefs and Local Government, arguing that would ensure that chiefs operate in a free and independent environment.
“Do not use chiefs wrongly so that they operate against the wishes of their subjects. We want to see chiefs liberated. Gone are the days when a traditional leader would be penalised for talking to a leader in the opposition,” Chakwera said.
And deputy secretary general for MCP, Eisenhower Mkaka, said it was unfortunate that Chiumia, who is also DPP deputy chief whip in Parliament, was failing to separate government from cultural affairs.
He said as quoted by the press : “Chiefs should not be beaten into submission, they are traditional leaders and if they think that they can threaten chiefs into submission just to get support, then they are getting it wrong.
“The best lesson they could get is what we saw during the October 17 by-election when they used chiefs to threaten people but their subjects protested and voted otherwise. So they should know that in this time and era, people have learnt and that chiefs cannot tell them what to do.”.
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka and Timothy Mtambo of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) have also condmened Chiumia for her threats , described as unfortunate, undemocratic and retrogressive.
Kajoloweka said chiefs should not be pushed to “lose their integrity because they are looking for promotions.”
He said garrulous Chiumia should tame her foul tongue as Mtambo said the remarks show that the minister is devoid of values and principles.
Recently , Chiumia also stirred controversy when she said government was against the proposed 50-plus-one system of electing the country’s President.
She is used as DPP’s attack dog.
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Olo atavula, ndikugona chagada yanga siingadzuke mtheradi.
A Nyirenda, are you telling me that you own mpoto? It is this kind of silly thinking that made Kamuzu to call the region Dead North. Every govt on the scene is bad to you northerners. There was Kamuzu. Then came Muluzi, you insulted him from all angles despite lifting some structures in the region. You reached the extent of dressing a pig with a UDF T-shirt just to show you don’t like the man. Came Bingu you hated him to the extent of celebrating his death.Here is Peter the same silly thinking is in your heads. Do you expect a president from the north for you to start thinking of development? To show that not all northerners think like you A nyirenda DPP have MPs right there in the north and there is possibility to add more in 2019. The north will still be dead if people like you are given a chance to be on hot seats. You are just a useless northerner. Leave Chiumia alone.
What this lady needs is some civic education.
I think Mrs chiumia tawene mpoto mukutimanya yayi imwe apa mukwena kuti ndimwe mchewa.Do you think tingachita mantha na chitukuko cha DPP?Do you think tawene mpoto ndise akavu?Don you think Mpoto is stupit?Do you think mupapi wako(mafumu) ndivindele ?Whatever you call yourself mpoto will remain united mose timudinyaninge na VOTE 2019 muphalirane DPP yina Pitala mose TIMUDINYANINGE NA VOTE namala mwana wa amama yewo.
Grace slow down, you are trying to hard, you look and sound ridiculous!
kodi sasamba uyu atinjiso apa. whore
What do you expect from a person who seduced his driver and married him?
Ogile chonde mukapeza mpata kaonaneni ndi adokotala. Pawoneka kuti ziphuphu zili kukupweteketsani mutu. Simuli kuganiza bwino polankhula
I really pity Grace Chiumia. In my view, she is, in fact, the victim of DPP political shenanigansism. Typical of DPP selfishness, greed and heartlessness, DPP core-inner circle thugs, comprising largely of mulhakho cohorts plan all this behind the scenes.
Grace like other DPP peripherals (the likes of Jappie, wa Geffrey) are like chess pons (sacrificed to win the game); floor mops (get dirty to clean up the floor); disposable toilet tissue (wipe clean one’s bottom then throw/ flash it away after using the toilet), of course to avoid bad smell in public!
But it’s a tradeoff Grace and colleagues have willingly and knowingly decided to take, “I will sacrifice my dignity and respect as a human being for DPP quick bucks”. The deal is simple, DPP inner circle thugs will do the looting and commit state-funded corruption on one hand, disposables like Grace, wa Geffrey will do the dirty work on the ground, on the other.
In the end of course, it’s DPP heartless inner-circle gangsters who are the real beneficiaries. With the full blessing of the president himself, DPP thugs have the simplest job in the world, just steal more state resources, then pay their boot-lickers (hand-clappers), buy more Change golos Muzomeramabanzi, Unfortunately, koma pamapeto pake, ndi a Malawi eniake ndiye osapindula.
But DPP thugs will STOP at nothing!.
stupid minster.she is from my area kma akundichitisa manyazi galu ameneyi
Is it not the chiefs who condemned Chakwera’s 50+1 ? Is it not true that chiefs should work with government of the day in developing the country? Will Chakwera if elected accept chiefs to work with the opposition of that time? Chiumia is saying what every govt would have said. What is the problem Mr Chakwera( or is it Chatsika now after the 50+1 defeat? Which silly chief would like to work with an opposition which has no agenda for Malawians? Even if Grace loses in her constituency in 2019 but the fact is that she will be in the same government of the winning DPP. MCP, why don’t you believe that Chakwera will never rule this country? Mkufuna umboni wanji makamaka? Kodi game simukuyionabe pa ground m’mene ikuyendera? You depend on by-election as if it is the first time for MCP to win by-election. Didn’t Simeon Khamfula win in the same Lalanje and the following elections lose the presidential seat? Maloto achumba abusa inu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DisGrace Chiumia you will pay a heavy price with your conducts in the next elections should you dare seek re-election. Its not the DPP masters youre pleasing who will go vote, but rather your constituents who have the real power for your political future
I have no iota of respect for this minister/MP.
Musiyeni uyu nkamwana aka, amachita izi kuti akulu akuku mchipanimu azimuona booo, bwanji nthawi zonse yekhayo? Pajatu kang’oma kolira sikachedwa kusweka. Panali Kaliyati mmodzi was the famous midnight 6. Lero alikuti?
Every village has its own “village idiot” and so does Malawi too