By Vincent Gunde
President and Commander in Chief of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has advised President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera to travel to Germany with Leader of Opposition in Parliament Dr. George Chaponda or any other opposition party leaders.
Reports are indicating that President Chakwera is travelling to Germany on a new steamship mission on Lake Malawi, this has increased gossiping and speculations that President Chakwera will interfere with the findings of the Germany aircraft manufacturing company’s expert who were in the country to investigate the plane crash which killed Dr. Saulosi Chilima and eight others.
He said the Government of Malawi only summoned aircraft manufacturers from Germany to come into the country to correct and fix the problem so that such accident should not happen again as this was the first of its kind in Malawi.
Speaking through a Revolutionary voice in various social media platforms, Jumah said President Chakwera should have appointed a panel of church leaders, CSOs, family members of the departed souls for a Commission of Inquiry claiming that if this happened, there could have been no gossips.
Jumah said the Germany aircraft experts into the country was not a Commission of Inquiry, they were here for their plane and the commission could have investigated on what happened for the plane to travel with no MCP officials only UTM.
He said the plane was made to carry 18 passengers but it was full with 9 people observing that these are the kinds of questions which Malawians are asking and are demanding answers claiming that in every mysterious death, there are suspects and who are these suspects in the Dr. Chilima and eight others death?
The MRP President said Malawians are suspicious with President Chakwera’s visit to Germany hence a demand for Chakwera to travel with Leader of Opposition Dr. George Chaponda for Malawians to trust the visit that it is being made for discussions of a steamship on Lake Malawi.
He has appealed to President Chakwera to delay a bit his visit to Germany until the Germans have released a report of their findings as to what exactly happened for the plane to crash in the Chikangawa forest in Mzimba district on Monday, 10th June, 2024.
“We are living in the world where social media is a powerful weapon, there’s nothing to hide, Malawians need transparency, this is democracy,” said Jumah.
He said it is sad that till this day, no families of the 9 departed souls in a plane crash has received an autopsy report questioning government what is it hiding, warning government that many Malawians will be arrested for the truth to prevail.
Jumah has made it clear to government that there is no way Malawians will be blocked from speaking on Dr. Chilima and eight others death of what they feel is right claiming that speaking is the only way of exercising hard-won democracy and freedom Malawians fought for in 1994.