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Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has described Malawians\u2019 cry for justice as an opportunity for Malawi to strengthen justice system\u2019s institutions to meet expectations of the people.<\/p>\n

Chakwera made the sentiments at the Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe on Thursday during the swearing in of the newly appointed judges of the High Court of Malawi. The Malawi leader stated that Malawians are currently living in \u201cvolatile times in which the cry for justice from the human heart rings loud\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cry for justice represents both a danger we must guard against and an opportunity we must take advantage of. The danger with today\u2019s thirst for justice is the temptation to quench that thirst through acts of mob justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

President Chakwera cited the assault of two elderly women by a mob in Mzimba after being falsely accused of causing someone\u2019s death by witch craft. Evidently, stressed the President, the death was a source of grief for the community and in their thirst for justice, they wrongly took the law into their own hands and injured two vulnerable and defenceless women in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd now as many as twenty members of that community have been arrested for the assault. Mob justice is a crime, and anyone who takes the law into their own hands will find themselves in the hands of the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the cry for justice is also an opportunity. It is an opportunity for us to satisfy that cry by strengthening the justice system\u2019s institutions to the point that the public can trust that if anyone violates the rights of another, justice will be done swiftly, fairly, and transparently,\u201d said Chakwera.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd you who have taken the oath of service to serve as High Court Judges today must remember that this opportunity is in your hands. It is in your hands to give citizens who cry for justice the confidence that their search for equity is not in vain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is in your hands to give citizens who cry for justice the confidence that to stand in your court is to stand in the presence of God himself, where righteousness and justice are executed swiftly, fairly, and transparently.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so as you go to serve the people, I pray that God himself will be your light and your guide, for when you render judgment, you render it on his behalf,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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