Malawian woman jailed for 24 years in Hong Kong: HRCC calls for her repatriation home

March 9, 2021 Green Muheya - Nyasa Times 30 Comments

Malawian woman Estina Mukasera, 31, who was accused of drug trafficking  of  2 190 grams of cocaine in August 2018 to Hong Kong, China  has been sentenced to 24 years imprisonment after a court found her guilty but Chairperson of the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) Robert Mkwezalamba who has been following the case said the case  has asked for Mukasera to be repatriated home.


Mukasera: A court in Hong Kong, China found her guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced her to 24 years imprisonment:

Mkasera was arrested in August 2018 at an airport in Hong Kong after she was suspected to have taken the illicit drug.

HRCC has been pursuing the matter since the woman was arrested in 2018 and has previously engaged government to request the China to send Mukasera back to Malawi.

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China with Executive, Legislative, and Judicial powers devolved from the national government.

Mkwezalamba has since  written the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Homeland Security, Inspector General of Police, director general of Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services and the Speaker of the National Assembly to have Mukasera repatriated home.

In its letter dated February 26 2021, HRCC insists Mukasera was a victim of trafficking and want to use her “experiences” to speak against the vice and that Malawi government should engage the Hong Kong administration to secure an opportunity to have the Malawian woman repatriated.

.“In the alternative we have been tipped of the exact person who was behind her errand and that the person was initially arrested by government in 2018,” reads part of the letter.

“We call on the Malawi Police to review the suspect’s file and assess whether he has remained in the country or not towards undertaking to question him on this matter,” it added.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Rejoice Shumba said Malawi government provided legal support for Mukasera  who gave birth while in prison in 2019.

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30 replies on “Malawian woman jailed for 24 years in Hong Kong: HRCC calls for her repatriation home”

  2. No-one is above the law. Let this be the lesson to everyone doing crooked business regardless of your position or influence in the society……

  3. HRCC you have lost your direction.So you are encouraging people to do drugs,aren’t you?Sometimes its better to remain silent.If you want to make a name its not on drugs baba Mkwezalamba.

  4. Kodi amuonetsa kale Manyenkhu Ali Ku jail komweko. Warden ya anzeru akummawa siyamesewelesatu

  6. Let her taste her own medicine. The rest will learn a lesson, hard work and wise expenditure will lead to success not other way round.

  8. HRCC, you have more pressing issues than this, i thought she wanted to make easy money, leave her
    

  9. She is no victim just greed and easy money took over wanted get rich quick but that is the price you pay now when caught , wonder how many trips she made before getting caught and these are the people bringing this poison into our country and messing lives, years back we never had all that shit in our country only Malawi gold

    2. Traffickers take advantage of poor women, and get rewards when the drugs are confiscated it’s all a scam. This woman was tricked and scammed. They used her Situation to their advantage. She is a victim of drug trafficking

  10. So she was even pregnant while running that dangerous errand.. ????I wonder what happened to the child

  11. Hong Kong prisons are definitely more humane than Malawian prisons, otherwise we could have prisoner exchanges as we hold quite a number of Chinese prisoners in Malawi.

    Is this young woman driven by poverty to commit such a crime, or is it the desire to make lots of money fast? As is the case in real life, it might be a little bit of both.

  12. There are soooooo many people in Malawi who need HRCC. Others are in jail without trial etc. Why should we fight for her when she knew what she was getting into!!!! Fight for the innocent

  13. HRCC today kupempha boma la Hong kong litumize olakwayo, padzana HRCC inati boma lisatumize bushings ku joz……. apapa zikuwoneka kuti kumalawi kuno malamulo athu opeperawa akatangarewa tikufuna tipake mayiko ena. Hongkong ichepe HRCC ikule

    1. Kuteroko inu a HRCC mulibe zina zoti office yanu ingapange koposa kulemba za mzimai ogulitsa ma drug boma lisamataye nthawi ndi anthu a chomcho aliyense amakolola zomwe adadzala musiyeni atengelepo phunziro pa 24years po akadzatuluka adzasnkha chisankho chopitiliza kapena osadzapanganso

  14. When a foreigner commits a similar crime in Malawi then we tend to throw a tantrum to say lock him/her up or should rot a Maula prison so I guess this gods way of showing us that Malawians can suffer a similar situation in foreign lands

  15. First and foremost Mr. Mkwezalamba must not forget that it is the laws of Hong Kong that were contravened and rightfully netted out the sentence so deserved. In that scenario, Malawians are considered as drug traffickers and that is very shameful and embarrassing. There is no basis whatsoever in his thinking that she deserves clemency. You want her to be walking our streets as a free person when she comes back to Malawi. I do believe she will be well placed to do the speaking you are taking about after serving her term in jail as she shall have gained a lot of experience. All the reasoning by Mr. Mkwezalamba on this issue is utter nonsense and simply shows he has no right frame of mind

    1. Let her face the music. Whats so special with her? If this was a man, mukanamapanga zoti abweleko??? Everybody knows drug trafficking is bad. You never get away with this. HRCC should be holding programmes to sensitize girls and young women about the dangers of drug trafficking not requesting this nonsense. We dont want her here. If this was in Indonesia, its death penalty. Who doesnt know that all drug gurus use stupid people???? she knew all this.

    1. They are a lot of them on social media showing off. Let’s look at the lives destroyed by those drugs.

    1. Eti inu amwene!! Adakaziyamba dala yekha kufuna kupeza easy money!!! Tione nkhani ya Bushiri ku South Africa, tione za mzimayi uyu!!!! Mukamayenda kupita ku maiko ngati amenewa mudzidziwa kuti kulibe malamulo ophweka ngati kumudzi kwanu kuno!!! Midziyendera chimodzi

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