Police arrest MP Kalindo of UTM for allegedly ‘insulting’ Malawi President

January 10, 2019 Elijah Phimbi-Nyasa Times 58 Comments

Malawi Police Service in Lilongwe have arrested Mulanje South Member of Parliament Bon Kalindo who is also UTM National Director of Youth.

Kalindo: Denies to have chorused disparaging songs about President Mutharika

UTM deputy spokesman Leonard Chimbanga confirmed the arrest of Kalindo.

He said Kalindo was arrested by the police at Chitukuko in Lilongwe.

“Now the police are taking him to Area 30” said Chimbanga at around 2:00hrs of Thursday afternoon.

The arrest comes barely few hours after Kalindo refused to apologise to President Peter Mutharika over his recent conduct in leading UTM supporters chanting allegedly insulting songs against the President.

The incident happened last week at Balaka Police Station following the arrest of  Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s aides  -Kushi Unyolo and Joshua Valera – on Sunday afternoon for “acting suspiciously” at the launch of Chiwanja Cha Yao in Balaka where President Peter Mutharika was in attendance.

Chilima, who is also UTM Party torchbearer in the May 21 Tripartite Elections, delegated Valera and Unyolo to deliver a gift at the Yao cultural grouping ceremony to which he had been invited, but failed to go due to a funeral, but the two were arrested and detained at Balaka Police Station.

The Vice-President stormed the station, where he spent about four hours, to find out why his aides got arrested.

Chiwanja cha Ayawo spokesperson McDonald Sembereka is on record as having said Valera and Unyolo were not seen acting suspiciously at the function as police alleged.

In an interview with Nyasa Times on Thursday before his arrest, Kalindo said he did nothing wrong and wondered why he can be arrested now not the day he did the act.

“I did not insult anyone and why am I targeted yet I was not the only one singing? And why was I not arrested that day if at all I insulted him [Mutharika],” said Kalindo.

Commenting on the warrant of arrest rumour issued against him, Kalindo said: “I am just hearing so but I don’t know the charges. But I am not moved at all”.

“No apologies to make” he added.

National Police Publicist James Kadadzera asked for more time to follow up the matter when contacted on Thursday morning.

“There is no such information [about Kalindo’s warrant of arrest] in my office let me find out” he responded to Nyasa Times.

On the night of May 4 2018, Kalindo had one of his vehicles petrol-bombed by unknown assailants at his house in Blantyre while he was at Parliament in Lilongwe.

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58 replies on “Police arrest MP Kalindo of UTM for allegedly ‘insulting’ Malawi President”

  3. As far as I am concerned Kalindo is perfectly right::the president wapengadi. The poor fellow is not in control. His government is committing blunder after blunder and ransacking resources left and right

  4. MUKUYANKHULA ANTHUNI KOMA CHOMWE MWAIWALA NDI ICHI.KU DPPP KUTI ANTHU OMWE SAMAYANKHULA BWINO AMANYOZA AMALAWIFE KOMANSO KU UTM AND ZIPANI ZINANSO VUTO NDI KUKONDERA BASI

  5. What did he actually say that insulted the president? Don’t Malawians know that having APM as a president is an insult to this nation?

  6. Lesson to politicians. If convicted he is out of the game for the next seven years. Game on talks facts now. Kungokhalira kutukwana anzanu basi akakuyankhani alaka. Ndimadabwa kuti anthu amangidwapo chifukwa chotukwana president mbuyomu. Kkkkkk Tiye nazoni. paja ntchentche yopupuluma.

  7. If Members support this then you must be very stupid.You ,your sck can tolarate insults ..If yes then The whole utm nivindere.We are giving government Ku vindere.

  8. Dausi and Mchacha, you think you are doing government a favor. You are actually breaking it apart even further. Please practice mature politics. Mukupangazi sizitithandiza

    1. Old habits die hard, in fact they do not die at all. Dausi used to do this during the old and dark days of MCP, he did it during late Bingu and now he is at it again barely less than 2 months on the job. And the combination with the thug can only be lethal.

  9. Who told you that democracy doesn’t respect law? You want savages like Kalindo to be above the law and you call that democracy

  10. I was there as one of the supporters but this ugly man has no good manners. That’s the problem of using uneducated people to be inforfront of politics.
    I have changed my mind from suppiorting UTM. I better go back to Mcp or dpp than follieing these bunch of uneducated vagabonds

      1. BigMan i respect you my brother as a human being and also a UTM supporter, but if you condone what Winiko has been demonstrating and i mean if you saw the video clip and you are still ok with it. well dude i will have to take my respect for you back. I don’t think even chilima is proud of Kalindo and his conducts, if he were, he would be running to the police station and storming it by now like he did with the case of of those other fools. Chilima chooses which fools to be proud of and support.

  11. The Malawi police must arrest first the one who called President “Maliseche”
    Then its gonna make sense to the Nation

  12. What has happened to the freedom of speech.Dzuka Malawi say no dictatorship.DPP a disgrace to democracy .where r u bakili muluzi

      1. Show me the act that says insulting the president is a crime and then convince the judge what insulting constitutes. Police you have a tall order

  13. This is the armature work of the 2 devil ministers but but but but had they knew that freedom is coming tomorrow, they couldn’t have practiced these misfortune, there is a verse in the Bible which clearly states……….and I quote ” Amene sanachimwepo atenge mwala angende mzimayi wonyengesayu” and they all run away………..just to remind people who oppressed your fellow human beings just becoz they are on the other views that judgement day is coming, I rest .y words.

  14. A kalindo n everyone please let’s learn to respect and value our president….there was no need to be insulting him for something he was concerned with…let’s have some manners please…..

    1. Malawians from the president down, let’s learn to respect the constitution, it protects freedom of speech.

    1. Winiko should have his two balls squeezed . At least he has been a good meal for hungry mosquitoes. Awa chipani chawo ndi chimdimodzi cha ma Ras cija cha industrial hemp. No wonder ma primaries were shambolic. Overrating themselves beyond what they really are.

  19. Paline dziko lopanda malamulo. What you did that day winiko wasn’t good .mukufuna kusintha zinthu Loma khalidwe lanu silikuonesa kusintha.good job for you officers

  23. So Peter Mutharika has renegaded from his words. He said, he would not arrest people based on political grounds, he is doing the same thing today just because he is in hot water.

  24. So what is the international community saying about these arbitrary arrests. No talk, nothing. Mr Kadadzera you have a tough job of lying, why don’t you just quit so you can be free. You are a fine man, you can find something to do, as you a college graduate. The politics won’t help you. You can see that really, “Peter, mutu sukugwira, wapenga misala”.

  25. Kalindo invited trouble for himself. How on earth could the Director of Youth in the so called transformative party be leading such childish chants? Just shows the hooligan minds dominating this UTM

  26. This is what we call a kunjenjemera a DPP , why not arresting the scores of people who were singing and chanting at Peter that day???

    Segregation of duties by Dausi and Mchacha.

    Remember things is about to change shortly as we will have new president for sure , come May the 21st.

  27. Ndiyetu mukuwapangira campaign a UTM. The president must keep a good look at what is happening. There may be some fellows in the DPParty who are still putting straw on the carmel’s back so that it breaks out completely. These arrests are simply undermining the government in power. What is happening is not right.

    1. Aka ndi azinzakowo dzitsiru za anthu. Kampeni yomwe akupangiridwa ndi iti? Mwanji simunawine anthu pamene abiti manice anamangidwa? bwanji simunawine anthu pamene munapeka nkhani kuti galimoto za kalindo zawotchedwa? bwanji simunawine anthu pamene munapeka nkhani kuti Patriicia kaliat wapulumuka pangozi yagalimoto yomwe munaganiza kuti anali a DPP anachita chiwembu? Bwanji simunawine anthu ochuluka pamene mwakhala mukupusitsa amalawi kuti Chilima akumupangira chiwembu a DPP komanso, Mutharika? Ndiye anthuwo mukawine pano pamene adzitsogoleri anu aonekera poyera kuti ndi otsalira ngati michira komanso olephera?

  28. Yes the President is not God but lets learn to respect those in authority Winiko invited lizards into his house get ready to stay with them

  29. The police should finish investigations on who petro bombed Kalindo’s vehicle instead of arresting him

  31. Surely Kalindo was singing the truth that Mutharika has lost his marbles. The old man had just referred to the slain albino body parts as Chiboda, and then went on to claim to have been Chipembere’s right hand man even through we never heard of APM in the struggle against Dr Banda!

    Anyway, at the pace that they are going i would suggest that the whole cabinet has gone mad with fear of pending electoral losses. A dull and demented president, arresting people to force them to respect him. Rather Sad.

  33. “I was not the only one singing”. What a stupid argument by a stupid law maker? You are answer for your own acts.

  34. Thats sign of weak government in a democratic society. What will government gain from this arrest

    2. Rule of law achimwene. The president should not be insulted, the law says. He has broken the law by insulting the president.

    3. Don’t side with him…zimupindulira chani zimene akupangazo Winiko…ndale zongonyozana will just bring violence in our country…zimayamba mwa simple kenako it will even affect innocent people…….UTM & DPP rallies,you’ll always see anthu kungonyozana instead of telling people mfundo zanzeru…mapeto ake ndiamenewo

    4. Insulting the president is a crime my brother anywhere, in fact its illegal to insult even a common man like you. People must lean to argue with facts and figures not insults. Moti tiziti iwe sukudziwa? Or kumidzi ukatukwana a mfumu (a TA or a GVH or a any chief) zimakhala bwanji? Zinazi tazinenani zoona man. Learn to argue with fact and figures, not insults and fists.

      1. It is a crime in dull backward countries led by dictators, not democracies. Do you think people get arrested for insulting Trump? Wake up its 2019. If you feel the President is stupid and toothless, it is your opinion and you have every right to express it. What is this nonsense of arresting people and driving them overnight to Zomba as if this is the MCP regime of Dr Banda and his thugs? The president is behaving as if he is totally stupid, worse than Mchacha.

      2. Which insult are you talking about? So to say you are a thief when you are is an insult? Even Jesus one time called Herod a fox…was that an insult? We are so proud we don’t want to be told the truth!!! Zafika popasana ulemu wopusa

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