Malawi President Peter Mutharika should feel comforted If the people said to be behind his purported Coup are the MCP and PP cohorts that were caught using WhatsApp to force the duly-elected President Arthur Peter Mutharika out of power through unconstitutional means.
The WhatsApp conversation in which MCP MPs youths and supporters are seen to be planning how best they can overthrow Mutharika shows a bunch of amateurs and lack of understanding of the true situation on the ground in Malawi.
The damning revelations come a week after government in a whispered campaign unveiled to the nation a plan by opposition parties to force Peter Mutharika out, an assertion that was heavily denied by all the parties including MCP and the United States Ambassador Virginia Palmer.
The group has prominent MCP names such as Jessie Kabwira now said to be in hiding, son to Lazarus Chakwera, Nick and his wife Rudo Mkukupa Chakwera, Hon OB Chakhwantha, Ulemu Msungama and MCP organizer in diaspora Gerrard Mzaza Nkhata.
The thread of the conversation – which runs from January this year to date- quotes Nkhata calling on his colleagues to organize an uprising in a style reminiscent of Egypt’s uprising in 2011 when Hosni Mubarak was overthrown.
“APM can be taken down by just using the Mubarak Egypt style. We can just go to our residence (Kamuzu Palace) and camp there up until the President faints on his own due to fear. And alternatively a small group can pull out a campaign and camp at City Centre and defy all orders to vacate up until Mutharika resigns. I’m sure people can join in” Mzaza says.
However, Jessie Kabwira advises her colleagues to be cautious by not pushing the party into it first but use common people to start the revolution.
“The diaspora movement should kick-start it then the nation will follow but it’s not easy for MCP as a party to start something, I know the consequences but let the masses do the job, they just need a starting point. Then everyone else will be on board, these people are suffering and can react quickly,” reads one statement. In the course of their discussion, it is proposed that they should try and involve youths from Peoples Party and other organizations to rally around their agenda. “We have the youth so does PP. I think it’s a matter of structuring, defining exactly what has to be done, be well-timed not reactive, apologetic or too careful, logical etc.
We should have some organised chaos chipping at the elephant from all corners till it falls,” goes the figurative treasonous statement. Numbers in the conversation include +265 998 58 24 45, +265 999 54 44 70, +44 7963 139218, +1 (404) 617-9530, +44 7969 216335, +265 996 24 30 27, +265 998 58 24 45 and +265 999 54 44 70.
Below is part of the conversation
27/01/2016, 21:25 – +265 998 58 24 45: What are we doing as MCP to deal with this stupid DPP administration and its president? In the last dpp regime, things were bad but we made Malawians to fight back. This time we seem to be normativising these deadly failures.
29/01/2016, 03:26 – +265 999 54 44 70: Kaya aMalawi kupusaku kunachokera pati eish! The DPP is messing up big time and we all seem Ok
27/01/2016, 21:59 – +44 7963 139218: I presume Diaspora movement should kick start it then the Nation will follow but it’s not easy for MCP as a party to start something, I know the consequences but let the masses do the job, they just need a starting point. Then everyone else will be ok board, these people are suffering and can react so quick.
29/01/2016, 04:18 – +1 (404) 617-9530: APM can be taken down, just using The Mubarrack Egypt style nkupita ku nyumba yathu, Kamuzu Palace osachoka iyayi, atha kukomokera momo ataona kalikiliki panja anthu atalusa ndithu
27/01/2016, 22:02 – +44 7754 944607: Does not opposition have youths who are fearless to tackle the issue head on?
27/01/2016, 22:08 – +265 998 58 24 45: We have youth, pp also has them . I think it 7th a matter of structuring, defining exactly what has to be done, well timed, not reactive, apologetic or too careful, logical etc. Rather, some organised chaos chipping at the elephant from all corners till it falls, all hands on Dec
27/01/2016, 22:09 – +44 7963 139218: We have the youth in opposition but legally any uprising started by opposition result in treason cases, let’s use the people. I believe if Malawians start it, MCP is ready to take care of them, there might be differences but even those starting this know the potential and opportunities that lies ahead.
29/01/2016, 01:48 – +1 (404) 617-9530: Pita ndiofunikatu kukamuchotsaku ku Kamuzu Palace yathu. Nyumba yathu imeneyi ngati anspangira Mubarrack in Egypt
29/01/2016, 06:14 – +44 7969 216335: But if a small group can pull out a campaign kunena Kuti sitichoka ku city centre till atatulapansi udindo I’m sure people can join in.
29/01/2016, 06:17 – +265 999 54 44 70: As MCP we were supposed to take advantage of all this mess and play it from the background
28/01/2016, 22:00 – +265 996 24 30 27: I entirely agree with you , me too wonder why we are not ticking and get necessary backing. Few of us had/have careers elsewhere but opted to join liberation movement. Alas its business as usual. Ask JK and myself. Even in parliament, we don’t get the support we need to get this DPP down
29/01/2016, 06:43 – +265 998 58 24 45: I used to think joining politics would give me a chance to be more active, use my activist voice with those of others but what I have seen is speaking out, walking in the streets has earned me the title waphuma ameneuja, the bulk of those I stand with prefer apologetic so called calculated politics. I’m an activist and do not apologise for my belief in people power. I must say, I’m reaching a point where it seems I belong more to my classroom where my phuma led in defeating bingu, it gets frustrating to be in a party everyone wants and is looked up but it is afraid of its own power, I feel like a person dying of thirst when I’m in a river. Me and my phuma seem to belong elsewhere.
29/01/2016, 06:44 – +265 999 54 44 70: Zimatopetsadi JK
