Opposition hail Malawi army soldiers for protection of democracy
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) is being hailed for protecting protesters who have been calling for electoral justice, following last year’s disputed presidential elections.
The military’s latest intervention occurred after a Tippex-marred election last year that returned President Peter Mutharika to office.
A French international news agency, AFP says opposition politicians, whose supporters led last year’s protests while the top court combed through evidence of electoral fraud, have only praise for the military.
“The MDF is one institution the people of Malawi have always been able to count on to uphold the constitution in times of political crisis,” said main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera.
Another opposition politician Saulos Chilima added: “They stood up to their billing and reputation as one of the most professional armies in Africa and the world.”
The poll results were annulled by the country’s top court and fresh polls are due in May.
Thousands of civilians last month marched to the offices of the disgraced electoral commission where they chained and padlocked its entrance – and handed the keys to an army officer.
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osangot malawi yose bwanji
muli ndi castel?
osangot malawians bwanji???
bcoz the whole malawi z oppostion
pali castel?
All the 5 Judges were super and delivered an excellent Judgement. If you talk about our Army they rendered a very good job and I am so pleased with them. I am poor on monitory form otherwise I would have given money to each of them for their job well discharged instead of our very very poor police which takes orders which are of no use to us. In Mulanje here people of dpp thought that this ruling would be in their hence their leader did not attend to any meeting organized by Rev, Bishops, Muslims etc. I personally salute the Army for bringing peace in this country and NOT your so called police. Let the police get small salaries its in order and give more money to the ARMY.We are too tired with dpp please please opposition make one bundle and take out aphumphwa wa. We dont want to see them ruling us anymore. K20,000.00 a bag of maize to people of Malawi and yet you continue clapping hands for him? UMBULI WENI WENI.
Kwitande { not the real name} does not know the MDF. We have traveled and your peter knows better. Our Army should greatly be saluted for the job well done instead of police cadets. If the Army was quiet this country by now would remain people running to and from. The police which is in place has damaged its name of policing and its one of very useless police one has seen. To say the truth here your cadets police needs to be radical overhaul of the entire police system. The MDF should have taken over this country as others laugh at them but because Nundwe follows the rule of law governed by the Country. Your police is here to give protection to all Malawians but instead only dpp citizens are protected. We can tell the real history of our leaders in this country and you must be very careful with what you say.
the fact that the army has got guns is not enough. elsewhere armies have been defeated by civilians. our army is little by little diluting their effectiveness and soon they will be like the Malawi Police. In fact I grew up in the barracks during Gen Matewere and Maulana, I dont think the army them would be used like G4 guards. Ntambo is a mad man and if anything you need to invite doctors from memntal hospital to treat him.
Azanuso amatelo kuli Mugabe pano akulira pweeee
The army should search itself. For being praised by the same people the army escorted when vandalising and breaking into innocent shops. This army is too friendly and casual in its approach if not lazy.
We should all pray they remain impartial defenders of the rule of law with a Commander-in-Chief who is ignorant of the law and has no respect for the rule of law! A lot of money is in the mid-year review budget (MK23B) to try to get them to do clueless and unprincipled Mutharika’s bidding and another MK12B to make the MPS even more unprofessional! We need to get the courts on our side by instructing that if the 150-day mandate given clueless and unprincipled Mutharika expires without holding elections he should not be given another mandate to provisionally run the country. They should offer a different arrangement, may be a jointly run government or government of national unity that can ensure free, fair, transparent and credible elections are held!!
Ukaona ma comment onyoza army ungoziwilatu cadet wakwiya…Our army deserves the best. Bravo Gn Nundwe, bravo our soldiers…mukapeza cadet kwapulani akuononga dzikoli
Army commander away ndiye buluzi..Zantchito zinali ndi Maulana basis..Enawa mbuzi wwnizeni basi
Stupidity at its best my brother. Ignorance is really a disease ndaonera pa Kasiya.
@Kasiya, u cadet wakupwetekani heavy..
A very useless and laughable army…Where have you seen the army providing security to protesters? These are mere guards…A very compromised army commander..Stupid for that matter..he fears a mere minister..
Another useless creature by the name of Jeroyo. Thanks God, we very few people in Malawi with that thinking capacity.
This idiot Jeroyo does not know what he is talking about. If MDF wanted to take this country they can do it even today and its a matter of just respect. Your peter can runaway and leave getrude behind. Never insult the MDF Or Nundwe again stop that nonsense we can catch you so easily.
Avery misguided comment by a misguided Jeroyo………..
ur very stupid this army rescued Us from one party system from Mcp stop talking Kaka this in not Zimbabwe wena nonsense man!! Here we stick by the rules
Indeed to all the sane persons our troops deserve to be saluted. The time the Cadets started beating the people if it were not for KAR troops as they used to be called before Independence. Justice couldn’t have been achieved. Salute!
Indeed Malawi is at peace now just because of neutrality of Malawi Army . We pray that our Soldiers should remain as such and no politicians should penetrate their ranks.
Peter Muntharika tried his best by changing and creating new ranks hoping it will work to his advantage but it has failed and they showed him how professional the Army is. They don’t take nonsense directive from who ever think he is above the law.
All the narrative of Mr tippex president was in vain when he tried to threaten opposition and HRDC to deal with them, he thought soldiers is another arm of Cadets just like in Police.
We salute u our soldiers for remaining firm and by giving lessons to Cadets in Blantyre who thought they own this country called Malawi.
Long leave democracy, long leave our Soldiers.
I beg to defer, our army has been reduced to an organisation even worse than G4 security. Where in the world can the army get instructions from a mere NGO embicile leading a briefcase organisation called HRDC command the army to come out of the barracks and protect him. This is happening because the head of the army is from the north and I dont think if it was somebody from the south the likes of Gen Matewere would have tolarated that nosense. The aim of Numdwe he has conspired with the opposition to take over government like what happened in Zimbabwe but here the only deference he want to work with the opposition terrorist.
A mere NGO is not a Malawian?Stop showing your foolishness here.
General Nundwe was appointed by APM, where there no any other officers. This is the same army which protected our constitution in 1993 during operation Bwenzani and the same army was ready to defend the constitution when your grandfather APM wanted to prevent JB from becoming the president. And the army has done it again to protect those who went to the streets to seek their stolen votes.
@Kwitande wa kwitande, you have no understand the duties of the MW Army. The do not serve a president and his political party because he’s suppose to be the commander-chief-incharge but who’s not upholding the rule of law. The MW Army has always and I hope it continues to maintain it’s integrity when defending and protecting our country. Some of the duties of our diligent and our most professional Army is to ensure peace and order is maintained and as a democratic country the voice of the masses is heard and respected. Leaveing us with the most admirable Army in the World to take directives from the masses because we are the nation not APM or DPP.
Bravo MDF and this foretells one thing – PROFESSIONALISM
All concerted efforts to disproffessinalize and state-capture the MDF and in fact even destabilize it (by the DPP mafia leadership) failed miserably. They forgot to recall what the MDF did to JZU Tembo’s powerfully militarized MYP some two dozen years ago. One thing the MDF is renouned for is their professional resistance to dictatorial regimes. God bless the MDF! Long live the MDF and death to dabulos-contaminated leadership! Viva Malawi viva!