By Vincent Gunde
President of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has reminded President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera to match with what he wrote on his 2018 facebook page on activists Bon Kalindo and the torture he and his MCP are doing on him.
Jumah said there was a time when the DPP was harassing and oppressing Bon Kalindo when he was Member of Parliament and today the same is being tortured and harassed by Chakwera’s MCP government.
He has asked President Chakwera to clarify his sincerity with his writing in 2018 that he will protect activists once he is voted into the government claiming that Kalindo is being moved from one court to another and a police station to another.
Speaking through his face book page widely read by millions of followers across the African continent, Jumah said it is very sad thar President Chakwera is doing exactly what the DPP and former President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika was doing treating Kalindo as if he is a gangster or rebel.
Jumah has deplored President Chakwera and his MCP for personal punishments being perpetuated on activist Bon Kalindo describing what is happening to Kalindo as total dictatorship happening in a country of democracy.
He lamented that Kalindo just like everyone else has the right to go to court and justice observing that the court grant him bail, the police is coming to rearrest him and keeping him for more than 48 hours saying Kalindo is not a threat to national security.
The MRP President said Kalindo is being undemocratically held in custody at Mangochi prison demanding the democratic principles and free rule of law in Malawi to release him unconditionally as he has been held more than 48 hours without being taken to court.
He said President Chakwera and his MCP led Tonse Alliance government should borrow a leaf from what happened in 2019-2020 electoral justice in court where millions of property was destroyed and vandalized, Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo was not held accountable and why this time the same has happened, Bon Kalindo is paying the price.
“I plead with you Mr. President, you have over-arrested and over-held Kalindo, release him forthwith without any condition attached,” said Jumah.
He has since advised President Chakwera that there is no permanency in politics, presidency and ministerial position observing that today Chakwera is President, three years ago, there was Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and nobody knows who will be the President of the Republic in 2025.
Jumah has also advised President Chakwera to leave a legacy that will be remembered by the future generations to come and not the legacy of destruction, torturing and harassing activists reminding him that he once wrote on his face book page in 2018 that… “If people vote for us next Tuesday, they are going to see change which they have not seen before,”……
He said it is sad that instead of Malawians see change as promised by President Chakwera while in the opposition party , Malawians are in pain and suffering and they are regretting to have made a wrong choice of a leader.
