Judge Potani under investigation over alleged  assault on police officer

Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal judge  Healy Potani  is being investigated for allegedly assaulting a Police Mobile Service officer assigned to provide security at his residence in Chinyonga, Blantyre, national police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed.

Potani: Probed over alleged assault

Kadadzera said Sargent Emmanuel Sinda,  stationed at Police Mobile Service B Division at Kanjedza in Blantyre and was on duty at Justice Potani’s house, complained that he was assaulted by the judge.

“The matter has come to the attention of police management and follow up is being made,” said Kadadzera.

“Proper measures will be taken,” he added.

Nyasa Times has listened to an audio clip in which Sinda claims that Justice Potani assaulted him while on duty at his house.

He claims that the judge used foul language against him after he spotted the police officer sitting outside the guardroom.

“I tried to explain  that the guardroom was being cleaned at the time, but he could not take that and started assaulting me mercilessly. I could not hit back out of respect, I just escaped,” said the cop.

Justice Potani was not available for comment.

Potani was among five of Malawi’s constitutional court judges who were the recipients of the prestigious Chatham House Prize for 2020 which is given to people or organisations deemed to have significantly improved international relations.

He was the judge president of the constitutional court that delivered the historic judgement nullifying the May 21 2019 presidential elections and ordered fresh polls within 150 days of the ruling which President Lazarus Chakwera eventually won and recently  promoted Potani from High Court to Justice of Appeal.

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57 replies on “Judge Potani under investigation over alleged  assault on police officer”

  1. I don’t like the man judge Healey Potani for many reasons but the way I see the article, just seems to me there is no news at all worth writing about. There’s even nothing worth investigating, wasting our hard earned taxes.

  2. The fact that Healy Potani is now a Supreme Court Judge speaks a lot about the Judicial Service Commission and the upholding of professional standards and integrity of the Judiciary. This man should have been dismissed a long time ago.

  3. Kumawakutumula they’re very un professional. Under trained ndi anthu omwe ku Thyolo anatha nao mantha. The police of these days have completely lost direct, dirty and un professional. Get educated from those who were there during Dr Kamuzu Banda.

  4. Being a judge doesnt suit him

    Shame he was one of the five judges that nullified the 2019elections.

    Breaking laws by raising hand on a police officer and then ……..
    Court adjourned.

  5. Kodi Healy Potani bwanji umamwa mwa uchtsiru ngati sindiwe product ya pa Chanco? Umandimvetsa manyazi ndikamakuona ukukanika kulankhula pa club. Worse still instead of taking wine the guy likes carsberg beer mowa wa anyamata opanda ndalama. Why don’t you go Ryals hote and take wine at least where there are no locals? Ukutipangjtsa manyazi Ife maclassmates ako.

    1. Carlsberg mowa wa anthu opanda ndalama? Hitesh Anadkat is a fan of Carlsberg Green,Henry Mussa too. So yankhulani ngati aku Chanco kotsogolako, don’t generalize shit

    2. Idiot…You mean if you drink green ulibe ndalama? Bamboo zinvereni chisoni ndiyhu. We drink Green because it’s our preference! Muli ndi chani matama amenewa

    3. Malawi is flooded with FAKE drinks. All those drinks you think are expensive are fake. Have you wondered why any brand of whisky is cheaper here in Malawi?

    4. Kulankhula kwa bwanji uku?? My friend u can’t be drinking wine for the sake of kulephera like Carlsberg. Mwina mutasiyanitsako Carlsberg is beer and wine is not beer. If Healy likes Carlsberg, that’s his choice and who told u Carlsberg ndi mowa wa anthu opanda ndalama?? It’s a choice my friend!!!

    5. So fo people drink wine to get drunk, wine might be cheaper than green at cost. You take 3/4 glasses of wine my brother u r finish. Yet you take alot of green that cost so much to get drunk. Intellectual people drinks special selected champagne and whiskies. Those are recommended expensive alcohol. Thanks. Lets talk of his wrong doing and find out the truth about the whole issue from eye witnesses.

  6. Apparently the police officer was sent by someone to provoke the judge with aim of discrediting him as a witness in the Mpinganjira bribery case…….more info to follow.

  7. Angochepetsa ka chakumwa angoniiwa. Putting a glittering career on the line because of booze and anger is something regrettable. The Chattam House will be shocked.

  8. Ndalama zayamba kuchuluka pano ayamba mwano, munthu sungavetse this potani used to be very humble guy but simbi alliance money ayamba kuzinva udolo

    1. Ayi, nkhani si imeneyo. Uyu Potani drinks to shit, plus weed too. Vuto simuyenda mma bar olongosoka, mowa mumamwera mu zikhuthe daily…..

  9. Chachikulu chikumutsata Judge Potani, I once saw him hitting a woman at a bar, swearing on top of his voice. Zinali zondidabwitsa kwambiri to see such a respected fellow behaving like munthu wamba. I wasnt surprised ntaona nkhani yi.

  10. Choyipa chitsata Mwini. These judges are all rotten to the core. They stole the election and sided with the side they chose. Munya muwona, mutha nonse ngati the cashgate crew.

  11. Arrest the man, he is not above the law. He must face the full wrath of the law. You cannot assault, insult and beat up a police officer likevfor no reason.

    1. Judge Potani isn’t and has never been stupid.
      He can’t without sound reason insult the police,am sure,there was,is a genuine reason for that.
      Malawi Police are very doubtful,Drr.Kainhlja,the IG, please teach your officers ti work proffetionally.I very much salute Malawi Army, very disciplined unlike a police, kikikiki,Kaya…may be Dr Kainja will groom them straight, otherwise, police yathu,uuuuuu !!! Ndiyosakongola ndithu.
      Happy 2021 to All Malawi Police ladies and Gentlemen.
      In addition,that police officer who talked about Chakwera to reduce or completely stop putting police to wait for him,he didn’t deserve to be demoted,samalakwe, President Chakwera said from his mouth the same, that police officer was just reminding him….I don’t see any wrong for that,Dr Kainja,mwapulika?We don’t want Ngwazi MCP please,this MCP Tonse must be straight talking the Walk,mind you,we still have bad events MCP did to us,we don’t want..
      Take us(Malawians)nicely otherwise,you will follow Mutharika,kukasamba ku nyanja.
      I speak unenesho pera !!

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      1. Whether with or without a reason, but an assault of any kind is a crime, therefore let the law take it’s course. Period!!!!!

  12. If this is proven to be true, this should be the end of his career. Week after week, this profession is being dragged into mud. This is a judge who should be behaving. As tax payers, we say withdraw that security arrangement.

  13. Potani is known raffuan . He swears and every time he is involved in petty fights at colony club. Last time while drunk he was overheard saying that Chilima and Chakwera had not finished paying their cut for the election case. He said the 9 billion that they awarded to the petitioners was supposed to be shared among the lawyers the petitioners and the judges.

    1. Hearsay, but people are born with these other characteristics that’s why Lord Jesus once said that it is imperative to born again out of the cultures & characteristics that we inherited from our fathers.

    2. Was it you who heard them or you heard from someone? Because if you heard him personally, you wouldn’t fail to report him to Acb just as the way you have reported him here. I take it like you are not telling the truth, the Election case was a very sensitive case because it was also touching other things like corruption, so in this case, I find you to be the witness of the same, some times we may think we want to be heard that we know much than others, we do try to make sure that we can bring false information to the public, are you ready to testify under oath? I want to take seriously on this matter by bringing you to the truth and open the eyes of Malawians of much what was happening that time.

        1. If the law may not be followed in any judgement, we have this what we call Supreme court of appeal, where you can appeal your judgement by bringing down what the low court said against you, now I’m trying to find out the same information you are telling me, because if you ask me this question of yours, am telling you, I don’t have the answer. Therefore I can’t take your answer and Zio ine, answer then bring them together if it is true what you are saying or you are just bitter for the judgement that was handed down against either you or your family or your club, your friends,or your Party I have mentioned party because,what Zio ine has said, is concerning the case of Election. So I want you to be strong and give me much information either it will be false information or true information, I will look into it. If you can do that, let me know so that I can send you my email address. It’s time Malawi should know the truth.i hope it is in order.

        2. DPP vines in the police won’t stop working against our holy judges who dug us out of the DPP trenches. So the mere fact that the policeman is heard on the gadget doesn’t amount to a straight case. Let him bring the matter not just muttering this one is a mole but don’t think the tree will be falling from Sapitwa no there isn’t any storm. Let’s move on the guy is just a brat who has been hired to be diarying every minute cough into a rumble against him then create tornadoes this cadet must go to Villa Mutharika for guarding

      1. Why are you defending him? What if he is really saying this? Fact be told here, those judges had already chosen sides during that election case. It doesn’t even need for someone to be a lawyer to detect this.

        1. If you read again, you will see that am not defending any one here, I don’t if you think I’m defending Potani or Zione, because you have just said,,he,,. My concern is to bring the issue which is very sensitive,that’s according to my understanding on the law which I sat in class for a long period to do and get it. Remember one Malawian has spent some days in custody because of the same either false information and it was the same Potani we are talking about who is testifying against that man? So how can we fail to bring the truth about him? Who is Potani under the Law? All I want is to have a talk to Zione and see how far I can go with this issue and help those have been victimised through these thieves called judges! You get my point?

      2. Agree with you Judge. In my view the police officer is a plant of DPP. There is no truth is the claim he is making – it is simply mudslinging. Tese are people are behaving like Donald Trump. They cannot believe till now that they lost the Presidential election. Let’s wait to see if you will succeed with your dirty tricks.

      3. He may be telling the truth but to report to ACB requires tangible or circumstacial evidence that can stand in court. Meanwhile whether true or false, Potani’s character is on the line here.

        1. Thank you, so I should take it like it is not true what he or she has said because he or she doesn’t have evidence accompanying his information, is it what you want? Or according to your version, he or she may be afraid to stand in the Court of law to testify about what he or she has said here? My intention is not prosecute people but to make sure that rule of law is indeed working, I will help him or her to do his part in this case,the rest I will do myself.

      4. This cop has given his side. We have heard from one side only here. We also need to hear from the learned judge as well.

      5. The judge just accept that Malawian judges are corrupt, the only reason they are not being prosecuted is because they sit at the top of the racket where they decide which citizen to ruin his future by sending to prison and which one to spare. Even kids know that concourt judges were corrupted to hate one particular party even though they ate money from both sides

    3. Mumangidwa nazo . Osalankhula ngati ochenjera apa. Can you stand in court and say what you have said here?

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