Justice Msosa celebrates DPP’s Rumphi loss

Chairperson of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), Justice Anastazia Msosa was in high spirits in celebration on Wednesday following the loss by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Rumphi Central Constituency.

Close sources at the electoral body disclosed to Nyasa Times that the chairperson has vowed to make President Bingu wa Mutharika and his DPP not to get her support in all future elections following the ill-treatment that Msosa and her fellow Commissioners went through in December, 2010 when Mutharika suspended the MEC.

Justice Msosa was in high spirits starting from Rumphi where she had gone to oversee the conducting of polling last Tuesday and even told close associates before the polling that it was her wish to see that the opposition carries the day, sources said.

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"I don't mind which opposition party wins as long as it's not DPP, I will be happy," Msosa is reported to have been overheard on telephone to her close ally, Commissioner Georgina Chikoko.

Sources say that although all the contesting parties complained about Enock Chihana's 'rigging' tactics by visiting all polling centres splashing money and food stuffs to voters and polling staff, Msosa advised MEC officials to go slow and not act on Chihana's unlawful conduct in order to facilitate his victory.

Meanwhile, Msosa, a respected Supreme Court Judge is reported to have grabbed DPP NGC Member Frank Mwenefumbo by the neck and dragged him out of a polling centre at Bumba TDC when votes were being counted.

Msosa pushed out Mwenefumbo when he refused to leave the centre arguing he was an accredited monitor supervisor.

The incident is reported to have been communicated to DPP National Campaign Director Dr Ken Zikhale Ng'oma who to denounce Msosa's conduct on the national radio, MBC.

However, when confronted with these allegations by journalists why as Chairperson of the Commission she conducted herself in such a manner, Msosa dismissed this as not being true and said she would not comment further.

The DPP's parliamentary candidate in the by-elections Norman Nyirenda came second after the victorious Enock Chihana of the Alliance for Democracy (Aford).

In the final poll results, the son to late maverick democratic fighter and politician, Chakufwa Chihana, polled 6640 votes representing 46.35 percent of the total vote casted whilst his closest runner up Nyirenda totalled 3275 representing 22.86 percent.

Justice Msosa has told her close allies that Mutharika shouted at her before the closure of MEC and the way police conducted a search at her house in the low density area of Nyambadwe in Blantyre still pains her.

"You were not there when Bingu shouted at me and you were not there when the Police run down my house, this president is truly evil and I will make sure that he pays for this embarrassment," she is reported to have told close associates.

Nyasa Times 12 Sep, 2011

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