The roast of Atupele: Social media raps UDF leader for attacking Covid-19 lockdown injunction
United Democratic Front (UDF) leader, Atupele Muluzi, has been thoroughly roasted by users on social media following his attacks on Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) chairperson Gift Trapence for getting an injunction, in April, stopping government from affecting a coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown.
Atupele wrote the attack on his Facebook account early Friday, just a day after Trapence posted about sending an invoice to the UDF leader to pay up for the convoy purportedly for vice-president used during campaign when he was running mate to immediate past president Peter Mutharika.
Writing on his Facebook account, Atupele rapped Trapence and his colleagues, saying they had put Malawian’s life at risk by going to court against lockdown.
“Now we have a serious upsurge in Covid-19 cases which the lockdown wanted to prevent. This will take away one fundamental right to some which is the right to life. However you have noticed he chooses to play the devil’s advocate all the time, but there is a much bigger cost coming his way,” he said.
He added that when Malawian’s start dying of the virus pandemic, they shall remember the men and women who exposed them to this pandemic.
“I struggle to figure out if this won’t be genocide – the events of the past have shown the disregard for destruction in your endeavor to be relevant. Everyone should be held accountable for their actions and that doesn’t make you an exemption,” he wrote.
The fallen running mate of UDF/DPP alliance further said that new Tonse Alliance government has preached of justice but I think the first thing on the agenda should be election violence followed by Covid-19.
Atupele’s remarks, however, did not go down well with most of his followers on social media.
HRDC vice president Billy Mayaya reminded Atupele that they sought the injunction against a lockdown with the aim of ensuring that the then government had clear mechanisms for social protection of the poor and vulnerable—something the courts agreed.
“The onus was on the then Government to present a counter argument as a basis for vacating the injunction. Please do not embellish your position with wild exaggeration and conjecture,” said Mayaya.
Mayaya, then, brought up the convoy issues, saying Malawians demand accountability for the abuse of power displayed by illegal use of a convoy during a campaign.
“HRDC is awaiting your response on that matter. Don’t divert attention from that matter. We weren’t born yesterday!” he wrote.
UTM Party’s Hellen Chabunya advised Atupele to wake up to the reality that he is misguided.
“How did you propose to institute a lockdown when all funds were being looted for your benefit?” wondered Chabunya.
Another follower, Leo Leornard called Atupele a disgrace and an amateur, adding he [Atupele] had forgotten how the DPP government imported Covid-19 Cases from South Africa, hence the current escalation.
“Those attacks on HRDC leaders are fruitless, tangobwezani ndalamazo munawonongazo pa convoy as if you were the country’s VP. Uwona Nyenkhwe sunati,” he said.
Another follower, Emmanuel Ashadow Mwale said: “If DPP has someone to blame for their downfall, then it’s you [Atupele]. People have not forgotten how your father held this country at ransom; imagine stealing 1.7 billion Kwacha of their money. People don’t want anything associated with his name, including you, sir. Please take a holiday to China.”
However, some followers took a middle position, one of them being Mbene Mwambene who wrote:“I totally agree with you but perhaps these words could’ve come during the campaign. You didn’t say anything then. Also, how realistic would a lockdown be in Malawi? Either ways, there are risks along. If a lockdown is implemented, people will starve. Again without a lockdown in place people will still get infected.”
Interestingly, Atupele’s most feared critic, journalist Idriss Ali Nassah also weighed in, encouraging the UDF leader to keep posting so that he keeps exposing his reasoning to the public.
He wrote: “What Atupele Muluzi is doing in engaging with the public through his Facebook page is very admirable because not too many of our politicians have the guts to face-off with the public in that manner.
“I have seen some people pleading with him to stop with the asinine comments he has been making since last week’s thorough political beating, but I disagree. We live in a democracy and it is Atupele’s democratic right to make a complete fool of himself in public.
“More importantly, it is yet another opportunity for the people of Malawi to see that outside of the privileged upbringing and the polished St Andrews High School English, this man has questionable intelligence and third-rate political judgement.
”Which is why, for all the opportunities he was given, he has ended up being just another whimpering voice on Facebook; a Dickson Kashoti that went to High School.”
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Mvetsetseni bebe, coming to the realization that your unrealistic dream of becoming a president has just slipped away got to hurt as hell. Uko ndikulira mokweza, tsogolo lake la mwanayu lachita katondo
Atupele has drawn attention by all who hate the truth.The lockdown injuction increased the spread of covid19.We know who to blame and Atupele just mentioned them on his tweet.Carry on Atupele.
Dont make me laugh please!!! Was atupele held at ransom to also go on rallies or were only atupeles rallies covid free…grow up!!!
I like what idrissa wrote if atupere you will read my comment simple advise shut your mouth up close your fb account and start looking for what you need to do for your living politics has failed you. Get to know that WHO is abolishing the social distancing and masking practices. You wanted to enjoy malawi tax payers money through back door. The benefits you enjoyed Malawians entrusted to Chilima you are case you have forced peter out of government.
Yes…atupele should just go looking for a job basi..dont waste our time and MB’s reading your childish whimpering..you need to go to the army…man up!!
The time ll come
When he ll be believed
For covid blame your evil old man called Mutharika. He could help Malawi and whilst in SA but he decided to bring them to Malawi to infect people. How evil get was together with his evil running mate
We will no longer ruled by these two families forever
There is nothing wrong with Atupele’s comments. The problem is that we are in third world category and our thinking too is third world thinking. The IRS’s world countries had to implement the lockdown rules and many have lost their business and job. They had to do it to save lives, but here in Malawi, nthawi zonse Tim am a nkhwangwa I’ll mmutu. Let us wait and see.
If Atupele really cared about the spread of Covid 19 he should not have conducted all those jam packed rallies. How about all those overloaded trucks ferrying people. Why talk now.
I find that he is a big opportunist. He did not
stand by the opposition when they fought the legal battles. He just comes in at the opportune time to reap where he did not sow. It wasn’t fair to the DPP either. They were doing battle whilst he sat on the fence then comes in to grab the position of Running Mate when all was over. Not fair. They are a lot of deserving people.
EXactly!!!! Thank you…
Lockdown was a good idea but how did you expect Malawians to survive with the then impunitive DPP government? You wanted lockdown as a scapegoat for elections. Why did you not start with closing of boarders? Why did you fail to manage Malawians from SA? We are now safe with you& agogo out of govt cause many suffered.
Is Atupele a University drop-out or is someone who failed to get a degree called Law and Economics – what a degree it would have been and a BA (yopanda quality) for that matter not LLB . That speaks volumes. They say as the dogs bark, let the caravan go. One renowned Medical Doctor has written in a medical journall praising the decision by Judge Charles Mkandawire to grant HRDC an injunction because in his words, he said, “the Judge balanced public health and poverty.” Mwanayutu akadakhala kuti adakhoza degree ya Law akadadzakhala Lawyer wofoira, womangoluza milandu, mmutu mulibe nzeru. No wonder atate ake ankangoti ejukweshoni, m’malo mwa education, kuuma mutu.
Atupele Muluzi can be called all sorts of names you can think of but the bottomline is that Covid 19 is real and indeed a killer. Other politicians went around down playing the existence of the pandemic yet you the victims will eventually be the same masses Atupele was trying to shield. The essence is that when you begin dying you won’t need the same leadership to advise you because they will basically be locked-in in their mansions leaving you to go through such a miserable and painful death. Amati “Phukusi la moyo sakusungira wina”. When it breaks out and manifests its ugly head, wawuona-wawuona!! Continue towing those party-lines.
It was either death by DPP or death by Covid 19 and the masses chose the latter. So to hell with Tupele!
Any way, the covid 19 imported from SA would have come after the lockdown period, that is if the illegal lockdown was allowed
ATUPELE WILL ONLY BE RELEVANT TO MALAWI POLITICS IF HE ABANDONS HIS DAD’S POLITICAL TEMPLATE OF TAKING POLITICS AS A GAME OF TELLING LIES UPON LIES.
This boy was not well brought up. I suppose the father was too busy with stealing from public coffers to advise him.
Did you, people, hear him saying mau akulu sagonera? Shit of a boy. Very irrelevant to anything that is to do with this country.
Musataye nawo nthawi awa.one sadawinepo chisankho,sadawinitsepo president.koma kudziyelekezera ndi chilima.Tidakuuza kuti uli kutali ndi chilima.anyamata amene ukusewera nawo panowa akupweteka pa zisankho za mtsogolo.Blantyre waiwona kale imaganiza boo sisapota kape koma mfana oganiza boo chilima.khalani chete.Dzifunseni kulephera kwanu.Koma na ili la Chakwera ndi Chilima is a govt no like any other govt.Ma prophet a ku zambia prophet liabunya akuuzani mukamfuse.pompano tinoanena kuti sixth president ndi chakwera according to prophet liabunya 2014 prophecy ndipo malawi adati adzapindula chilungamo chidzabwera koma simukukhulupirirabe.khalani ndi kusakhulupirirako.You think Malawians can vote for atupere udf and dpp.mwalemba mmadzi.mukutaya nthawi malawi yake siiyi.2025 even southern region will vote for chilungamo and better malawi.80% vote tonse alliance.
Idriss uzibwezako moto… You roast the daddy’s boy as if he were a dog who eat what it has vomited, Bakili Muluzi should be a sad man, watching his son being a big failure is really painful, imagine you were in Bakili’s shoes? His son is a disgrace!
Akamalize kaye sukulu Atupele ameneyo. Achoka bwanji with only a certificate of attendance from his university. Basi busy editing his details on Wikipedia that he has a degree… Anyone can edit Wikipedia. Even I can give Atupele a PhD in Wikipedia today if I wanted!
Useless dumb dull boy
This boy did not go to school just as his father and this is why Anne ran away after noticing too late that the husband is indeed a Bulutu. This follows from what Atupele has written on his face book page.
Gift Trapence should definitely issue an invoice to Atupele Muluzi because of using our tax payers money through the convey as if he was any president rather care-taker President would have allowed so. Again, if you talk about lockdown due to Covid-19, yes the country could have done so but your grand-father did not follow the rightful procedures. First and foremost is that the care-Taker president would have put certain mechanism for social protection of the entire poor and venerable Malawians. Instead, your grand-father woke and washing his mouth he announces such import issue like lock down ? To say all the truth here this boy is duff and needs to be thoroughly examined by Doctors. Does he know that his grand father was using corona virus as a too to avoid other parties to campaign? How can one join forces with Mulli who surely bears an empty head. By the way did you pay allowances to Police officers whom you traveled with in Mzimba up to Chitipa etc? The new government cannot entertain to that kind of unwarranted expenditure. Stop writing nonsense on the facebook. You are just an amateur in politics and you cannot take back the Dpp to your Udf party. What qualifications have you up to insulting the Judges, better keep your mouth shut.
Kodi anthu sanatokotele awili kapena atatu aja bwanji?
Kodi dzikolino langodzadza ndizinyalala eti
Chilima,kaliyati ndi JB
Amenewa sanandilankhulile bwino pankhani yaCorona pa campaign
Koma oyenela kudzudzula
anasankha kukhala chete
Dziko lachinyengo
Indeed he’s Dickson Kashoti. In fact more like a Dickhead Kashoti Muluzi. His IQ levels are exactly like that of Rajiv Gandhi, aka Pappoo, who also is a moron politician of India, fed on silver plate. Both Dickson n Pappoo should move to china n start a hog farm..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dickhead zeni zeni.
“Wa ModI ji wa” weni weni ndi yeni yeni
Atupele have you even began to fathom why Malawians in such huge numbers voted for H E Rev Chakwera. With SKC in the wings the time and place for you Atupele and the whole Muluzi family is over.
Your daddy has looted and drained this country. Democracy was killed the day Bakili Muluzi was elected.
Rev Chakwera has given democracy new life. So away with you and your stupidity, and tell that father of yours to repay the billions,
That father of his Bakili has to be locked up for stealing billions and imposing the Mutharika family on us. Lives on BCA Hill like a King but with stolen money.
NOW YOU ARE BLAMING ATUPELE, KODI MWAYIWALA KUTI A KWENI AMAYANKHULA PA MISONKHANO KUTI KULIBE COVID, NANGA JB BWA OSAMATELO AMALAWI NENANI ZOONA
They are talking about him using VP resources, hang your head on top of your body please… are you his descendant?, of covidiocy?
Apititse ku court anthu watchulawo zamanyi basi
Why did the courts stop lockdown in the first place?
Nobody says there is no covid. Get the argument man. Atupele is not being sincere. The government should have tried to challenged the injunction which in turn would have resulted in the placement of the needed protection for the most vulnerable in society. By not challenging it, it showed the whole move to subject Malawians to lockdown was political. What Atupele is doing now is exactly what APM wanted by not challenging the injunction, which is blame game. We keep on saying this, Malawians are not foolish.
Phiri, do you understand English?
Umbuli wa m’magazi shameless Atupele: He has been contradicted by Malawi police on his false claims that body-guards of the then state VP had shot at innocent citizen at his home village, the Tonse Alliance supporters had abducted 12 DPP monitors and that a female DPP supporter had died from Tonse alliance assault! But that never stopped shameless Atupele from repeating these untruths because Atupele has zero-integrity just like his mbava Dad!!
Pig
A chitsilu inu, kulira, NYEKHWE. Ingodikiraninsoni a president a ku China a Xi Jinping akwitaneni, otherwise your and will remain a nobody in Malawi.
Mwanayu ndi chipwazadi zoona. Even in the countries where lockdown took place , Corona virus has resurfaced and people are dying
Very true and the guy is simply stupid.
Just wait and see. Those people imported from South Africa are they not Malawians? Each and every country is repatriating its people from all over the world. Come july end its when you will know what is CORONA?. Siiona nkhope watch out!!!
Corona is spreading faster than alot of people realize and Malawi is defenseless…….Prophets are only appreciated after a disaster.
Yes ndi a Malawi but the preventive measures are clear. You have to be in quarantine for 14 days. Which the team did not implement. Ambiri ndi aja anathawa pa Kamuzu stadium chonsecho ndalama zopangira manage anatipatsa
Have you heard Malawi repatriating its citizens from UK, France, US, Italy, Japan? Ine dabwi apa jubeki amadutsa Beitbridge kuwayeza no civid, Nyamapanda no covid, cuchamano , no covid, Zobue no covid kungolowa Mwanza covid lololo
Foseki
Atupele is a disgrace he had it all he was sent to UK to study by his rich Dad. He came back to Malawi as a drop out of University.
Now you talk shit you have forgotten that Dpp lead government was bringing people from South Africa and dumped at Kamuzu stadium so that they can infect the malawi people.
The surge in COVID 19 would have not been averted even if the lockdown was in place in April. What needs to happen is to work towards a better control now. This more reason why countries such as SA or USA are having a surge even though they had hard lockdowns in their respective countries.
Atupele says first on the Tonse Alliance government’s agenda should be ‘election violence then Covid 19.’ Election violence will be dealt with once you have provided names of the affected people, thus the one you say was killed and those missing 15. Give the police something to start with.. names please!
WHOSOEVER BEWITCHED THIS GUY MUST REPENT TO HIM, THIS IS BAD OF A N IDIOT, HE IS VERY USELESS AND HELPLESS, EVERY TIME HE OPENS HIS MOUTH, GUSHES OF STUPIDITY FLOW
Did Mr Atupele go to Console the Family of their Monitor who allegedly Died …and those Missing in Action ,have they been Found ….NEXT time he should Think before making Wild Claims…Ndinatopa kale Ife ndi bodza la Chair….
I am with atupele on this one. Hrdc is just a useless mcp subsidiary, full of loudmouths. Atupele wasn’t the first to enjoy increased security sosten gwengwe had the same under joyce banda. Joyce banda herself enjoyed the same when she was runningmate in 2009.
And what legal basis is hrdc using to send invoices to people on behalf of government. Hrdc should focus on sending narrative reports to their donors. Stiff necked fools.
remember what Sulungwe said; shit is shit; IF the law say President and Vise president should be on Convoy no one else; Thus the law and IF anyone who is not prescriibed to be on convoy yet he is on convoy then has to pay ;
What’s so Special with Being a Running Mate…If you think this is Ok then lets extend this Special treatment to all Competing Candidates and their Running Mates …A Bad Precedent does not make a Wrong …..Right…
You fool! Two wrongs do make right!!!! Atupele’s reasoning is too shallow. Seriously, Malawi would not be facing this serious Covid-19 spread had DPP govt. quarantined all those imported Covid-19 cases. Poor leadership of previous govt.
so you want to correct wrong by bringing another wrong thinking. kkkk Atupele alipo ambiri.