{"id":80255,"date":"2019-07-09T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80255"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:42:42","slug":"i-lost-k80-million-property-grace-chiumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/i-lost-k80-million-property-grace-chiumia\/","title":{"rendered":"I lost K80 million property\u2014 Grace Chiumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Samuel Kalimira:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80260\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80260\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-2-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-2-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-2.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TORCHED\u2014Chiumia\u2019s vehicles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development minister, Grace Chiumia, has claimed that she lost property worth K80 million when protesters looted her house in Mchengautuba, Mzuzu City, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, police have not corroborated Chiumia\u2019s assessment of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>Chiumia said the protesters torched her two vehicles and damaged two others as well as a house.<\/p>\n<p>Chiumia said part of the house was being used as an office for an American organisation, Malawi Early Literacy Team (Melt).<\/p>\n<p>She said Melt, which is implementing projects in the country, used part of the house as a library for children and primary school teachers and has since lost all books and three computers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know why I was targeted. I play my politics clean and I normally concentrate on my constituency. I can\u2019t understand why me,\u201d<\/em> Chiumia said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She said some protesters are still baying for her life as she is receiving threats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80261\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/grace-chiumia-vehicle-1.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TORCHED\u2014Chiumia\u2019s vehicles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThey have stolen all the property. They have broken all the windows, toilets, office furniture and now they continue fighting me. What wrong have I committed? Is it a crime to be DPP [Democratic Progressive Party]?,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Sunday, Northern Region Police announced that they had arrested 68 suspects in connection with the looting and vandalism of property during the recent <a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/demonstrations-turn-ugly\/\">demonstrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Human Rights Defenders Coalition Northern Region Coordinator, Happy Mhango, disowned the Friday demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Mhango said those who looted and caused violence had ill intentions and were advancing their own agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Other affected infrastructure included treasury cashier\u2019s office, Parks and Wildlife Department, Chibavi Police Unit and Karonga District Commissioner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Kalimira: Former Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development minister, Grace Chiumia, has claimed that she lost property worth K80 million when protesters looted her house in Mchengautuba, Mzuzu City, on Friday. However, police have not corroborated Chiumia\u2019s assessment of the damage. Chiumia said the protesters torched her two vehicles and damaged two others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80255","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\/80255","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=80255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80264,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80255\/revisions\/80264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}