Protesters for hire: Women confess they were paid to march for Ansah 

July 10, 2019 Nyasa Times Reporter 69 Comments

Over a month after the disputed May 21 elections, the political standstill in Malawi is getting comic amid revelations that government paid poor rural women to march in support of beleaguered electoral commission chairperson Jane Ansa.

The pro- Ansah demo

According  to women who spoke to Nyasa Times, most of the marchers got about K3,000 each.

With a reported 2,000 women paid, the government must have burned K6,000,000 of tax payers’ money. Such an amount is enough to supply fuel to run a district hospital for atleast a month.

“To be honest, I didn’t know what I was marching for. I hear it is to do with women but I joined after I recieved K3,000, a t-shirt and chitenje,” said a woman identified as Ida Lupale who was ferried from Thyolo.

Another woman, looking frail, said she was duped of the money by the group leaders but at least managed to get the t shirt although could not say what the words on the t shirt meant.

“Anatotiuza kuti kuli ma kobiri koma ife atiponda. Atipasa malaya okha (Looks I have been duped because it to now now money has been given to me except the t shirt,” said Abigail Mlaviwa, ferried from Chiradzulu.

The DPP government is facing unprecedented pressure from political parties and the civil society calling for the head of Ansa, accusing her of mismanaged of the election in favour of President Peter Mutharika.

Meanwhile, credible information indicate that UTM and MCP have submitted hair-raising evidence on how the DPP rigged the election.

A source close to the case in which UTM and MCP have called for the nullification of the election, says the team inspecting the ballots have uncovered massive evidence of rigging.

“Fake ballot papers were stuffed in advance in ballots and they don’t match with those printed in Dubai. It was a long term orchestrated plan to vote in duplicate. The day this evidence will be made public in court, this country will burn with anger,” said Nyasa Times impeccable source.

Trial for the case starts on July 29 while judgement is expected 21 days later after commencement of the hearing.

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69 replies on “Protesters for hire: Women confess they were paid to march for Ansah ”

  2. DPP is endlessly stealing the government’s money, hiring mostly Lomwe women to match confirms it all, they are the most corrupt political party in Malawi and Africa. They don’t care about the lack of medicine in hospitals, bad roads, dilapidated schools, etc. They should at all cost be stopped from this greed and theft.

  3. I appreciate the hiring if it did happen. Nowadays one can hire for anything, In Israel mourners are hired to mourn their desired style so the hired “innocents’ were lucky if the master respected their own side of the bargain

  7. Police Act of 2010 §104(11) Go read that on compelling people to demonstrate. That is criminal this is forbiden

  8. In the midst of all this fracas, somewhere the “boss” is hiding something, and does not want to loose it at all cost. Unfortunately women are at play. Very unfortunately, vulnerable women from village were taken advantage of.

  9. Sizachilendo ngakale Arafat , lezala komanso trapwisi anakatenga anthu ku dowa mchinji kasungu komanso lilongwe, anawapanso ndalama

  10. This shows how desperate DPP is in making its voice heard, they believe that without the exchange of Cash they can achieve nothing.

    That’s why in what ever they do Cash remain the subject matter, so if they don’t have cash in hand they venture into stealing from public purse.
    They can milk already left for dead cow until it is breathless such as public institutions like Escom and Water board.

    The HRDC organise the demos without Trucks ferrying people from the villages but it has massive followers/support but DPP ferrying bootlickers from all the way in Thyolo, Chiladzuru and many more places bcoz they knew they don’t have support in Town.

    This is so pathetic in this era, plz tread carefully as the days for re-run is fast approaching.

    1. The sad thing is that it is our tax that is being abused. I would be more forgiving if the tax being abused was from the Lhomwe Belt only. Nothing would please me more than to see these crooks account for every penny they are stealing.

    2. Did I read your name properly? Mr. Truth pains? What truth is here when all you have written is a bundle of fabrications and no grain of truth.

      Drive on the mchinji road on a day of the so called “peaceful demonstrations” and see how many truck loads of both people and gule wamkulu you will meet. HRDC transports people from all over the region for those demos and you cannot see it because you are myopic. Look beyond your nose and appreciate reality on the ground

      1. Yah as my name suggest it , u are indeed @ pain Young man called Pido bcoz u are one of bootlickers of Tippex government.

        U are more myopic than I am bcoz you are blind follower. Your tippex government is using my company tax to ferry Lhomwes to and from useless demonstration.

      2. Even that gule wankulu knew where it was going why they were going there. Those lhomwe brutus didn’t a thing. Kuzolowerez za ulere

  11. WE ALSO KNOW CHIMWENDO FERRIES HELPLESS VILLAGERS FROM DOWA, MCHINJI, DEDZA IN TEN TON TRUCKS

      1. How sure are you that the Lilongwe demonstrators knew & how sure are you that these women indeed don’t know & this is what the woman actually said especially knowing that this is reported by a propaganda writer. Let’s try to have critical minds & look at both sides.

        1. A critical mind with a lhomwe. What a joke. Two weeks ago i found my nephew touch touch a girl. I ask him what do you think you are doing. He said don’t worry i can not have child with a lhomwe woman that would be bringing a thief in the family. Uncle don’t you know it is in their character regardless of whether they are presidents peter or lawyers like chaponda or just ordinary labourers like the ones on tobacco farms in kasungu and Rumphi. Their footprint nature is stealing.

    2. He doesn’t have to ferry them if they are not happy in Nponela they demostrate in Nponela if it’s in Dowa they do it in Dowa. They don’t need your video cameras they just do it. Ask your fellows what happened to them in Nponela

    3. Those women are uncivilised that’s y analora kukwera chilore all the way from thyolo kupusaaaa. Azimayi muzachenjera liti kumagwilitsidwa ntchito zopusa ngati zimenezo? Anakayenga mahule muthyolo osowa chochita kumabwera nawo ku blantyre shameeee to DPP

  14. Does this mean that Mutharika doesn’t know of the whole rigging saga ? That it was only done without his knowledge or that he is only wearing a brave face????? Its sad that other people are still too blind to see what really happened.

    1. Isnt it you, Keen Observer, who is blind? If I were you, I couldnt pass my judgment before the courts said theirs

  15. Kuononga chuma cha boma la masiyeeee………………………………………..! Komatu umasiye umenewu ukatha mu August muno, ndithudi tionetsanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa………… ndalama za mitsonkho zathu zimenezi mudzazisanzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ndithudiiiiiiiiiiii

  17. Malawi at 55. So sad still being driven by corruption, hunger for power, nepotism and short sighted leaders. Radical change is the only solution. Enough of this nonsense. We cannot take it any more

  19. Chimenecho ndiye chamba – inu a opposition muja amakupatsani mpunga mukupanga ma demo makobili anachokera kuti? mumangoyiwona ngati dpp ndiye potsetera eti? let us compliment the ladies for conducting a peaceful demos and mukuyera kupanga manyazi anthu ovala dzigoba inu ndi ku dzola pholutsa (NYAWU)

  20. This reporting is called paid up gutter journalism. When Arafat and fake accent ex-reverend Yona anatotuta iye zinyau zonse zototuwa kuti bii kuNsaru kwakabudula kubwera nazo kumademo last week suunatolemba kanthu? Nanga muburundi Mutambo anatogula iye anthu a mademo kwakamphata unatolephera kulemba kanthu? Nkamwa munatozaza sikono?

  21. I think DPP must be careful with the way it handles the election case and the demos going by the magnitude of anger by MCP supporters.It is clear that the MCP supporters who look to be in majority are ready for anything. Besides Jane Ansah must just go, she can no longer be trusted

  25. Pa Mw pano kuti zikuyendere mdi dhilizatu ena mukuti kudhisha.
    MEC INAYANI.amai ogulitsa masamba ambili adya bwino. Nfani safuna kukolola posalima?
    Anyway alandila misomkho yao yomwe ikanapita kwa uladi ndi nkazace ku shopping ya ku US N’GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  28. This party!! Enough is enough now. Noone has a sense of humuor in Dpp. All of them are corrupt and evil, sadly they are passing it to the next genaration.

  29. Nyasatimes reporters are seeing how corrupt DPP is and are starting to change mawanga ngati nanzikambe. All over a sudden you are bashing your Pitala mbava yet you have been DPP cadets all along. Mwayamba kunjenjemera hehehe! We already know who you are!

  31. Even the marchers in Lilongwe were paid by Human Rights Defenders. They bought beer for them and were intoxicated . It is not unusual to hear that. What is six million after all ? It’s peanut. I salute all women who took part in the peaceful solidarity march. Osati Nyau zakuba ku central region .

    1. Big hand to Apwiya – the surprise thing is that the one who is claiming the 6 million to be his tax money ndi wogulitsa mzimbe……….olo phasi umalipira iwe? you don’t even know the meaning of tax money brother/sister? watch your words…. ngati a oposition ali ndi chuma chogulira kachaso wa ma demonstrators what why do you even question the 6million from dpp what is 6million after all baba?

  32. Unfortunately Malawi has no president, otherwise this is the thinking of idiots in the so called the current government. The thinking of Mchacha and Dausi. I respect Nankhumwa can not support this stupidity.

  34. Also Trapence and Mtambo are always paid to lead protests. So i don’t see any problem for DPP to pay protesters.

    There is no issue here.

  36. Wakutuma chilima ndi chakwera eti ? Asiyeni ndi ufulu wawo ngat ndalamazo zimaperekedwa akuyenera kulandira osati chakwera ndi chilima kukangowagubisa ulere .

  37. Bodza a nyasatimes Ma demo even HRDC anthu amakanyamulidwa pamagalimoto.Palibe chifukwa provided anthuwo ayenda mwaufulu komanso madando awo amveka.

  39. The big problem with Malawi and Malawians is poverty, innocent souls can easily be bought, used and abused.There can never be real justice and honesty defending arguments when people can not afford a meal a day and everyday. Even on the voting day poor people who are a majority sold their votes for a mere thousand kwacha to buy a meal for a day in return gambled the future of their children and grand children. Jane Ansa herself could not stand for the truth because of the house she occupies for free not that she can’t afford but chose to sell her soul, she might be regarded as educated and rich but poor and barefoot in heart. Many people are defending this not that or the other way round not because they see the truth in it but because they are part or beneficiaries or want to become beneficiaries of our oppressors (leaders). To change all this, we should start with ourselves by asking is this the kind of a country we want our children to live in?

  41. The problem is Malawi is being able to be silent from their demands of justice over election just by the arresting of two activists. But old Malawi became more though on Dr Banda over the arrest of Chihana, and Banda could for referendum; and when Banda was arrested in his time Malawi demanded for him, and Britain gave nyasaland independence and Banda name it Malawi we know today. So don’t blame Peter for stealing taxpayers money, but blame yourself for being easy at him instead of demanding for two activists.

  42. Yauziru baba. Mwalemba mmadzi. Jane and Peter will go together and marry each other. This party has become very very very unpopular. clear elections without rigging akhala omalizira

  44. Komatu ukuku nkulakwa mbambadi, kumavomeleza umakhala ndi mtendere wa mumtima koma akupanga akanganya awawa akhala ndi chintolo cha nkhawa sure. malawi uyuyu ndi winawina mwatapata kwa nthawi yaitali nkhanga zaona.

  45. Ma journalist a ku Malawi you mean you do not have other important things to write? Very boring reading the same things again and again. This makes people dull. Wake up please. Evidence ndi ku court osati mu social media, Ansa anakuuzani kale inu buli za anthu.

  48. Thanks my mum can’t be part of this nusense combination!!!!!! Bravo mum for being so smart. Sorry for the idiots joining the so called demos at a mk3,000 even being a mum to someone.

  50. In Malawi, that is why we are no gonna develop. People matching to cover some ill mannered and incompetent people.

  51. IFE TIMADZIWA KUTI ANTHUWA ALANDIRA BOLA IFE WE WERE DEMOSTRATING COMING FROM INSIDE OUR HEART WITH FEEL THAT ANSAH MESSED UP OUR ELECTIONS AND WE WERE NOT GIVEN CASH WE DEMOSTRATED WITH AFEELING

  52. Koma ya! clueless party iyi yatiwonesa zithu! tip-ex ferrying is not an issue for this thugs.

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