In an effort to track crime cases and tighten the security among the residents of the Malawi’s Capital City, Lilongwe, the Lilongwe City Council(LCC) says it plans to have Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras functional in the the city’s streets in the next two months.
Lilongwe City Mayor Richard Banda disclosed this during a press briefing in Lilongwe on Friday following concerns on security lapse raised by Lilongwe Citizen Forum and Lilongwe Vendors Association.
Lilongwe Mayor
“We have a memorandum of understanding with a foreign ICT company which is already installing cables. We want in the next two months, the CCTVs to be working,” said Banda.
He said the CCTV cameras will be placed in strategic places, especially crime hotspots, which he did not disclose.
Apart from security lapse, the citizens also raised issues of erratic enforcement of by-laws, poor sanitation and waste management, urban poverty and limited market space.
Recently, some people have been murdered in Lilongwe.
Malawi Police in the Capital Lilongwe are keeping a con man identified as Precious Kasakatiza, 22, who was operating various Facebook accounts and in the process duping innocent people of their hard-earned cash.
National Deputy Police Publicist, Alfred Chimthere, said the suspect is being kept in custody at Lingadzi Police Station and will answer charges of obtaining money by false pretence and defamation of character, among others.
Chimthere said Kasakatiza, who stays in area 36 in Lilongwe, has for the past months been running numerous fake Facebook accounts namely:
1-Queen Sagrada
2-Anzeru Akummawa
3-Princess Regina
4-Affordable steel roofing
5-Mr Praizs Muzik
6-Ndine Promoter
7-Chacha
8-Avon with Christabel
9-Infinity Modelling Agency
10-VJ Prestar
11-Bartell joy Mataya
He said apparently, using the above fake Facebook accounts he had swindled money from several people including men, who thought were dealing with a lady.
Chimthere said for instance the suspect used pictures of innocent women without their consent, to entice his unsuspecting male victims.
“Using our Cyber Security officers at National Police Headquarters, we instituted an investigation and cornered him,” said Chinthere.
Kasakatiza hails from Mackenzie village, Traditional Authority Nsamala in Balaka District.
Meanwhile, police have urged the public to desist from dealing with unknown people on social media.
President of Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionary Party (MRP) Bantu Saunders Jumah, has demanded the government to set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the killings of musicians in the country claiming that this year alone, the country has lost about four in this industry.
Jumah has expressed fears that if this issue is not investigated and leave it as it is, the country should expect more musicians to be going to the grave eaely as no one knows exactly what is killing these artists in the music industry.
He has condemned the government in the strongest terms possible for its failure to stabilize the country on security matters claiming that other deaths are so mysterious that one is found dead in his vehicle with nothing stolen and thrown to the car boot for an intention best explained by the assassins.
The funeral of late Thomas Chibade
Speaking through his face book page followed by millions of people across the African continent, Jumah has also asked the government to address the issue of Rwandan soldiers present in the Malawi soils, if it is true, what is their role and if not, dismiss the rumours.
Jumah said it has been alleged that the Rwandan soldiers are in Malawi to be Trainers of Trainers of the country’s soldiers and police officers wondering that Malawi has for long been commended by the United Nations for having well disciplined soldiers why today they are being trained by a fellow African country.
He has also condemned the Secretary to the President and Cabinet (SPC) Madam Colleen Zamba for becoming an employing Agency in the public service claiming that she is appointing people based on nepotism and tribalism which cannot take the country to anywhere.
The MRP President has recommended to President Dr. Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera to fire Madam Colleen Zamba to save his reputation observing that whatever Zamba is doing in government, is tarnishing the image of the MCP government and that of the President. “Madam Zamba has been proved to be so nepotism, we need a country of peace, security and oneness,” said Jumah. Jumah has asked all revolutionaries to start campaigning encouraging women to join Muvi wa Chilungamo Revolutionaries for them to participate in the 2025 elections in various positions as well as lobbying one another to go and vote and not to give space to thieves bouncing back into government. He said Malawi has active citizens, they have the power and liberty to choose who they want to be their president challenging the Malawi citizens to stand up analyzing and assessing the leaders to choose so that they are accountable and allow lifetime audit in their offices.
The MRP leader has warned all those that government has shielded them from possible arrests and prosecutions because of being party loyalists not to vote for Muvi wa Chilungamo in 2025 assuring all Malawians that Mikuyu Prison is coming back to criminalize all politicians who have stolen from the poor in Malawi..
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on Saturday commended companies and individuals for supporting his brainchild Presidential Charity Golf.
The president said was happy that out of K400 Million which was targetted the Charity Gold has fetched K406Million.
“The golfing community is back at the 18-hole Lilongwe Golf Course for the annual Presidential Charity Golf Tournament. This is a fundraiser initiative I founded last year to support needy and deserving students in public universities and offer humanitarian assistance to communities affected by Cyclone Freddy, ” he said.
The president said together with Vice President Right Honourable Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima and an entire contingent of over 150 golfers dedicated time on the slick greens for the better part of the day for the noble cause.
“What is even more gratifying about this year’s tournament is that at tee-off we had already beaten the K400 million target, ” he said.
On 14 June 2023, President Chakwera through his Presidential Charity Initiative (PCI) handed over a total of K120 million to 427 needy university students from 6 public universities of MUBAS, LUANAR, MZUNI, UNIMA, MUST, and KUHES to help them settle their fees and access to some necessities in pursuing their education.
Making the donation at a ceremony that took place at Kamuzu Palace in the Capital Lilongwe, President Chakwera said good start is a greatest gift that one can give out, adding that having potential or skill is not enough if there is no one to offer support, resources, freedom, and encouragement to get started.
Malawi President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera says he is deeply concerned by the untimely death of the Mau anga hit maker Thomas Chenkhumba Chibade.
The President has since condoled the family with a total of MK1 million.
Chibade 37, died on Tuesday 18 October 2023 at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) after succumbing to organs failure.
Delivering a condolence message on behalf of Malawi State President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, at Chipala Primary School Ground, in Lilongwe, Minister of Local Government Richard Chimwendo Banda said the president was concerned that young talent is going earlier before reaching the pick of their music career.
Chimwendo gave the example of the demise of vibrant musicians such as Matse, Atoti Manje, Achalume and others.
Chimwendo asked everyone not to politicise the death of Chibade but rather mourn him as any death.
This statement was directly in reference to what Musician Association of Malawi (MAM) said in which they said some politicians came at the funeral just to make a name.
Chimwendo chided the statement warning them that they will be invited for a round table discussion for them to explain about this statement.
MAM has since apologised to Chimwendo for the demeaning statement in time of mourning. The remains of Chibade have since been laid to rest at area 18 Cemetery in Lilongwe.
