The Mulhako wa Alhomwe Cultural Grouping has petitioned President Lazarus Chakwera on a number of issues including “unwarranted dismissals from employment, political persecution and shrinking business space, Lhomwes are allegedly suffering at the hand of the current regime.
Delivering the petition through the Malawi Police and District Commissioners in Blantyre, Mulhako wa Alhomwe Chief Executive Officer Pius Mvenya added said the grouping and other Southerners are peace loving and that they have been part and parcel of the Malawi Development agenda since time in memorial
Mvenya however said the grouping is saddened that since 2020 Lhomwes have suffered persecution, which he said was unwarranted.
Mvenya then warned that if left untamed, the trend has the potential of derailing the country’s peace and development agenda.
He has, therefore, asked the Government to stop the persecution, which he said includes politically motivated arrests.
Through the petition, the group has since ordered the Government to respond to their issues or face demonstrations and vigils.
The petition was delivered on Wednesday.
Government spokesperson Gospel Kazako was not immediately available for his quick response at the time we went to the press.
No matter how many petitions are presented; the plans this regime has is to silence the south by coming up with jungle-means of running a government. Everytime they kneel on the necks of people from the south for them not to breathe they think they are achieving something, not knowing that those acts are simply strengthening the southerners. 2025 is not far. Solution is that anything MCP should be rejected during the polls. Actually, what somebody suggested could be the way to go whereby a ‘Federal Government’ system should be instituted in the country in order for each county/region to administer its own business. If the past democratically elected governments, soon after their one party system of government was ousted, were treating others in a similar way, in the 26 years MCP was in opposition, their chances of survival was next to zero. They are there today because others chose to forget and bury the hatchet. But with them they have chosen to eliminate the rest by being heavy-handed on cooked up charges. MCP should know that they won not only because of their regional support but it took additional numbers from other regions. Instead of governing they are busy incapacitating would-be political contenders and as a result it is the electorates from both aisles who are suffering, hence rendering their patriotism untenable and baseless. Very soon all those sufferers will be wooed to go out and vote for the same mediocrity. As is always said, “Zitchito za manja anga zindichitire umboni” – is what will determine the route to adopt towards the envisaged humanity and freedoms.