President Lazarus Chakwera has hired former Malawi Police Services (MPS) Inspector General Dr Lesten Kachama as deputy chief of staff for State Residences. Kachama is regarded as one of the finest police IGs in the country but was unceremoniously removed from his position by former president Peter Mutharika. State Residences chief of staff Prince Kapondamgaga […]
Officials in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs have said the appointment of Rodney Jose as acting Malawi Police Inspector General has no legal pitfalls, dismissing some of the country’s activists who have criticized President Peter Mutharika for his choice of the new top cop. The activists claim Jose is not fit since he […]
Lexten Kachama who has been replaced by President Peter Mutharika as Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General (IG) with Rodney Jose has ruled out joining politics , saying he gone on leave pending his retirement and that he has not been sacked. The former top cop is not due for retirement until June 30 2018. Under […]
Governance expert Makhumbo Munthali has observed that the replacement of Malawi Police Service (MPS) Inspector General (IG) Lexten Kachama with Rodney Jose in an acting capacity leaves a lot to be desired. Munthali remarks comes in the wake of confusion with what State House has said about the removal of Kachama and Chief Secretary to […]
President Peter Mutharika has appointed Rodney Jose as acting Inspector General (IG) of the Malawi Police Service following the retirement of Lexten Kachama, it was announced on Monday. Kachama has retired after he served in several positions in the police service, the latest being that of a commissioner responsible for inspections, audit and performance for the Southern […]
The Inspector General of Malawi police, Lexten Kachama, has warned detectives in police service against befriending criminals, saying this would dent the image of the law enforcers. Kachama said this when he presided over the graduation of 200 police detectives on Monday in Blantyre. “You must work efficiently and effectively in your job to protect lives of people and […]
The Inspector General of Malawi Police Lexten Kachama has showered words of praise to Central Region Police for the good performance last year. Speaking when he visited central region police headquarters on Tuesday, 9 January 2018, the Police chief expressed satisfaction with the way police officers in the region discharged their duties in the just […]
Inspector General (IG) of Police Lexten Kachama has said the level of crime in the country has decreased but pointed out that there has been a five percent increase in defilement cases in the just-ended year. In his annual crime report during the end-of-year police celebrations at Area 30 Police Headquarters in Lilongwe, Kachama revealed reported […]
Dr. Lexten Kachama, PhD Malawi Police Service, National Police Headquarters, Area 30, Lilongwe. Malawi CC: Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika, State House, Lilongwe. Re: Job Opportunity Dear Dr. Lexten Kachama, Let me pass my congratulations on your being elevated to the highest office in the Malawi Police Service but as our people say: “It is […]
A well-coordinated operation comprising police officers from Blantyre, Limbe, Kabula, Chileka, Manje, Mbayani and E – Company from Zomba has netted about 140 people for causing mayhem in Chileka, Kachere and Machinjiri areas in Blantyre under the pretext of hunting for blood suckers, Inspector General of the Malawi Police Services, Lexten Kachama told reporters on […]
Wife of Malawi Police chief Lexten Kachama has been captured with opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members in party regalia suggesting she is partisan and behind the MCP. Police officers are supposed to be apolitical and largely that translates to their spouses. However, there is no law stopping spouses of law enforcing officers to belong […]
Son in law to Malawi’s inspector General of Police Lexen Kachama, Frank Banda, has disassociated his father-in-law over reports that he is the one who owns Kings Group, a company whose trucks were impounded by the security agencies over maize exportation saga. Maize according to Malawi goverment is a protected crop meaning that the crop […]
As the government is struggling to control the illegal externalization of the country’s staple food, maize, it’s been established that the syndicate involves the head of the Malawi Police Service, Inspector General Lexten Kachama. Kachama, has in the last two weeks demoted officers who impounded tens of trucks that were illegally exporting maize out of […]
Inspector General of Police Lextern Kachama was in the Lower Shire, tightening security for people with albinism following an attack on two brothers with albinism last week in Nsanje. Kachama said the police have now stepped up security for people with albinism after the attack on the two brothers of albinism in Nsanje. Alfred and […]
A private law firm has been granted by the High Court to lodge an application to commit to prison Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security Grace Chiumia and Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama to prison for contempt of court for allegedly failing to comply with a Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal order. Chiumia […]
Inspector General of Malawi Police Lexten Kachama on Friday conspicously missed at senior officers end of year party at police headquarters in Lilongwe raising questions on his health. This came barely days after the social media was awash with speculations that he was admitted to a South African hospital with an undisclosed disease. The Facebook […]
Inspector General of Police Lextern Kachama has said the police are deploying 40 more law enforceers in the border districts of Chitipa and Karonga to fight people with albinism attackers. Kachama was speaking on Thursday at Chitipa boma where senior government officials including the Home Affairs minister held a meeting following the recent attack of […]
President Peter Mutharika has said he is sending Inspector General of Police Lexter Kachama and his entourage to Tanzania and Rwanda to learn how the two countries dealt with the killings of people with albinism. Mutharika said this on Sunday when he attended a church service at St Mark Anglican Church in Mzuzu and later […]