{"id":71188,"date":"2018-11-02T09:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71188"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:09:07","slug":"ex-malawi-young-pioneers-evicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/ex-malawi-young-pioneers-evicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Malawi Young Pioneers evicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Faith Kamtambe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi Police Service chased former officers of the defunct Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) from the memorial tower in Lilongwe Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/ex-malawi-young-pioneers-pay-list-raises-eyebrows\/\">ex-MYPs<\/a> have been camping at the tower since last year with the aim of forcing the government to pay them K1.6 billion for the loss of their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>There were initially about 2,800 people but some of them received their dues after being forcibly retired.<\/p>\n<p>Their leader, Franco Chilemba, said, at around 4am, 60 police officers invaded the premises and chased them.<\/p>\n<p>But the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/government-concludes-ex-myps-physical-verification-exercise\/\"> ex-MYPs<\/a> have threatened to camp at Capital Hill.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSomeone has initiated this because we heard that the Inspector General of Police (IG), [Rodney Jose] received communication from President Peter Mutharika [to the effect] that we should leave this place. We shall gather again and, on a chosen day, we are going to Capital Hill. We are also going to conduct a vigil at the Ministry of Finance where our money is,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Central Region Police spokesperson, Norriete Chihana, said they chased the people because the government gave them their dues.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe take that [vigil] as a security threat because those people have been camping there for over a year now. They said they were waiting for [the] government to give them their money. So now it is becoming a security threat because some criminals are taking advantage of the situation. They go there so that they can go to residential areas surrounding that place,\u2019\u2019<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Kamtambe: Malawi Police Service chased former officers of the defunct Malawi Young Pioneers (MYP) from the memorial tower in Lilongwe Thursday morning. The ex-MYPs have been camping at the tower since last year with the aim of forcing the government to pay them K1.6 billion for the loss of their jobs. There were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71188","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\/71188","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=71188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71191,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71188\/revisions\/71191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}