{"id":54910,"date":"2017-10-11T11:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54910"},"modified":"2017-10-11T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:50:48","slug":"police-investigate-cadet-over-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/police-investigate-cadet-over-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate \u2018cadet\u2019 over gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a man suspected to be a Democratic Progress Party (DPP) cadet who was seen with a gun on Sunday during the launch of K10 million football, netball and bawo trophies by DPP Director of Operations, Ben Phiri, in Thyolo District.\u00a0Police are investigating a man suspected to be a Democratic Progress Party (DPP) cadet who was seen with a gun on Sunday during the launch of K10 million football, netball and bawo trophies by DPP Director of Operations, Ben Phiri, in Thyolo District.\u00a0The picture of the man wearing a DPP-branded t-shirt and showing a gun which he holstered has gone viral on social media.\u00a0National police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, acknowledged seeing the picture but said they do not have a lot of information regarding the person.\u00a0\u201cI have also seen the picture on social media but I was a bit busy so I did not follow it up. We will investigate the issue because not everybody can have a gun in the country. We will have to find out how he got it, whether it was licensed and why he was brandishing it in public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a man suspected to be a Democratic Progress Party (DPP) cadet who was seen with a gun on Sunday during the launch of K10 million football, netball and bawo trophies by DPP Director of Operations, Ben Phiri, in Thyolo District.\u00a0Police are investigating a man suspected to be a Democratic Progress Party (DPP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54914,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54910\/revisions\/54914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}