Former president peter Mutharika personal body guard, Norman Chisale, has been formally charged of murder.
This is in relation to the death of Issa Njaunju, who was Director of Corporate Services at the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)
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Lawyer representating Chisale, Chancy Gondwe has confirmed.
"I can confirm that my client has been charged of murder offence. He has been remanded pending committal of the matter to the High Court where he shall be formally charged,” he said.
Business has been disturbed at Mthandizi Market in Bangwe Township, Blantyre where Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has disconnected electricity from about 30 shops, including bars and houses that were illegally connected.
Escom Public Relations Manager Innocent Chitosi said the power was being supplied by two suspected culprits and estimated that it cost the parastatal about K10.5 million.
One of the two suspects, Horace Khan, who made illegal extension and unmetred bypass to 20 shops, had only purchased K1,000 worth of electricity units that he has used in supplying the power since 2018.
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) on Thursday confiscated seven vehicles at the Lilongwe residence of former Chief of State Residences, Mr. Peter Mukhito over suspected tax evasion.
The development came barely a day after the Malawi Police Service (MPS) arrested Mukhito over cement saga.
MRA Head of Corporate Affairs Steven Kapoloma confirmed of the development in an interview with the press.
According to Kapoloma, the tax collecting body received a tip off from well-wishers on the matter hence the operation.
“I can confirm that we have impounded seven vehicles from Mr Mukhito on suspicion that the vehicles were not duly cleared at MRA,” said Kapoloma.
Kapoloma has since urged Malawians to keep on informing the tax collecting body of the suspected tax evasion malpractices.
Some of the vehicles confiscated are;
1. Toyota Land Cruiser (VX8), registration number BW 6060.
2. Range Rover – No number plate.
3. Toyota Land Cruiser (VX8) – No number plate.
4. Mercedes Benz, registration number CPM 2.
5. VW Passat, registration number CP 7074.
6. Toyota Fortuner, registration number MH 950.
7. Bentry, registration number FW16LS-GP.
The motor vehicles are parked at MRA offices in Lilongwe.
A grouping calling themselves Grace of God based in Blantyre has written the Blantyre District Health Office (DHO) that they have found cure for the novel coronavirus.
Responding to the claims by the grouping, Dr. Gift Kawalazira of Blantyre DHO has asked the College of Medicine to evaluate the effectiveness of the cure which are herbals.
Kawalazira directed the letter to Director of Health and Social Services Dr. John Mphonda who said that the college’s pharmacy department should evaluate the effectiveness of the herbals in treating the deadly virus.
“The bearers of this letter are claiming to have found a herbal cure for Covid-19 and would like to work with Government Departments in administering the remedy.
“Kindly assist in evaluating the efficacy of their remedy and provide further guidance on how we can proceed in working with them,” says Kawalazira in the letter dated July 30.
Bottles of the remedy show that it was made by a group called by the Grace of God based in Blantyre.
Meanwhile, Covid-19 has killed 109 people and there have been 1807 recoveries. The total number of cases recorded is 3,981 cases.
There is currently no cure for Covid-19 and patients are treated based on their clinical condition since many of the disease’s symptoms can be treated.
Angry youths from the Amakohia community in the Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State have set ablaze five houses belonging to suspected cultists , who allegedly murdered a pub operator identified as Mrs Uchechi Ogoke.
Uchechi, whose husband is based in Malaysia, died as a result of machete cuts inflicted on her by the hoodlums, who invaded her residence.
Sources in the area, however, alleged that Uchechi’s husband and his younger brother had a hand in her gruesome murder.
According to the sources , the deceased’s husband was uncomfortable with allegations that his wife was involved in extramarital affairs.
The husband and his younger brother, it was alleged , conspired with the hoodlums to kill Uchechi.
The assailants also inflicted machete cuts on Uchechi’s eight-year-old daughter and house help.
Though the two girls survived the attack, it was learnt that the machete cuts on the woman’s body left her with no chance of survival.
A plumber, Bankole Adeshina, has lost his life while working inside a well on Abosede Awolola Street in the Itamaga area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.
It was gathered that Adeshina and his apprentice, Tajudeen Akasoro, were working together when the 50-year-old, who was said to have supported himself with a rope, entered the well to do some repairs.
While coming out, it was learnt that the rope snapped and Adeshina fell into the well.
Immediately the incident happened, it was gathered that emergency responders, including personnel of the Lagos State Fire Service and the state police command from the Igbogbo Police Division were contacted to rescue the victims.
However, efforts by Tajudeen and some residents to quickly rescue Adeshina proved abortive as he
Two robbery suspects that have been terrorizing the community of Awo Mbieri in Mbaitoli council area of Imo were burnt to death.
The irate youths of the community also set their motorcycle in which they operated in ablaze before the arrival of policemen from the Mbaitoli Divisional Police Headquarters.
A source from the community said that luck ran out on the suspects when youths of community gave them a hot chase and in the process arrested two of them.
When contacted the Spokesman of the Imo state command, Mr. Orlando Ikeokwu ( SP), confirmed the incident.
Civil Society organizations in Nsanje have intensified efforts to trace funds amounting to MK 842 Million which have been reported missing at the district council.
Their efforts also come as fuel worth MK59 Million has not been accounted for at the council.
Most of the funds were misappropriated through dubious deals run by the procurement department.
As the organizations are discussing plans to probe the matter, the NGO Board is drilling local authorities on identification of legitimate NGOs operating in the district.
This comes amid an observation that most of the unregistered organisations are involved in corrupt practices.
About 20 unregistered NGOs are operating in the district as 40 are recognized by the board.
Instagram has been overrun with women, famous and otherwise, posting black-and-white images of themselves with the caption, “Challenge accepted.”
There doesn’t seem to be much motivation for the photo challenge. That may be by design.
Celebrities like Gabrielle Union, Kristen Bell and Kerry Washington have accepted the “challenge,” which seems to involve posting a black-and-white image of oneself as a show of women’s empowerment. There’s no obvious social justice bent here other than to encourage women to share photos of themselves where they feel confident.
It works like this: Women nominate each other to post a monochrome image of themselves that they presumptively like. They share their photo, usually with the caption “Challenge accepted” and the hashtag #womensupportingwomen, and tag other women to post their own.
It’s reminiscent of the Dolly Parton challenge, which encouraged users to post four different images of themselves that they’d use as hypothetical headshots for different social media sites like LinkedIn and Tinder (a studious photo for LinkedIn; a sultrier shot for Tinder). That mostly functioned as a vehicle for users to post four flattering photos of themselves at once.
Ava Duvernay touched on that in her “challenge accepted” post. The “Selma” director shared a striking-black-and-white headshot and said she was “pretty sure this is just a cool excuse to post pix,” but she relented at her friends’ behest.
Other celebrities interpreted the challenge as a show of sisterly support. Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson shared a selfie and wrote “it is NOT a challenge to love my sisters but a gift and a bond that we have and we should cherish as long as we walk this earth.”
Critics of the challenge have called it an empty gesture that’s clogging up social media feeds during the dual crises of protests against racism and the Covid-19 pandemic. Those participating defend the photo challenge as a harmless way to support their friends and take a breath from those crises.
So others have tried to incorporate racial justice into their posts. After sharing an image of herself, Padma Lakshmi, host of “Top Chef” and Hulu’s “Taste the Nation,” included four images of Black women killed during or after interactions with police, including Breonna Taylor and Sandra Bland, along with information on their stories and the statuses of the officers involved in their deaths.
Many more non-famous folks are posting their own “challenge accepted” photos, too — the phrase has been used over 4 million times on Instagram. But the hashtag creeps back up again every so often. Recently, international Instagram users were using the hashtag with pictures to show they were staying home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Police have launched a manhunt for a father who tied up, beat up and burnt his daughter’s thighs and private parts with a hot iron box for having a boyfriend.
The shocking incident happened on Monday in Kenya in a village called Bukembe, Kanduyi, Sub- County.
According to the mother of the 16-year old Form Two student, her husband flew into a rage after being informed by neighbours that his daughter was in a relationship with a young man in the village.
“He called me in the house and then locked up the door. He then tied me and started beating me up before he burnt me,” the teenage said from her hospital bed.
After committing the heinous act, the father disappeared leaving his daughter writhing in pain.
The teenager was then taken to Hospital for examination and treatment.
The incident was reported at Police Station by the girls’ mother.
Taiwan’s former president Lee Teng-hui, who earned the nickname “Mr Democracy” for the part he played in the island’s transition away from authoritarian rule, died Thursday aged 97, the hospital treating him said.
He was credited with paving the way for Taiwan to become a modern, free society after decades of one-party dictatorship and became a champion of the island’s bid to be treated as a sovereign state internationally.
Lee had been in hospital since February after choking on some food and had a history in recent years of chronic illnesses.
“He died of septic shock and multiple organ failure today despite the medical team’s all-out efforts to revive him,” Taipei Veterans General Hospital vice president Hwang Shinn-jang told reporters.
