By Vincent Gunde
President and Commander in Chief of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has expressed his gravest concern just like all political parties as well as all Malawians that President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s administration has changed Malawi, the country is no longer a democracy and a multiparty nation that Malawians hard fought for it.
Jumah said what happened in Lilongwe on the 13th November, 2024 was one biggest mistake that President Chakwera will live to regret saying MCP is the oldest political party in the country, it was supposed to act and move with time.
He said people thought that after Kamuzu Banda the succeeding leaders will transform the MCP to be democratic since the laws of the country changed from one-party state to multiparty democracy but everyone is shocked to see President Chakwera crushing the very norms and values that he used to get into government in 2020.
Writing in a statement, Jumah has condemned President Chakwera’S administration, his leadership, his party and all those guiding him that he is laying eggs of war, hatching eggs of civil strife claiming that any state President who does what Chakwera is doing, has no place to be a leader in the World.
Jumah said seeing his government deploying heavily armed police into the streets on 13th November, 2024 firing tear gas and observing dozens of his supporters armed to teeth with pangas and other tools clearly tells Chakwera is not a leader to be in this generation of multiparty ideas and culture.
He said Malawians are not surprised the “no vote” that the MCP gave on the 14th June, 1993 rejecting democracy and multipartism warning President Chakwera that if he thinks the powers he has are permanent, he is deceiving himself, these powers are temporary, the powers are always passed on to the next.
The MRP President said President Chakwera’s desperation to remain in power after he has messed up the social economic trajectory of the country will not work by the use of force or terror advising him not to make citizens suffer for his mistakes.
“You had ample time, you had space and an opportunity to govern this country well, but you have squandered the opportunity yourself,” said Jumah.
He has pleaded with President Chakwera to direct Malawi Police Service to arrest all the people who caused chaos in Lilongwe together with their sponsors and financiers, warning him that failure to apprehend the culprits, this will be a call on the Malawi Defense Force (MDF) to come to the rescue of citizens when another democratic protest is called.
Jumah said it is clear that President Chakwer never wanted to be in power for the people and country but for his personal greed saying MPS is not serving the nation and has failed its duty reminding him that if all avenues are exhausted, civilians of Malawi will rise up and defend their hard-won democracy.
He said a President is a figurehead that stands for the law regardless of which political party he belong, saying President Chakwera is on the wrong side of the law, of the Constitution, of the people and of God, he will not rule beyond 2025 through force but only through the people.
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