February 9, 2021 Owen Khamula - Nyasa Times 8 Comments
Embattled suspended director general of Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) and three others have been given court bail.
Chiunda: Freed on bail
The Zomba Senior Resident Magistrate Court has granted Gerald Chiunda, and three others bail in the MSCE leak case.
The four were charged with failure to exercise due care and attention in relation to the security of national examination materials in accordance with the Maneb Act.
The court has ordered since Chiunda and two others to pay a bail bond of K100, 000 cash whereas the fourth accused person has been asked to pay a bail bond of K50,000 cash.
A police officer has been shot dead by highway robbers at Pramkese in the Kwaebibirim district of the Eastern Region on Monday evening.
The officer, Lance Corporal Moses Nartey had been dispatched with one other colleague to avert a robbery incident on the Akyem Pramkese- Takyiman road following a distress call.
The armed policemen drove in a hired taxi to the robbery scene since the station had no official vehicle to be used for the operation.
According to the Chief of Akyem-Pramkese, Barimah Ofori Frimpong II, the robbers who had laid an ambush in a nearby bush opened fire on the police team when the lead officer, Lance Corporal Nartey alighted from the Taxi.
BISHOP MALASA: Our approach is not revengeful, we are God fearing
Head of the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire (ADUS), Bishop Brighton Vita Malasa, has condemned the assault his followers executed on his suspected opponents recently.
Ten members of the Anglican Communion invaded selected parishes, including Liwonde in Machinga, Mmangas in Balaka and Mpinganjira in Mangochi, where they allegedly unleashed terror on priests suspected to be behind calls for the ouster of Malasa from his clerical position.
Father Atley Vumbwe of Liwonde Parish said the members, wore black clothes and goggles, found his children to whom they revealed themselves to be Malasa’s supporters who had guarded the diocesan headquarters at Malosa in Zomba when the disgruntled Anglicans wanted to transfer him to his home village.
Defilement, Rape Up to 43% in Eastern Region Police have called for concerted efforts to deal with rising cases of rape and defilement - file photo
Police in eastern region have called upon communities to join hands in addressing rape and defilement cases that have gone up to 43.2 percent.
Regional Police Deputy Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Tionge Kayenda, says this follows a report from research and planning office from the month of January to November 2020 in comparison to the same period last year.
Said Kayenda; the region has registered 408 defilement and rape cases this year as compared to 285 cases registered over the same period in 2019. This is worrisome.