{"id":73535,"date":"2019-01-23T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=73535"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:58:20","slug":"man-arrested-for-possessing-uterus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/01\/23\/man-arrested-for-possessing-uterus\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for possessing uterus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Peter Kanjere:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Blantyre-based business person has been arrested alongside two Thyolo District Hospital support staff who are suspected to have sold him a uterus at K50,000.<\/p>\n<p>Blantyre Police spokesperson, Augustus Nkwazi, Tuesday identified the suspects as Manase Township businessperson, Richard Boyson, 38, the hospital\u2019s messenger, Jam Chophika, 49, and labour ward attendant Bertha Nambuzi, 30.<\/p>\n<p>Nkhwazi said they arrested Boyson, whose actual nature of the business is not known, after being tipped on January 17 2019 that he was keeping uterus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen quizzed about where he got the uterus, he mentioned the two suppliers of the same. He said it was meant to boost his undisclosed business,\u201d<\/em> Nkhwazi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said the uterus has been sent to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) for an analysis.<\/p>\n<p>However, QECH spokesperson, Themba Mhango, Tuesday said he was not aware that the hospital is analysing such a uterus.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects will appear in court soon to answer charges of contravening the Anatomy Act, which can attract a jail term. The suspects did not disclose how they sourced the uterus and the police hope to get to the bottom of the issue after investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Kanjere: A Blantyre-based business person has been arrested alongside two Thyolo District Hospital support staff who are suspected to have sold him a uterus at K50,000. Blantyre Police spokesperson, Augustus Nkwazi, Tuesday identified the suspects as Manase Township businessperson, Richard Boyson, 38, the hospital\u2019s messenger, Jam Chophika, 49, and labour ward attendant Bertha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73535","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\/73535","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=73535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73538,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73535\/revisions\/73538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}