Officials from Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs have denied reports that the Malawi Police Service have handed over the report on the murder of fourth year Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa to the ministry. This follows comments by police spokesperson that the law enforcers have given the report to the Ministry of Justice who demanded […]
The Malawi Police Service (MPS) says it has finally completed investigations surrounding the mysterious death of University of Malawi’s The Polytechnic engineering student Robert Chasowa who was found dead on campus six years ago. Nation Police spokesperson James Kadadzera confirmed on Tuesday about the development. Kadadzera was defensive on why they had taken half a dozen […]
It is not surprising that the police is not forthcoming in giving out crucial information to the ministry of justice to enable it hire foreign investigators to probe the death of The Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa in 2011. The findings of ChasowaCommission of Inquiry led by Justice Andrew Nyirenda, appointed by former president Joyce Banda, […]
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Samuel Tembenu has blamed the Malawi Police Service for delays in hiring foreign investigators to probe the death of University of Malawi student Robert Chasowa. Tembenu said the police were told long ago to bring forward their needs and work plan on how they would work with the foreign […]
Malawi government will take a long time before engaging foreign investigators to establish how Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa was killed. Justice and Constitutional Affairsminister Samuel Tembenu has said the government wants to consult the police to find out which areas the foreign investigators would cover. “Until we are told which critical areas the foreign investigators […]
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Samuel Tembenu has said the state will not prosecute Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa killer suspects but the murder victim’s friend, Moses Black described Tembenu’s statement as the government ploy to protect DPP officials and the police. .Tembenu punched holes on the Robert Chasowa commission of inquiry led by the now […]
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Samuel Tembenu says government intends to hire foreign investigators to probe the death of Robert Chasowa, a Polytechnic student and political activist found dead on campus in September 2011 at the height of anti government protests. Tembenu said this on Thursday when Malawi Human Rights Commission officials presented the state of […]
The murder of of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate services Issa Njauju and University of Malawi student Robert Chasowa mighthave been carried with orders of someone “senior enough” hence government ‘s disinterest in expediting their cases, chairperson for Human Righrts Consultative Committee (MHRC), Robert Mkwezalamba has observed. It is widely believed in Malawi that […]
Malawi’s Chief State Advocate in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Pacharo Kayira has said government is committed to see justice prevail over all the extrajudicial killings including those of University student Robert Chasowa and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) official Issa Njaunju. Kayira made these remarks at the 58th Session of the African Commission […]
Justice Kenyatta Nyirenda of the High Court has ruled that the murder case of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa a former fourth-year engineering student at the Polytechnic, can be certified by Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal before it goes for a judicial review. This follows an application by two suspects in the criminal proceedings—first defendant Petros […]
Lawyers representing slain Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa and the state were at the High Court on Wednesday to see how the murder case can be started, five years after he was killed by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and state operatives for being critical of late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Lawyer for the Chasowa’s, Ambokire Salim […]
Malawi Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda has defied the law by voluntarily recusing himself from certifying a Constitutional review on the application by two of the suspects in the murder case of polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa, who want to be discharged from the case. Doff Bottoman and Peter Petros through their lawyer Ambokire Salimu applied to […]
Some Civil Society groups, human rights defenders and lawyers working in the realm of human rights and governance in Southern Africa have challenged Malawi government to end the “culture of impunity” and expedite pursuit of justice on the murder of Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director late Issa Njauja as well as other cases including the […]
Student political activist Robert Chasowa’s fourth murder anniversary has passed by quietly with a lone voice calling on President Peter Mutharika to bring those who brutally murdered him to book. Chasowa, a fourth year mechanical engineering student at the Polytechnic was found murdered and his body dumped at the college campus in 2011 after he […]
Malawi government has denounced as incorrect a recent Country Report on Human Rights Practices published by the US State Department last week which accused Malawi on human rights abuse as evidenced by, among many cases, government’s failure to bring to justice police officers who were charged with manslaughter in July 2011 anti-government demonstration and on […]
Chief Justice, Andrew Nyirenda is contemplating on whether to recuse himself from certifying a Constitutional review on the application by two of the suspects in the murder case of Polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa who want to be discharged from the case. Doff Bottoman and Peter Petros through their lawyer Ambokire Salimu applied to the High Court […]
There is something going on in this country. Something that we knew has always been on our mind. That our government, starting from when Sir Glyn Jones handed over State House to us, that, the government of this country, or the people who run it, are murderers. Cold-bloodied murderers. Let me start from people who […]
Two of the suspects in the murder case of polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa have cried foul over the delay by Chief Justice to certify a constitutional review on their application to be discharged from the case. Chief Justice, Anastasia Msosa was expected to certify constitutional proceedings on the application by Geoffrey ‘Doff’ Bottoman and Peter […]