Usi risks arrest: Police investigate UTM’s veep GP licence

Malawi Police officers are investigating UTM party vice president Dr Michael Usi for his medical certificate if he is paid up member with Medical Council of Malawi.

Usi is a trained General Practitioner (GP) in medicine and a paid up member with the Medical Council of Malawi but is not practicing.

Police investigations follows Usi’s visit to Mulanje Mission Hospital on Sunday where he cheered the sick.

In one of the ward, Usi, who is also as aspiring candidate under UTM for the Mulanje Central Constituency, pressed his hands to a patient who had complained of his ribs pain.

He did it in full view of the people using his medical knowledge, a move which Police are investigating to effect arrest.

Usi, when contacted by Nyasa Times, said he has heard about the rumours about his impending arrest.

“I have also heard about it but I am not moved at all,” he said.

He said one of the things he is seeking political office is to end politicisation of everything.

Usi, a former country director for Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Adra) Malawi, holds a doctorate from the University of Bedfordshire in the United Kingdom. He is also widely known by his nickname Manganya, a character in the Tikuferanji series. He is basically an actor and playwright, besides working as a corporate executive.

The UTM vice president is a technocrat with experience in humanitarian work, civil society well educated and with a clean track record in as far as the politics of the country is concerned.