By Dorica Mtenje
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera’s Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Diaspora Network based in South Africa is fighting for leadership which ended up abolishing the WhatsApp group for the network.
In written concerned letter addressing to MCP leadership which is in our possession, the RSA wing accuses Chalo Mvula,George Limbani and Mayinala for destroying the wing.
“A group of MCP RSA Wing which is affiliated to MCP Diaspora Network, has been abolished abruptly because of anti democratic leadership by the leaders mentioned above.
“Leading to this is the voters rights to ask for a referendum or vote of no confidence against the current Director Dr. I. Nkhata who seen as a man sleeping on the job,” reads part of the statement.
The letter adds, “When the members want him to show leadership, he goes into hiding. If member express views about the wing to move forward, or questions the vision of the wing, the Director goes into the inbox of members to shut them up instead of leading.
“Such leadership is strange as MCP is one of the democratic party in the country. As such members wanted the MCPDN leadership to address the issue of leadership which has crippled the wing for a long time”.
“But in protection of the Director against the Vote of no confidence / referendum Mr. Chalo Mvula and his fellow oppressive leaders have teared the group apart, a behaviour which is against the values of Dr. Lazarus Chakwera.
“The removals were done at midnight while everyone was sleeping, members woke up and found the group is finished. Such is a strange and poor leadership qualities of Mr. Chalo Mvula who is entrusted with a huge responsibilities of uniting MCP members in Diaspora, he does it by destroying a group at night second time in a month as he removed people at night completely finished another group of MCP Diaspora Network where current ministers are members,” concludes the memo.
But In an interview with Maravi Post on Sunday, May 8, 2022 Malawi Congress Party Diaspora Network (MCPDN)’s leader Chalo Mvula said the group has been abolished as old leaders are refusing to handover positions to the newly elected members.
Mvula said the old leaders happen to bring in confusion into group by insulting those that are guiding them to the right direction.
He said that the party headquarters is aware of the infighting assuring to be rectified.
Mvula added that as a leader he follows the ethics of the party and discipline those that are in disobedient.
Asked of being accused of dictatorship Chalo did not come out clear claims consulting the party leadership in his decisions.
This comes after a group of MCP’s RSA the group calls for referendum to force the current Director, Isaac Nkhata out of office as the grouping believes that he is sleeping on the job despite his tenure is expected to end in November 2023.
Malawi Congress Party Diaspora Network (MCPDN) is MCP umbrella groups in the Diaspora.
MCPDN has wings in RSA, Canada, UK, USA, Republic of Ireland , Gulf Region, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.