Malawi slain police officer Imedi is national martyr: Govt to construct Msundwe memorial pillar
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led government is poised to declare a police officer killed at Msundwe in Lilongwe during demonstrations last October a National Martyr, Nyasa Times has learnt.
Sources at the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) have indicated that Police Mobile Service Superintendent Usuman Imedi, who was brutally killed in the line of duty at Msundwe, will be recognized as a National Martyr for the role he played in fighting violence and political terrorism.
Imedi, who came from Mawuni Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Makanjira in Mangochi, died following a mob attack at Msundwe on the outskirts of Lilongwe City along Lilongwe-Mchinji Road, where police were deployed to quell violence.
This development comes hot on the heels of the DPP-UDF alliance and abolition of quota educations system.
Ministry of Information, and Civic Education has been tasked to arrange modalities that m Usuman Imedi be declared martyr.
It has also been established that plans are underway to construct a memorial pillar at Nsundwe Trading Center where Imedi was butchered as a way of remembering him and reminding the people of Nsundwe and Malawians of the good police officer who was killed in the act of protecting citizens.
OPC official further revealed that government will provide scholarships to the three kids of slain police officer Usumani Imedi who are struggling in their home village of Makanjira in Mangochi district until they finish their tertiary education.
Imedi was brutally killed by an opposition sponsored mob at Msundwe in October 2019 where he was assigned as a team leader of PMS officers deployed to quell violent acts around Msundwe along the Lilongwe-Mchinji Road where rioters had barricaded the road that is also an international gateway.
Until his death, Imedi was stationed at PMS C Company in Lilongwe and had just completed a two-month leadership and crowd control training course. He found himself rounded by the angry mob before he was stoned to death.
To the disappointment of many, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera went to Nsundwe where Imedi was brutally murdered and held a “ Thank you” rally after the February 3, Constitutional Court ruling nullifying the presidential elections.
There have already been a number of consultation meetings with chiefs in Msundwe. According to a Police Commissioner who has been attending the consultation meetings, Msundwe chiefs are eager to rebrand their image and reconcile with Government.
“The people of Msundwe have always been peaceful people. The violence you have seen is the work of politicians. Imedi was killed by politicians who came here with money and confused our young men. These politicians are only exploiting our poverty,” said the chiefs of Msundwe.
The finger of guilt has increasingly pointed towards politicians after the MCP Msundwe political rally.
Many analysts interpreted the MCP gesture as a way for saying thank you to the people of Nsundwe for murdering him in cold blood . And described the decision as being very unfortunate.
On October 8 2019, residents of Mpingu and Msundwe mounted roadblocks on the Mchinji-Lilongwe Road in protest against a rally which President Peter Mutharika was to hold in Lilongwe.
The police rushed to the scene to disperse the group but Imedi was killed by the mob. The next day, officers were deployed to Mpingu, M’bwatalika and Msundwe trading centres to arrest suspects.
National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera said despite arresting four suspects, police are yet to complete building a case which can be presented in court.
Lawyer for the accused persons is MCP member, Silvester Ayuba James .
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DPP GOVERNMENT THIS IS A BAD IDEA AS IT WILL BE SHOT IN ITS FOOT BEFORE PEOPLE START DIGGING A FOUNDATION FOR THE PILLAR.
THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE MEMORIAL PILLARS BUILT FOR THEIR REMEMBRANCE. THIS ISSUE NEEDS PARLIAMENT BLESSING OR ELSE IT WILL JUST OPEN A CAN OF WORMS
Just declare him a hero, if you must. As for a pillar, build it at Makanjira or Mangochi where his kith and kin will remember him. Do you think Msundwe people will be pleased? Let’s be serious and smart in what we do. Don’t set stupid precedents.
nanga 20 aja ku mzuzu dzana lija???
mpungwe pungwe
Nyasatimes, mwalimbikira campaign, becareful musanduka MBC and lose some trust, be professional and objective, musamapange report like everyone who read your articles is ignorant, mind you there some learned people who come looking for objective peace of writing here, stop cheap politics
Build another pillar at Mpingu for raping women so that we remember the libido in Malawi Police too.
Come and built it
I doubt if even a foundation can be dug I can see builders fleeing in all directions leaving picks and shovels behind
Please build Mombela University it can be a nice move
Iwe machende kaoena nyini yako. I lost my Brea winner and you are talking nonsense, Mulungu akusunge.
After this pillar, we need another one in the North for those DPP and Bingu killed in 2011 July massacre. We need another pillar in Lilongwe for Njaunju , another pillar at Nsundwe for the raped women by the police and another pillar at Polytechnic for Chasowa! Nanga si zayambika za ma pillar.
This were thieves
It will be a reminder of how blood thirsty MCP is.
July 2011 was also MCP you fool?
In the same vein, declare the cadets policemen who raped girls and children a day later as heros. Let Seodi White and Navitcha present the accolades to the policemen for their libidicious heroic act.
Who could rape anthu osasamba ngati amene aja, people let us be serious and not crazy. It is a ploy to confuse people. I don’t believe in that situation one would think of raping a lady. Come on, let us put politics aside. Sex is mindset game and it’s difficult to erect hen in groups.
Koma ma cadet mwati simusegula mmimba ndi fresh election yiiiii!!!??? Munaiwala kulembamo kut macadet ovala uniform za police anagwililira azimai ndi ana asukulu kwa Mpingu, M’bwatalika ndipo mpaka pano sanamangidwebe ma cadet ogwililirawo
DPP is full of confussion osayamba kwa goliati bwa DZANJA LALEMBA PA KHOMA
KKKKKKK what rubbish type of campaign to entice voters especially Yaos from Mangochi?What about those who were killed in Mzuzu,July 2011.Make Robert Chasowa also as a hero who was fighting for equal rights and justice.
What about the police officer who died at Goliath
Exactly….
Khokhokho! Koma kuganiza kwa a bakha!
Supt. Cassim Julius died at the hands of DPP cadets in Goliati Thyolo in March 2014 but the government did nothing about him. He was also from Mangochi just like the one killed in Msundwe. What is the government try to tell us? This is cheap politics.
Umbuli sizinthu, Julius was from Salima
Kaya anali wakut zilibe kanthu. The point is he was killed nde naye amumangira chipilara osati kungothamangira kunena anzanu kut mbuli chonsecho iwe monga cadet nde mbuli #1
A youth ndi makadeti
E chabwino nanga bwanji a bakha sanamange pillar ku Salimako?
Ask PP it was during PP government
Mbuli ndi iweyo……..nanga amene mukufuna chiliza kwa Msundweyu kwawo ndi kwa Msundwe?
IN 2014 a police officer was brutally mudered at Goliati when Joyce banda went to adress a political rally there, has he been declared a political martyr? where are his children and his wife?
Vuto ndi Joyce Banda posapanga recognize the role that slain police officer did. So u can not push that blame at APM that is absolutely wrong and uncalled for
Joyce Banda hates police officers
Stop playing politics and arrest and punish all those policemen who attacked and raped girls and women at Msundwe in memory of the slain policeman. Otherwise erecting a police remembrance artifice over this incident will just incite more violence. Is APM this stupid? Must just be old age.
Nobody was raped in the absence of medical reports within 72 hours of the rape incident….on the contrary, a civil servant was murdered by illiterate people in the line of duty and it is befitting to construct a memorial pillar to remind people from chithangire, chatsala and chibungo(villages within nsundwe) that violence has no place in Malawi….for your own information, we don’t have war memorial graves in central and north Malawi….war graves are in Mangochi, Zomba and Blantyre….these are the people who fought for nyasaland during the 1st and 2nd world wars…..they are heroic nationalists from the southern region while chewa and tumbuka were busy kuwedza nyau and kuvina zibwaila…..
Cadet has no idea how bitter Malawians are with this clueless government. Nothing will make us like DPP. Just do a good job not useless articles, Opposition sponsored mob justice??? Useless brains. Cant you learn that no word to demean opposition will make you better? Run the government and win hearts
It’s the chewa and tumbuka who are bitter, not all malawians
2014 a police officer was killed at Goliyati Thyolo by DPP supporters when Joyce Banda addressed a meeting. I guess the government will do likewise because he was also killed in the similar circumstances.
Ok
Lesson learned; never again rig the election in Malawi. The pillar will be a reminder of the dangers of rigging elections.
A bold and commendable move!
Kokakokako!!!!!!! Apa ndiye timati ndale dzanunkha onga kkkkkk
Za ziiiiii kaye kupanda ndi mchere omwe, mxiiiiiiiii
I hope we are Going to have a Memorial Pillar for The Policeman who was killed fighting Political Terrorism at Goliati ….For Njauju too why Not the Guy was fighting against Corruption ….For the Mzuzu July Matyrs .It must be at Jenda…..Up to Now no Action on Terrorists who beat up Mayaya in BT ,who burnt HRDC vehicle…..DPP thinks tonse tatobwera kumene Mmalawi muno tinali kunja And we have forgotten Terrorism by Cadets from beating up Police Officers at Roadblocks ,Beating up Opposition at John Chilembwe events etc …Abakha ati aoneke kuti ndi a CLEAN ….
For the police officer butchered at goliat you are damn right. But for all others including thieves of July 2011 tasemphana
If you dont like thieves…then there is a thief who died in 2012 and has a mausoleum in Lilongwe! When this big thief died people celebrated and he was found with sacks of dollars in his mansion built by his corrupt friends!
Cadet suuphula kanthu oro utalemba zotani palibe chingasinthe kanthu…..anapita kukatetedza a Malawi oro ngati …..a Pumbwa munaphetsa munthu