First Vice-President Jane Ansah on Wednesday escaped unhurt after her official vehicle suffered a tyre burst in Ntcheu while travelling from Blantyre to Lilongwe
Office of the Vice-President spokesperson Richard Mveriwa yesterday confirmed the mishap, but asked for more time before giving further details. However, The Nation established that the incident involved a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 VX which Ansah was travelling in.
Office of the Vice-President sources also indicated that an investigation was underway to establish the cause of the tyre burst.
A video circulating on social media shows that the Vice-President’s motorcade stopped by the roadside with security officers standing outside the vehicle. National Police deputy spokesperson Alfred Chimthere yesterday referred enquiries to the Office of the Vice-President, saying it was best-placed to comment.
The incident comes three months after the police arrested 32-year-old videographer Esau Nalikole on charges of criminal trespass and flying a drone over Ansah’s residence in Area 3, Lilongwe.
The drone was said to have been operating on live coverage at the time. There have also been previous There have also been previous vice-presidents’ motorcades, including a 2020 crash involving the late Vice-President Saulos Chilima’s motorcade and a Toyota Vitz near Phalula in Balaka where four people died after the Toyota Vitz reportedly lost control and collided with a vehicle in the convoy. Chilima was not hurt in the accident.
In 2010, a vehicle on then Vice-President Joyce Banda’s motorcade was hit by another vehicle at Kanengo in Lilongwe. Banda was travelling in a different vehicle in the convoy at the time.
