Malawi’s Homeland Security Minister made an unannounced swoop on Lilongwe Prison this week — and what he found painted a troubling picture of overcrowding, food shortages and inmates pleading for a fairer chance at a presidential pardon. Peter Mukhito arrived at the facility on Wednesday alongside Deputy Minister Norman Chisale and Principal Secretary Linda Moyo, […]
Citizen For Transformation (CFT) has donated 3000 face masks to Maula Prison to protect inmates from contracting or spreading coronavirus (Covid-19) whilst in the correctional facility. CFT Commander-In-Chief (CIC) Timothy Mtambo speaking after he officially handed over the masks to the prison authorities on Saturday, said his movement is concerned with the second wave of […]
Minister of Home Affairs and Internal Security, Cecilia Chazama has described the construction of new cell blocks at Maula Prison in Lilongwe as a positive step that would ensure that the prison is decongested. Chazama made the remarks when she commissioned the two prison cell blocks which have been constructed with funds from the Malawi […]
The Malawi government on Friday made a rare pro-active approach to issues when it moved in quickly with assistance to Maula prison which has had some cells and office buildings destroyed by hail storms and ‘rains of terror’ on Thursday. Just hours after the incident, officials from the Department of Disaster Management Affairs DoDMA were […]
Uthunthu Ministries has trained forty-four inmates at Maula Prison in a transformation coaching course that will enable them become better people when they leave prison walls. Speaking during a graduation ceremony that took place at the Prison over the weekend Uthunthu Ministries founder, Pastor Caswell Mkanda, said the aim of the eleven-week course was to […]
Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) on Wednesday donated 1,000 blankets and a Plasma TV to Maula Prison in Lilongwe. The donation was presented by ECG officials in Lilongwe and members of a Prophetic Channel, a TV station for Bushiri’s church. Lawrence Shaba who represented the ‘Major 1’ said the multimillionaire prophet based in South […]
President Peter Mutharika will on Wednesday visit Maula Prison and Lumbadzi Police holding cell where he was detained on treason charges. State House press officer Chikondi Juma said President Mutharika will lead those that were arrested together with him and the entire Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) membership in retracing his roots. According to the statement, the President […]
The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) Brief Investigations Report on allegations of prisoners dying of hunger at Maula Prison in Lilongwe has found that despite inmates spending three days without food no deaths were recorded as a result of the food shortage. However, the report indicates the only registered death was of a 60-year-old prisoner, […]
The food shortage in Malawi has had no real face until recently. Reports are now inundated in the media—print and online—of how our fellow Malawians are in dire food need in almost all corners of our silent nation. Of great concern about the food shortage curse, however, is how it has affected Malawi’s prison service. […]
One of the country’s electronics chain stores, Globe Star International, has donated and installed Television screens at Kamuzu Central Hospital’s KCH waiting rooms and Maula Prison. According to Globe Star’s Manager Movete Banda, the donation which totalled to K1 million aimed at giving the patients and their relations some entertainment. “We understand that for us […]
Maula Prison officials on Wednesday New Year’s Day blocked the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) maize and medical donation worth K1 million to Maula Prison in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe. According to DPP president Peter Mutharika’s aide Ben Phiri, who led the delegation to the prison, the official cited the use of party vehicles and availability of […]
Inmates at Maula prison in Lilongwe have appealed to President Joyce Banda to consider pardoning some of prisoners who are serving jail on petty issue to reduce the overcrowding. Banda cheered the inmates on Friday as the country’s first sitting head of state to visit Maula prison. A representative of the prisoners Gift Theu, convicted […]