Mutharika blasts Malawi opposition over demo: ‘Stop manipulating people into violence, its evil’

January 10, 2020 Thumbiko Nyirongo -Nyasa Times 36 Comments

President Peter Mutharika has taken a swipe at opposition leaders and rights activists for the continued violent demonstrations.

President Mutharika flanked by Nankhumwa  blasts opposition over violence .-Photo by Govati Nyirenda, Mana

Speaking in Lilongwe on Friday during an agricultural function, Mutharika claimed the opposition in this country is capitalizing on the poverty of the people to manipulate them into behaviour of violence.

“Opposition leaders are deliberately creating poverty and suffering for Malawians so that the people become easy to manipulate.

“They want to destroy innocent people’s businesses and destroy the economy so that Malawians must be suffering,” said Mutharika.

Added the President, “this is inhuman. This is evil. It is inhuman and evil to take advantage of poor Malawians, to engineer violence and create more suffering for the people as we saw yesterday.”

The call came barely hours after the police in Lilongwe arrested 17 people for breaking shops and stoning police officers during demonstrations which were organized by HRDC forcing the law enforcers to act on Msundwe saga.

Then Mutharika switched to  Chichewa: ” AMalawi, musalole kunamizidwa ndi anthu andale amene akufuna kuti tiziononga chitukuko. Akufuna kuti chuma chadziko lino chisokonekere kuti inu muzivutika.

“Anthu amenewa akupita mmidzi kunamiza anthu kuti mulandu wachisankho awina kale. Akunama! Akufuna inu mudzayambe zoononga dzino mulandu ukawavuta. Ino ndinthawi yolima. Ino sinthawi ya mademo. Tiyeni tigwire ntchito molimbika kuti tisinthe moyo wathu.”

He said this is the time for us to work in our fields. This is not the time for demonstrations.

Earlier, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Leader of Government Business in Malawi Parliament, condemned acts of violence that have accompanied what were supposed to be ‘peaceful demonstrations’, saying such acts were derailing President Mutharika’s efforts to develop the country.

He cited various development projects that the President has championed, including a superb road network, but said all this is being destroyed by irresponsible citizens acting in the name of peaceful demonstrations.

“But I can assure Your Excellency that all this storm shall calm down and we shall prosper, as a nation, in the name of the almighty God,” he said.

Since May last year, the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), UTM party and Human Rights Defenders (HRDC) led by Timothy Mtambo have been organizing series of demonstrations aimed at forcing Justice Dr. Jane Ansah and the entire Malawi Electoral Commission Commissioners to resign accusing them of failing to manage  May Tripartite Elections.

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36 replies on “Mutharika blasts Malawi opposition over demo: ‘Stop manipulating people into violence, its evil’”

  2. Mr president is right there is no long to make demo and I don’t know aim of to do that because this is not way to solve problems but to add ,do you think is how more of money that government will going to cover all things that you destroyed ,is too much then you’ll going to said government is picked money please stop that .Am not backing DPP but our country

  3. NDE MUTHARIKA AMANDISANGALATSA AKAMASEKA JUST IMAGENE MUHARA KUFIKA ABWANA AKUTI TIONJEZERE DOLLAR ANDREW NYIRENDA AVEKERE HAHAHAHA NO PROBLEM TAKE THIS CHQ

    ABWANA YAPHEDUKA HAHAHAHA SIZIKUNDIKHUDZA MUYANKHA

    MULILA KWAMBIRI MACADET

  4. WAKUBA MUTHARIKA KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK ZAMUVUTA PELEKA DZIKO KWA ENIAKE ULILATU ULILA

  5. kkkkkkkkk ine ndikudikira tsiku la chigamulo ndidzaone kuti nkhope ya mtsogoleri wina ndi anthu ake idzaoneka bwanji chifukwa anthu ena akuoneka kuti mantha akanali nawo ngakhale kuti anakasuma komanso madando awo anakanena onse ,ndiye ndiri chete kudikira modekha .

  8. I strongly urge Mgeme Kalilani to show the Acting president the comments on this forum about APM. I will stop eating if he doesn’t collapse.

  10. Akuphwanya mukui macadet. Akaumbuzidwa ndkufa kumaliro a oppositions mukumakalirakonso kutsogola kunyamula bokosi. ….so takambani akuphwanya ndi ndani?

    1. Very true. But those who are losing property are not only dpp supporters. The violence is happenening in so called mcp and utm stronghold. Dont underestimate the votes of victims

  13. I hate Mtambo the Burundian who is being used by Chakwera and Saulosi anyamata a matama pa Lilongwe. Pano anawakhazika pansi phokoso lonse kuti izi. Paja ankati iwo sangaluze chisankho Koma lero anagwa nayo game kupeza ma MP 4 dziko lonse la Malawi chikhallirencho ankazipopa prior to election. Where is Winiko, Manganya, Fukulani Dzimbiri, Allan Ngumuya,Akweni, Masangwi etc? Onse lero ali mmadzi chifukwa Saulosi anawasocheretsa. Come and join the ruling patty and develop MALAWI than kumaba katundu wa a MALAWI in the name of demos

  14. Akuti agwile ntchito molimbika ndalama kuminda kulibe Kaya fodya anali kale Ku auction pitani tima business tating’ono aakulu akulowa pansi ndalama mwakhalila baba Mutharika anthu kuyesesa akuyesesa koma zakuvutani tamasulani chisaka chamakwacha mwakhailacho pansi pa chibedi chanu cha wofuwofucho Malawi atakasuke ngolimbikila anthuwa koma zikulimba a pitala Ku bomako. Ntchito Ku sukulu kutengela mtundu chibale Mmmmm. Kukhala mumalawi nkulimba mtima.

  15. This is man Peter Mutharika is as worse than the devil himself Who came to still kill and destroy the land of Malawi shame on you tipped Peter Mutharika. All these happening in Malawi it’s because of you clinging to power step down they are good willing heart people in fact educated too who can lead the country Malawi with great vision and people’s interest.

  16. So who is manipulating people here mr pulesidenti? Wake up please malawi is no longer a sleepy country as you used to think, tell your old mentors the likes of muluzi and dausi that guys you have failed me a big way> Look what the youth of today are doing , Just imagine that your age if compared to the opposition leaders, you obviously are old aged man who can no longer pull the majority of the youths to be on your side.F or instance you claim to have won the elections with 38% leaving the whole 62 % comprising of youth majority to the opposition then you are crying foul saying the youths are being manipulated, my foot. Wake up once again and be properly guided and advised or else you will see it later for yourself

  17. Azimayi kugwiriridwa kwa Msundwe osalankhulapo kanthu kungokhala pheeee, ma cadet anu kuphwanya ma shop pa ma demo nde kulankhula changuchangu malo akenso osayenera kulankhula zimenezi.. DPP is full of useless people i tell u

  18. Kuphwanya ma business a eni ndikupanda masomphenya. Anthu amasomphenya amalemekeza Chuma cha anthu ena. Munthu wanzeru sangasekelere katundu wa anthu ena Kuti azionongeka. Vandalism of other people’s property is unjustifiable and barbaric.

  19. Agogo a mtchona from Chicago, zakuvutani basi. creep back to the whole you came from, change is here whether you like it or not! you cant handle the heat in the kitchen then move out!

  20. It’s better to keep quiet than go on a podium and prove beyond reasonable doubt that you are incompetent. Everyone, even those in kindergarten, knows that demonstrations being staged from you time to time are not by the OPPOSITION but, rather, by disgruntled Malawians fed up with a number of things including rigging, incompetent administration in literally every sector of administration.

    As regards destruction of property, definitely abhored by patriotic Malawians, is the work of your so-called cadets who you deliberately send to infiltrate the peaciful protests to cause mayhem to give you some sort of justification for castigating Chakwera and Chilima as enemies of development. We have all along known your diabolic plans. They won’t work. Your pathological hatred for Chakwera, light years smarter than you, is common knowledge

  21. Mr Mutharika! Who are you fooling? Don’t you know you’re the causer of all the demonstrations happening in Malawi? You rigged the elections and people are angry, Malawians are fighting for the leader they elected on May 21, 2019 to rule this nation, “not yourself”… Please!

  24. Who is in power bwana Mutharika, Opposition or you? Of course it is you by hook and crook that you did after conniving with MEC. Then how can the opposition create poverty on people? Who formulates policies for social and economic development? Is it the opposition?

    Bwana Mutharika,you have a strong appetite for power, but you have no clue how to lead others to success. Success to you is the enrichment of some few DPP top brass, then you say the economy is well and inflation is reduced.

    Who is evil, a leader who lets loose his tribesmen and party men to steal from government and deprive innocent and poor souls of the rare resources that are ought to be shared equally or opposittion politicians and Activists who speak for justice and economic empowerment for all?

    Do the opposittion deprive people of electricity and yet the same people pay electrical bills? Do the opposition engage in shady land deals and yet there is a government that closes its eyes to people’s complaints about such a syndicate?

    Please be wiser bwana president and stop ranting and accusing those who are doing the right things for the people. It is so disturbing to hear you one day calling HRDC leaders are terrorists and yet you are harboring terrorists in your party in the name of DPP cadets.

  27. I guess it is my belief that Mtambo will not soon ran away from his own country and seek asylum elsewhere in the name of political persecution.
    I am told his wife already left the country last year to pursue education. Whether this is true or not, Mtambo knows the truth.
    Komanso akuluakulu m’midzimu anatha? We are now fed up hearing about this terrorist guy. Ku Mulanjeko, akuluakulu alikuti chonde? Watikwana uyu.

    1. i cant understand why malawians were so damn stupid to put such a moron on such a top position in the first place

  29. Mr APM throwing tantrums as a political rhetoric will not help ease the currently crisis which yourself caused. For crying out loud! You’re a tippex elected President, still burning bridges with opposition and human rights groups.This is a new Malawi not the old one that overlooked ills of corrupt government. Malawi is burning for true justice to prevail and you can’t sweat the technique. #Malawi has awaken # no more greedy/ corrupt politicians # no more impunity
    no tribalism.

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