Malawian woman faces death sentence in China over cocaine

1. Today in a Hong Kong prison, I had a one hour chat with Estina. Conditions in the prison are excellent – see my comment of 4 days ago. Estina was tricked and coerced by Nigerian men in Lilongwe and Nairobi to take drugs to Hong Kong in boxes of chocolates. Estina is innocent, but she needs evidence to prove her innocence. She will write her story of what happened and I hope to post it here and on my daily blog http://www.v2catholic.com in a couple of weeks. Estina is bravely adapting to detention. Her Christian faith is giving her courage. She needs the phone numbers and addresses of her family. I will try to contact her family. If anyone would like to write to her to encourage her, her address is:
   Estina
   14225-18
   Tai Lam Women’s Centre
   Tai Lam, N.T.
   Hong Kong

   Her family is welcome to email messages to me and I’ll print and post them to her in HK ….. post in HK takes only 3 days. Prisons all around the world are full of vulnerable/trusting/simple people, especially women, tricked by Nigerian Drug Lords. Please spread the message in Malawi: avoid Nigerian men who try to befriend you, they might be dangerous. Google “Crime Watch 02/09 – Drug Mules” to see a Singapore video which retells the true story of a woman tricked by a Nigerian lover. And to see and hear a former (?) Nigerian Drug Lord explain his methodology, Google “Special Assignment – Last Run” (South African Broadcasting Commission).

   I will try to see Estina each month. She will go to court many times before her trial in the High Court sometime next year. She is not facing the death penalty, just a long sentence. This is not China. This is Hong Kong. To go from HK into China you have to go through HK immigration/customs, then go through China immigration/customs. “One country, two systems”. HK belongs to China, but HK has its own laws and currency and customs etc ….very different from Mainland China. Conditions in HK prisons are among the best in the world. Conditions in China prisons are among the worst in the world.

   God bless Estina and her dear family …. and Malawi

   Fr John (prison chaplain in Hong Kong) [email protected]

   1. If she transported drugs then she is not innocent. She is old enough to know right and wrong. Why didn’t she report to authorities if Nigerians and Kenyans coersed her? It’s looks like she is a willing participant.

2. INE NDUVUTIKA KUTSETA NKHALAMBA Aaaaaa !!!

3. So sad development and again we must not force ourselves to become rich on dangerous means.We can still live a happily life without money.We must always avoid to being used with these drug dealers.Why don’t they send their children and relatives to these businesses?Let us ask ourselves this question.

4. Estina is not in China. She is in Hong Kong where there is no death penalty … just a long prison sentence. I received a letter from her today (Aug 30). I will try to visit her on September 4. I will ask her to write a message for this column to let people know she is ok. I will try to post the article on September 5. She is well and safe and in good conditions.

   Prisons in HK are among the best in the world: no violence, no drugs, a professional staff, free meals, free clothing, free medicine, salary for work done in workshops, a chance to study and take university courses, regular visits by J.P. etc.

   There are around 200 Africans in prison in Hong Kong for drug trafficking. In 2013 there were 46 Africans arrested at HK airport for drug trafficking. Last year the figure was around 8. My anti-drug campaign, which has included 3 trips to Africa, has helped reduce the number of Africans going to prison in HK.

   Many letters from Africans in prison in HK are at the top of my daily blog: http://www.v2catholic.com – click flags of countries at top of blog (Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria). God bless Malawi which has had a special place in my heart since my visit there in 2015. Photos of my 3 trips to Africa at bottom of blog. – Fr John (a prison chaplain in HK) [email protected]

   1. Thanks John for clarification and good work you do. May God bless you really! We wish all victims who do this for money. Most of them are carried over by the mere fact of wanting to fly to a foreign country. Their own family escort them to the airport wishing they return one day. Sad that innocent women go through this really!

   2. It’s like you’re glomourizing what she has done and that it’s Okey bcz the prisons are cushy and all comfortable she’ll be divaling around in there. This sort of talk will encourage others to try these stupid risks and think oh I’ll try my luck in Hong Kong. Just stop! Such Nonsense need not be encouraged!!

5. Well the president is there hopefully he will try and plead for mercy at the expensive of investors but these communist are hard headed when it comes to their laws esp. drugs.

6. When we catch Chinese with rhino horn we set them free. When we catch Asians siphoning millions and billions we set them free and the sue us back in billions. Should DPP continue to rule?

7. Is she really a Malawian? we have many Malawians who are not Malawians, ask Uladi Mussa when he was a Minister of Home affair. If indeed she is a Malawian, where is she coming from?

8. We are all, but human. We error at one point or the other, We can be clean because we are not caught. I have my passion for this lady. Saving her life is my hope and joy. Because God is slow to anger and quick to forgive, may she receive forgiveness from Jehovah God and from the people of China.

9. Sad

10. Lack of opportunity and youth empowerment,poverty, a broken education system plus a myopic Phubwa type of Leadership..
    I don’t blame you fellow youth for trying, unfortunately The way things are pa Malawi if given an opportunity to go to China to do the same thing 99.9 percent of you people would do it….
    Chitukuko chomwe a DPP under mtchonayu that the have shown Amalawi ndi kupha ma alubino, kupanga transport ma drug, anyamata kuzipaka paint, magetsi blackout, kumwesa mowa ana asukulu ndikupanga katangale mwaveveve..

11. IF you go ku maula prison mukapeza kuti ma foreigners aliko ochepa and sakhalitsako. does this mean ma foreigners sapalamula? ikoma tikakalakwitsa kwa eni ake ake samatikhulukirayi. ine izi zimandikwiitsa zedi. apolisi athu tisiye uzeleza at all costs. this lady siochemwa kuposa tonse, koma poti iyeyu wagwidwa. kunoso nafeso tiyeni tikhale serious ndi lamulo lathu. no mercy. sanabele munthu, koma amasakasaka. she took a risk but unfortunately wagwidwa. so sad. am not condoning immoralities but am saying kunoso tiyeni tizichita nawo akanganyawa akatilakwira.

    1. Many innocent people have lost their lives and other have been shot down due to drug related violences. Dealing in drugs endanger many people and it fuels hineous crimes. It’s better she has to be stopped than to put lives of many at risk. Let the Chinese laws apply. It’s their country and they have standards for it. In America, a lot of young people with blight future have died due to drugs….drug business is no fun at all….she has to pay the price in full

12. Don’t worry u won’t be killed. If others were killed, it was before china faced sanctions.

13. Izizi nde zoziyzmba dala. Countries like Indonesia, China and Singapore pa airport analembelatu kuti if you are caught with the drugs ndi death sentence basi

14. The good thing is Mapuya Nganga ali konko ku China akakambe ndi mzake xxijpng kuti mwanayu ndende yake isakhale yomunyonga. Zovuta atsikana athu akagwa mumavuto akulu akulu amene alondola Mapuya Nganga ku China ntchito ndi imeneyi kamufunseni mwanayu kuti anamutuma zimenezi ndi ndani, chifukwa munthu wotumayo ali ku Malawi konkuno

15. abale anzanga, never cherish death sentence ya m’bale pamlandu ngati uwu. Tidzimva Chisoni Lets hope our embassy in China will help the lady

16. Very pathetic, somebody smuggling 2kgs of cocaine is facing death penalty while somebody comfortably seated somewhere in govt stealing our billions of money is free.. and worst still these so called chinese people have been smuggling our money and ivory nothing is done. sure?

17. She looks south african to me

18. Zoziyamba dala za mu mng’oma za pheeee

19. We ask God to help her, if God has to panish everyone because of mistakes that people are doing each and every day, then no one would have live on this earth, God is love, jesus loves siners.

    1. sure

    2. Brother James, laws are different from country to country. I recall Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned us shortly about engaging ourselves in drug trafficking. Let’s keep on reminding friends the dangers of drug trafficking. Quick riches are always a killer.

    3. He love everyone but hurts the sin in us.

20. Demokalase in Malawi @54 under Dhi Phi Phi Gavermenti

21. slay queen zamuonekera

22. A Malawi kumakondana. Sibwino wina akapeza vuto nkumachemerera. Kumakhala ndi chikondi ndi anzathu. Palibe osalakwa pa dziko pano. It is even more worrisome to hear that our tax funded embasy in China Does not know anything about this when the news is coming from right there in China where the embasy officials are based. One wonders if indeed we need to continue spending our hard earned money to support these offices abroad. One wonders if they are out there to serve interests of Malawians. One wonders if Malawi leaders are indeed there to protect Malawi citizens. Malawi is indeed a sick nation.

    1. There is nothing your Malawian president can do about this, am afraid. Laws are Laws. the do not soften up for whatever reason….but you are right, nobody is righteous on this planet earth.

    2. Chikndi tili nacho. But in countries like china and Singapore palibe zokambilana if you are found with such drugs. South Afican Government tried to secure release of there on in China it failed and they recieved dead bodies. The problem is Malawi Government they should also give stiff penalties to Chinese if they are found guity of trafficking Ivory

    3. Malawian embassies are there to welcome the state president not serving the citizen. Here in SA we don’t even know our ambassador. They just enjoy driving on diplomatic cars mimba zi khuchuuuu. Ngati thumbidwa

23. Pathetic . Richness is having peace in the heart not selling cocaíne. U can be poor but with peace and living with your people not globe-trotting with drugs

    1. Exactly

24. Bring that death sentence here to hang corrupt bastards.

    1. Ati human rights

    2. Start with your Racist Bosses there at M-E

25. This is very sad looking at how serious the issue is viewed at in most Asian Countries. However, we do not know at the moment if this was done with her full knowledge or she was duped by these so called business people to transport the substance for them because some similar earlier report suggested that some carry the drugs without fully knowing that they are carrying drugs.

    Let the responsible authorities establish the truth. This is really a bad development for our country, Malawi the warm heart of Africa.

26. Those are prostitutes who are dumped by drug traffickers. Kufuna kulemera mwachangu

27. Mzimayi ameneyu aphedwe basi

    1. P******* pako

       1. Olo zikanakhala kuti ndiweyo ndikanatinso akuphe basi,phulusa atumizile makolo ako.onani chitsilu chosadziwa the consequences of drug trafficking in China

    2. Opusa iwe, mwana wa satana

    3. God should have mercy on us. We are all sinners

    4. Kkkk upole moto, tose tizafa kusiyana njila yofera, tose tizachita bwino kusiyana njila yochitila bwino.

    5. God of mercy show yourself to save the life of this women I speak with authority from Heaven the God who move in Spirit rescue this life in Jesus name. Father give second chance the woman to leave through the blood of Jesus.

    6. Ooh seriously

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