By Vincent Gunde
Karonga based rights activist Lytone Mangochi, has called on Muslims and yaos in the country to use the upcoming elections in the Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) as an opportunity to change its leadership.
Comrade Mangochi said some people in the country are spreading propagandas in the social media that in President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika’s government there are no Yaos and Muslims dismissing this as not true claiming that Mutharika has the welfare of the Yaos and Muslims at heart.
He has reminded Malawians that Professor Mutharika after he was ousted from power in June, 2020 he established himself in Mangochi at Page House and he was offering his personal support to the Yaos and Muslims.
The activist has claimed that Professor Mutharika even went to Machinga where people were eating wild bushes (chitedze) as food for their survival with a little food he had to distribute to them but at no time the Muslim leadership and President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera did the same.
He said what Malawians saw was the Muslim leadership offering solidarity with President Chakwera as they were seen going to the State House than showing solidarity with Professor Mutharika who had the welfare of the Muslims and the Yaos at heart.
Mangochi said madam Dr. Joyce Banda travelled to Egypt to beg some food for the starving Muslims and Yaos while President Chakwera became the world’s global trotter and at no time, he brought home food to distribute to the suffering Malawians.
” Propagandas against Professor Mutharika on the Yaos and Muslims are dead before arrival, leave Mutharika alone,” said Comrade Mangochi.
He has advised the UTM and UDF to leave the matter of the DPP and its Vice Presidents to the DPP itself saying this is outside their jurisdiction, and no one in Malawi will listen to their statements.
Comrade Mangochi has personally advised UDF President Atupele Muluzi to come out from his fence to do his politics outside claiming that millions of Malawians are complaining of his behaviors as greed reminding him that he has a lot to do for his party to win back the trust they lost in him as their leader.
He has further advised the two political parties UTM and UDF to use this time they are not in government as an opportune time to rebuild their parties ahead of the 2030 elections and not the time for spreading propagandas against the DPP and President Professor Mutharika.
He has praised Leader of Opposition Simplex Chithyola Banda and the MCP for declaring themselves out of the parliamentary committee to investigate circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Saulosi Chilima and eight others, in the Chikangawa forest on 10th June, 2024.
Comrade Mangochi has also advised Speaker of the National Assembly Sameer Suleman to add activists and journalists in the parliamentary committee for the commission of inquiry to be credible in the eyes of millions of Malawians that have questions without answers.
