Tembenu lies on food for prisoners: Malawi Justice Minister tells EU inmates to get 3 meals a day
Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Samuel Tembenu has been accused of lying after he told a delegation of European Union that inmates at Mzimba Prison would now start getting three meals a day.
Inmates at the prison said it was mockery for Tembenu to tell donors lies.
“We are still eating once a day,“ said one inmate when Women’s Guild members from Kaphuta CCAP donated food items to the 574 inmates as part of Christmas festive activities of the church.
Tembenu made the promise recently when he received electric cooking pots from the EU.
Incharge of the prison Raphael Mushali said the inmates eat once a day at 8am.
“The problem has worsened because we did not get the November funding. The situation is dire because we survive on donations from well wishers,” said Mushali.
The situation is the same at Kachere Juvenile Centre in Lilongwe where officials told Chancellor College alumni that there were concerned that the child offenders take one meal a day.
The Chancellor College alumni had gone to the centre to donate bathing and launmdry soap and engaged the child offenders in career talk so that they make a right choice on their future career when they get out of the youth offenders reformatory prison.
Inspector Chirwa of the institution asked more well wishers to come forward to help the young offenders with food.
this needs to change please these are people some are innocent
Nzosadabwitsa kuti atsogoleri athu amanena/amayankhula zonama ngati izi. If we go by JB, did they get into those positions honestly?
HOW COME THESE PRISONS ARE UNABLE TO PRODUCE OWN FOOD…ALL THE LABOUR, TIME AND LAND AT HAND! SAY KASUNGU FOR EXAMPLE, SO MUCH ARABLE LAND AND SO IS THE CASE IN OTHER PRISONS.,, VERY VAST AMOUNTS OF ARABLE LAND BUT UNUSED! BE INNOVATIVE FOR ONCE! GIVE ADEQUATE SUPPORT, THESE PRISONS CAN FEED THEMSELVES through out the year!
Its a proper sad situation that people entrusted n working this country keep lying through their teeth, if they have any that is (ena amakhakala ngati onse anaguluka).
Its ad that from the President himself to the minsters, to junior ministers, to PS’s to spokespersons…all think that lying to people somehow its ok. In other countries that respect the constitution and all, these would have gone long time ago..forced to resign.
President ndi uja amanamiza ma donors akuti we should not publicise umphawi, well fuck off..everyone knows that we are poor and you admitting it is called truthfulness. Now minister uyu, lying as well on such an issue, musaiwale kuti mumakalowamo mmenemotu. Oh paja amakubweretselani ma spaghetti bolognese. if this country is to develop then truth matters do act as if you are capable when obviously you ain’t. I have never seen such stupid leadership …we don’t need this.
Malawi is a bankrupt country lead by a bankrupt government.
Eish koma ma prisoner ndiye amazionera ey. Ena akuwapasa zinthu zopanga expire. Ena akunena mabodza kuti akudyetsedwa three times a day. Koma ndiye zilikotu.
that’s bonkers
bonkers
failed, sorry nation MALAWI……
We eat inorder to live and have good health. It is a right for every person to have food. Being denied the right to eat must not be interpreted as punishment for the crimes they committed at all. The gvt shud be serious enough with this and u leaders are not immune to laws, one day will be inmate and meet same in prison scenario, what will u do?
A Tembenu nanu mwaphunzira kunama, zoona ndende yaku Malawi ndani angadye chakudya katatu pa tsiku.
SHAME shame shame !!!!!!!
Prisons used have vast lands, they can utilize it for feeding themselves. Look at all the land at Kasungu, Domasi, Mikuyu Prisons and many other places. These Farm Prisons used to produce enough food for all the Prisons in Malawi.
Just give them expired margarine from Uniliver if they have no food
No truth to come out of this gay government .
Funding funding yachani? My tax money is not for feeding convicts. It is for developmental projects. Please prison authorities be innovative and generate your own income and food. Use these convicts to develop this country and not the vice versa.
Kodi ndimayesa mbuyomu tinamva kuti anzawo ake Zomba akulima mpunga wambiri. Awanso akhoza kumalima mbewu yomwe imalola kwambiri mdera lakwawolo ndikumadzidyetsa komanso kumathandizira mzipatala. But we should at the same time be careful with the unintended consequences. The life in prison should not mimic that of law abiding citizens in the outside world lest we increase crime rate because if prisons are turned into paradise there wont be social deterrent from committing crime.
Implisoned with hard labour but they can produce food for themselves where do they do hard labour if not farming?
At least you eat one meal a day, criminal as you are. The fellows you left at home have been surviving on boiled mangoes which is getting out of season. Now they are scarveging on madeya (maize bran).
Mapwevupwevu avuta
Likoswe uli boooo! Ndi zowona zimene ukunena. Akalime zawo akaidiwo. Awete Khuku, ngombe, mbzi. There are important issues than them. HERE IT LOOKS LIKE CRIME PAYS. Europian Union alibe nazo zochita ndlamazo? Osathandiza mabvuti ali ku Malawiko bwanji. Kodi azunguwa anakhala bwanjiiii?
In Malawi we are not using prisoners at the fullest…. We could not lack food. Let these prisoners do the work for free..Govt could just provide land and farm inputs…..
The produce could be distributed in prisons, hospitals, government schools.
Let’s use our heads people.
Inu ma prisoners ndinu agalu ndithu, you terrorise anthu m’midzimu ndiye mukufuna to be having food from the same taxpayers mukuwapanga terrorise through government…….zitsilu!
Let them go farming and feed themselves. Simple policy issue