UTM’s Kalindo to spend weekend in police cell: Court reserves ruling on bail for Malawi MP charged with insulting President

January 11, 2019 Green Muheya -Nyasa Times 30 Comments

Eastern Region Chief Resident Magistrate Mzonde Mvula on Friday reserved to Monday his ruling on a bail application by UTM director of youth Bon Kalindo.

Heavy police presence at Zomba Courts as Kalindo appeared for bail application
UTM youth director Bon Kalindo shows a victory sign in handcuffs as the police take him to court for bail application in Zomba.

Kalindo, the Mulanje South legislator, was arrested Thursday and charged with disorderly conduct contrary to Section 153 (1) of the Police Act as well as insulting the President contrary to Section 4 of Protected Flags, Emblems and Names Act.

The legislator was arrested for alleged disorderly conduct and insulting the president allegedly at Balaka Police Station where two aides of Vice President Saulos Chilima were detained last weekend.

He is accused of leading UTM supporters in  disparaging chants against President Peter Mutharika.

According to one of the video clips circulating on social media, Kalindo led in the chants ‘Mutharika wapenga misala [Mutharika is demented].”

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30 replies on “UTM’s Kalindo to spend weekend in police cell: Court reserves ruling on bail for Malawi MP charged with insulting President”

    1. It was also lawful to hang political opponents in the gallows during Kamuzu’s time. Perhaps we should go back there isnt it?

  2. JJ mbewe u lack facts, I know now u are sponsored Cadet,
    U will pee in your pants just wait as 21st May is just around the corner.

    Your uncle has completely failed to run the affairs of this country and he is in reverse gear.

    We don’t want to keep going backwards instead of forwards. We won’t rest till we voted him out.

  3. Every successful way u need to struggle this is nothing but keep us growing bigger and popular thanks Mr Kalindo for Obeying the law its not the end of your career.

  4. One thing I admire about Mr.Kalindo is that he’s a fighter,unlike all other politians who have been arrested before who ends up in hospital bed faking illness he has been in POLICE cell since Thursday 10th.January and still going strong.these are the people we need as leaders

  7. Apolisi chepetsani liwiro kenako mugwa nazo mu mbuna izi. Ndidziko ili amene akhale bwana wako mawa sumudziwa umadzayamba kuwona ngati ukuzuzika utayiwala zomwe iwe inapanga dzulo.
    Kapena kagwireni onse amene ankayimba nyimbozo.

  8. A ton of bricks have fallen of Kalindo. Why has the court reserved ruling for bail? So that Kalindo should spend a weekend in a police cell. And when you look at the number of police officers guarding Kalindo you know that the arrest is politically sanctioned in the decision by the court is questionable.

  9. The Malawi of Peter Mutharika! Spending 4 days in Maula prison for saying the President has gone mad for arresting people for walking around at a cultural function? Mpaka an MP in handcuffs, driven overnight to Maula like the way it was done in the one party state. Is this a winning formula for DPP? Time will tell, but i think its the kicks of a dying horse. The old man is clearly not in control of his faculties. Any reasonable Malawian who knows where this country came from should have no kind words for political arrests regardless of which party you support, sometimes it is important to put country first.

    As for the magistrate, what is there for him to pore over that requires him to reserve judgement to monday? Bail is a right especially for a silly case such as this one. Perhaps he needs time to count whats in the brown envelope.

  11. Kodi kutukwana president ndiye kuti chani? Malamulo a one party state Mpaka lero? Go and appreciate Democracy in US, UK etc People can insult Trump in the face. Kodi ukakhala pa mpando ku Malawi kuno timazitenga ngati MilunGu eti?

  12. Bon Kalindo..aka Winiko deserves that. ..how can he speek as if he doesn’t know the laws of Malawi. ..I wasted my vote in Mj by voting for him in 2014

      1. The good thing is that the morale you are talking about is from his party and not from his constituency

  14. If Police are following the law, then I have no problem with the arrest of this guy.
    He and his UTM crew need to slow down with the insults; and jail may be the right place for him, as so-called leader, to start the cooling down process. Politics in this Malawi civilized environment, that is in contrast to Kamuzu’s MCP, should never be taken to such personal level. The country is not a personal estate, after all.

  15. What place is that? Ma balani a fodya or what. Anyway, DICTATORSHIP repeating itself. Or atamutukwana chitsilu pitalayo, so what? Leaders in the West here get insurted and no one gets arrested. UMBUZI BASI. No wonder we remain backwards.

    1. Malawi dzuka ulamuliro umenewo ndi wakale akati dimokalarsi amatukwana msongoleli ngati akuchita zachamba sikhani imeneyo yoti kumangila kungoti ndale kalindo akumuopa ndikatakwe pandale

  17. Wagonakobe ku Ndende basi. Don’t insult the Head of State. Leaders r appointed by God Himself

    2. No they are not appointed by God. Presidents are elected by the voters. In Malawi’s case, the voters are the majority of people who fall for the lies and bullshit promised to them by crooked politicians. Thinking like this is exactly why we have the masses kisses the asses of politicans in Malawi who in effect are mostly uneducated liars with fake School Certificates and Pot Bellies. Don’t bring God into this nonsense, he has no time for Malawian Politics, and certainly cannot be blamed for the state Malawi is in now!

    1. No morale booster for UTM at all, its just your wishful thinking. What did you gain from the arrest of abiti manice? Instead she was shut up and you dropped some popularity. What did you gain from all those patricia kaliat’s road accident which you claimed to be an attempted assassination by the DPP? Nothing! you dropped even further. What did you gain from your staged Kalindo’s and UTM’s cars that were burned down? Nothing at all. What did you gain from all the nonsense you were spreading that DPP and Mutharika are planning to assassinate Chilima? Nothing! you dropped even more. So what makes you think that you can gain anything from this stupid man’s arrest? Mwalemba mmadzi, Mukamuuze chilima ndale sikugulitsa ma unit.

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