Mob kills Malawi student at Natural Resources college
Lecturers and students at Natural Resources College in Lilongwe woke up to a shock Monday after one student was killed by an irate mob after he allegedly broke into a campus house for one of staff members.
Lilongwe police publicist Kingsley Dandaula confirmed the death of the 21 year old student but refused to give details, saying investigations were still going.
College registrar Maxwell Mbweza said the college was making arrangements to bring the body back to his home.
He said it was a shock and disbelief because the students were just coming on campus on the weekend from a holiday ready for studies on Monday.
However he refused to disclose the details of the student referring the media back to law enforcers.
The brutal killing of the student cones less than a week after an irate mob killed seven men in Nsanje suspected to have been found bones of a human being believed to be a person with albinism.
The killing also comes hot in the heels of a sad story in Neno where four elderly people were murdered by a mob after accusing the elderly persons of being witches.
Police publicist Nicholas Gondwa said Sunday suspects in the murder of the seven people in Nsanje are yet to be arrested by police, a move described by executive director of Centre for the Development of People (Cedep) as unfortunate saying the dilly dallying in bringing perpetrators of mob justice to book will increase the trend.
A political activist John Chisi said the government is a major culprit of mob justice saying up to now it is not prosecuting those that killed Robert Chasowa of Polytechnic despite a commission of inquiry pin pointing the perpetrators.
I dont know why police is not arresting thrse murderers. Everyone knows them starting with the lady who called/ shouted ‘thief’ , the two notorious NRC residents who have done this several times. Do you want people to erite their names? If this matter is not brought to justice I can see no peace prevailing between students and residents
Mphoto yake yautchimo ndi imfa
Ena mukuti”He must Rest InPeace!”How can he RIP.while he died drunk?
Sd stry mw we r in darkness n full of blood
Rest in peace young man
Mapeto Adziko Basi
Truth of the matter: The boy after arriving went out to drink. He did not break into any man’s house nor was it a lecturer’s/school house. He was passing by as drunk as he was, when one of the resident of Chitedze (surrounding NRC) saw him and thought he was a thief. He woke up his neighbor and he and his neighbor (two of them) started beating the young man. He did explain to them that he is only a student but they did not listen to him. These two men who have murdered this young man are working in… Read more »
Eshi!
John Chisi apa ndiye wawonjezanso. Nkhanizi sizikugwirizana.
ayi ndithu this is very sad, Amalawitu apa yavuta ndi njala komanso kuvuta kwa zinthu mdziko muno ndikomwe kukupangitsa zimenezi. anthu ndiokwiya komanso okhumudwa nthawi zonse chonde DPP government do something otherwise anthu tiyamba kusendanatu mmisewumu!