Thugs petrol bomb Mtambo’s offices: CHRR suspect DPP behind the attack

August 31, 2018 Wongani Chiuta -Nyasa Times 32 Comments

Malawi Police have confirmed that a gang of five men armed with pangas and dangerous implements roughed up a guard at the offices of the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) in the capital, Lilongwe, demanding the address of its outspoken Executive Director Timothy Mtambo – who happens to be Human Rights Defender Coalition (HRDC) current chairman.

Mtambo  says he will not be intimidate and  protests still on September 7

Civil rights activists, through chat-rooms and blogs, have seen government’s hand in the attempt on Mtambo’s life because, apart from the demand of its Executive Director’s address, nothing was stolen at the CHRR office but they hacked a guard.

“The guard has been treated as an outpatient and has been referred to Kamuzu Central Hospital for further examination. He has suffered swollen head and two front teeth have been weakened,” said rights activist Gift Trapence.

G4 Security firm which are guarding the CHRR offices also confirmed the incident and said the matter was reported to Police.

National police deputy spokesman Thomeck Nyaude confirmed receiving the report and said they are investigating the matter.

But Trapence and Mtambo suspect the notorious ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to have carried out the attacks.

Mtambo said the DPP youths cadets came around seven or eight in the evening but when the guard shouted, they drove off only to retain three hours later.

“When they came back, they asked for my directions to my residence before they dropped the petrol bomb at the gate of our offices,” he said.

He said they hacked the guard after he refused to give them directions to the house of Mtambo.

“The guard was taken to hospital before we reported the matter to police,” he said.

He queried: “Why did they want to know where I live? It means they wanted to harm me.”

Mtambo said civil rights activists in Malawi are receiving anonymous phone calls threatening them with all sorts of harms, including death, for their open criticism of the DPP administration on economic and governance issues.

“These might be DPP cadets because we have been receiving threats from them. We strongly believe they are DPP cadets,” he said.

“The threats have come in many forms, some are death threats, others are messages that simply indicate that they (the civil society leaders) are being followed or traced and others are indicating that they will be dealt with in a variety of ways,” said the fearless activist.

Mtambo said the attack is “cheap and stupid intimidation tactic.”

He said defiantly: “They will not stop my quest for justice and better Malawi. That will not happen even over my dead and rotten body. I will hold them accountable even in the world of the dead and after life.”

The development follows reports that Youth and Society (YAS) executive director Charles Kajoloweka has said he has received a threatening phone call warning him of his impending death

But DPP spokesperson Nicholas Dausi has rejected the claims, saying the DPP has no such time.

He said it is only the police which can come up with a professional investigation on who petrol bombed the offices.

DPP cadets petrol bombed the same offices seven years ago when the DPP founding leader Bingu wa Mutharika was in power.

Police fail to investigate issues to do with cadets as their commander in chief Peter Mutharika is also the president of the DPP.

Governance expert and commentator Makhumbo Munthali has asked President Peter Mutharika to provide assurances of the State’s protection to human rights defenders and critics of the regime.

Munthali said there has been some vestiges of intolerance to criticism by the current regime which did not only portray the picture of a leadership which accorded itself immunity to criticism, but also posed serious threats to the work of human rights defenders, public intellectuals, and the critics of the regime.

He said the  failure of the Police to institute and in some few cases conclude investigations into these alleged death threats has often given ammunition to the perpetrators of such threats to continue doing so knowing very well that no one will hold them accountable.

“Worse still, the failure of government to strongly assure protection to human rights defenders and public intellectuals as guaranteed by the Constitution has often led to the growing public perception that both government and the police are accomplice to this,” he said.

He said matters of death threats are not laughing matters especially as the country approaches the tripartite elections due May 21 2019.

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32 replies on “Thugs petrol bomb Mtambo’s offices: CHRR suspect DPP behind the attack”

  1. Cadets posting and saying this is stage are probably the one’s conducting these atrocities. Nyasatimes I implore you to help track down this savagely in our country.

    Surely we can’t accept this to be a new norm in our country. We can’t be having people commit a crime and come here and brag about it as if Malawian life (except Mutharika’s) is cheap.

    Please use the tools available in your comment boxes to pin point these criminals’ ip addresses. You could either shame them by publishing them or forwarding them to relevant policing authorities.

    Everyone needs to play their rightful role in safeguarding and preventing loss of life and property in Malawi from these DPP youth cadets.

  2. This is staged and disgusting. It’s becoming a new wave in town now, staging shits for sympathy. Anyone who wants to pull up on this guy can’t use such a mature stunts. Tell this dude to suck my dick with his momma rips

  3. I don’t think kuti anthu ofuna kupanga chipongwe akuluwa angakafike kwa ma guard nkumati “Mtumbo amakhala kuti?” Guard nso amadziwa kumene ma staff members amakhala? It look more like a staged plot to get people’s attention ngati za Kamlepo zija. I think ma plan amuthera uyu basi. Man tazingomwani kachasu m’town mu, palibe akukufunani ayi, a Malawi atopa nanu. Ma vendor nso atopa nanu akuti mumawasokonezera ma business awo. Asavutitsa a Police zakumatako basi.

  4. Zina ukumva Kamba Anna Mwala ndithu. How cancan people who are serious do that cheap plan to come to office, ran and come back? Some people take Malawians as fools who will believe in anything they vomit. This is another Kamlepo style, staged to make others look bad. Are you sure Mtambo is it difficult to know where you stay and which bedroom you sleep, which pub you go in the country? You want to tell me Mtambo can hide where he stays. How can a G4 security guard know the map and address of a Mtambo. Howfortfied is the house of Mtambo ? Mtambo should stop behaving like an idiot. If it is true, then it can be anyone who would take advantage because he is a critic of government. This work is not DPP, you can hate them but they have no hand, this whole thing has been staged.

  6. Hahahaha Really? I love you CSOs and I appreciate the work you are doing in this country. But this holy-crap staged-up petrol bomb is horribly embarrassing and insulting the intelligence of Malawians. No more further comment. I am just ashamed.

    1. Nyasatimes trace this mans ip address it must show on your system and pass it on to FBI or Scotland Yard. This comment cannot be by anyone other than the culprits themselves.

    2. My friend. Most DPP cadets are not like you who can manage to put down or artculate very well the way you sound. They are savages who can be used any time any how. Look at this savage who was beating up a guy in MCP cloth in Limbe market. You think that guy is good up stairs? That is how DPP cadets are. Savages. They stoppped using their brains and thats the only way they make a living. They get payed by these DPP officials, who to me are also a bunch of savages. The Mchachas and The Mullis, look at them, SAVAGES with a lot of money. These people have to be taken out of society now before next years elections. They will cause havoc.

  7. Let’s say, I want to harm Mtambo. Can I go to his office at those hours when I know that Mtambo is not there so that the guards can give me the directions to his residence? And then immediately I start off to Mtambo’s residence after getting directions to his residence from the guards, the guards will call and warn Mtambo. Seriously, which an imbecilic thug can really do that? Even a stupid thug can never do it this way. Is it really difficult to know where Mtambo resides? Seriously NyasaTimes, do you really expect a sane person to believe this crap?

    It’s obvious that this is not a different case from the many other staged up attacks purportedly done by the regime operatives. And NyasaTimes, don’t confuse readers here that the police have confirmed of the incident. No. Rather tell the readers the truth that police have confirmed of having received a report about the incident from Trapence and Mtembo. The police can never confirm of the incident as if they are eye-witness. They got all this information from Trapence and Mtambo. And everything that has been said in this articles has only one source, Mtambo and Trepence. Really? Your first sentence if wrong and misleading.

    1. JKF, you are afool, DPP killers, they wanted the guard to take them to Mtambo house, what’s your reasoning shows that you were the one who did that

  8. OLD AGE IS A DISEASE AND IT BECOMES EVEN A BIGGER DISEASE WHEN YOU HIT THE EIGHTIES. STUPID TACTICS LIKE THREATENING THOSE WITH OPPOSING VIEWS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE OLD KAMUZU WAY OF THINKING.WHAT IF ALL OF US TARGET DPP OFFICES AND SUPPORTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY,SURELY NOT EVEN THE POLICE CAN PROTECT THEM.

  9. Kodi angakhalenso ndani, ndi Chaponda ameneyo. He knows impending demonstrations have the ability to bring down government. And any fall of APM is a cardiac arrest warrant for himself, a jail or suicide. You can only expect him to deal ruthlessly with UTM members and their supporters and CSOs.

  11. Mumalowelera chilichonse kufika popondeleza milandu ya nzika zinzanu zikamafuna makompazeshoni pazimene zinawalakwikila, ina mwamikwiyo ya anthu amenewo ikamabwela pamitu panu muziti ndi DPP. Foseki!

    1. Why think of DPP in the first place? It only shows us that Mtambo does politics of hate. Otherwise this guy is childish. It’s unfortunate that some Malawians take thus guy seriously – he is a nobody. How can the whole person get his salary from being on the streets singing and chanting, claiming that he is helping Malawians.

      I usually laugh when I hear of an organizational called ‘Centre for the development of people’ when no single development project is available for Malawians apart from promoting Mathanyula.

      I would be happy if I knew the academic and professional qualifications of these guys, otherwise they seem to be blank in their heads.

  13. Mwayamba kunama tsopanotu kikikiki. This strategy is now saltless. Ask Kumkuyu, Kamulepo, UTM with their staged car torching jibes, etc. It’s just stupid of someone with a first degree like you Mtembo using this tested-and-proven useless strategy like this one. Be creative and find something better than this which will really attract undeserved sympathy from people who are lazy with their brain. With this stupid strategy, I can assure you that you will get sympathy only from the same old and usual people like @FROM LIKOMA who just hate the mentioned political party in the article for no apparent reason except their genetic hatred. Be smart next time.

    Regards,
    A Proud DPP die-hard

    1. So in Malawi we still keep such kind of shallow minded people like.It seems you are so excited to hear someone has been petrol bombed.Next time it will be you.

  17. Saangakhale ena ndi afisi otumidwa ndi mfiti Dausi yemwe anaononga mbiri ya Kamuzu. Pano wayamba kunenepa ndi mano omwe. Dausi ndi Peter fa ndi wachiponyeponye as Mulungu simunthu! God will send His angels to guard you Mr Mtambo. Fear thou not!

  19. If indeed it is DPP then it has not only lost control but also control of its own youth wing. This is what happens when you groom youngsters to be vigilantes. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day these unruly youths turn against their own organisation

  20. Kodi a DPP awotcha zinthu zingati and for how long? What they should know is that they don’t own Malawi, Malawi belongs to all of us. Why should we not speak out where things are wrong? Awa a DPP asakane, ku Bangwe anauza a Malawi kuti achita chilichonse kuti ma Demo asachitike, I think this is one of the tactics but take note that what goes up always comes down.

  21. That is the problem of voting Mitchona who does not know how tirelessly we fought for this democracy.Then someone should support such kind of a Party,over my dead body.And this stupid Dausi as usual is denying it.Democracy is not about war or violence neither petrol bombing your critics.Democracy is all about getting the views of different people regardless of which party or society they belong to.Let us fight and remove out these stupid DPP thugs through ballot boxes.

  22. Ukadaulo wa Nicholas Dausi umenewu, the wrongs he was orchestrating while a KAYOMBE under MCP is practicing it now in DPP during multipartism. Watch out ukafera kundende mdala iwe come 2019.

  23. Your positions ought to have security cause these dpp thugs are ruthless as their leaders!!

    1. My fellow Malawians, this is not time for Political intimidation and intolerance rather but time for implementing universal developmental strategies for all Malawians regardless of political affliations, regional originality, religious alignments or tribe originality but Malawi as one. Lets avoid petty and idiotic politics off intimidation which brings unnecessary fear and disjointed Malawi as a nation. Politics of intimidation shows political immaturity orchestrated by cowards who do not want to face their challengers in proper and transparent manner because they are on the weaker side. Lets all avoid divisions of this small Malawi but be united as never before to build a united Malawi nation which will regard all Malawians as one nation. Am not a Politician but let our all politicians learn to respect one another and preach unity regardless of political differences. Let make Malawi a nation for Malawians who are united and loving one another. Killing your opponents just shows that you are too poor in your mind think how to out class your opponent in a right manner. Lets change this poor thinking of political eradication because one day, you will be the one to be eradiccated. Lets love one another and do more developments for Malawians to vote for you not intimidation.

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