Malawi police asked to arrest officiers who sexually abused women in Msundwe
A social and governance commentator Makhumbo Munthali has called on on Malawi Police to act on Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) report which extablisged that police officers raped 13 women, defiled one girl and sexually assaulted three under-18 girls in an October 8 operation around Msundwe on the outskirts of Lilongwe City, by effecting arrests cops within its rank and file.
Munthali’s comments comes after an investigation report commissioners Martha Chizuma – who is also the Ombudsman – and Mary Kanyuka released in Lilongwe, MHRC said it established that the police officers raped the women as they fled violent scenes.
MHRC conducted the investigations to identify human rights violations and to facilitate access to justice and legal remedies of the survivors of the human rights violations.
The tax-funded rights commission has recommended that the acting Inspector General of Police Duncain Mwapasa should institute criminal investigations into the matter and that the probe should target police officers deployed in Mpingu and M’bwatalika on the day.
The officers were led by superintendents Kantchowa, Chisale and Msukwa and Inspector Chipofya (all presented without their first names in the report.)
Commenting on the report, governance commentator Munthali told Nyasa Times that the investigations has only “validated” what the public held and even unearthed more disturbing practices that occurred during the saga.
“The Msundwe [police sexual exploitation[ is one of the gravest tragedy of our time and one wonders why the police toll tofate has not brought to book the perpetrators within its ranks,” said Munthali.
He added: “Government’s luke-warm approach to the matter is also distrurbing and yet this is one of the worsr form of human rights violation Malawi has ever witnessed.
“It’s unfortunate thar the State has abandoned it’s duty to protect, respect and fulfil human rights.”
The vocal Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has also asked police to arrest officers accused of raping and sexually assaulting some women in Lilongwe.
National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera said police will make a proper response to the MHRC report.
Police instituted own investigations into the alleged Msundwe atrocities widely seen as an act of vengeance by officers after their colleague was stoned to death during a fracas in the area.
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Generally our Police mediocrity is rooted on generational protection, what our police is full of cousins, nieces, brothers etc of former or serving IG’s, Commissioners, OC’s of so & so Police stations etc.How can those rooted generational connectivity effect arrests of their rapist relations of Nsundwe women & girls?
The guys who killed the cop r in custody why leave the rapist loitering in our tax bought uniforms why why
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Rest in Peace Usamani Imedi, you were a human being like the rest of us. I can’t picture the pain when the first stone hit you and the pain you felt when the spirit was leaving you. You wife and children want justice as well, I can’t imagine when they heard the news that you were killed by stones and pangas, I can’t wish that on any parent, rest in power Usamani
The one to give a report is Usman who was killed. He was the one who was deploying the police and since je died there is no report therefore its a waste of tme.
koma munapitadi kusukulu inu?????
OTHER THAN ARRESTING THE POLICE OFFICERS, THE ONE WHO SENT THE POLICE OFFICERS TO NSUNDWE UNPREPARED WAS VERY NEGLIGENT IN DISCHARGING HIS DUTIES, WAS SLEEPING ON HIS JOB.MWANGODZADZANAKO MA CADET KU POLICE KO EETI.
POLITICAL TENSION WAS AT HIGHEST IN LILONGWE AT THAT TIME, WHY ON EARTH DID DPP THINK OF HOLDING A POLITICAL RALLY, KUGANIZA KOPEPELA KUMEKO BWANJI? MUNAPHESA MU POLICE NDINU A DPP PANOPA MUKUTETEZA A POLICE OLAKWAWO.
Time heals all wounds, one day this puzzle will be solved
Nkhaniyi siyovuta a Police chitani identification parade ya anthu amene anali pa operation Msundwe tiwone ngati azimayi amene akudandaula atalozepo munthu amene adapanga izi. Palibe kuthawa nkhaniyi ndi yofunika itsatidwe Panopa ena mwa azimayiwa akuti ndi oyembekezela apa ndiye nyani wakakamila pa bumbu. Mwanayo akabadwa basi DNA samples tengu gulu lonse linali pa operation Msundwe court order DNA samples tengu mwana azagwiritsa atate ake nkhaniyi isoveka bola asakhale anthu akwa Msundwe konko adachita izi too much umbava ndi uchigandanga mdelari
Revolutionary and Amfumu
you are biased.
You want the whole village would be punished because a few criminals from that village have killed a policeman?
That only happens when there is war.
Policemen have been killed before and the individuals involved are the ones to face the music and not their sisters.
During Joyce Banda days a policeman was killed at Goliati and no Lomwe girl was raped.
Stop your provocative and stupid comments.
Typical tumbuka statement and thinking.
Ntumbuka iwe, change idzakupeza liti kuti udzatukuke?
Ndikubwera kuzatenga abale ako azandilimire fodya kuno, pali kusakhana mtundu apa? just comment fullstop.
I think u are the most stupid person in the world
Useless.Afunse Chakwera ndi Chirima.
Kkkkkkkkk Amabungwe kuonekela bodza bwanji 😆😅😎 poyamba mumkati anagwirilidwa ndi mmodzi tsono pano mukuti 13
Ingokakapalilani mmela basi coz deal yonuyi siikuthandizani ata
Ndipo ndiwe galu nyani fisi. Ofunika a police atagwiririra mayi ako
Don’t worry, change is coming soon, they will be locked up
Makhumbo Munthali, Morris Muthali’s son, MCP publicity secretary from Luviri, Rumphi
Also ask the Nsundwe community to give up the people who stoned the police officer to death. Stalemate.
If you didn’t know, the police were quick to arrest more that 40 suspects for the death of the police officer….as you would expect without any evidence against the suspects.
Half of the suspects were released after 3 days without food or water and severe beatings, the rest of the suspects are still in custody without being charged, that is the work of our unprofessional DPP cadet police….
End of the day day those arrested will have to be released at some point and they will have to claim compensation for wrong imprisonment…..all becoz of the unprofessionalism of our police force who always discharge their work thru emotions and political influence …
That police officer would not have been killed if the unit he was working with did not abandon him and left him alone…our police lacks cloud control skills
I think u called anfumu is the most stupid person in the world. U are silly and don’t write here again
Sadly our police force is not fit for purpose. The alleged crimes by those police officers should have been investigated when the crimes were first reported and the officers involved suspended. Don’t we have an Independent Police Complaints Authority to deal with such matters The police should not be investigating their own members. The Government has been for too slow to deal with this case. Our country’s name has been tarnished internationally by this episode.
Chances of pointing at the wrong person as long as he is a police officer are very high unless the police will be allowed to include civilians in the identification parade.
Ntambo auze aMDF amange apolisiwo,chifukwa ndie president wakwansundwe ndi kumpoto,George Phiri ndie nneneli wake.
Ntambo kupempha mwapasa zachitetezo Chake.Posachedwapa Ntambo amamema ma mp kupalament zoti mwapasa ai.Ntambo amapusitsa amalawi osazitsata ndithu.
Anakuuza kuti akupempha? U are stupid
Osadzitsata ngati a Mr Stupid akutukwana apapawa.
Sikuti akupempha mwapasa as a person, but office of IG. While ku parliament kuja akupempha kuti Mwapasa as an individual isn’t fit for the IG office.
The fact that HMRC was able to conduct their investigation and released a report before a well trained police force that had promised Malawians of a swift investigation in the matter….what does this tell us about the police force we have in this country? How many months or years does our incompetent and politicised police need to investigate this straight forward criminal offence?
Even the commander in chief who is well known for his tantrums and the First Lady have never commented on this horrible issue…..what does that tell us Malawians?
If this atrocity had happened in Thyolo or Mulanje would APM and the First Lady have remained quite on the matter? Obviously not, so what does this tell us about the calibre of leadership we have in this country?
With the HIV epidemic we have in this country, how on earth can a sensible qualified police officer with an MSCE certificate to show for, go on a rampage raping women he has never met without any protection? This is the problem that the uncivilised DPP Muhlakho wa alomwe led govt has brought to this country.
For the past 15 years we have been recruiting uneducated DPP cadets in our police force…
It is obvious that the police units that were sent to msundwe were sent with gondolosi in their pockets with the sole mission to Lomwelise chewa women….otherwise the commander in chief and the First Lady would have been the first to condemn this shameful criminal act by the police.
Do your remember that it was the same APM who ordered the police to arrest the so called hyena for raping girls in the name of kuchotsa fumbi even before a police investigation was conducted?
Aparrently APM is a He for She ambassador, and yet he can not stand up for the msundwe women because of his nepotism politics….this old senile man is indeed a waste of space on this planet and our country would be far much better without hIm.
Fuck all y’all
No woman was rapped by any police Officer 👮♀️. The women were paid money by HRDC to coax them to implicate police officers . Even MhRC know the scheme No police Officer is culpable of any offense there for no need for any arrest
U ARE STUPID
They were not police, they were cadets bastard
What bothers me is that the president has said nothing on this horrible incident. Elsewhere a leader would have addressed the Nation condemning the action by the police. My conclusion is that he doesn’t give a damn and probably smirked when he heard about raping of women just like he gloated when Mayaya was brutally hacked by the so-called cadets.
I wonder whether he would have acted the same were the victims Lhomwe?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he is instructing the police to value more their report and not to dwell so much on the MHRC report.
The president should realise he is a President for all Malawians, not a select few. when it comes to issues like this.
As for the Acting IG of police, is this a man seeking confirmation,?
Makhumbo you are a fool. Do you know that a police officer was stoned to death at Msundwe? STONED TO DEATH. Do you know that that officer had a right to life? Do you know that dependents of that man no longer depend on him? Some of them may even be destitute and may be suffering. Do you know that this man did not join the police service for profit? You dont join the police service in order to be rich, do you? You are a fool Munthali. You are attaching importance to rights of women ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN RAPED! A police officer was STONED TO DEATH and you are saying NOTHING about it. Nothing at all. Msundwe people do not value the police otherwise they wouldnt have stoned a police officer to death. That police officer was a father, a husband, an uncle, a son, you mention it. He did not deserve that diabolical death. Now, I am a police officer. You stoned my fellow police officer to death. Some women ALLEGE they were raped in the same community the police officer was brutally murdered. BY STONING. And you expect me, a member of the police, to investigate the alleged raping. FOOLISH. I wont. So stop the noise. Investigate the incident yourself. I rest my case.
You are the One who is STUPID …When a Policeman was Hacked to Death at Goliati did Police Officers go there to Rape Women and Girls …It’s simply lack of Leadership they know nothing will happen to them ….Anakatokhala kuti ndi Amanu or ache Alongo Anu kuti Agwiriridwa bwenzi mutokamba usilu umeneu …
U ARE STUPID
U too are very stupid.
The fact that we lost our police officer, brutally murdered for that matter, is no justification for the so-called cadets, dressed as police officers, going on the rampage raping and sexually abusing innocent girls and women. A competent police service would have investigated the murder and not retaliating the way they did.
The British government has spent millions of Kwachas in Police Service Reforms but it appears all the effort has gone to waste as what we have instead is DEFORMED police service.
Get it through your thick skull: reform cannot work without corresponding investment in modern policing equipment.
Why is the President mute on this sensitive issue?
If this had happened to his wife, daughters ,grandchildren, would he had remained mute?
These women matters, what does his mutenes suggest? Yiur guess is as good as mine.
And Hon Dausi has been dead silent, too. Alipo koma? This is very sad. Mr. State President, please address the nation on this issue … and others! Is the leadership living or dead? Ziiiiiii ameneyu akudabwitsa, mwina tiziti the top leadership had a hand on the horrible abuses!!
Why are you making noise now when you were silent when Usumani Imedi was killed in cold blood by the residents of Msundwe?
Why were you silent when Usumani Imedi was killed in cold blood.
Malawians are watching and if you think this will die a natural death you are joking. Ask MEC, DPP and they would tell you. Kaphale had tough time to defend the indefensible, Alfundika messed up in Blantyre court – he lost a case, and he almost fainted in Lilongwe. Police beware because Malawians are watching and would not just sit. Act and do that fast.
Makhumbo you know very well what the police will do. Is there any condition in case the police do not effect the arrests. This is very important. HRDC said they will take to the streets and what will you do if they do not comply? I have a feeling that taking to the streets alone will not have an needed effect as far as the police are concerned. Are we ordinary citizens obliged to sue the police?
they need to be sued quickly
Fuck you Mr Makhumbo Munthali what about the life of Supritendent Usumani? Isn’t a life lost not worth an investigation by MHRC? Martha Chizuma becareful with your public protector position, have limits, in RSA the current public protector is in shit because of partisan attitude, exactly what you you are showing us….we should not talk about Mwangonde here, your gun-totting husband, criminal.
U ARE STUPID
U too are very stupid.
You sound like Dausi or Ben Phiri. You need to be investigated yourself. You are threatening a person holding a public office. We all know that the rape crimes were the job of DPP police cadets and Nundwe is stuck in the middle protecting dpp cadets and the Malawi Police Force. Nonse paulendo plus wa ku Maula.