{"id":79647,"date":"2019-06-26T02:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79647"},"modified":"2019-06-26T02:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:57:36","slug":"district-commissioner-rejects-anti-ansah-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/26\/district-commissioner-rejects-anti-ansah-demonstrations\/","title":{"rendered":"District Commissioner rejects anti-Ansah demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Jameson Chauluka:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/moses-chimphepo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/moses-chimphepo-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/moses-chimphepo-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/moses-chimphepo-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/moses-chimphepo.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHIMPHEPO\u2014You will be advised accordingly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mangochi District Commissioner, Moses Chimphepo, has shot down Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters\u2019 proposal to, today, hold demonstrations demanding Malawi Electoral Commission Chairperson, Justice Jane Ansah\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/fresh-anti-jane-ansah-vigils\/\">resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTo protect lives of the demonstrators and property in the district, I am requesting you to postpone the demonstrations to a later date. You will be advised accordingly,\u201d<\/em> Chimphepo says in the letter addressed to MCP Mangochi District office, dated June 25 2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MCP and UTM supporters have been holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/thousands-on-streets\/\">protests<\/a> calling for Ansah to step down over irregularities that marred the May 21 Tripartite Elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ansah insists that she would only do so when the Constitutional Court, sitting in Lilongwe, rules that the elections were compromised.<\/p>\n<p>MCP District chairperson, Omar Kaisi, said, initially, they had agreed with the council and police that the march would end at the party\u2019s offices where they would hold a press briefing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe DC, the police and all of us agreed that we would proceed with the demonstrations but, 40 minutes later, he called us again saying he had rejected the idea of demonstrations due to security reasons,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that they would meet to map the way forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jameson Chauluka: Mangochi District Commissioner, Moses Chimphepo, has shot down Malawi Congress Party (MCP) supporters\u2019 proposal to, today, hold demonstrations demanding Malawi Electoral Commission Chairperson, Justice Jane Ansah\u2019s resignation. \u201cTo protect lives of the demonstrators and property in the district, I am requesting you to postpone the demonstrations to a later date. You will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79652,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79647\/revisions\/79652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}