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Malawi: Angry mob petitions to impeach controversial chief

  1. Posted on Wednesday 15 September 2010 - 16:16
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    An angry mob in the southern Malawian District of Neno took the streets Wednesday to pre sent a petition to the district commissioner for the district demanding his immediate impeachment of controversial chief Chekucheku who was re recently re instated by the country’s head of state.
    Chekucheku becomes a controversial chieftaincy as it was dissolved by the country’s first presidency of Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda following the chief’s support to the ‘first freedom fighters’ who were demanding the country to become a democracy.
    In their petition the chiefs demanded that despite the chief being a very influential figure in their country’s fight for democracy he was supposed to be impeached following what they described as untraditional practices by the chief.
    However regal experts have said it is impossible to impeach a chief.
    Speaking in an interview with Africa News regal expert Peter Mutharika who is also minister of justice in Malawi said that it was impossible for the people to demand fort the impeachment of the chief as chieftaincy was hereditary.
    However the people are demanding that despite the good record that the chieftaincy is having, the current chief Fracis Magombo needs to be impeached as he is not following traditional chieftain practice s.
    In their petition the people are demanding that the chief needs to be impeached as he is currently installing sub chiefs without consultation to the loyal family.
    However Chekucheku said in an interview that the people’s cancers were baseless as the chieftaincy went it wrong hands.
    The Chekucheku chieftaincy was demolished in 1977 at the then ruling Malawi congress convention after the chief supported the first Malawian freedom who went separate ways with the country’s first head of state Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

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