{"id":68840,"date":"2018-08-01T20:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68840"},"modified":"2018-08-01T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:44:34","slug":"police-writes-chilima-over-rigging-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/08\/01\/police-writes-chilima-over-rigging-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Police writes Vice President over rigging claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Faith Kamtambe <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68530\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68530\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_1402-95x64.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chilima at Masintha last week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[dropcap]V[\/dropcap]ice-President, Saulos Chilima, has been given seven days by police in which to explain the claims he made that government plans to rig the 2019 tripartite elections<\/p>\n<p>Chilima made the sensational claim two weeks ago when he launched the United Transformation Movement (UTM) at Masintha ground in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>He told a mammoth crowd that he had information that government has a machine to spy on them [people] and rig the election.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0<em>\u201cIn your speech, you alluded to a very useful and important piece of information about the purchase of [a] spying machine for purposes of rigging the upcoming tripartite elections by some quarters,\u201d reads the letter written by Director of Criminal Investigations, Stain Chaima, dated July 27 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cMy writing is humbly to request you to provide more information on the issue at your earliest co<\/em>nvenience or preferably within seven days of receipt of this letter so that my office can institute a formal investigation on this matter,\u201d reads the letter in part.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the UTM launch, Chilima said: \u201cWe know that they have purchased a machine that is used to eavesdrop people\u2019s conversations. What are you afraid of? Don\u2019t spy on innocent citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Faith Kamtambe [dropcap]V[\/dropcap]ice-President, Saulos Chilima, has been given seven days by police in which to explain the claims he made that government plans to rig the 2019 tripartite elections Chilima made the sensational claim two weeks ago when he launched the United Transformation Movement (UTM) at Masintha ground in Lilongwe. He told a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68840","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=68840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68842,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68840\/revisions\/68842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}