President Lazarus Chakwera on Wednesday condemned the high rate of violence in the country against women and children, calling it “disgusting and barbaric”. Chakwera speaking in Parliament before responding to the questions from legislators, took time to condemn what he described as barbaric behaviour that has been unleashed on innocent souls in the country. He […]
Blantyre Magistrate Court has released on bail Medical Aid Society of Malawi (Masm) Chief Commercial Officer Andrew Ngomwa charged with defilement of his less than 16-year-old niece. The bail was granted by the Senior Resident Magistrate Angela Dossi who is presiding over the case. Dossi in her ruling directed Ngomwa to pay K200,000 bail boond […]
Medical Aid Society of Malawi (Masm) chief commercial officer Andrew NGOMWA has handed himself in to police following allegations of defilement on his niece of less than 16-years-old. Blantyre Police Public Relations Officer, Augustus Nkhwazi said that Ngomwa presented himself at a police station Monday morning after being on the run. He has been locked […]
Medical Aid Society of Malawi (Masm) has appealed to their troubled employee, Andrew Ngomwa, to clear himself with the Malawi Police Service as required by the law. Ngomwa, who is Chief Commercial Officer for MASM, is wanted by Blantyre Police for allegedly defiling his niece who is 14 years old. According to Blantyre Police Public […]
Malawi Police Service have arrested a primary school teacher at in Ntcheu for allegedly defiling a 15 -year-old standard 7 pupil. Ntcheu Police Station spokesperson Hastings Chigalu, said he suspect, Limbikani Kapeta, 28, had an affair with the young girl since June 2020. He said the girl came home late on September 30, 2020 and […]
Malawi Medical Society (MASM) senior officer Andrew Ngomwa is in police custody after he was apprehended in Mozambique where he was on the run on allegations that he was defiling his 14 year old niece. Nyasa Times can reveal that Ngomwa, a Chief Commercial Officer at MASM was arrested around Zobue in Mozambique where he […]
Malawi Police Service in Ntcheu say the district has recorded an increase in defilement cases. In an interview, Ntcheu Police Spokesperson, Sub Inspector Hastings Chigalu said according to their January-June bi-annual report, the district has registered 30 cases as compared to 15 cases during the same period last year. Chigalu said police is encouraging coordination […]
Malawi Police Service at South Lunzu in Blantyre have arrested 35-year-old Catholic Church’s Catechist, Madalitso Mofolo, over defilement offence. Mofolo, a Catechist at Nanjiriri Catholic Church, is believed to have defiled a 13 year-old church choir member, contrary to Section 138 of the Penal Code. The incident came to light when the suspect’s wife found […]
A report on the inquiry by the State-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) into the controversial discharge of a Pakistani from a defilement case in March this year has established that Malawi Police Service prosecutor Sub Inspector Ishamel Abubast allegedly altered details of the case to defeat justice that led to accused acquittal. Muhammad Hanif […]
An angry mob in Mchinji has hacked to death an ex-soldier, Fransisco Tumeyo, following a fierce fight that ensued over allegations of defilement. The incident is believed to be a revenge attack after Tumeyo had earlier hacked two relatives to the victimised girl who had ealier attempted to apprehend him on allegations that he defiled […]
Malawi Police Service in Nsanje district have arrested a 27-year old pastor for allegedly defiling and impregnating his 15-year-old church member. Nsanje police station spokesperson Agness Zalakoma identified the suspect as Joseph Chiwaya of Kaleso Village in Traditional Authority Mbenje in the district. Zalakoma said the incident happened between February 2019 and May 2020 in […]
Malawi Police in Ntchisi District have arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly defiling and impregnating his two 16-year-old nieces. Both girls now have babies which they delivered after being defiled by the suspect a number of times, one in 2017 and the other in 2019. Ntchisi Police Spokesperson, Richard Kaponda attributed the delay in arresting […]
Malawi Police in Dedza have arrested a 47-year-old man for allegedly sexually assaulting seven girls. It is reported that the man identified as Levison Manyozo and owns a hawker has rotationally been defiling the girls who are aged between eight and eleven. Manyozo was sexually abusing the children whenever their parents send them to by […]
The Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Advocacy (Chreaa) has written acting Inspector General of Police Duncan Mwapasa to re-arrest a Pakistani national 57-year-old Muhammad Hanif who was dubiously discharge in a sexual assault case whose victim is a 14-year-old Malawian school girl. Hanif is alleged to have defiled the girl in Mudi Residential […]
Dozens of women took to the streets of Malawi’s capital on Monday to protest against sexual violence after a series of alleged police assaults on women last year. About 90 protesters, most of them women, marched through Lilongwe in silence to mark She Decides Day – a global movement launched in 2017 after organisations that […]
Malawi Police in Dowa are keeping in custody a fellow cop Sergeant Mapemphero Kungade suspected of defiling a 10 year old girl in the district. The suspect, who the victim is his niece, in December, 2019 took her from Dedza to Dowa to be playing with her daughter and at the same time to be […]
Malawi Police in Dedza are keeping in custody a 38-year-old woman for defiling a 12-year-old boy. According to police, the woman, Iness Banda started defiling the boy in December last year and the defilement went on until her arrest last week. It is said the boy was sleeping in a house alone in a compound […]
The First Grade Magistrate court sitting in Karonga has sentenced 51-year-old man to seven years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling a niece. The court handed a custodial sentence to Silva Nyondo for defiling a 13-year-old niece. The public prosecutor, Sergeant Wilfred Khuniwa told the court that on December 31, 2019 at around 1200 hours […]