Malawi’s car tracking company Aspen recovers govt stolen vehicle in Mozambique

Malawi’s Car Tracking Company, Aspen has recovered a car which was stolen last week which had crossed borders to Mozambique.

 Speaking during a news conference at the company headquarters in Lilongwe, Madison Holdings Group of companies Operations Manager Poster Chikaoneka said Aspen tracked the car using their state of the art tracking systems, Helios.

Chikaoneka said the recovered vehicle belong to Ministry of Agriculture.

“Ministry of Agriculture being our client called us alerting that their vehicle Toyota Landcruiser Registration number MG563AH had been stolen.We quickly logged in our system and we started following up the vehicle . This is when we discovered that the vehicle  already crossed our boarders and was heading Chimoio,  Manicaland in Mozambique,” said Chikaoneka.

 Police records indicates that the stolen vehicle was Toyota Landcruiser Station  Wagon / Hardtop,  Registration. No.MG 563 AH with  Chassis Number JTERB71J200080091 and Engine Number 1HZ0816163

According to the Police records the recovered vehicle’s  Model  Year  of  make was 2015. Police records further indicates that that the car belonged to  Sustainable for Agriculture Production in the  Ministry of Agriculture P.O. Box 30134, Lilongwe 3 and was being driven by  Alnord Chivundi of Ministry of Agriculture.

Further information indicate that the incident  occurred at Manjawira trading centre at about 11.00 pm.

“Driver of the stolen vehicle who works for Chiradzulu RDP was assigned to deliver dead body in Lilongwe and reportedly on way back resorted to pick unauthorized passengers who attacked him at Chipini in Ntcheu, got the vehicle and dumped him at Kankawo in Balaka after severely assaulting him,” reads a police report.

Meanwhile,  three Malawian nationals (identities yet to be verified) were arrested and one suspect was hot on the leg in the process, according to police report

The report said the vehicle registration plates MG563AH were already replaced with a Mozambiquan number  AAE091SF.

Chikaoneka said as a matter of  background , Aspen is a Malawian company registered as a subsidiary of Madison Group of Companies. The company provide wide range of services such as programmable events, speed restrictions, Mileages tracking, wake up from accelerometer device .