Thugs gun down Gulewamkulu: Malawi police say ‘investigating’
Unknown assailants have gun down Gulewamkulu the Chewa traditional masked dancer at Nathanje in Lilongwe, raising fears that the current political crisis might be turning worse.
Lilongwe police station spokesperson Kingsley Dandaula has confirmed the incident, saying the gule wamkulu dancer, is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
“The assailants came in a vehicle without a registration number, shot the gule wamkulu and sped away,” said Dandaula.
He said the incident has shocked village elders and people surrounding the area.
Dandaula said the police have intensified investigations on the issue.
He said the law enforcers are yet to establish the shooting of the gulewamkulu.
Gulewamkulu is a protected tradition and culture under Unicef.
Due to the overlapping trends and challenges in the social realm, dances like gule wamkulu are being used as weapon for social change which is helping to disseminate critical messages and change people’s behavioural attitudes towards different issues.
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I am to believe that any motorist causing harm to any road user thus a criminal act. Gulewamkulu if turned wild and cause havoc to the general public then it was better to report to the authorities and not the action taken by the gunmen. In normal circumstances any Gulewamkulu moves along with guards for various reasons of course not for public domain.We hear that even the guards were short down thereafter attacking the actual Gulewankulu. It is also reported that the gun men clearly shouted that and I quote” INUYO NDINU MUMAYAMBITSA ZISOKONEZO DZIKO MUNO NDI MA PRESIDENT ANUWO” then pulled out the gun direct to the small boy and then Gulewamkulu. If the above statement is true who do you think the gunmen were from before speculation goes on and on? AND do you think that the police will investigate such matter which they clearly know the source of the gunmen? We have time and again pleaded with laws of Malawi that do not allow any car being driven on the roads of Malawi without Number Plate but what we see is that many of them who break laws of this Country are well connected to the above and they do not care who one is. Also, take note that if there were some activities elsewhere far from Dambwe how could the Gulewamkulu cross the road to the other side? Perhaps you wanted Guleyo fly ?
Very sad incident. On a critical analysis between the gunned and the gunner, who is a thug? Gulen wamkulu amakhala ku dambwe. Does it mean development in central region has reached such unprecedented level that miseu ya kudabwe kumadutsa magalimoto?
Ngati Gule wamkuluyu anakanthidwa ku mseu, wolakwa ndi guleyo. Anayenera kuvula zakezo ndi kutchena civilian popita ku mseu.
Mchitidwe oseweletsa gule wabwera ndi Chakwera. Posachedwapa taona Chakwera atatenga gule kupita naye kukhoti. Chakwera analankhula kuti akhetsa mwazi, kodi mwazi wake amanena wa gule?
Kkkkkkkk How can a how can a human being investigate an issue involving a beast ?
Nkutheka chilombo cha mizimuchi chimazunguza mmudzimo kapena amadyerana mkazi ndi wachiwemuyi, ife sitingaziwe ndipo tilibe nazo attend
Mongokuchenjezani, inu mwapanga izi kapepeseni ndithu, seriously. Anthu anyawu si amasewera, yemwe wapanga apita ndipo athetsaso mtundu wake. Ndakulira ku central region and ndaona zomwe anthu amenewa amapanga. Apa mwapalamula chitedze
sha!
if gule wamkulu aka chilombo is shot, is it a criminal act?
Nkhani imeneyi yofunika a ‘Game Reserve’ mogwilizana ndi a ‘Veterinary department’ alowelerepo poti iwowa ndi omwe amayang’anira zilombo ngati zimenezi.
zotsatila za chipongwe chipongwe chija mumachita anthu magalimoti awathu zija ndi zimenezi,simunati
Mwayamba kupasa mfuti ma cadet
Mwayamba kupasa mfiti ma cadet
Countrymen,
I know that tempers are high in some sections of society due to this incident. But, let me ask you folks to calm down. Let’s not make rash decisions on this matter. Let’s value the peace that has been handed down to us by our wise forefathers. I am sure that this is a criminal matter that may have nothing to do with the current political disagreements in our country. I would suggest that we avoid linking everything that happens to politics.
But, even if the motive is establish to be political, I don’t think that tooth for tooth is the route that we must take at this point or at any point. No. Let’s save our country and our people from unnecessary conflicts and suffering. We have structures in Malawi that have proved effective in dealing with such cases over many years.
Let me ask our police to proactively and transparently deal with this matter since it has the potential of getting out of hand. Entertaining unregistered vehicles to ply the streets of Malawi, like we have seen in the past few years in not only myopic but also dangerous to our nationhood. Bring this practice to an end. It will destroy Malawi.
But, like I said, let’s be calm. The culprit will soon or later be apprehended. I personally hesitate to conclude that this is political. Where is the linkage? How would “killing” advance a political agenda? No. This is just criminal.
Just my thoughts.
Kent Y.G. Mphepo – Blantyre
apa ndiye mwawaputa achewa tithana nawo tikuziwa amene apanga zimenezi ndi adpp
Any person who has done this will surely die
Why is it difficult to catch DPP Cadets thugs as in Malawi there are so many road blocks. The vehicle had no number plates. Akapokola in Malawi are useless due to supporting tipex government
WHO WILL CATCH DPP CADETS WHILE YOU ARE VERY MUCH AWARE THAT POLICE IS INVOLVED IN SHORT THEY ARE DPP CADETS . LET ME ASK YOU HOW MANY CASES THAT YOU KNOW THAT HAPPENED TO OPPOSITION AND POLICE IS STILL INVESTIGATING ? SO MANY CASES TO ME INVESTIGATION ON THIS MATTER IS USELESS
You are an illiterate asshole. Just shut up. Don’t blame everything on DPP, just to set your political agenda.
Your argument is baseless and invalid. It is not even evidence based. we know that Dpp cadets have been driving in town using cars without registration numbers. So putting blames on Dpp cadets is just right.
Can I remind all lomwes Just in case your grand parents never told you……. your homeland is in Mozambique and that it was the same Chewa people you are persecuting today that gave you lomwe people land in Mulanje as a refuge from the persecution you suffered at the hands of the Portuguese in Mozambique.
And the reason why lomwes were being persecuted in Mozambique is becoz of dirty politics they were involved in just as they are doing today in Malawi.
Today lomwes have grown so big that they have their own paramount chief although they have no land in Malawi.
Now this war you have started with the chewa people you will regret it, that’s all I can say.
You are a very myopic and hardcore tribalist. Although I am not lhomwe myself, I cannot let you nonsense go unanswered. Even achipeta, achiwere, or achewa came from DRC where your dambwe behaviour is still a source of conduct. This is Malawi. Stop promoting DRC lunacy here or go back home.
BUT WHAT MATTERS IS WHO FOUND THE OTHER
It doesn’t matter
Yes, they found those grouping living in peace, and were granted asylum when they arrived kkkk! Now they are tormenting those they find with guns.
Both Lomwes and Chiweres or chewas found amwandionerapati or san people the original maravi people. This is elementary history level 0001.
What we hate is that mumazitenga ngati ndinu a Malawi kwambiri kuposa anzanu yet inu ndi amene munapeza mitundu ina muno. Just look at the story of Ngongoliwa, his forefathers came to Malawi in 1874, at that time Achewa, Angoni, a Tumbuka, a Mang’anja, a Ngonde, Ayawo anali atakhazikika kale muno Mmalawi. Stop behaving like Malawi ndiwanu yekha just because the president comes from your tribe
Anali atakhazikika kuchokera kuti? Kwao?…kkkkkkkkkk
@Yasser …
Truth be told, indeed.
The original Nyasas, the “Abathwa” were eliminated by the immigrants, all from the Congo Basin. They are no more.
And, @Bonga Matoga would be advised to read or re-read JC level Malawi history.
and where did the chewa come from??you seem to be explaining history on one side
Yes true. Although both tribes came from Mozambique and DRC respectively, the Lomwes have no mandate to persecute the Chewas because have no land jurisdiction in this country. Land jurisdiction is owned by the first comers in any land because they have powers to share it to late comers. There was a gap of about 700 years from 1100AD when the Chewas settled in Malawi to a time between 1895 – 1910 when the Lomwes came to Malawi, so the Lomwes should tread carefully if they want to incite civil war in this country otherwise their tenant status will be exposed soon or later.
which law is this pumbwa iwe?
Hahahaha, koma abale, history imeneyi mwayitenga kuti achewa inu? As far as I am concerned, this country was originally inhabiited by Kafula’s and Maravi’s before any of the present tribal groups came to settle in Nyasaland. Go to Chiradzulu, you will still find Maravi hill where the Maravis had their kingdom. Any settler had to fight their way to claim land or get right of way. Achewa amathela pa Dedza and have never lived or owned land in the south. The little history the British taught is that it is only the Maseko ngonis who fought the lhomwes and I’m sure you know how it ended, huh? So stop this chewa landlordship bullshit!! Kupanda Kamuzu mchewa mzanu uja kupanga promote achewa mudali ndani inu?
@Chimango
Please tell them, these selfish idiots; promoting Chewa superiority, based on a faulty “I arrived here first” principle.
Did the chewas find no people here?
@Chipiliro
FYI, the Alhomwe were among the first wave of the Bantu to leave the Congo Basin for this part of Africa. Long, very long before the oChewa.
You probably didn’t know that. Did you? Now you know.
Mbonga, No tribe belongs to Malawi. The owners were the Akafula. The Chewa people came from Katanga, Zaire (now called DRC). Not all Lhomwe people are DPP followers. As you can remember in the past Tripartite election, MCP all the parties got votes in the southern region. However this act of criminal is bad.
To all Malawi loving natives and all who want to see real democratic peace in our land, please contact me @ +265 997 20 12 12.
We have the resources to fight back. This is not the government we, the people, elected.
Big actions are about to happen. Please come and join. Just text first.
You WILL be put under arrest, on charges of TREASON.
kuyamba ndewu kapena nkhondo ndikophweka koma kuyimaliza
Not wasting my time phoning you: idiotic idea.
Without doubt, whoever shot the innocent traditional dancer is a DDP member. DPP days in power are numbered. The police know who shot the innocent man, in fact, it could be a policeman. They say they will investigate, really, who are you fooling??
Who are you fooling. We know where you got the gun. You used a vehicle with no number plates and the Police allowed you to go because the Big fish is involved
Hope the thugs considered all the risks in such acts. If you have ever played chess the thugs are on check mate with now where to go!!
meant no where to go or game over
My simple request is that all of us are Malawians.Let us love one another.We have lived together for long in peace.
Gule wankulu shot, NGOLONGOLIWA GONE!
SHAAAAA
Nanunso inu. Ngolongoliwa wamwalira before this incident happened. Zugwilizana bwanji? Afterall the chief has been ill since last year.
Just ask Ntaba or Dausi
Maybe the number plate is in the car. Maybe.
Chakwera boys on the roads of central Malawi with their stupid roadblocks? May be it was to clear one silly roadblock and teach it a lesson.
You are stupid. You do not know the consequences of this
You double fool donnel…your stupid charms will backfire on you….
Palibe “consequences” apa. Not everyone i Malawi believes za manyi zanuzo.
You are right. Gule wamkulu is taking part is harassing innocent people in central region forgetting kuti akuwazunzawanso nawo ndi anthu zikuwapweteta. Kuyambitsa ndewu nkosavuta koma kuyimaliza. At the onset of a conflict, you do not know the victim until you count your losses at the end, basoop!!
Muvi oyang’anira suchedwa kulasa diso…Sooner or later violence will migrate to the suburb and this means MCP-UTM supporters will start beating up suspected DPP supporter and the latter retaliation will culminate into civil war. The court must act swiftly and timely. Malawi is known for its peace let us maintain the same. There is fear for social disorder if the court and army keep keeping it cool when it must be lets be vigilant…
Why did UTM and MCP not unite before the election?
They are stupid and myopic accompanied with greed. They thought they could oust DPP single handedly but they miscalculated. Now they are crying over spilt milk.
By the way, why treating chirombo in hospital for humans?
CHONDE CHONDE AKULU AKULU AKU MADZI KONZANI AMENE WAPANGA ZIMENEZO MMATSENGA TIMVE KUTI ZAMUONEKERA ZODA MUTU BASI !!!
The demos will be even bigger. Keep digging that hole you pieces of deranged cunts. Tic toc… You clock is running out fuckers.