The Malawi Police Service (MPS) has taken the Reverend Kondwani Chimbirima Gondwe of the Livingstonia Synod’s Zolozolo CCAP into custody for allegedly posting disruptive and inflammatory content on social media.
Rev Kondwani Chimbirima Gondwe Arrest
Reverend Gondwe was brought into arrest on Monday, June 24, 2024 in Mzuzu City, according to Peter Kalaya, the spokeswoman for Malawi Police.
He shared a voice note on WhatsApp with serious accusations of criminal activity, which led to his detention.
In line with their mandate, the police are required to implement the laws that have been put in place to safeguard Malawians from online criminals, Kalaya stated.
What is in the voice note?
From what newsaih.com has researched the pastor is accusing the president and other ministers of being accountable for Vice President plane clash.
MP Kamplepo Kalua arrest and release
Police also detained a member of Parliament named Kamlepo Kalua in connection with the voice note and social media post.
Fredokiss, the son of Kamlepo Kalua, Penjani, accused the police of arresting his father on mistaken identity.
According to police Kalua and activist Bon Kalindo posted on social media about the June 10 jet crash that claimed the lives of eight other officials and the nation’s vice president, Saulos Chilima, both taken into custody by police.
According to a statement released on Friday by national police spokesperson Kalaya, the suspects had made “inflammatory social media posts which are full of innuendos and insinuations.”
Security Cyber Crime
According to the Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act, the voice notes in question have serious criminal components, Kalaya added.
The posts could encourage violence and disturbance, the police official added.
The official account of the cause of the jet accident was allegedly called into doubt and refuted by Kalua and Kalindo’s social media posts.
investigators jets in Malawi
German aviation specialists travel to Malawi to look into a plane accident.
Investigators arrived in response to President Lazarus Chakwera’s appeal to the international community.
Jamal Jamal
Three German aviation experts arrived in Malawi on Sunday to start looking into what happened before a military plane crashed on June 10, killing Vice President Saulos Chilima and eight other people.
The specialists’ presence, according to Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu, is in response to President Lazarus Chakwera’s request last week for an impartial inquiry into the crash from the international community.
This investigative squad is self-contained, They’ll operate without interference from the government.
They have the president’s word that nothing will stand in the way of their efforts, Kunkuyu added, “They will have access to the location, people, institutions, and anything else they deem necessary in their investigations.”
He said that “the delegation was best placed to establish what exactly led to the crash” because the military aircraft was built in Germany.
Will there be impartial investigation?
Numerous segments of Malawian society have been calling for an impartial investigation “whose findings would satisfy people’s curiosity for truth” ever since the tragedy.
The government is asking these specialists to assist in determining the true reason behind the jet tragedy that killed our boys and daughters, including the vice president of the nation. We’ll help these professionals so that the truth can be revealed,” Kunkuyu remarked.
The Public Affairs Committee (PAC), a quasi-religious group in the nation, has advised against government intervention in the investigation, stating that doing so “would likely compromise and defeat the whole purpose of the investigation, which is to establish the truth.”
Rev. Gilford Matonga, a PAC spokesperson, told Anadolu that the investigation’s conclusion will “make or break” the nation.
“All Malawians must be able to trust the investigation’s conclusion if the government allows these experts to work without interfering.” People in the nation are split at the death of the vice president. Therefore, without interfering in any way, the government must inform the public of the facts about what actually transpired, according to Matonga.
The US and Britain are also willing to send some experts to participate in the inquiry, according to Kunkuyu.
