Mixed views on Mutharika’s World Peace Prize
Some sectionof Malawians are describing as bogus, useless and irrelevant a world peace award an India-based youth organization is to give to President Peter Mutharika.
Presidential press secretary and spokesperson Mgeme Kalilani said on Tuesday evening that Mutharika has accepted to receive the award the International Youth Committee will give to the Malawi leader.
“According to the IYC, the prize is awarded periodically to individuals of high caliber who have contributed to world peace by preventing country, regional conflict or world war through peaceful settlement of political, diplomatic and economic disputes,” says Kalilani.
Kalilani says Mutharika has been recognized and nominated due to his exemplary leadership, inn promoting peace and inter-religious understanding in the world.
But writer and political, economic and social commentator Onjezani Kenani, writing on his Facebook wall, has said the award, described as prestigious, is bogus.
Mervin Banda, also on his social media post, described as ill-timed and irrelevant the giving of the award to the President taking into account that the country is going through serious political impasse.
Since President Mutharika and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the May 21 tripartite elections, the opposition, particularly the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the UTM Party, have been up in arms. They are disputing the election, claiming it was rigged; they have even gone to the courts to seek redress and are asking the courts to nullify the results.
Some commentators argue that President Mutharika has demonstrated that he is a peace advocate when opposition members been behaving like wild dogs and have taken the law into their own hands, staging some rampage demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with the elections.
They have looted other people’s shops and damaged property worth hundreds of millions of Kwacha belonging to government and innocent individuals.
The MCP supporters even took to the headquarters of government in Malawi – the Capital Hill – apparently to chase and flush out all civil servants who were reporting for work so that they must not ‘work for Peter Mutharika’s government.’
Mutharika government has remained admirably cool, calm and collective under the circumstances. Examples abound of how the same context of politics played out within the SADC region in not so distant past. The late Morgan Tsvangirai was constantly in and out of the hospital for his so many countless battles with Zimbabwean Police under Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai can easily go down in history as perhaps the most beaten opposition leader in this part of Africa in a country that calls itself a democracy.
His successor, Nelson Chamisa has also not been spared the vent of government even under a different President. Just after the elections last year, Chamisa was furiously clobbered by security forces when he tried to take a flight at Harare International Airport for a trip outside the country.
In Zambia opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema (HH)can also go down in history as one of the most arrested individuals in the country’s history for showing signs of insubordination and for instigating lawlessness against an elected government. At one point HH was clobbered by security forces for not giving way to a presidential convoy to pass, apparently because he did not recognize the President of that country as an elected individual.
In Malawi, however, the government of President Mutharika has remained calm under the circumstances, despite the blatant provocation and lawlessness that is being displayed by opposition leaders and their supporters.
Mutharika is expected to get the award in December.
But the IYC peace prize is however not the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the person who had done most for “fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”.
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Pathakopanu
Malawi is a peaceful and Mutharika is the most calm president we have ever had. He deserves the prize.
There is a difference between being calm and silly.he is just a danderhead an encouth.
I’M not racialist but those amwene they scratch my ass many times
kunyengetera cipukwani ca gandi. omwe saziwa history yake azisekelela koma dzanaconi muone titacite. that idiot crook ay india embassy is piloting this. why just phwii no word said ir just enjoying the curry as he said he likes indian curties!!@@
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Merely international decorators on their rightful job of face uplift munthalika .There is nothing like that when duly elected. These come when you doubt yourself how you have been elected. Polishing to look better but I doubt think so if anything can change in Malawi..These known companies doing that and are busy to polish Munthalika.
pali mmwenye pali chinyengo basi nothing sensible
I think its stupid enough for peter and his fellow crooks to think people are not aware of their evil. Crook indians are behind the this illigal award. Kareem and ather corrupt indians sat down and plan the whole thing to reward peter for helping them steal our tax payers money. The day is coming you will test your own cooking.
Awarding mbuzi iyi for what ? Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Zanu zimenezo, palibe munthu anapita ku India kukapanga campaign for the Prize anthu aona okha, mmene mukupangira zopusa zanuzi kumalawi kuno akanakhala kamuzu kapena Bingu atakukwapulani kalekale. Nsanje inachuluka kumalawi, ndi anthu ophunzira omwe nsanje thooo
Malawians up to now you do not know that when people in Government have dented their reputation there are companies out there who are paid for the purpose of face uplift ,This way Peter and his Government have paid a lot of monies.Remember during Joice Banda when her name was dented with cashgate. She was on top of the world she was busy doing the same .Getting different shields around the world 🌶Waber
This is a joke right?
At first I thought the award was to be given by the UN sponsored body. Now I know why India is being so good to APM. It’s for nothing but the much hated mahatma Gandhi statue at QECH roundabout and the so many dubious acts associated with APM and our Indians of Malawi origin, not forgetting the MK145m. How the bogus award will help Malawians is something only APM can explain.
Dziko ndi lanu ndalama ndi ma plots and commercial properties ndizathu ife amwenye aku India and Pakistan etc.
Beam of Getrude Mutharika is busy grabbing land and building flats and commercial properties. We know their title deeds at Land Registry and many DPP cadres are involved in the malpractice of acquiring land here and there.
Your days are numbered this DPP government won’t be there forever. We shall claim these properties and assets back to rightful owners.
What Opponents Of APM do and get away with is what makes him a peaceful man
Look at the humiliation in parliament
Unknown people like so called HRDC talking nonsense
Look at our private TV and radio station instigating violence
They remain peaceful and enjoy their day to day lives
That is what makes him deserve the award
In short the opossition is the one that made him get the award
There’s no leadership in this man only tyranny. He doesn’t deserves the award simply for not being noble to the bleeding nation crying endlessly for justice. Integrity defines a man towards great legacy.
what is this that India is bringing to Malawi ?? —- a mahatma ghandhi statue –‘ stollen treactors —-zameer BATATAWALA scandal —-truelly Indians will one day betray Malawians —it’s too much now -‘
Kenani is frustrated analyst who can’t say anything good for APM. This is a prestigious award not only to APM but the whole nation of Malawi. Kenani is MCP die hard and has no business with Government affairs . Bravo Pitala Bravo Peacefull MALAWI 🇲🇼
..uR Malawi’s pride munthu wamkulu. Your actions speak loud than ur words World over feels u. Here at home nsanje/moyo wa ufiti/umphawi ndi umene unakula and if Malawi shall never get rid of that hatred and kaduka azililabe mokweza Ife tikusangalala..Mpana nsanje izathe.Give credit where is due.How many awards has he received now?! Ndiye kenakake kaziyankhula zopusa.Wonesani zanu! Or just shut up! After all award mwapeleka sinu.Zikukuwawani bwanji?
Who is fooling who
Do you think he will still be President in December?
Kkkkk auze
So? You need to be educated. Even if it happens that ConCourt has nullified the elections, APM will remain the President. Adzachokapo akadzaluza pa Rerun koma ngati sadzaluza he will be the president up to 2024.
Those rubbish Indian youth dont know the situation of Malawi and the better be quiet.
India should be blacklisted on enemies list of malawians their businesses must be vandalized for insulting malawians
Zooonaaaaaaaa mpaka “Mutharika has been recognized and nominated due to his exemplary leadership, inn promoting peace and inter-religious understanding in the world.” In the world? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshi…………. Which world amangwetuuuuuuuuuuuu did he go to promote peace and inter-religious understanding? Ingonenani kuti all you want is that you’re giving him this bogus accolade so he can defend the useless Gandhi statute back in Malawian town………. to hell with your useless geopolitical marketing stunts………….!! Za ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii nde poti amangomvomela zilizonse …………………………………. I very much liked the wisdom of Mandela, a “Mr” for that matter, zoopusa ngati izi ankakanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, koma ma professor a masiku ano eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshi, ngakhale wina atanena kuti akalandile satifiketi ya kwacha apita kukalandilaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
India is very clever , the reason i see is that indians have too much respect from malawians and they want to colonise malawi b4 china that is why akunyengelela ma kape achina petulo kuti athane ndi amalawi and as you are aware malawi is number one country is south region of africa with so many indians . why is that we are failing to manage ourselves