Seems they know the attack better than we do–MCP
By Yamikani Harji–MACHINGA
Democratic Progressive Party-DPP, infamous for its trade mark of unleashing terror on critical voices while in power, has now come out furious attacking the governing Malawi Congress Party-MCP for allegedly taking the same path during its political rally in Bangwe Township, Blantyre last Saturday.
It is alleged that four people, including a woman, were rushed to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital after falling victim to panga-wielding suspected MCP youths who caused terror.
One of the victims, Mphatso Njalam’mano told Nation Online that some youths clad in MCP-branded T-shirts started attacking anyone wearing blue cloth on the pretext that they were opposition DPP youth cadets.
“I repair phones in the market and I don’t do any politics, but the only crime I committed was to wear a blue Chelsea Football Club replica jersey. They hit me with pangas as if I were a thug and took away my mobile phone,” explained Njalam’mano.
DPP spokesperson Shadric Namalomba has since condemned the act; branding MCP a party of darkness and its reign as a terror that will not change.
“We want to remind the MCP and its agents that while they rejected multiparty democracy by voting against change in the 1993 referendum, they do not have the licence.
“The DPP feels highly aggrieved as it is alleged that some of the victims of the vicious cycle of violence were attacked simply on basis that they put on DPP clothes and we call the Chakwera/Chilma government to apprehend their hooligans,” says Namalomba in a statement.
He therefore accuses the MCP top brass of doing nothing to condemn such acts of violence.
But MCP spokesperson, Ezekiel Ching’oma questions why it is only the DPP which knows of the attack in question.
“And they claim that one victim put on a Chelsea jersey. When did a Chelsea jersey become an enemy to any political party? It’s not making sense to us because it seems the DPP knows of this attack yet they claim it happened at our rally,” argues Ching’oma.
This comes a month after some suspected MCP supporters attacked a Times Group journalist, Francis Mzindiko during a presidential function at the Malawi Bureau of Standards in Blantyre.
There are no reported arrests in both cases. DPP was booted out of government after a court-sanctioned-presidential polls in June 2020. It also has a history of unleashing terror on its critics including journalists and human rights defenders
