councilors, chiefs in Thyolo agree to reject Dr. Medson Matchaya as district commissioner

A final decision has been made by councilors and chiefs in Thyolo district rejecting Dr. Medson Matchaya as their District Commissioner.


The decision was made during a three hour emergency council meeting held on Monday.

The district council chairperson Sandram Maulana told Zodiak Online after the meeting that reasons for rejecting Dr. Matchaya are reports that he messed up things in Nkhotakota because of his arrogance and poor financial management.

“We cannot accept an officer who was chased away from another district after messing up things there but we are ready to accept any DC except Dr. Matchaya,” said Councilor Maulana.

But Traditional Authority Khwethemule said a decision to reject Dr. Matchaya was made by majority of council members but he said he sees no wisdom rejecting him based on rumors without first appreciating his performance.

“The minority was against the decision to reject Dr. Matchaya and in the end a consensus reached is that he should not come to Thyolo but as for me I would have loved we allowed him to come and then see his performance other than rejecting him basing on rumors,” said T/A Khwethemule.

Speaking to Zodiak Online in an interview Executive Director of National Local Government Finance Committee under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Mr. Alufeyo Banda said his coming was to hear from the councilors and chiefs reasons for rejecting Dr. Matchaya as their DC and he said the Ministry will make its determination on the matter.

“As of now Thyolo has no DC and we will appoint someone to act as the DC in two days to come while waiting for the ministry’s determination,” said Banda.

Last week Monday and Tuesday councilors, chiefs and concerned citizens sent two letters separately to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development rejecting Dr. Matchaya as the new DC and a day later the council’s staff wrote the Ministry accepting him as the DC.

Spokesperson for the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development Muhlabase Mughogho acknowledged receiving the letters.

“As the ministry we cleared Dr. Matchaya of any wrong doing and he was transferred from Nkhotakota because of the prevailing situation,” said Mughogho.

Dr. Matchaya was going to Thyolo to replace Justin Kathumba who has gone to Neno to replace Blessings Nkhoma who is now in Nkhotakota.

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41-year-old man in cooler for illegal possession of Hippo teeth

A 41-year-old man is in the police cooler in Mangochi for illegal possession of specimen of endangered species contrary to Section 110(b) of National Parks and Wildlife Act.


Mangochi Police Deputy Spokesperson, Sub Inspector Amina Tepani Daudi, who has identified the suspect as Matola Ishmael, said they arrested him with the hippo teeth on the evening of August 2, 2020 in the area of Traditional Authority Chowe in Mangochi.

“On this particular day, Wildlife Crime Investigation Unit Officers were tipped by members of the public that the said suspect was offering for sale pieces of raw ivory.


“The officers, in conjunction with Mangochi Police detectives, rushed to the scene and arrested Ishmael after they found him with nine pieces of hippopotamus teeth,” Said Daudi.

However, Tepani Daudi said Preliminary investigations have also revealed that on July 27, 2020, the National Parks and Wildlife officers killed a hippo in the area after villagers complained that the dangerous animal was destroying farm produce around the area.

Tepani Daudi said Ishmael will appear before court after investigations are completed and she thanked the members of the public for their support in the fight against wildlife crime in the district.
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Cleaners at Thyolo district hospital down tools to force employers to pay two months salaries

Cleaners at Thyolo district hospital working under Zamathu Investment have put down their tools in attempt to force their employer pay them their two months salaries.


The cleaners who are 37 in total told us their employer has been playing hide and seek games each time they ask for their salaries which they say is K25, 000 each per month.

They said up until today, they have not been paid their June and July salaries.

“We have been working at Thyolo district hospital since 2014 with two different companies and were receiving their salaries in time but since the coming of Zamathu Investment in July, 2019, we have been struggling to receive our already meager salaries,” said the cleaners.

They said they started boycotting work on Monday afternoon to force their employer pay them their two month salary arrears.

6 rescued from traffickers

Police in Mchinji district has rescued six people including a two-year-old who were being trafficked into neighboring Zambia.

The alleged trafficker, James Dunde, has been detained while the victims are also in safe custody at Mchinji police since yesterday.

Preliminary findings show that the six people were being taken to work on a tobacco farm in Zambia.

2 in-cooler over theft by trick in Mulanje

A 29 year old man is in police custody in Mulanje for allegedly stealing K500, 000 from his business partner by trick before raping his wife.


Mulanje Police Spokesperson Sub-Inspector Gresham Ngwira said it is alleged that Frank Mtambo borrowed K500, 000 from his partner (name withheld) who stays at Mponela in Dowa district and he promised to give him a Sienta vehicle as collateral.

He said the business partner in company of his wife travelled to Mulanje to Mtambo’s house to collect the vehicle.

“While discussing the vehicle issue, Mtambo changed the subject and convinced his partner to seek charms from a herbalist identified as Goliati Walasi for wealth accumulation,” said Ngwira.

Ngwira said the man collected the charms and Mtambo advised him to send his wife there to collect additional charms.

“Unsuspecting man accepted the order but when the wife went there, Mtambo fooled her that he had to sleep with her as part of the couple’s rituals or else she would go mad and it is alleged that he raped the woman right in the herbalist’s house,” said Ngwira.

Upon reaching home in Dowa, the wife revealed the matter to her husband who travelled back to Mulanje and launched the complaint to police.

Police then arrested Mtambo and charged him with theft by trick and rape offences while the herbalist has been charged with theft by trick offence.

Malawi Loses Head Of Criminal Investigation Department

Head of the Criminal Investigation Department-CID in the Malawi Police Service Bob Mtekama has died.

National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed the development but could not give details on cause of death.


Mtekama, whose rank was Deputy Commissioner of Police, was appointed a few weeks ago as Head of CID.

Masturbation Is Better Than Sleeping With Just Anyone Says Nigerian Model

Former beauty queen, Sandra Benede has shared her thoughts about masturbation in a comment she shared on Instagram.

According to Sandra, there is nothing wrong with masturbation and it is something she can do. She further disclosed that masturbation is better than sleeping with just anyone.

She wrote;

Nigerian Pastor Allegedly Impregnated Two Underaged Sisters

A minister in the popular Nigerian church, Lord’s Chosen has been accused of raping two underage sisters for years and finally impregnating them under the guise of casting out “bad luck” from them.

Pastor Nduka Anyanwu, who ministers in the Lord’s Chosen Church, Canaan Land branch in Oshodi, allegedly impregnated the sisters aged 17 and 13.

According to an NGO known as Stop The Abuse, Nduka allegedly began raping the younger girl when she was just 9 and began raping the older girl when she was only 16.

They also alleged that the parents of the girls knew but allowed the pastor to carry on because he told them it’s the only way he could remove the “spiritual mark” on them that “repels good things”.


According to the NGO, the pastor said that he wants the older sister to keep the pregnancy and he’ll marry her but asked that the younger sister aborts her pregnancy because what happened between them was a mistake.


Police officers at the Makinde Police Station arrested the pastor and he’s now in their custody. Stop The Abuse Foundation wrote:


Pastor Nduka Anyanwu who should be better known as Pastor Penis has allegedly raped and impregnated two sisters aged 17 and 13 years and has said he wants the older girl to keep the pregnancy because he wants to marry her but that the younger one should abort her own pregnancy as sexually defiling her was a mistake which he regretted even though he has had carnal knowledge of her uncountable times.

The wicked pastor who claims he is a minister from the Lord’s Chosen Church , Canaan land branch, Oshodi has been sexually defiling the younger girl since she was 9 years old and the older girl since she was 16 years under the pretext that she had a spiritual mark on her body that repels good things and the only way to remove the mark was to have carnal knowledge of her. She refused vehemently and reported to her parents who insisted that she must accept.

Drama however ensued when a team of advocates from Stop The Abuse Foundation and Child Advocates and Vulnerable Person’s Network tried to get him arrested with the help of policemen from Makinde Police Station,Oshodi. The parents of the survivors adamantly refused the arrest of the abuser because he is a man of God and has already promised to marry their older daughter. He was eventually arrested by the determined police officers who refused to be compromised. Thanks to the DPO of Makinde Police Station and his able and gallant police officers

Why did Manchester United Fail To Land Jude Bellingham from Birmingham City

Jude Bellingham

Manchester United missed out on the signing of Jude Bellingham from Birmingham City.

The teenage star was pursued by the Red Devils, even being given a tour of their Carrington training ground and meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson.

But Bellingham opted to head to the Bundesliga and follow in Jadon Sancho’s footsteps by joining Borussia Dortmund to further his development.

ESPN have now claimed that United missed out on Bellingham after they refused to match his £56,000-a-week wage offer from Dortmund.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was reportedly ready to throw Bellingham straight into his first-team squad.

Ole with the Glazer family

But club owners the Glazer family and executive vice-chairman Woodward were unwilling to sanction the deal.

They did not feel comfortable shelling out almost £3million a year in wages on a player with just one year of senior football under his belt.

As a result, they decided against matching Dortmund’s offer and he headed to Germany.

The deal could rise to £22.75million if future clauses and add-ons are met.

Bellingham is already in training at his new club as they started pre-season this week.

After his move, the 17-year-old said: “I chose Borussia Dortmund because it is the perfect step for my development. I am just glad that saga is over.

“It was a lot of annoyance to me and there was a lot of noise around at the time when all I wanted to do was play for Birmingham City.

large blast in the Lebanese capital kills atleast 50, lives many injured

A large blast in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, has killed at least 50 people and injured more than 2,700 others, the health minister says.

It is not yet clear what caused the explosion. Videos show smoke billowing from a fire before the blast, which is followed by a mushroom cloud.

Hospitals are said to be overwhelmed and many buildings have been destroyed.

Lebanon's internal security chief said the blast happened in an area housing highly explosive materials.

A BBC journalist at the scene reported dead bodies and severe damage, enough to put the port of Beirut out of action.

The explosion comes at a sensitive time for Lebanon, with an economic crisis reigniting old divisions. Tensions are also high ahead of Friday's verdict in a trial over the killing of ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

Officials are pointing to an accident rather than a deliberate act as a possible cause.

The interior minister said first reports suggested what he called explosive material stored at the port had blown up.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab called it a catastrophe and said those responsible must be held to account.

He spoke of a "dangerous warehouse" which had been there since 2014, but said he would not pre-empt the investigation.

Local media showed people trapped beneath rubble. A witness described the first explosion as deafening, and video footage showed wrecked cars and blast-damaged buildings.

-BBC

Man in cooler for impersonating police officer

Lingadzi Police Station has arrested Chikumbutso Jimmy James, 29, for personating a Public Officer working under Kanengo Police Station in Lilongwe.

Lingadzi Police Station Spokesperson, Salome Zgambo told Malawi News Agency (Mana) Tuesday in Lilongwe that Police received a tip-off from well wishers that the suspect kept on bringing different motor cycles and bicycles to his house at Senti location in the City.

“Following that tip, the reporter led a team of detectives and managed to arrest the suspect,”she explained.

Zgambo pointed out that in the course of investigations, the suspect was found with Police camouflaged uniform, a mountain bike and Plasma TV screen.


“The uniform comprises of two pairs of trousers, a shirt, and a pair of boots, cane stick, and head dress,” she said.


The Spokesperson said upon interviewing the suspect, he failed to explain clearly where he got the uniform and the matter is still under investigation.


James hails from Kaphale Village in the Area of Traditional Authority (TA) Tambala in Dedza.

-Malawi News Agency-

Health Officials in Kenya to Exhume Covid-19 Body After They Buried The Wrong One

Health Officials in Kenya, Shamakhokho location, had to exhume a cleric’s body at 9 pm on Saturday, August 1, after they buried the wrong body.



The team had buried the body of a man belived to be covid-19 negative instead of that of Linus Simwa, a clergy and chair of the Vihiga Referral Hospital board, who had tested positive for the disease.

Morgue attendants noticed the mistake only after the man’s family came for the body and they could not find it. To their dismay, they noticed that the cleric’s body was still at the mortuary and they had to go back and exhume the body.

“Several customs had to be performed because we do not know the man who had been buried here,” Shamakhokho location chief Modlyn Imbayi stated.

Imbayi added that it was a strange encounter for a family to bury the wrong body in the area.

Simwa had succumbed to covid-19 on Wednesday, July 29 at the Vihiga Referral Hospital while the other man had died shortly after being admitted at the hospital.


They were both placed in body bags and taken to the mortuary.

Meanwhile, families of those succumbing to the virus have been forced to pay extra expenses after the facilities increased body storage charges.

The additional charges have been bestowed on the families because the bodies need to be fumigated and disinfected in line with the Ministry of Health guidelines.

In a past press briefing, Acting Health Director Dr Patrick Amoth explained that the Personal Protective Equipment took up 80% of the charges in treatment of the virus.

“PPE’s are only used once and then disposed,” Amoth stated.

So far, Kenya has recorded 22, 597 cases. Of the cases, 8,740 have recovered while 382 have succumbed to the virus.

Source: kenyans.co.ke

Anger as Rwandan women is accused of ‘pornography’

The treatment of four Rwandan women accused of breaking a strict cyber-crime law forbidding “indecent” images from being uploaded has angered social media users, RFI reports.

Critics object to the fact that the suspects were “paraded” in front of the media on Friday before any kind of trial had taken place.

But according to RFI, the Rwanda Investigative Bureau insisted it had been necessary to send a strong message to the public.

It also defended the move by saying the women’s faces and names were not revealed.

A Congolese national was arrested alongside the four women last week, RFI reports. Rwandan authorities reportedly suspect him of “pushing the women to take their clothes off for money” and being a member of a “prostitution ring”.

Man in custody for possessing drugs illegally in Nkhata Bay

Police in Nkhata Bay are keeping in custody a 39 year old Kossam Ngonya for being found in possesion of medical drugs and medical equipment without a license at Pundu trading center in the district.

His arrest comes barely a week after another man in Nkhotakota was also netted for a similar offence.

Among other things, Ngonya was found with a full malaria testing kit, assorted medical drugs such as Rifampicin, indocid capsules and Lofnac.

According to Kondwani James ,the district's police spokesperson, some of the items were found in his shop while the rest were confiscated at his house.

Ngonya who hails from Muona village in the area of T/A Mwenemusuku in Chitipa district is expected to appear before the court soon to answer charges of possessing medical drugs and equipment without a license.

Covid-19: Africa cases hit 957,035 as deaths pass 20,000

The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the African continent reached 20,288 as the number of COVID-19 cases in the continent reached 957,035 on Monday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.

The Africa CDC, a specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) Commission, in its latest situation update issued on Monday, said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the continent rose from 944,450 on Sunday to 957,035 as of Monday.

The Africa CDC report also said that the number of deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic rose to 20,288 deaths on Monday, up from 19,920 on Sunday.

The continental disease control and prevention agency stressed that some 611,957 patients who tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered across the continent so far.

South Africa is Africa’s highest affected country in terms of positive cases with 511,485 cases followed by Egypt with 94,483 cases and Nigeria with 43, 841 cases.

The North African nations of Algeria and Morocco have also recorded high numbers of COVID-19 with 30,909 and 25,537 confirmed COVID-19 cases respectively.

The Southern Africa region is the most affected area in terms of confirmed cases, followed by Northern Africa and Western Africa regions, respectively, the Africa CDC said.

Amid the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the African continent, the Africa CDC on Tuesday said 34 African countries are under “full border closure” in an effort to halt the spread of the infectious virus.

Source: CGTN

Man is brutally beaten with baseball bats by a gang of four men after asking them to wear masks

A father-of-two feared he would be killed after being knocked unconscious by two men brandishing baseball bats after asking one of them to wear a face mask in a laundry in France.

The shocking attack is the latest in a series of ‘mask rage’ assaults that have already claimed the life of a bus driver during the Coronavirus pandemic.

It was in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a commuter town north of Paris, that the 44-year-old father was attacked.

Asked to be identified only as Augustin M., he said he had approached one of his attackers on Sunday afternoon because he was worried about the spread of Covid-19.

See Photos Of A 7-Year-Old Boy Who Was Gruesomely Beaten By His Stepfather

A seven-year-old boy has been left with multiple 

injuries after he was gruesomely 

beaten by his stepfather.

Shocking photos shared online shows the boy with a swollen face and wounds all over his body. As for his crime, it was reported that the little boy in the afternoon, ate some parts of the food that was meant for

 dinner 

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'I Sleep With my 2 Daughters Because my Wife is Dead,' says Rapist

Peter Ayemoba, a 50-year-old father, has been arrested by the police for having carnal knowledge of his two daughters after the demise of his wife.


Ayemoba told the police during interrogation that he had been sleeping with his daughters since his wife died about seven years ago.


He said that sleeping with his daughters made him to feel close to his late wife, adding that the romps he had with them allowed them to bond more.


Ayemoba said: “I started sleeping with my daughters about seven years ago when I lost my wife in 2013.

‘I was forced to sleep with my daughter 8 times because she looks more beautiful than my wife’ Confesses Zimbabwean man

“She is more beautiful than my wife!”


Your honour I was forced to sleep with my daughter 8 times because she looks more beautiful than my wife, Raphel Hibeene told the court.

Facts before the court are that Ethel Hibeene 21, was impregnated by his biological father after sleeping with him 8 times while her mother was in Lusaka and Copperbelt selling fish.Ethel (the former Head-Girl at a named school) who completed school in 2017 is expected to give birth this September and the man (her former teacher) whom she was engaged to has since cancelled the wedding which was scheduled for October this year. Her mother who fainted upon hearing the sad news of her daughter being impregnated by her father is still in intensive care at Choma General Hospital.


Livingstone High Court Judge Justice Kenneth Mulife handed Mr Hibeene a 40-year jail sentence with hard labour. Sad


Source: Zambian Observer

Zimbabwean Domestic worker flees after killing employer

POLICE in Mashonaland East province are keen to arrest a Buhera man who allegedly killed his employer during the former’s employment as a domestic worker at a Chivhu village.

Police provincial spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza confirmed they were looking for Jacob Ruben Chapanduka (age not given) who hails from Nyashanu area in Buhera.

Chapanduka was employed as a domestic worker by Rosemary Ndava (60) of Kuvarega Village under chief Neshangwe in Chivhu.

According to police, on the fateful day, July 15 this year, Ndava retired to bed at around 2100 hrs with her five-year-old grandson whom she lived with, whilst Chapanduka also went to his own bedroom which is about 20 metres away.

However, the following morning, her grandson woke up at around 0700hrs to find her grandmother was not in the room with him.

The grandson is said to have gone to a neighbour Tambudzai Ebbah’s homestead where he was told to calm down as the grandmother could have gone to the fields.

Two days later, Ebbah reportedly called the deceased’s husband Ezekeil Chakauya who at the time was in Gweru and informed him his wife and their domestic worker were missing.

Ebbah later teamed up with the deceased Ndava’s husband to conduct a search for the missing duo.

They then came across the body of Ndava lying lifelessly in the bedroom of their domestic worker.

“The body had both legs tied with an electric cable, both hands were tied with a black head, was wrapped with a white cloth,” said Inspector Mwanza.

The police spokesperson also confirmed the body had a cut on the head which he said could have been inflicted by the suspect using a sharp object.

The body was later taken to Sadza District Hospital mortuary for postmortem.

Said Inspector Mwanza, “We are appealing to members of the public who may have whereabouts of the suspects to report at any nearest police station.

“It is also crucial for people to make use of police screening process when employing people for the work so that they know if they have any criminal past.

“It also assists police in making investigations once the identity and criminal past of a suspect are known.”

Source: newzimbabwe.com