{"id":12246,"date":"2021-12-26T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T17:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs"},"modified":"2021-12-26T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T18:08:24","slug":"malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s intervention over government\u2019s plan to implement the mandatory Covid-19 vaccination campaign.<\/p>\n

A statement made available to this publication indicates that High Court in Lilongwe has since set January 3, 2022 as the date for an interparte hearing.<\/p>\n

The hearing is grounded on an injunction sought by the CDEDI, stopping the Ministry of Health from implementing the mandatory administration of the Covid-19 vaccine; stopping Parliament from demanding Covid-19 certificates from employees in order to access parliament premises; and also stopping all private and public institutions from demanding vaccination certificates from their employees and customers to have access into their premises.<\/p>\n

CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa has confirmed of the development saying his organisation is the second applicant on the matter, while a concerned citizen, Mr. Mundango Nyirenda, is the first applicant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough lead counsel Oscar Taulo, CDEDI is also applying for a judicial review for the court to decide whether the issues raised above are constitutional or not,\u201d he said. Court records show that the matter is before Judge Kenyatta Nyirenda.<\/p>\n

In its submissions, according to Namiwa, CDEDI has zeroed in on the matter following Minister of Health Khumbize Kandodo-Chiponda\u2019s announcement that all public servants will be forced to take a jab come January, 2022, on one hand while parliament has been sending back those that failed to show proof of vaccination to enter its premises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has caused public outcry and unnecessary panic among members of the public, hence the decision to move the courts on the matter,\u201d Namiwa says.<\/p>\n

Decision by CDEDI against forced jabs has attracted interest of other concerned bodies and the state funded Malawi Human Rights Commission recently expressed dissatisfaction with the move by government to undertake mandatory vaccination exercise. Malawi Govt. to introduce mandatory vaccination for civil servants<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s intervention over government\u2019s plan to implement the mandatory Covid-19 vaccination campaign. A statement made available to this publication indicates that High Court in Lilongwe has since set January 3, 2022 as the date for an interparte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,311,320,668,234,378,841],"class_list":["post-12246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-cdedi","tag-covid-19","tag-human-rights","tag-malawi","tag-sylvester-namiwa","tag-vaccines"],"yoast_head":"\nMalawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\"},\"wordCount\":329,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"CDEDI\",\"Covid-19\",\"human rights\",\"Malawi\",\"Sylvester Namiwa\",\"Vaccines\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\",\"name\":\"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":600,\"caption\":\"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs - Malawi","description":"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs","og_description":"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs","datePublished":"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs"},"wordCount":329,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","CDEDI","Covid-19","human rights","Malawi","Sylvester Namiwa","Vaccines"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs","name":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-26T17:50:46+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-26T18:08:24+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and other concerned citizen have sought court\u2019s in ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61c8af7852c26.jpg","width":900,"height":600,"caption":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-govt-dragged-to-court-over-mandatory-jabs#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Malawi Govt. dragged to court over mandatory jabs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}