India embassy intervenes on 67 arrested illegal workers in Malawi
Officials from the Indian High Commission to Malawi in Lilongwe are in talks with Capital Hill on the 67 Indians who were arrested last week for working in the country without work permits.
Sources at the High Commission said there was a high level meeting between the government and the High Commission officials last week after the arrest.
“The talks are still going on despite the matter is in court,” said our source at the High Commission.
The Lilongwe resident magistrate’s court is expected to rule on the bail application for the suspects tomorrow, Monday.
The foreign workers were arrested by Immigration authorities on allegations that they did not have working permits.
Defense lawyer Joseph Chiumia accused the government of double standards, saying the same government invited the Indian workers, saying it even chartered a plane for them because commercial flights were grounded due to the covid-19 pandemic but now the same government was deporting them.
But state lawyer Binwell Kachingwe said the fact that the suspects did not have work permits is proof enough that they were illegally working in the country.
However the state maintained that it is a normal practice to have foreigners work without work permits while the permits are being processed.
Meanwhile, the 67 have to since been remanded at Maula prison.
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the DPP government, instead of creating jobs for millions of jobless Malawians, it was importing Indians, to make matters worse chartering a plane for them? stupidity of the highest older, Mr lawyer, this government did not invite those Indian Immigrants, they should ask Mr Mutharika. This government will just send them back home, it has a duty to create 1,000,000 jobs for Malawians
One day is one day,our day will come anthu amatidere kwambiri, we will make big history when our day comes.
what kind of jobs were being performed by these Indians that could not have been handled by Malawians? I have been to other countries where jobs are only given to expatriates if the locals can not fill them.The immigration officials who gave these illegal workers permits should be investigated
Even if they go its not like u will get these positions so doesnt make a difference
immigration law igwire ntchito. It doesn’t matter whether the previous government invited them and chartered a plane for them, the fact is they were working without an employment permit which is contrary to sec 21:1 of the immigration act
If a plane was chartered for them then something illegal took place someone from previous government benefitted they need to be arrested and the immigration officer amangidwe muona nyekhwe
Give Malawians what belongs to malawians
asatinyengepo apa. what about the malawi-india embassy ku india komwe anacokerako??? aa mwatani inu talankhulani ku India ko. musatinyengeze .zausilu bwanji. munadya ndalama atakupatsani mmwenye and you just did yanu ija.yoconga ndi pakamwa. hedeee just a nod is enough to charter a plane mpakana?? tafufuzani asatitaitae nthawi on a straight forward issue. sizofunikilaso lawyer izi. ”anabwera and workingvwithout permits. someone somebody knows something.
ma illegal timawaziwa olowa okha kudzera bjila zodziwa okha. koma iyi mpaka chartered plane???? ugalu taking malawians for granted
Remember illegal immigrants and the prisoners are different …we have zaleka where the belong to.
No Malawian can just appear in I dis and start working, that can’t happen! Indians are the most racists people! You need to find out who payed for the chartered plane????? APM doesn’t know!
Which government? You mean the mbava government charted a plane???? This needs to be investigated as well! Who payed for this ??
Only expatriates can come here and I believe are the ones their plane was chartered .. All the labourers should not take Malawian jobs, they have to be deported period!!
not surprising coming from an aprentiship government.trial and error. Chimwendo wants to be seen to be working but he will eventually cause deplomatic problems.
You should be mmwenye yourself. Talemba dzina lako leni leni tione
Journalist, you are not doing your job. You must tell us how all this came up together. When you government, which government are you talking about, the DPP government or the Tonse Alliance? Can they produce the invitation papers you are talking about? Did the government really charter a plane? Which airline? When did the plane land in Malawi? When were their passport stamped for entry? What was the reason for entry? If they were coming to work in Malawi? Are there paperwork for work permit at immigration offices. Ask the DPP who authorised these shenanigan dealings?
DPP yaapwetekesa ma guy wa. They were not needed here. This is work that can be done by Malawians
Kwatcha should go into the hands of Malawians to be spent in Malawi!
True, we’ve got millions of jobless folks in the country. Send them back to their country.
I think the question is. ” is there an application at immigration for their papers?. Also is it true that government chartered a flight for them?.
There is a letter from that idiot Muhara claiming he is going to charter a flight for them. But I’m sure Muhara got a kickback and the charter was made by the corrupt mwenyes who were bringing their relatives here.
Kick them out of the country & give the jobs to Malawians!!!
Clearly, these guys are working illegally. But this has much to do with the dodgy company as it has with a very corrupt immigration department. Clearly, money changed hands. If the corrupt DPP regime was still in power, all this would have been under wraps. As things are now, all the defense lawyer can say is that the govt invited these guys and even chartered a plane for them. Being a corrupt transaction though, there will be little or no documentation to support this claim: everything was done via handshakes. As today’s kids say: ayisova!
Question to the defense: were these really expatriates as purported in the application to government? Were the jobs that they were doing requiring expert knowhow? Could they not have been done by local Malawians? What the point of putting up industries in our country when you can’t provide jobs to our people for the most basic tasks?
Asawasiye, akasesenso ma expatriate ali ku mastore kwa amwenye mtaunimu ndi kwa ma chinese. Sizingachitike kwawo zomwe amapanga kunozi. Asatitole ayi.
This is a job that can be done by Malawians just with 1 hour training. To hell with these corrupt guys! I’m tired of these people who steal jobs from Malawians yet if we were to go to their countries the only jobs we can hope for is picking up dog shit.
Which government are you talking about? The nkhalamba dysfunctional government? We’ve got new sheriffs in town who are NOT tolerating nonsense. Let the law take its course.