By Vincent Gunde
One of the many who fought fearlessly with pen and courage to remove the MCP from power during the dawn of the country’s democracy Comrade Alhaji Imran Jumbe, has called upon Malawians to hold a national Referendum to decide whether the MCP should continue to exist as a legitimate political entity within the Republic.
Comrade Jumbe said Malawi must decide whether to keep walking with a ghost that has haunted them for decades or to finally open a new chapter written by peace, integrity, and hope saying if people in their wisdom choose to return the MCP, it should be so for the will of the people is the voice of God.
He said if the people say no more, then, this must be known that in 2025 or in 2026 Malawi chose to break the chain and walk into the light advising Malawians that the hour has come, the truth is watching, the spirit of those who died for this land are listening, Malawians should be given a voice to speak.
Writing on his face book page, Comrade Jumbe said he has been writing day and night believing that children would inherit a nation free from fear, blood, and silence that once darkened their land by MCP, saying Malawi has walked a long journey – a journey socked in both tears and triumph.
Comrade Jumbe said Malawians have known joy, but they have also buried many dreams saying the shadow of the Mwanza four; Dick Matenje, Aaron Gadama, Twaibu Sangala, and David Chiwanga on 18th May, 1983, the cries of those whose voices were never heard.
He said Malawians were being fed to crocodiles, no word can explain as the result of attributes by MCP to the people over the decades and now, very recent, on 10th June, 2024, it was mysterious plane crash that took lives of Dr. Saulosi Klaus Chilima and eight others- all these call out from the grave yards of justice.
The freedom fighter said the MCP despite the change of faces and slogans, has continued to carry out the same old spirit- a spirit of silence, of fear, and of blood observing that democracy is not about elections, it is about giving people the voice to decide their destiny.
He has called upon President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika and the DPP government to take this noble task with courage and justice that this is not a revenge, people are seeking the truth not hatred, closure not destruction, but deliverance.
“Let the nation be heard through the power of a Referendum- a peaceful, democratic judgement where the people themselves shall declare whether MCP still belongs to the future of Malawi or to the darkness of history,” reads Jumbe’s writings on the wall.
