Malawi first cashgate convict Namathanga walks to freedom

First convicted cashgate Triza Namathanga Senzani has been freed from prison on Thursday morning.

The former principal secretary for the ministry of Tourism has been freedom after spending one and half years of the three year jail term handed down to her following her plunder of the public resources of the K30 billion at Capital Hill.

She was released at 10:30 in the morning on Thursday at Maula Prison in Lilongwe and boarded a prison ambulance which drove at high speed and dropped her at Crown Lodge on Paul Kagame Road in Lilongwe.

Senzani managed to dodge some journalists who trailed the speeding prison ambulance.

Prison officials said she has been released because of good behaviour she dispayed during her stay at Maula prison.

Senzani pleaded guilty and gave back to the state part of property and money she stole.