By Vincent Gunde
Karonga based rights activist Lytone Mangochi, has asked the newly elected executive committee of the UTM under Dr. Dalitso Kabambe to discipline the country’s Vice President Dr. Michael Usi with a strong word that from the elective conference onwards, he is not a member of the UTM.
Mangochi said he thought that by announcing that he was not going to Mzuzu for an elective conference, Dr. Usi was speaking from his heart not knowing that he has a hidden agenda to continue dividing the UTM.
He said recently, Dr. Usi was welcomed at the BICC in Lilongwe by a group of women cladding in UTM attire saying this is speaking for itself that Dr. Usi is still President of the party and has the powers to call UTM women to dance for him.
Speaking through a video clip, Mangochi said delegates to the UTM elective conference in Mzuzu chose Dr. Dalitso Kabambe to be the party’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or President meaning that UTM has one President, he is Dr. Dalitso Kabambe.
Mangochi said Dr. Usi has been against the UTM right from before Dr. Saulosi Chilima was escorted to an early grave by refusing to dress himself in UTM attire arguing that he was serving the government of President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera as Cabinet Minister.
He said after the death of Dr. Saulosi Chilima, Dr. Usi has found himself in love with the UTM by dressing himself in UTM attire besides rising from Cabinet Minister to the position of Vice President of the Republic of Malawi.
The activist has warned Dr. Usi that if he doesn’t stop using the name of UTM in his activities, he will on 5th December, 2024 leads demonstrators to demonstrate at his house that UTM is one and not two as Dr. Usi is claiming.
Mangochi said Dr. Usi’s plan is to take UTM members to the MCP a thing which must be rejected at all cost advising him to dress the women that are following him wherever he is going as Vice President his colour for “ODYA ZAKE ALIBE MULANDU” the party he personally formed.
“We should not allow Dr. Usi to finish UTM, he has fought a good fight with the UTM while Dr. Chilima was alive and today, he has an agenda sponsored by the MCP to destroy the UTM,” he said.
He has finally appealed to Malawians living in the diaspora to support opposition parties they belong to so that together they can liberate the country from MCP and President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera who has taken Malawi back to dictatorship as was during Kamuzu Banda’s reign.
