Mpinganjira accuses CSOs of plotting a coup
Malawi Government on Monday said a statement from the civil society organisations (CSOs) Grand Coalition proposing to move Parliament to have an interim government until the next elections is treasonous.
But Minister of Information and Civic Education Brown Mpinganjira, who is also the official spokesperson of the government, said the Joyce Banda administration will not take any action against the CSOs because it trusts in the maturity of Malawians whom, he said, would see the folly in the statement.
Mpinganjira, speaking in an exclusive interview in Blantyre on Monday, accused leaders of the CSOs of using an inflammatory and threatening tone in their statement, adding that government has taken a reconciliatory approach which he said must never be mistaken for weakness.
In their statement published in the country’s two dailies yesterday, the CSOs, led by the Council for Non Governmental Organisations in Malawi (Congoma), said as an action plan on the Capital Hill cashgate, if government failed to meet some demands laid down, they were going to collect one million or so signatures to give a vote of no-confidence.
The CSOs also planned to institute black Mondays when protesters would wear black attire, hold periodic mass demonstrations nationwide, stay away from work and occupy Capital Hill and State Houses, among other courses of action.
The CSO leaders said they were concerned that in the face of the Capital Hill cashgate and where donors have frozen aid, the President continued to travel, making 14 local trips between July and October 2013.
But Mpinganjira said the President is keen to engage the CSO leaders and all other players, warning that any attempt to intimidate each other into submission would not help.
He said the People’s Party (PP) government is constitutionally instituted and to call for its removal was tantamount to a coup, but government would not be pushed to go that far and take drastic measures because Malawians are the best judges.
The minister feared the NGOs were serving the interest of the opposition.
Congoma chairperson Voice Mhone said they were convinced they have done everything within the law.
He said the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) accused them then of serving the interests of Joyce Banda and is not surprised that today they are being accused of serving the interests of the opposition, saying that is how politicians have always behaved.
You CSOb are just stupid and you really do not know what you are supposed to be doing. What do you want the gvt to do? Just arrest all ministers or what? You are just attendtion seekers.
If there is a more stupid person in this country Malawi is you Zimbongera. You mean you enjoy all this shit this govt is doing? With your statement ACB ikutsate you must be part of cash-gate, More fire CSOs ndili pambuyo panu
That is why I always say that we have a very bad constitution and people, I mean , crooked and wicked people like Brown Mpinganjira and Joyce Banda are taking advantage of the bad constitution to remain in power. We should have a constitution that should remove and put on trial a president commits a crime while in office. Joyce Banda looks innocent in all these scandals simply because the constitution protects her. She can even shoot a person in public and we can say the constitution does not allow us to arrest her. Having an election in five days or six months is not a license to commit crimes. What if we elect a person today, are we going to wait for the next five while we are suffering just because the constitution does not allow? Wake Malawians. Wake up Chancellor College political scientist or opinionists. They do not have facts. Donors can see that something is wrong but our so called intelligent guys at Chancellor College cannot see this. Why should we always wait for Mzungu for spot mistakes and decide for us. Wake up guys and let’s change the constitution? We know Mustafa has even backed UDF at its worst when YDs were out terrorizing all Malawians.
Malawians can borrow a page or two from what has just happened in Brazil. For a long time Malawians have been taken for fools by greedy political prostitutes like Mpinganjira. We all know very well who the beneficiaries of Cash gate are and yet nothing is being mentioned in the media. It is of no surprise how the political spinners have gone even further to hire consultants from England to continue hood-winking Malawians!!!! Joyce Banda should resign in order to allow a transparent investigation on Cash Gate. No one should not expect a thorough and transparent forensic investigation with her in power. As it has already been exposed that this government wants to find a scapegoat in Kasambara. Sadly our parliamentarians are nothing but figure heads. They fail to act when they are expected to act. donors should not resume aid to Malawi in any shape or form as long as Joyce Banda is president. She has used donors money to fund her PP. She has used a number of people who set up fake businesses including her children to steal funds from government coffers. If our military was not docile yes a coup would be appropriate at this point!!. But alas our military is also just as corrupt!!
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