{"id":73090,"date":"2019-01-11T03:21:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73090"},"modified":"2019-01-11T03:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T01:21:40","slug":"police-arrest-bon-kalindo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/11\/police-arrest-bon-kalindo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest Bon Kalindo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Audrey Kapalamula:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73094\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bon-kalindo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73094\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bon-kalindo-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bon-kalindo-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bon-kalindo.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ROUNDED UP BY POLICE\u2014<br \/>Kalindo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police Thursday arrested Member of Parliament for Mulanje West, Bon Kalindo, for allegedly displaying disorderly conduct at Balaka Police Station and insulting President Peter Mutharika.<\/p>\n<p>National Police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, said the UTM director of youth was taken to Area 30 for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Kadadzera alleged that Kalindo did not behave in an orderly manner when Vice- President Saulos Chilima\u2019s two aides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/saulos-chilimas-aides-granted-bail\/\">were in custody<\/a> at Balaka Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The aides, Joshua Valera and Kushi Unyolo, were arrested after representing Chilima at the launch of Chiwanja cha Ayao on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHe has been charged in line with Section 153(1) of the Police Act, which addresses the issue of [displaying] disorderly conduct at a police station, as well as Section 4 of Protected Flags, Names and Emblems Act, as far as insulting the Head of State is concerned,\u201d<\/em> he said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He did not divulge more information on how Kalindo displayed such conduct and insulted the President but said Kalindo would appear in court soon.<\/p>\n<p>Chilima and UTM officials visited Balaka Police Station the day the aides were arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Audrey Kapalamula: Police Thursday arrested Member of Parliament for Mulanje West, Bon Kalindo, for allegedly displaying disorderly conduct at Balaka Police Station and insulting President Peter Mutharika. National Police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, said the UTM director of youth was taken to Area 30 for questioning. Kadadzera alleged that Kalindo did not behave in an [&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-73090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090","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=73090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73095,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73090\/revisions\/73095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}