Human rights defender Timothy Mtambo has reiterated that the drive to reduce armed robberies in the country can be successful with a sustainable security plan backed by resources not shooting suspects. Mtambo, who heads the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), said this did not mean he was defending armed robbers, but the…
One more police officer involved in a road accident in Lunzu, Blantyre on Wednesday has died, bringing the number of fatalities to three. Deputy National Police spokesperson Nicholas Gondwa confirmed the death yesterday and identified the female police officer as Sophie Kalele Chibowa, a detective at Soche Police Station in Blantyre. The accident occurred along…
By Edward Kabango* Time for burying our heads in the sand to avoid facing the reality is gone. So too is time for finger-pointing at each other, but rather this is the time for finding solutions to our day-to-day problems to sustain a good living. Insecurity has been the news everyone has refused to ignore…
Police in Sector 7 of Lilongwe’s Area 25 Township today exchanged live fire with criminals who had stolen over K2 million from a Zomba-based accountant working for the Zomba-Neno Rehabilitation Development Programme. According to National Police spokesperson Rhoda Manjolo the Police managed to shoot dead the two thugs in the course of exchanging fire, as…
Malawi Government has disarmed two of the security officers that immediate past president Joyce Banda has been using since leaving office after her loss in the May 20 2014 Tripartite Elections. Speaking on behalf of Banda, her press aide Tusekelo Mwanyongo confirmed the reduction yesterday, saying the security objects were taken away last week.…
Fiscal Police in Blantyre said yesterday their investigations into the theft of public funds at Capital Hill identified K13 billion, but they are unable to trace the money and properties. Fiscal police officer-in-charge Yacks Bonongwe said this yesterday in an interview in response to a question on how much of the Cashgate funds and property…
Last week, Malawi President Peter Mutharika appointed new Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama. Engages associate professor of public administration at Chancellor College, Happy Kayuni, on the appointment and finds out how the police can regain public trust. Q: Since the country adopted democracy, we have seen government changing Inspector General (IG) of Police frequently…
Police in Limbe yesterday thwarted an early morning organised armed robbery, shot dead one suspect and arrested five others in the process. Six armed robbers had planned to attack Yihua Lin Investment Shop belonging to 30-year-old Chinese businessperson Lin Yihua at 7.30 am, but their mission was foiled after police intervened. Limbe Police Station spokesperson…
Police have arrested a man suspected to have hacked the State House computer systems and allegedly used President Peter Mutharika’s name to swindle unsuspecting individuals and companies, The Nation has learnt. Malawi Police Service (MPS) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) responsible for operations Rodney Jose confirmed the arrest in an interview in Lilongwe on Wednesday. But…
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Deputy Commander Griffin Supuni Phiri was involved in midnight fracas with police at his Area 43 residence in Lilongwe on Wednesdaynight. Reports indicate that the deputy MDF chief was involved in a brawl with police officers investigating a robbery. Police sources said Supuni-Phiri was briefly detained after verbal and physical exchanges. In separate interviews,…
Zomba-based High Court Judge Redson Kapindu has ordered the Malawi Police Service (MPS) to obey court orders granted during the ongoing Judiciary support staff strike. On the other hand, Kapindu has also asked judges and magistrates to explain reasons for presiding over particular cases amid the strike. The order from the High Court has come…
Malawi Police Service (MPS) Deputy Inspector General (DIG) responsible for administration Lexten Kachama has said journalists are free to take pictures of any dramatic scenes during police operations without seeking permission from officers on site. Kachama said this on Tuesday at the National Police Headquarters in Area 30, Lilongwe during a special interface between police and the…
Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday reversed an earlier order that sealed Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) offices nationwide amid a strike by staff at the graft-busting body. The President’s order overturning the sealing of the offices in Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba came barely hours after a legal scholar at Chancellor College, Mwiza Nkhata, and the Catholic Commission…
Police in Mulanje have arrested Watson Nguluwe, a senior head hospital administrator at Mimosa Health Centre in Mulanje, on allegations that he is part of the syndicate of health workers who have been stealing government drugs and selling them to private clinics and pharmacies. His arrest comes days after the Weekend Nation published a story…
Police in Zomba yesterday stopped Chancellor College students from going to the streets for protests to push government to increase their upkeep allowances. Eastern Region Police spokesperson Thomeck Nyaude said in an interview the planned protests were illegal. Said Nyaude: “There was no communication that the students had applied to the district commissioner’s office, which…
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has resumed investigations into the scam at Malawi Police Service (MPS) and Accountant General’s Department where about K400 million was allegedly stolen, leading to the arrest of 29 people, including senior police officers. The scam shocked the public as Fiscal Police discovered that an accounts assistant had unexplained millions of kwacha…
Blantyre Police Station on Friday recovered assorted stolen household and office property valued at K20 million (US$39 371) from suspected criminals who terrorised Blantyre residents. The police also impounded three saloons, one belonging to a suspect, which were being used to transport the stolen property. Deep freezers, plasma television sets, sound mixer, computers, laptops, DVD…
Barely one week after President Peter Mutharika declared war against criminals and called on the Malawi Police Service (MPS) to use any force within the law to address insecurity, unidentified assailants on Wednesday night attacked two police officers on patrol in Mzuzu and grabbed two guns and ammunition from them. Northern Region Police spokesperson Maurice…
There is a blame game between Malawi Police Service (MPS) and the Lilongwe City Council (LCC) over who is responsible for the return of vendors in undesignated places, including along streets. LCC chief executive Richard Hara blames the situation on the police for not arresting vendors when they are selling their wares in undesignated places.…
There was tension in Zomba City yesterday following the shooting of a Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier by a patrol police officer at around 11pm on Saturday. Yesterday morning, MDF soldiers dispersed a crowd that gathered at Zomba Police Station to get more information on the incident. MDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Francis Kakhuta-Banda said in…