Organisers of the ‘Anti-Selective Justice” demonstrations risk being arrested as a handful of protestors have proceeded to stage violent demos in the capital Lilongwe despite the high court granting a restraining order against them.
On Tuesday evening high court Judge Simon Mdeza granted an injunction to some concerned citizens through lawyer Gift Nankhuni pending an inter-parte hearing.
In his restraining order Judge Mdeza has observed that there is need for the organizers of the demos to clearly state out who will be held responsible in the event that the demos turn violent and property is destroyed as argued by the claimants.
The judge observed that there is need for a clear identity of who is organising the demos.
Despite the High court granting the restraining order, a handful of the demonstrators have taken to the street damaging property in the process.
For instance at Wakawaka market in area 36, shop property owners have ganged up to guard against their property carrying weapons and threatening to beat up anyone who will tamper with their property.
Riot police has since moved in to calm the situation dispersing the violent demonstrators.
Some eye witnesses have indicated that some of the demonstrators have been ferried in truckloads from as far as Phalombe District and some parts of the country.
This has raised suspicions that some opposition politicians are bankrolling the demonstrations for their own political goals and not a genuine concern to the plight of Malawians.
Organisers of the demonstrations led by Redson Munlo claim of late the country has witnessed a selective administration of justice as only people from the southern region are being targeted by the judiciary.
This is despite clear indications through media reports that those being arrested were part of the looting system of the former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
