MP tables HRDC petition in Parliament on Ansah removal: Speaker says no debate

September 26, 2019 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 32 Comments

Dowa East MP Richard Chimwendo Banda (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) on Thursday  tabled in Parliament a petition by  Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) asking parliament to  remove  Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson  Jane Ansah and other commissioners for allegedly presiding over flawed presidential elections.

Madam Speaker Gotani Hara said there cannot be a debate on a petition 

HRDC leaders delivered a petition to Speaker of Parliament Catherine Gotani-Hara at Parliament Building in Lilongwe through Chimwendo Banda on September 18 2019.

Speaker said the  “cannot be debated upon”, according to Standing Orders and that it has been referred to relevant committees.

Chimwendo Banda, whose party is also the second petitioner in the ongoing elections case in the Constitutional Court, said HRDC want a motion to be tabled in the House for legislature to remove Ansah and MEC commissioners on grounds of “incapacity and incompetence” among other things.

He said  HRDC wants Ansah removed among other things for “disposition of character”, saying she was seen celebrating with the alleged victors (Democratic Progressive Party –DPP) after the results were announced and her “known prejudiced comments against and for a specific contender in the election process.”

HRDC has also put to the attention of Parliament that the entire MEC turned a blind eye to the allegations against the arrest of officials of the electoral body for “doctoring” results sheets to subvert the will of Malawian voters.

The petitioners said Malawi is now in a political turmoil with an apparent prevailing tense as a result if the fraudulent May 21 2019 presidential elections.

Malawi has enjoyed multi-party democracy since 1994, leading to relative political stability compared with other countries in the region. But the disputed election has led to a months-long political crisis that has brought thousands of young Malawians on to the streets. The demonstrations have been mostly peaceful but there have been outbreaks of violence in some instances.

Reading the petition in Parliament, Chimwendo Banda said the rights defenders  stated that no individual takes Malawi as his or her personal property by inflicting more misery on poor and heavily taxed Malawians.

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32 replies on “MP tables HRDC petition in Parliament on Ansah removal: Speaker says no debate”

  2. court or no court this issue is on public domain there is need for everyone to be involved and court is there for laws while us we are fighting for our rights

    we dont want T-PEX PRESIDENT dzikoli tinalivutikila and ndiye wina asalowetse ngati ndila famile limodzi komanso asagawanitse malawi its not ALOMWE Akuononga dziko but Mutharika and his relatives coz i was ku thyolo, mulanje and chiladzulu last week and ndikuona momwe umphawi ulili nde tisawaononge amalawi we are one people one nation

  3. Idiots. Iwo (MPs) akuvomeleza kuti chisankho cha President sichinayende bwino koma cha u MP chinayenda bwino. Ngati ali a nzeru wosakananso cha u MP cho bwanji. Fools, let them discuss if they want to shoot themselves.

  6. kkkkkkk Chimwendo,go to court and assist your master chakwela to have the right answers rather than (only God knowns) go to hero for instance how do you except one want to be a president and is failing to answer?

  8. The petition is from MCP themselves not HRDC.Mtambo as it is alleged he signed a deal with MCP tat he will help usher MCP into Power regardless of what>>>Actually he has failed by all means he meant kkkk.the MCP are being pained .Akumva PHAIN INDHEED

  11. Fuck you! Mesa nkhani ili Ku Court .kodi anthu awa akuti mchiyani kusambuka,ziwanda,kapena kuderela boma ,musatinyase nose a mcp ,utm,and mtambo mupite ku school za kwacha.

    1. Paja akuti anapeza ma points ambiri kuposa aliyense chaka chino pa MSCE. And we are told this foolish idiot is using a fake certificate like what Lucius Banda did some years ago, Chimwendo ndiye chiyani?

  13. Chimwendo is a noise maker who is failing to bring tangible development in his area and this is Dowa East where the DPP is constructing a tarmac road joining the Lilongwe -Salima road from Dowa. I can only see the devil manifesting in his life. Chimwendo is not a peace lover and may the Lord rebuke him.

  14. if Ansah messed up the elections then why are you in parliament? Why not refute results which made you MP? And again why not wait for the courts to make judgement?

    4. That MP deserves to be arrested once parliament rises because he is inciting parliament to form a parallel court

    7. every method has to be explored since most institutions and people are buying the cadet culture for a few kwachas they earn from EVIL DPP!! We must fight this now if we don’t our grand children will have to take on this mantle. There can’t be proper peace with a handful having a party while the rest are struggling. refer Genesis 27 v 40.

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