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Walira Mvula
Walira Mvula
5 years ago

This is common in all central prisons and not only in north. At Maula they don’t pose as lawyers but as Prison warders who call relatives of the prisoners and ask them to send money through Airtel or Mpamba. in order to have their inmates released. One poor family i know sent K150,000 to someone who said he would facilitate release of a brother inmate in Zomba. I would suspect prison warders to be the culprits because they are the ones who collect personal data including phone contacts from prisoners. A few times I have received calls from my prisoner… Read more »

Gwamula
Gwamula
5 years ago
Reply to  Walira Mvula

It is a clandestine syndicate that is primarily being run by prison warders, police officers especially prosecutors and investigators, court clerks and at times even clerks in lawyers’ offices as well as these paralegals from unscrupulous and unknown organizations roaming prisons. They collaborate to rip off unsuspecting relations of persons who are in prisons.
Our systems are too simplistic in terms of the ease with which you can get details of persons in prisons. There is no data protection at all making it easy to con people. No wonder others go a mile and forge release orders for some criminals

Honourable
Honourable
5 years ago

that’s the north for you..

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