Bingu Wa Mutharika’s death leaves Malawi in constitutional crisis

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Bingu Wa Mutharika’s death leaves Malawi in constitutional crisis

April 7th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Last July protesters took to the streets, angry over fuel shortages, soaring
prices and high unemployment, and called for Mr Mutharika to step down. A
police crackdown left 20 people dead.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it would not comment until receiving
official notification of Mr Mutharika’s death, which senior government
figures in Malawi have so far refused to give. Officially, the president was
flown

to South Africa for treatment late on Thursday.

At a press conference yesterday, Mrs Banda refused to speak about Mutharika’s
health, instead emphasising that the country’s constitution must be followed.

John Kapito, a human-rights activist arrested for sedition last month, said Mr
Mutharika had seriously damaged Malawi’s reputation. He said the president’s
death offered a chance for Malawi to re-engage with Britain and other donor
nations, and added that it was also a time for questions about the country’s
leadership, which had drifted from democratic principles back towards the
dictatorship of Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who was deposed in 1994 after a
33-year reign.

“I think we have learned a lot of lessons about just trusting a leader and not
the systems of the country,” Mr Kapito said. “We need to move forward and
rebuild our governance and human rights.”