Malawi Police on stealing spree: Chakwera, Chimwendo, Kainja face a multibillion kwacha suit

February 10, 2021 Nyasa Times Reporter 44 Comments

Malawi Police Service in Lilongwe is on rampage in Lilongwe breaking into shops, bars and even saloons on the pretext of enforcing Covid-19 restrictions and taking away billions of kwacha items as angry owners have promised to personally sue President Lazarus Chakwera, Home Affairs Minister Richard Chimwendo and Inspector General of Police George Kainja.

Police patrol 

Since the new Covid-19 rules came into force, Malawi Police officers were demanding bribes and asking the bar owners to extend their time from official 8pm while they drunk free beer. Bar owners have refused to break the law and now comply to the 8pm lockdown.

Police are said to be targeting populous areas and so far breakages after lock downs after been reporters in Biwi, Area 36, Kauma, Kaliyeka, Area 50, 25 and volatile Area 23.

“Biwi has been their targets. On Monday bar owners were called by their guards that Police were chasing them from the premises and breaking into the bars. Those broken into included Culture Club and Kalino where they were caught on CCTV cameras searching cash drawers and stealing alcohol,” said Chair of Bar owners at Biwi.

Two bar tenders who went to report at Kawale Police about the night break ins at Biwi were arrested and threatened by the Malawi Police Service.

On Tuesday night, several shop owners including groceries who had closed well before 7pm as it was raining also reported that their workers called them that Police were breaking into shops and stealing things.

A total of 23 shops have been looted by law enforcers and complaints were made directly to the Regional Commissioner for the Centre, Inspector General of Police and the Minister of Home Affairs.

“After we reported to them, the situation has worsened. In Area 50 they went to steal from a Burundi shop and took cash and groceries. It was shocking, they were challenging nothing will happen to them,” said an eye witness who took photos of the officers in action.

One of the bar owners said they are engaging lawyers to sue the President, the Minister and the Inspectors General of Police in their individual capacity as they have shown to be in support of their Police breaking economic and social rights of Malawians willy-nilly.

“People were shot by Police in cold blood, nothing happened to the officers. We have been complaining about abuse by Traffic Officers nothing has changed. Now they are sending thieves in uniform to harass and steal from innocent hard working Malawians who are trying to earn a decent living. We hold them personally reliable, as long as they keep smiling and keep quiet to us they are complicit to these thieves. For Mr. Kainja, he has been a disgrace to MPS, he is the worst ever Inspector General, Parliament should fire him since the President has shown to be incapable of making any decision,” she said.

One of the lawyers for the group said they will be seeking billions of kwachas in compensation and that they hope the Court will order confiscation of assets of the President, Minister and IG for them to feel what the small scale businesspeople are feeling.

“Police with the blessing and command of the three are terrorising Malawians who have not lost their properties. The Commander In Chief, the Minister responsible and the Inspector General must equally lose their properties to compensate those injured by this kind of brutality,” he said.

It is yet to be seen if Chimwendo and Kainja will move to discipline the rioting Police in Lilongwe.

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44 replies on “Malawi Police on stealing spree: Chakwera, Chimwendo, Kainja face a multibillion kwacha suit”

  3. Blame much the IG…they get /follow orders from him.
    Chakwera can’t know these nonsenses.
    He,IG,must also inform the Citizens nkhani ya Buleya Lule,Masambuka,a police anzake ogwirira a zimayi kwa Msundwe plus Plus….
    A police are law enforcers but akhaleso magule,akuba,ogwirila..kikiki,koma mavuto a ku Nyasaland,sazatha ndithu.
    Kainja,watch out,apangitse delete apolice akoeo and caution them asiya kuba,chigololo otherwise,expect fire on your degree(s)head.
    Inetu,I salute Malawi Army,kulije uzeleza,uhule,unkhungu ku Army no wonder the Commander is from Rumphi&In Chief is also Mkweni that side.
    Dr Kainja…be informed please,ku police kwanuko kuli ukazuzi,mukolopeko nakutiphalira ma report ya Buleya,kwa Msundwe,Mc Donald Masambuka na yanandi waka.
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  4. Mphepo yawomba, tambala wakuda wawonekera matako. MCP is full of failures. MCP must not stop thanking the corrupt tumbuka judiciary for selling them government at a give away price. Mr Kwantele Chakwera is just a preacher good enough for empty headed christians and nothing more. Too much talk and no tangible actions on the ground, typical of aneneri onyenga. Fotseki!

  5. We do not have Police Services in Malawi BUT Senior battalion of ma eleven bongos comprising cadets. A police was tawapangani kwawonkwawo zimene anaeoma maphunzitsi a secondary zija. Yes nenani kuti mutu wanga muli mamina bola ine ndikuziwa kuti even my nostrils are very clean. Ma Eleven Bongos was akukwana kwambiri ngati mabala a mphuno. Police? My foot! Nyamukani muzikagwira ntchito ku zigawo zakwanu you strangers you are suffocating us ku Central Region kuno. Covid is about social distancing. Let us spread out the whole Malawi has offices as per your qualifications. Your allocation is in your location. Pack up and go home. Aati essential services basi kumabera anthu? Get a life!

  6. What is happening is really bad and a disgrace! however I would like to request the reporter to refrain from biased opinion….do you really imagine these bar break ins are adding up to “Billions” of Kwachas? How your story have jumped from the issue at hand to Road traffic Police then to the President….mmmmmmm Nyasa Times I think you can do better

  7. That’s true. Even if they meet you on the road walking they make you free yourself by paying K 2000 and we have been paying the monies. Everybody knows that our police is rotten with corruption and one would not have assigned such a patrolling responsibility to these thieves. Chakwera should address this issue before the communities address it themselves.

  8. DPP is on its way back. Boma likutipulumuka pang’ono pang’ono ili. Somebody never knew what it meant to run boma. Ngati ku tonse kuli anthu oganiza bwino, Chilima should quickly come on the driver’s seat otherwise Mwai umenewu mudzaulira pyo! Ask Joyce Banda

  11. Walembayi anali ku Embassy ndiye ntchito inatha akusowa pogwira. Tili Naye Mmalawi momuno kulima. Amangosokosa pa facebook. Alibe pogwira all day. Kufuna attention. Anzanga Ku Mangalande muliko bwanji?

  13. Ndikukumbutsen Amalaw anzang kt
    kumalawi chilungamo kulib
    Inu mwaiwal zankhan ya kwamsundwe ili pat
    Nkhan ya Buley Lule ili pat?

    kom momwe amajijilikir Chilim ndi Chakwer
    asadalow potilonjez kt zinth zidzakhal bwino lelo ali chet
    Ndiy yaw ngakhal atabwerets maumbon
    otan sizingamvek
    komans tisaiwal
    Za banja la Atambal ku 24 mpakan pano
    Ngakhal mutakhal ndimaloy
    Nathing will hapen
    ndiy malaw imeneyo

    1. Traffic police and road blocks at every corner,Zalewa road block,Mdeka road block,lirangwe two road blocks,Lunzu Road block,IHB road block,in between the road blocks a traffic phwee,clock tower traffic,tambala food products traffic police, Toyota Malawi both sides note the 15 traffic officers, stadium traffic officers,Electra sales speed trap…koma what kind of country is this,cross into Mozbique Milanje to Mocuba first road block, first traffic officer 250 kms…koma kuno Ku Malawi tikukhala ngati akapolo

  15. I think that guy who was speaking very good & fluent in English at the Tally Centre during last year’s elections, if I’m not wrong his name is Kayira or something. Is just perfect to be the Inspector General of Malawi Police not Mr Kayinja nay.

  17. It’s really a sad story what is happening in LL to make matters worse our so called president instead of taking action he will asked malawians to fast in prayers lol. Shame on you Mr president.

  19. Malawi police is full of savages who are just enjoying our tax money. They are not helpful and big time criminal. All the crime happening is master minded by the Malawi Police. I don’t have any trust in them.

  21. I think the combination of the people,Kainja and Chimwendo is bad.What is it that qualified Chimwendo to be appointed minister of this noble ministry?We need very mature politicians to tackle the problems we have with our MPS. By training Kainja is not a pure police man.He may have joined the police because there were no suitable vacancies for him when he graduated from CHANCO. Anyway we praised him too much and passed through parliament un abated or without any hassles because of the papers he has forgetting what else matters in this top job.

    1. Not backing Kainja at all, I personally know the guy. He is such a professional. Problem is that there are a lot of unprofessional policemen in MPS, which makes Kainja look a very bad person, of which he (Kainja) has to take responsibility.

      These gangster Policemen have no fear at all as they know we currently have a docile and toothless president Lazarus, who has not established his authority on the institutions.

  22. I hope the lawyers you are hiring will advice you properly on who to sue..You have rightly said that they were captured on CCTv,why can’t the owner of that bar submit the CCTV footage so that the wrong doers get punished..infact stealing is a criminal case…Kufuna kungoyipitsa dzina la President basi…Za ziiiii.

    2. I concur, the problem with the Cadets is that they think they gonna take back the government through their propaganda. Forget about taking back the government now. Wait for 2084

  23. after all
    the bars zimaenera kutsekedwa. what is it that we are getting from drunkards who dont maintain social distancing and mask wearing at last infect each other the community and families!!!!!! they sing and talk so loudly without care.
    PLEASE CLOSE THE BARS.
    EUROPE HAS DONE IT. IFE AKAFUCECE KUTSEKULA KUMAMWA MASIKA OCHIPAWA AND INFECT ONE ANOTHER.

    PA CNN ANTHU AONA MAVUTO TILI NAO OSOWA ZIPANGIZO KUZIPATALA. I MEAN THE LARGEST HOSPITAL IN MALAWI. SHAME .kwa azathu ndi clinic imeneyi. and we boast sending patients to INDIA. osaganizapo kuti ndi ziphuphu kulamidwa ndi amwenye. ”organized gang crime”
    we had Pitala spending 3 months in USA spending spree. that procedure could have been done here. cipatala cilipo nda dotolo ake. mugeme kumati plesdent sakudwala. thwarting the whole nation.
    nde mipaja anabwala ndi mikono ngati folk lift. Cautayo.

    WAKE UP MALAWI. CLOSE ALL THIS NOSENSE BARS.

    If milandu yocholama shop then si cakwela olo saulosi anakachola. gwilani omwe mwawapezao bhasi.
    skomo

  25. The police is full of cadets and they are deliberately doing this to discredit the government. Investigate the police Mr. Chimwendo. They are even arresting or molesting a person driving alone for not wearing a mask. Who catches the virus if he is alone? Is it the car he is driving? We have a police full of salvages who went there just because there are no jobs around.

      1. kungoti boma la Chakwera ndilosamva. palibe chachilendo pa ndale za mMalawi. timaganiza kuti Chakwera ndi Chilima mwina achita zakupsa koma aaah phala laziiii! Choti mudziwe ndi ichi:
        1.mukuchedwa kwambiri kusintha zinthu.

        2.DPP ndi system, panopa pali ma Cadet munthambi zambiri za boma, kuphatikizapo DODMA, Police, ACB, etc. Anthu awa ndi amene akuchita zinthu zoipa dala kuti aipise mbiri ya boma lanu.

        3.ma promise anu sakuoneka kuchitika. ivo vizungu popanda action sivitithandiza ayi. panali anthu akufuna kwabwino omwe anakuvoterani potsatira nfundo zanu, koma pano akulilira ku utsi abwana. ntchito 1 million mwangolemba akubanja kwanu kapena? nzomvetsa chisoni kwambiri.

        4.Act act act! ma demo asanayambike bwana.

    2. If the police is full of cadets, what are the authorities doing to the incidences in mention? Sleepy president, sleepy Minister and sleepy IG. Do we have the change that we were looking for as malawians if they doing nothing?

    4. Hahahahah! Koma Kadeti ndi deal eti? Ngati akukwanitsa kuchita zinthu mbiri ya pulezident kuyipa komanso IG kukhala kukamwa ndi mphuno pululu ndiye kuti Kadeti simasewera.

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