Ben Longwe reminds Malawians Chakwera’s power ends on 23rd June, 2025

July 24, 2026

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By Vincent Gunde

Human Rights Activist Sir Charles Ben Longwe, has reminded Malawians that according to the Republican Constitution and if Malawi is a Rule of Law country, President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s powers are ending on 23rd June, 2025.

Ben Longwe said from the 24th June, 2025 Malawi shall have no President and no Parliament demanding Malawians to sit down for the formation of a Government of National Unity (GNU) or an interim government to oversee the General Elections on 16th September, 2025.

He said according to the Constitution, the law does not allow President Chakwera to exceed governing Malawians in a country where the Rule of Law is supreme from the 24th June, 2025 challenging all who wants to arrest him to do so but the Rule of Law must take its course.

Speaking through an audio clip, Ben Longwe has observed that from 2020 till this day 2025 all those that are being arrested for breaking the Rule of Law are those speaking against, and insulting President Chakwera being the current President of the country while those who are insulting and castigating former Presidents have no case to answer in a country where the Rule of Law is supreme.

Longwe said in 1994 Malawians made a declaration that never and ever shall their country go back to one-party state and dictatorship observing that President Chakwera and the MCP are taking Malawi back to the 1992 arresting all those with dissenting views.

He has claimed that Malawi has no Rule of Law and if there’s any, is on paper because President Chakwera and the MCP are working hard to be silencing, threatening and intimidating Malawians that those found insulting and castigating Chakwera must be arrested and prosecuted in a court of law.

The activist has claimed that in a country following the Rule of Law, the police cannot arrest a suspect in the middle of the night and in his or her pajamas and without Identity Cards, the police has to give service to the people and so too, people have to give service to the police.

“During Kamuzu Banda’s era, police officers were given button sticks while those of Police Mobile Force (PMF), were given guns, if a suspect was resisting arrest, the Police Mobile Force was called not to give service but to give force,” said Ben Longwe.

He said Ms. Martha Chizuma and Activist Lytone Mangochi have suffered and are victims of torture from the MCP government meaning that there is no Rule of Law in Malawi but dictatorship which has become the order of the day.

Ben Longwe has appealed to those who will be arrested while in their pajamas to refuse dressing but to go to court while in pajamas for the court to prove that it is not Malawi Police Service (MPS) which arrested them but Police Mobile Force (PMF).