By Comrade Jumbe
There is a time when silence becomes betrayal—and today is that time for every opposition leader, aspirant, and concerned citizen in our country.
The upcoming September elections are not just flawed; they are poisoned at the roots.
To continue with business as usual, to waste time and resources conducting whistle-stop tours and mega rallies, is like pouring water into a basket—fruitless, foolish, and tragic.
“A goat does not laugh at a dying lion unless the hyena is close.”
If opposition parties believe they are in a fair contest, they are gravely mistaken.
The system has already chosen its winner. The field is tilted, the referee biased, and the scoreboard manipulated. To participate is to give legitimacy to fraud.
Let it be known: the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), which should be a sacred temple of integrity and impartiality, has been hijacked by die-hard loyalists of the MalawiCongress Party.
How can a shepherd who feasts on the flock be trusted to count the sheep?
Why are ruling party sympathizers allowed to chair critical institution such as Mec?
“If the drumbeat changes, the dance must also change.”
Opposition parties must stop dancing to the beat of deception.
The contaminated voter registration exercise must be questioned in the courts of law —not on podiums or in the streets some important quastions we need to ask.
Why were children registered in alarming numbers?
Why does the central region suddenly have double the number of voters compared to others? Why are names from opposition strongholds mysteriously missing?
And the questions do not stop there:
Why is there a silent refusal to count votes manually?
Why are Smartmatic machines—linked with election controversies globally—being imposed on us?
Why are headmasters and teachers from the central region summoned to state house prior to elections?
Why is taxpayers’ money being used to buy people to vote in favor of mcp?
This is not just malpractice—it is daylight electoral treason.
Mec is not transparent this time around they don’t want you to know what is in their systems ,why?
“He who is warned is better than he who is mourned.”
Let no one say we did not see the signs.
Let no one lament tomorrow what could have been challenged today.
The courts must be approached without delay. MEC must be summoned, questioned, and held accountable.
The current voter registration must be scrapped and started afresh, no matter the cost. For “democracy is not cheap—freedom is never free.”
This is a national emergency dressed in a ballot paper.
Opposition candidates must withdraw, unite, and raise one voice. Do not legitimize a poisoned process.
The September elections is been contaminated.
“A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot know where he dried his body.”
Let us not cry after the storm.
Now is the moment to act. Unite. Resist. Demand accountability.
For if we allow the game to be played under rigged rules, then we are not opponents—we are accomplices.
This is a warning. He who has ears, let him hear.
My pen is mightier than a sword.
