By Staff Reporter
For years, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) political figures projected an image of invincibility. Power emboldened them. Arrests were ordered, summons issued, and reputations dragged through the mud—often with no clear charges, no transparency, and no regard for due process. Dissenting voices were silenced not by argument, but by handcuffs.
Today, the very same political actors are tasting the bitter medicine they once administered so freely.
Those who celebrated the arrests of others, who justified police action as “the law taking its course,” now cry foul as the law knocks on their own doors. The chains they fastened on rivals are now clinking around their own wrists. There is no mystery here—only irony.
History is relentless. It does not forget arrogance. It does not reward abuse of power. It waits patiently, then teaches its lesson with brutal clarity.
This is not about revenge. It is about accountability. It is about a sobering truth every political movement eventually learns: state power is temporary, but the consequences of abusing it are permanent.
The MCP leadership once believed loyalty to power was enough to protect them. They mistook the machinery of the state for a personal shield. Now, stripped of that protection, they are discovering what countless Malawians already knew—when institutions are weaponised today, they will be turned on someone tomorrow.
No retreat. No surrender. But also, no immunity.
Let this moment stand as a warning to all who wield power with arrogance: the wheel always turns. And when it does, history will not listen to excuses.
