National IDs snatching stories worry parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee

April 1, 2020 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 10 Comments

Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has reacted angrily to reports that ruling party operatives are taking people’s national IDs or getting the details of the IDs on the pretext that the victims would get food or loans from government.

Msukwa: Votes are not for sale

Chairperson of the committee Kezzie Msukwa said this when the committee met National Initiative for Civic Education (Nice Trust) over its preparations for the forthcoming July presidential election.

“IDs are not for sale. Votes are not for sale. You need to go to the people to tell them that they should not handover their national IDs to these people,” said Msukwa.

It is believed that the IDs are taken away from people in opposition strongholds so as to delete their names from the voters roll.

Democratic Progressive Party officials deny the allegations.

Executive director of the Nice Trust Ollen Mwalubunju said his office has received such reports and in some cases referred the matter to police.

Mwalubunju said the organization will embark on massive sensitisation meetings on the matter.

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10 replies on “National IDs snatching stories worry parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee”

  1. Why can’t you tell us that you are an illegal MP who was elected through the tippex administered by MEC ans Jane Ansah

  2. The problem comes back squarely on your laps inuyo a PLA. An important security document like an ID should have come with strict governing laws. Such laws would have made it criminal for anybody other than bona fide owner and or government official to be found in possession of an ID card not belonging to them. These DPP hoodlums collecting people’s ID card would have been rotting in jail by now.

    The snatching of ID cards is a DPP project. DPP right now is being advised by Zanu PF in Zimbabwe ndi amene akumawawuzila kumbali. The tactics of withdrawing ID cards in opposition strongholds to disenfranchise opposition voters to cast votes in an election are all discredited crude Zanu pf tactics. We know them. Tactics of firing army commanders and replacing them with the surrogate sympathisers these are zanu pf tactics.

    Kukanilila pampando akupanga Jane Ansah uku its a script written in Zimbabwe. If you have read a lot on Zimbabwean politics you will have come across this. Izizi zomabela zisankhozi its the same tactics that kept Mugabe in power for 37 years akukana kuti waluza zisankho. DPP are reading from that script. There are zanu pf operatives amapezeka ku embassy yawo paCity Centre masquerading as diplomats pamene they are doing the dirty jobs zomwe mukuwona aDPP akupangawa. Those people have been hired by DPP they are in Malawi right now and do not be suprised in the manner our democratic space is shrinking.

    Nobody in their normal frame of mind would vote DPP ndimavuto omwe tikuwona kuMalawi kuno panopa. Mutharika phee uja ngwabodza mapeto playing victim when he is the one destroying our democracy. Malawians should wake up and make sure he does not return to state house again. Mulungu wapeleka mwayi wina and Malawians should use that chance properly.

  4. the main function of legal affairs committee is not about monitoring voter education and registration

  5. Dishonorable MPs, who instead of conducting inquiry on legal matters you are focusing on useless things relating to votes. Legal affairs comm should be reviewing old laws which are not inline with constitution, should be reviewing conduct of our judiciary which everyone knows has corruption everywhere. This committee should be asking the chief justice why the second suspect in the concourt bribery case has not been arrested or why the case has stalled after so much hype. they should subpoena the chief justice and ask him tough questions not this nonsense you they are asking Nice Trust.

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