Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has issued a stern warning to anyone who possesses, distributes or transmits pornographic material, saying doing so is an infringement of the country’s laws including the Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act of 2016.
In a media statement on Friday, and made available to Nyasa Times, found culprits will be liable to a K10 million fine or serve a 15-year jail term in default.
“MACRA urges all Malawians that while exercising their freedom of online communication, they should be mindful of the laws governing such communication. These laws include the Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act, 2016, specifically section 24 (2) and section 85,” reads the statement in part signed by MACRA acting director general.
Veteran politician and former cabinet minister Henry Mussa Ntengo-wa-Minga is demanding K10 million from Mzuzu-based businessman and Facebook fanatic Upson Mkandawire as compensation for alleged defamation.
Mussa told Nyasa Times in Blantyre recently that Mkandawire, who uses pseudonym ‘Gogo Gowoka’ on Facebook and other social media platforms, published articles that he (Mussa) allegedly borrowed funds amounting to K40 million from Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDEF), now called the National Economic Empowerment Fund (NEEF), and that he has defaulted on payment.
Henry Mussa – apologise or pay
Gogo Gowoka’s facebook post
In one of the said Facebook posts that Nyasa Times has seen, Gogo Gowoka claims that Mussa got a K40 million loan from NEEF and that “he has not paid back even K1,000”.
One of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) founding members and former cabinet minister in the Peter Mutharika administration, Henry ‘Mtengowaminga’ Mussa has said he is the latest victim of a calculated smear and mudslinging campaign by suspected political enemies who have been publishing falsehoods to tarnish his “good image”. Speaking to Nyasa Times on Tuesday in […]