A social commentator has described the convicted former justice minister Ralph Kasambara as a mafia who disguised his personal battles as national battles.
In a Facebook Post, Dave Namusanya using an account name of Mankhokwe Namusanya, referred to history in which Kasambara was arrested for assault.
We publish his opinion verbatim:
_In 2012, when Ralph was arrested for assault, we went to town claiming it was political victimisation._
_It really was a grey area. Mutharika was at a height of what we fashionably call a dictatorship. Ralph was on the other hand a part of what we also fashionably call a civil society. A man ready to fight the ‘tin-pot dictator’, as he had called Bingu then, without minding the consequences._
_I remember when he was released from Chichiri Prison where he had been remanded, a convoy nearly brought Blantyre to a standstill as cars honked to his freedom. His freedom was equated to a symbolism of a fall of dictatorship._
_All the claims by Bingu that Ralph ‘is a mafia’ were rubbished and ignored. He was a Saint and, trust me, if Bingu had lived longer there would have had been a pub somewhere labelled Saint Ralph. And, we would have had been congregating there to celebrate the bravery of Saint Ralph._
_Fast forward to a few years ahead: the ‘Saint-Mafia’ gets convicted for conspiracy to murder, his accomplice in his earlier assault charge we all dismissed (and for which he gave himself a hefty compensation) is on the run having had gunned down an ‘unruly’ lorry driver in Manja township in broad daylight._
_Which should really implore us to think: are the people who always fight politicians good people or usually it is because they also want to cover their dealings?_
_Can it be that, then and now, we were (are) busy championing personal fights that come in the disguise of national causes?_
_What when a Politician gets arrested, have we seen how we rise up in arms to defend that politician and claim all that arrest is ‘political persecution’?_
_Maybe it is time we started thinking hard on some of these things, just maybe.
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Or r u related 2 kasambala eti shout out ur mouth plz
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Ndiye dzikolo limenelo. Lilibe dolo, ozindikira,ophunzira,wachuma kapena osauka. Kundende kulibe mwini wake. None is above the law
Though this indeed, I admire Raphael Kasambala. Once in LL, will visit him.
agalu inu kasambala ndindani ndipo olo atafela komweko alibe nchito kwaife mumafuna azimangidwa amphawi okhaokha zachamba basi
Mbava Zokhazokha Zimafuna Kuphana Osangawataya Bwanji.
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