{"id":11111,"date":"2021-12-10T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital"},"modified":"2021-12-10T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T22:04:10","slug":"ben-phiri-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital","title":{"rendered":"Ben Phiri in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Member of Parliament for Thyolo Central Ben Phiri, who was arrested on Wednesday, was taken to a hospital in Lilongwe last night after he felt unwell. Phiri was rushed to rushed to Good Hope Private Hospital where he has been admitted since last night.<\/p>\n<p>National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member is in hospital where he is receiving treatment. Phiri was arrested by Police on Wednesday after he surrendered himself to the law enforcers.<\/p>\n<p>The former Minister of Local Government was arrested as the registered owner of Beata Investments over fraud and corruption at Ministry of Gender between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Member of Parliament for Thyolo Central Ben Phiri, who was arrested on Wednesday, was taken to a hospital in Lilongwe last night after he felt unwell. Phiri was rushed to rushed to Good Hope Private Hospital where he has been admitted since last night. National Police spokesperson James Kadadzera has confirmed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9],"tags":[233,371,3540,281,234,255],"class_list":["post-11111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-ben-phiri","tag-democratic-progressive-party-dpp","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ben Phiri in hospital - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Member of Parliament for Thyolo Central Ben Phiri, who was arrested on Wednesday, was taken to a hospital in Lilongwe la ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Phiri in hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Member of Parliament for Thyolo Central Ben Phiri, who was arrested on Wednesday, was taken to a hospital in Lilongwe la ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-10T21:46:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-10T22:04:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61b3cebb1a835.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"855\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ben Phiri in hospital\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-10T21:46:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-12-10T22:04:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\"},\"wordCount\":122,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/12\/img-61b3cebb1a835.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Ben Phiri\",\"Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)\",\"Malawi\",\"Malawi Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/ben-phiri-in-hospital\",\"name\":\"Ben Phiri in hospital - 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