Presidential guard threatens PS with gun, arrested: Row with Minister Vuwa over land

September 20, 2019 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 28 Comments

Malawi Police in Lilongwe have released unconditionally President Peter Mutharika’s guard who threatened a Principal Secretary (PS) for Ministry of Lands and Housing with a gun following a row over a government piece of land.

Mwandidya: Threatened with a gun by presidential guard

Police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed the arrest of the presidential guard Ernest Malola who threatened  PS  for Lands and Housing Joseph Mwandidya with a gun following disagreement over a government piece of land along the Likuni Road in Lilongwe.

“It is true that the presidential guard was arrested on Wednesday and spent a night at Lingadzi police. The case has been dropped because the complainant has withdrawn the case,” said Kadadzera.

Sources say the disagreements arose after the Lands and Housing minister Symon Vuwa Kaunda wanted to buy the same piece of land and this annoyed Malola.

Vuwa Kaunda has been preaching that there should be no corruption in the award of government land yet he was using his ministerial powers to get the land.

Mwandidya has refused to comment on the matter whilst Vuwa Kaunda just said it was not true before hanging up the phone.

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28 replies on “Presidential guard threatens PS with gun, arrested: Row with Minister Vuwa over land”

  7. That shows threatening some one with a gun in Malawi is not an offence wow. But being found in possession of a gun is an offence please good people educate me.

  9. Lule anaphedwera ku ndende.
    lelo abusa ocokera ukooooooo ku Korea kudzadzoza abusa ku ndende ya ku malawi.
    ati ku ndende sikolangila anthu. ZOONA DAUSIIII.
    KU KOREA KKKKKKKKKK

    JOJI MALEMYA nkhani ya madzi .mipopi mose munayambila , muluzi anatiikila mwala in his era mpaka lelo anta.tizimwa madzi a manyi omwewa.
    nanga namasupuni ku Cimwankhunda azatha litilo.
    ma khasala angobwera kudya idya ndalama nkutulukamo.
    all this is total trash

  10. Why are you not buying land in Thyolo. We will grab all these properties when the worse come to the worst. Already we know the PS who was there before Mwandidya was removed unceremoniously because he refused to sanction the purchase by a cadet fronting Ben Phiri of a piece of land in Area 18 which encroaches into Nankhaka river. We are watching you and one day we will demolish these politically motivated structures

  12. But I thought that is a prohibited land. There was some announcements on the radio by City Council that nobody should own that land pano anthu womwewo a mboma akugawana. What a shame.

    1. There is no big in Malawi. The people are big see how they have danced to people’s voice. No one must ever underrate Malawians.

  17. Ayambapo kale, malawians for heaven sake and for the sake of your children this is not a government to trust or keep voting for it to keep mismanaging our country. These are thieves. Let’s vote for normal people in the next election please.

    1. If the citizen keep quite, this is what happen. Thus why they are demonizing demonstrations for them to keep on stealin

  19. Vuto mukuphangira malo nokhanokha ku DPP kwanuko ndi ku Mlakho. Zakhala bwino, ndipo akanachiombera chi PS chimenechi

  21. With the likes of Vuwa and mafia gang at the hem of power ruling, fellow Malawians where is this government taking us? Can this government truly and effectively tackle the vice of ‘official corruption’ that is ravaging our beautiful and peaceful land? Someone help me find answers to these troubling questions?

  23. Joseph Mwandidya could not pursue the case because he is another cadet who was given a position in government. So pursuing the case could have meant in house fighting going wild.

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