Attorney General gives nod to Bushiris extradition process
Attorney General Dr Chikosa Silungwe has told the ministry of Homeland Security to go ahead with the extradition process of prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary.
Chikosa has confirmed that he has written the Minister of Homeland Security to issue the authority to proceed with the extradition process under the extradition Act.
This means the government of Malawi will start the extradition process once the minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda issues the authority to proceed.
Lawyer for prophet Bushiri, Wapona Kita refused to comment on the matter.
“These are issues at ministry level. They have not reached us. I will comment when we reach the bridge,” said Kita.
Bushiri, who is leader of Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) Church , and his wife Mary escaped from South Africa mid-November where they are facing fraud and money-laundering charges. They jumped bail and made their way to Malawi.
The South African government has since applied to Malawi for extradition of the two. The matters are being contested in court.
Back home, Malawi Police arrested Bushiri and his wife in Lilongwe, but when they were taken to court, principal resident magistrate Viva Nyimba released them unconditionally, arguing their arrest was unlawful.
Bushiri has said he fled to Malawi because he feared for their lives and that they would not get a fair trial presided by white court officials and investigated by corrupt white police officers.
He demanded that the prosecuting team and the investigating officers be removed and for South African authorities to assure his safety and not revoke his bail.
However, Bushiri’s bail has been revoked and warrants of arrest issued. He has also lost his opulent house in Centurion, Pretoria.
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So what?
Ife a Malawi okhala kuno ku Joni tizikamuona m’baleyi ku prison mwa ulele basi azikatiuze kuti I have been to 2021 its gonna be a greaaaaat year kachikena
Ignorance is a huge crime itself, the word nod finishes everything. To those who are willing to sacrifice their fellow citizen to please Sa watch the space. What does the law say in Malawi? If you know then be the judge on this case.
The spirit of the constitution was not to protect every Jim and jack in the name of being a holder of a diplomatic passport. I mean the spirit of the constitution was not to protect the alleged rapists, fraudsters, and those who cannot respect the law by jumping bail at will as if the South African Government is another ECG.
Reply to Leader of Opposition;
I am sure you don’t know what you are talking because your corrupt government of DPP issued Bushiri and his wife diplomatic passports though they are not diplomats and just being holders the constitution protects them whether you like it or not.
Diplomatic Pasports Are Issued Even To Religious Leaders
This is a Christmas gift Thank you.
But I would like to tell the general public is that only the couples names will come back to Malawi. Note that South Africans are very cruel people and they dont even care with SADC rules and laws. This guy should have been tried in a different country. We have been insulted and killed like a chicken in South Africa and they do not even count what Malawi is all about. They jumped the bail but with reasons which are not tackled by South African Judiciary and they are only concentrating about the jumping of bail issue. It appears that extradition is very simple these days seeing what is happening to the family of Bushiri. Before anything the South African Court could have heard the real views of Bushiri preferably on the subjects of those people who time and again begged money from him and then discuss the issue at hand. Anyway, paja adanena kale kuti anzathuwa South Africans ndiwophunira kwambiri.
Just shut up!
Kuphunira ? Apa mwandibayira pa nthiti!
Mphale ikasinjidwa ku Town amakagayitsa kumudzi? Milandu anaiyamba ku jubeki, akalangidwanso konko kaya kufa akafere konko asatipase minyama
WE ARE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING BUSHIRI TO PERFORM HIS PROPHETIC MIRACLES UPON MIRACLES ON HIS SITUATION. WHY IS HE FAILING, WHY DID HE CHOOSE TO RUN AWAY JUST LIKE ANY OTHER ORDINARY THIEF TO THE POINT OF SACRIFICING HIS MAGNIFICENT HOUSE. HE HAS DEFRAUDED SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE NAME OF MIRACLES. THIS IS BUSHIRIS PAYBACK PERIOD! SOME OF US KNEW THAT HE (BUSHIRI) JUST LIKE DPP AT SOME POINT WHILE IN GOVT WAS LIVING IN BORROWED TIMES.
No to elective justice let him face a trial like any other citizen.Stop this habit of defending these self proclaimed prophets they have cornered pple enough.
The cheat must go back and face the law. By running away, he must have done something wrong. Please do not back thieves. These prophets are bringing confusion. Some of them tell people to stop taking HIV/AIDS drugs, hypertension drugs, diabetes drugs etc and that they should just be praying. In the end these people end up dying. Bushiri claims he can perform miracles on the sick. Utesyi pera.
Zosangalatsa nane ndakondwa. Zasonyezeratu kuti mtundu wanga siukonda cult. Kanuperekeni ameneyu. Chuma chake chonse amakodwa kuti chikhale ku South Africa ngati kwao. Kaya amapanga sponsors MCP attorney general nga tikiti ya UTM.
The attorney general has given a nod that means the legal process has to start in Malawian court of law and the court follows the laws of Malawi not the laws of any country and the constitution of the land bars the court to extradite a Malawian citizen if is a holder of the diplomatic passport unless the culprit commits murder or treason case that is when he or she can be extradited, so in the case of Bushiri abd his wife will not be extradited.
Those who seems happy with the nod you must know this.
I doubt if Bushiri even deserves a diplomatic passport going by his actions.
Bushiri and wife have diplomatic passports
You dont know anything about law. Holder of a diplomatic passport and a diplomat are two different things. Nyani uyu ndi cougar Wakeyo akupita ku jebeki basi anthu akuba
Our people have suffered a lot under the ungrateful South African people who think that they are more African than the rest of us. Last time they insulted Malawi’s roads, and called us savages. Now they want our help in extraditing Bushiri. If Bushiri was a Nigerian or Rwandan, they would not have done all this. South Africa has been hiding Rwandan fugitives for years and Rwanda failed to extradite them. How can they push Malawi around like we are their province. They blocked Chakwera’s plane and searched it like he is a common criminal for hours, humiliating him in front of the whole world yet they failed to arrest Al Bashir in their soil when an international arrest warrant was issued against him. This is double standards.
Let’s stick to facts rather than ill informed fiction. You clearly are a victim of snippets.
The reason why some Rwandis have run to SA was because they proved that they are being persecuted and the same international laws force SA to protect those who claim persecution. Even with that it is alleged that Rwanda has been sending hitmen in SA to take some of the people they want out and there is a perfect example of this if you followed news.
Do you even know why the President’s plane was delayed? The people that wanted to board at Waterkloof Airbase didn’t come through that airport but through OR Tambo a commercial airport. Your delegation was told about this. Filing a new flight plan isn’t like driving a taxi it takes a bit of time. I’m sure you know this. Quick one why
Our Foreign Affairs ministry asked for the number of the Malawi delegation to come to SA for ease of processing through OR Tambo, a number was given however 3 more people arrived and they were all allowed through without any problems.
Cry babe! Let him defend himself in RSA where he is alleged to have committed the offences if he is innocent. Forget all the razzmatazz about how South Africans treat Malawians in their backyard!
Malawi should NOT extradite Bushiri. Look at Nigeria, they protected TB Joshua after the collapse of the building that killed 90 South Africans. Look at the Guptas, South Africa is afraid of them. Look at Lukganyane of ZCC, how many people die in his moria shrine under mysterious circumstances? Malawi is a banana republic, how can you trade Bushiri for these xenophobic people who killed our innocent African brothers and sisters and NONE was brought justice, not even the two guys who stabbed a Mozambican in broad daylight in front of a camera. If South Africa is serious about justice they should arrest all the perpetrators of xenophobia. Look at how Zimbabwe responds to the bullying tactics of South Africa? They show them the middle finger. The only language South Africa knows is toyi toyi and violence. Tell them off and you will see them backing away from Bushiri. South Africans are cowards, they let the Guptas go scotfree.
Koma ana Mbava 1 ndinu opanda nzeru. Buikding inagwa ku Nigeria ndiye anapempha extradition ndani pa zifukwa ziti? Mbava 1 akumutapa any day qziyendera ku court kenako wautali
Firstly, why would Nigeria protect TB Joshua against SA? He has no case to answer in SA. The Nigerian Authorities did their own investigations and concluded the thing.
Secondly the Guptas CURRENTLY are not faced with any case in SA as things stand for now. There is a commission looking into this and once it has concluded its work the extradition treaty that was recently put in place between SA and the UAE will come in handy.
Stop making a fool of yourself by commenting on things you only have half information on. No on is gone scot free the former President is now faced with court cases as well as some of the people implicated in wrong doing that involve the Guptas.
I agree with you on attacks on foreign nationals not right minded person would condone them. I condemn than strongly and so do many South Africans.
You do know that many a foreign nationals in SA commit crime as well i.e. Lucky Dube’s killers, Malawian recently convicted of fraud in the Eastern Cape etc. I agree with you crime is crime it shouldn’t have nationality and all should be treated the same before the law.
Nyekhwe kkkkkk
I’m willing to pay for their flight back to SA today, pronto!
Oh great!! How soon, let them go ASAP so they can face the music,
Suffice to say, a charlatan with under hand & clandestine motives deliberately camouflaged within church. Exposed at last, has to face the wrath & powerful jaws of the law…..As for you, you thought my father’s yoke was heavy, wait until you feel mine, you thought my father’s taxes too high, mine will crush you. How dare you speak out against your lawful king? My father chastise you with whips. I shall use scorpions!….. O….Beware the shadow of the guillotine!!
Bushiri is a racist too …… that says it all!
Dr Attorney General this was your Solomonic Moment. You got it right si zaj a Viva Nyimbazo ma Lawyer a one tambala…degree yomalizira ma supplementary okhaokha aati ma lawyer…Be a Lawyer of Class ngati achina Pempho Likongwe, Amai Ottober, Amai Ivy Kamanga osati lawyer I we wemwenso Cadet wamkulu, ma Rubbish…. Kawatuleni amenewo atanjatibwa, KUBA sikwabwino…ayesa ifeyo timafuna kukhala amphawi???? Aiziwa Centurion!
Yeees, send the SCAMMERS back.
NSABWE YOYENDAYENDA…….
Please fellow citizens, let us remember that when we are outside the boarders of our great land, we are great ambassadors for it.
Let us build the great band “Malawi”.
Especially you sons and daughters who have been blessed with influence.
I am smiling.
Fotseki
But the Judge who gave them bail was an African Lady of colour so this issue of white court officials I dont know where it is coming from. The Police’s job is simply to investigate arrest & take one to court then the courts examines the evidence if it is admissible in the court of law & if it is compelling. So if the evidence is just been manufactured then the courts will throw the case away. Here it seems that the evidence is compelling and overwhelming. A Police brigadier who is alleged to have received R500 000 from Bushiri to destroy evidence has been arrested with her husband what does this tell us????? We have to check the facts with a sober thinking then we will set ourselves to a position of understanding what really is happening. Not being manipulated.
Bushiri is just a manipulator but his time is over
La 40 lakwana.
Good one. Let the truth prevail whatever that is.. innocent or guilty whatever is the truth.. No shortcuts..
bushiri will not be extradicted, he has solid reasons to oppose extradiction.
Way to go, AG. This Bushiri dude is a THIEVE, A CROOKE, AND A FROUD. With a “propensity for compulsive criminal conduct”. His wife is cut from exactly the same piece of cloth.
He is just doing his job and following the process. Let the greedy lawyers hit the jackpot.
Mwachita bwino bwana Attorney General. Osayang’ana nkhope popanga zinthu koma kuyendera chilungamo. Bushiri akamuyimbe mlandu ku South Africa konko. Wawadyera ndalama zambiri ndipo ndi zomvetsa chisoni.
Iwe dreda, zoona ukulola kupeleka mwana wathu apite, manja mwako muli magazi. Ife mafumu takana kupeleka bushiri, a mabungwe adakana, amipingo adakananso nde zoona mufuna kudelela onsewa?
Senseless response!
Choka imwe mwana wa njoka ,Dziko limayendera lamulo osati zoputesdzo ayi ngati akufuna akapange challenge mu khoti osati mafumu akuti mwakuti kodi Mafumu alinso ndi Constitution yawo
Let him go and face the law there. No selective justice
If they are guilty let them face the law basi. If not let justice prevail . Mulungu aunikire chilungamo
Its nothing to do with Silungwe.Its the law mwamva Mr Okey.You mean munthu akalakwa amabungwe ndi amipingo akati ai basi zatha ndiye dziko lopanda malamuloto.Anakakhala mpandadzina bwezi musanalankhulepo kanthu but just because he is your Papa basi amutaye.
I understand this guy smokes too much cannabis. You want him sent to South Africa and should he get himself kutsetseleka you will be answerable
Rule of law must apply in this case of Bushiris and my belief that the SA gvt will fairy serve justice to the Bushiris now that the two gvts are working together
Bwana sulungwe ndimaku filani, izi zikuwonetsa kuti mukutsata cilungamo, komanso kupewa udani waukulu umene ukhalepo pakati pa mayikowa, ife timakhala kuno sitikufuna cipongwe akulakhula anthu chikhudze a president anthu ayi,plus the tonse amalawi timakhala kuno cifukwa cha munthu modzi cilungamo sicibisika, and ife tikufuna atipatse ma permit kuno cifukwa anatipephera kale a president anthu anzeru woganizira anthu ake ngati analakwa please sent him back to face the low dziko la malawi liwoneka lotsata cilungamo maloya anthu asadetsedwe ndi makhalidw anthu awiri akuba.