UTM acusses DPP of bastardizing MEC to rig Malawi fresh polls

UTM Party has added its voice to Malawi Congress Party (MCP) claims that  the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) together with Malawi Electoral Commission and National Registration Bureau (NRB)  are orchestrating rigging acts for fresh presidential elections.

UTM publicity secretary Joseph Chidanti Malunga  (R) says the DPP)together with Malawi Electoral Commission and National Registration Bureau have embarked on a rigging scheme through registering minors.

Addressing journalists in Blantyre on Saturday, UTM publicity secretary Joseph Chidanti Malunga said  one of the  rigging scheme  is through registering minors.

Flanked by  Noel Masangwi, the party’s patron, Steve Mikaya, member of Parliament for Blantyre City West, who is also the party’s regional governor for the South, UTM’s spokesperson wondered why DPP keeps   “bastardising” the Jean Ansah-led Electoral Commission with aspersions that cast doubt on the credibility and neutrality of the  electoral body for the July 2 vote.

“We have our doubts that this  MEC  can be neutral and fair,” he said.

UTM has added weight to the claims made by MCP that they ohave detected flaws in the MEC and NRB databases.

Malunga said MEC has been registering under-aged children in the Southern Region. using NRB identity cards .

Recently, Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) questioned the transfer of NRB director Mcford Somanje to the NRB, as they alleged that he was transferred to the bureau to manipulate the database.

Meanwhile, UTM  is requesting Malawi Police Service to deploy its officers to registration centres for security.

The party contends that  the withdrawal of police officers has given chance to other people to disrupt the registration exercise.

UTM party has also condemned the beating of its monitors yesterday in Thyolo, Phalombe and Mulanje districts during the second phase of the voter registration exercise.

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Democrat
Democrat
3 years ago

Bastardising? If anyone is bastardising it is Chilima. Chilima’s greed for power and glory will end badly for him. Bad for Malawi.

Charles B
Charles B
3 years ago

VOTE FOR DPP – PEACE, PROSPERITY and STABILITY.

Bamusi
3 years ago
Reply to  Charles B

Stupid

Shonai
3 years ago

Busy with useless things.Sort your affairs.You claim to be transparent/accountable yet you are failing to tell your people as to who will stand for crocodile/death party.

Cairo
Cairo
3 years ago

UTM is always crying and those are signs that they are typcal failures. SCK, the alliance you are in, is making you even further away from prospects of one day becoming the President of the Country. But I know u will stand on your own. You are typical like Malema in SA, he makes noise all the time and everybody knows that he will never be the President of SA. He perfoms well in the opposition side just as good as SCK. Making noise all the time, anthu amaonatu and u will c when it comes to elections, they will… Read more »

Mbonga Matoga
Mbonga Matoga
3 years ago

This is exactly why lomwes were chased from Mozambique by the Portuguese, lomwes or ngulus are crooks by dna….we can only blame the Chewa people for giving our land in mulanje and Thyolo to the lomwes as a place of refuge. Lero Alomwe analula mphafa to the point that they have a paramount chief of their own though they have no land. And worse still this week lomwes are chasing the very same people who gave them refuge to leave the lomwe belt as they call it. They have forgotten their history most of them they don’t even know how… Read more »

Mwini muzi.
Mwini muzi.
3 years ago
Reply to  Mbonga Matoga

Chewa people never owned the whole land of Malawi. Revisit your history, do not be proud thinking you are the rightful owners of Malawi.

Stupidity mbonga
Stupidity mbonga
3 years ago
Reply to  Mbonga Matoga

Mbonga idiot. U don’t even know that the last king of chewas was killed by mnanula a yao chief, who proceeded to abolish the tittle of kalonga in Malawi up to this day. Matundu wanji wopanda paramount? Tiye uko

Joloza
3 years ago
Reply to  Mbonga Matoga

Ulibe ubongo iwe. Ukukamba mbwelera. Umva pheni sunati. To hell with your useless history.

Msambanjati
Msambanjati
3 years ago

Koma ku nyasatimes kuli makadeti. Zoti makhadethi akukhapa anthu osalembapo

Vilhomwe Ndivimbuli
3 years ago

The blue fools have nothing to offer to Malawians. Time tells mmayesa ngati patenganso 5 years kuti ife a Lhomwe muzatinamize, mtogwa basi!!!

Vilhomwe Ndivimbuli
3 years ago

Kupusa Mchacha, ku pusa Dausi, ku pusa Nankhumwa,

Babi
Babi
3 years ago

Mwayamba kale kulilira. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Mandado@147
Mandado@147
3 years ago
Reply to  Babi

the court nullified the elections cause of the dpp thieves…so yes!

mzika
3 years ago

CHILIMA NDI CHAKWERA NDIYE CHIYEMBEKEZO CHA A MALAWI.
OLO UKAONA SMART VEHICLES ZA UTM
KU MTIMA MYA.
OLO ATATHIRA DOOM MKAMWA VOTE YANGA NDI YA UTM/MCP

Babi
Babi
3 years ago
Reply to  mzika

The two indiots that have damaged our country. That have destroyed property and businesses. Can ‘t vote for these thugs olo atandithira dumu mkamwa.

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