Alex Banda
The Malawi Defense Force MDF, Malawi Police Service and the Immigration Department have for the first time rolled out a joint operation on Lake Malawi to intercept illegal immigrants amid the COVID-19 pandemic scare.
As the world commemorates World Labour Day today, the Southern African Development Community SADC has paid special tribute to frontline health workers leading the fight against further spread of the Coronavirus.
Police in the lakeshore district of Nkhata Bay in Chintheche, have nabbed 8 people and charged them with theft and malicious damage in connection to the looting of a local rest house after an irate mob descended on the property on suspicion that it was harboring suspected blood suckers early last month.
Officer-In-charge for Chintheche police Superintendent Alex Simenti told Zodiak online the 8 suspects were arrested on Thursday and police have since recovered some items including beddings and plasma TV screens suspected to have been stolen from Rest House.
Simenti said, “Property worth 31 Million Kwacha was destroyed when the angry community members pounced at Mulungu Sanama Rest House searching form what they believed are blood suckers.”
Police in the district have since intensified sensitization meetings refining people’s beliefs that, the issue of blood suckers is nothing, but a myth.
The Chintheche OC said “It’s only a myth and we’re going around meeting chiefs to sensitize their subjects that this is an unfounded belief.”
10 people have died across the country and property worth millions of kwacha has been destroyed since the resurfacing of the blood sucking rumors in some districts across the country.
Malawi Police Service has come under heavy fire for procrastinating to release results of a criminal investigation and prosecute fellow officers who allegedly defiled 4 under aged girls and 13 women from Msundwe, Mpingu and Mbwatalika in October last year.
Dust is refusing to settle in the procurement of the South African based lawyers with a youth human rights body, Youth and Society YAS lodging a complaint with the ombudsman’s office,asking the country’s public protector to probe what it suggests as partisan conduct by Attorney General AG, Kalekeni Kaphale.
A “leaked” communiqué to the public from Chief Elections Officer Sam Alufandika shows that presidential candidates in the fresh elections will submit their papers and unveil their running mates on 6th to 7th May 2020.
Statistics show that more women have contracted the Corina Virus in Malawi at 75 percent than men but doctors say this has nothing to do with gender and susceptibility to contracting the virus.
Ministry of Irrigation and Water development has taken on Northern Region Water Board NRWB to reduce its water tariffsgiven the current demand for the commodity which is largely being used for prevention of covid19.
Flood survivors from Kakuyu farming Island in Dwangwa - Nkhotakota district are reportedly selling their relief items to vendors despite being in depserate need of the very same.
Commissioner Mary Nkosi of the Malawi Electoral Commission MEC is yet to step down from her position despite a public pledge to do so before the Public Appointments Committee, PAC of parliament.
