{"id":72962,"date":"2019-01-08T10:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T08:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72962"},"modified":"2019-01-08T10:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T08:38:58","slug":"saulos-chilimas-aides-granted-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/saulos-chilimas-aides-granted-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Saulos Chilima\u2019s aides granted bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Yohane Symon: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vice-President Saulos Chilima\u2019s aides Joshua Valera and Kushi Unyolo, who were arrested in Balaka on Sunday, have been granted police bail after spending a night in custody.<\/p>\n

Before their release, the two were admitted to Balaka District Hospital after they reportedly developed high blood pressure and fever.<\/p>\n

As of Monday afternoon, police were still waiting for medical personnel at Balaka District Hospital to certify the two fit to stand trial at Balaka Magistrates\u2019 Court.<\/p>\n

But later in the afternoon, Eastern Region Police publicist, Joseph Sauka, said the law enforcers granted the suspects bail because they could not stand trial as they are both sick.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir release will also give the police ample time to conclude investigations into the matter,\u201d<\/em> Sauka said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Sauka, Unyolo and Valera have been charged with an offence of conduct likely to cause breach of peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have finished recording their statements and we are ready to take them to court to answer a charge of conduct likely to cause breach of peace,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

National Police spokesperson, James Kadadzera said the two were arrested on Sunday after displaying suspicious conduct at the launch of Chiwanja cha Ayao which President Peter Mutharika graced.<\/p>\n

The two represented Chilima at the function.<\/p>\n

Kadadzera earlier said the two did not even occupy any seat and were loitering around, which raised suspicion among the security details at the function.<\/p>\n

Police followed the two, who were detained at Chingeni Road-block in the district.<\/p>\n

Their arrest prompted Chilima, who was attending a funeral in the same district, to storm Balaka Police Station, seeking clarification on the arrest of his aides.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chiwanja cha Ayao Vice- Chairperson, Japher Mussa, has condemned police for arresting Chilima\u2019s two aides.<\/p>\n

Mussa said the group is non-political and invited every Malawian to attend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not happy with the arrest. We did not expect people to be looking at each other with political eyes during the function.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe two people approached me asking to be given time to present their gift to Kawinga and I told them the procedures. But I was surprised to hear a report of their arrest before they presented the gift. At a place where there are a lot of people, I don\u2019t think it is strange to look around,\u201d<\/em> said Mussa, who is also one of the senior counsels [Impi] for Paramount Chief Kawinga.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He said the group is still expecting Chilima, not as a leader of a political party but as a Malawian, to present the gift to Kawinga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still waiting for the gift because it is coming from a Malawian,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Yohane Symon: Vice-President Saulos Chilima\u2019s aides Joshua Valera and Kushi Unyolo, who were arrested in Balaka on Sunday, have been granted police bail after spending a night in custody. Before their release, the two were admitted to Balaka District Hospital after they reportedly developed high blood pressure and fever. As of Monday afternoon, police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72962","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\/72962","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=72962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72966,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72962\/revisions\/72966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}