Malawi Police Service detectives are keeping under surveillance student activist Robert Chasowa’s assailants and co-conspirators awaiting arrests later this week when the full inquiry report will be made public by the end of the week. Government insiders said key suspects, who were influential in the former ruling DPP government, are being monitored by security agents as […]
An official investigation into the death of fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa has presented its finding to President Mrs Joyce Banda at State House in Lilongwe and highlighted that the student was “murdered”. Chasowa’s killing tainted late Bingu wa Mutharika led administration’s human rights record and President Banda soon after taking over, following death of […]
There was a poignant tribute to murdered fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa at the University of Malawi’s constituent college, Poly in Blantyre on Monday evening. Chasowa was found dead on September 24 2011. He is believed to have been killed by former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assailants. A commission of inquiry appointed to investigate circumstances […]
Youth Freedom & Democracy (YFD) has organized a candle light vigil on Saturday, September 22 to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa by alleged former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assailants. Chasowa was found dead on September 24 2011. A commission of inquiry appointed to investigate circumstances surrounding his […]
Two men suspected of playing a role in the murder of fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa were on Tuesday denied bail by the High Court sitting in Blantyre. In his brief ruling, Justice Maclean Kamwambe observed that the prosecuting authority succeeded in establishing a ‘strong link’ between the suspects – Geoffrey Bottoman and Peter […]
As the country patiently waits for an outcome of the commission of enquiry president Mrs. Joyce Banda instituted to investigate events that led to the killing of the death of fourth-year Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa , the identity of owner of the vehicle which police officers used for the operation has been revealed. Chasowa’s close confidant […]
The High Court in Blantyre has given state prosecutors a 14-day ultimatum to justify the basis of arresting two people suspected to have had a hand in the death of fourth-year Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. The two suspects Geoffrey Botomani, 28, and his accomplice Petro Petros Tembo, 30, were nabbed on July 13, 2012 and have […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is claiming that government is buying witnesses in the Robert Chasowa murder case in order to implicate DPP acting President Peter Mutharika and its Southern Regional Governor Noel Masangwi in the case. According to an inside source, state authorities are said to have lured Masangwi’s bodyguard only identified as Sam, to […]
After a spate of uncertainty that surrounded the reasons behind the arrest of two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) associates, Geoffrey Botomani and Petro Tembo, the state has finally charged the two in connection with last year’s murder of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa . It had to take close to two weeks for the suspects to know […]
Two young men arrested in connection with last year’s murder of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa are yet to be formally charged by the court despite spending close to a fortnight at the Chichiri prison. The two suspects, identified as Geoff ‘Dolph’ Botomani and Petro Tembo, were picked on July 15 but no reasons have been […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) leader Peter Mutharika on Wednesday faced Robert Chasowa Inquiry grilling at Golden Peacock hotel in Lilongwe on the role he played in the death of the an engineering student at Polytechnic, a constituent college of University of Malawi . Mutharika is one of the DPP officials who are linked with the death of Chasowa […]
Police in Blantyre have netted two men suspected to be hired assassins who gruesomely murdered a University of Malawi student activist, Robert Chasowa in cold blood at Polytechnic campus for criticizing Malawi’s late president, Bingu wa Mutharika, publicly and exposing him and his DPP government of clandestine and underhand deals, in a special combat, Nyasa Times […]
Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) told the Blantyre Magistrates court on Thursday that it has lined up more than 20 witnesses to testify in the inquest of the death of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. MHRC has instituted the inquest after granted permission by Limbe Dalton Magistrates court earlier this year following the application by Chasowa’s […]
A six-member Commission of Inquiry set up by President Joyce Banda to probe the brutal murder of a University of Malawi 4th year engineering student Robert Chasowa has started hearing testimonies from the public. It has started barely a week after the swearing in of the last commissioner, Sophie Kalimba, a town planner and former […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has set into action an official inquiry into the mysterious death of a university student activist Robert Chasowa with the appointment of Commission of Inquiry as its officials were sworn-in on Friday at Mudi residence in Blantyre. Chasowa, 25, was found dead on a pavement at the Polytechnic, the Blantyre-based […]
Students at Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, are enthusiastic the newly instituted commission of inquiry into the death of 25-year-old engineering student Robert Chasowa, would unravel all secretive facts that led to the alleged killing of their fellow student. The students however are demanding that the authorities move hastily to complete […]
Malawi Head of State Joyce Banda on Tuesday announced she was instituted a Commission of Inquiry to probe the circumstances surrounding the murder of a student activist, Robert Chasowa in September 2011. Chasowa, 25, was a University of Malawi engineering student and political activist at the Polytechnic. Chasowa was the chair of a student activist […]
The People’s Party (PP) Orange Intellectuals says it is “celebrating” the appointment of a new vibrant Inspector General of Malawi Police Service, Lot Dzonzi and the sacking of Peter Mukhito. Orange Intellectuals iS the PP’s youth wing that comprises students from the University of Malawi and other institutions of higher learning. PP was founded by […]