{"id":62681,"date":"2018-03-22T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=62681"},"modified":"2018-03-22T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T06:58:09","slug":"government-dismisses-inspector-general-retirement-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/03\/22\/government-dismisses-inspector-general-retirement-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Government dismisses Inspector General retirement reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has dismissed reports making rounds on social media that the Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama has retired from the service.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Home Affairs and Internal Security Sam Madula dismissed the social media reports, saying they are just rumours and therefore not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Kachama is in office and I was with him moments ago&#8230; You can even confirm that and Mwapasa was in UK [United Kingdom]. If there was anything, you would be properly informed. But for now, the IG is still in office,\u201d Madula said.<\/p>\n<p>Kachama was appointed as IG in February 2015 after the surprise resignation of Paul Kanyama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security has dismissed reports making rounds on social media that the Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama has retired from the service. Secretary for Home Affairs and Internal Security Sam Madula dismissed the social media reports, saying they are just rumours and therefore not true. \u201cMr Kachama is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62681","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\/62681","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=62681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62684,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions\/62684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}