{"id":22369,"date":"2022-05-10T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians"},"modified":"2022-05-10T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:33:01","slug":"chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda that they are spying on journalists, opposition and all Malawians, saying there is nothing wrong with such measures.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a MISA Malawi panel discussion on surveillance on Friday, Nyirenda said \u201cspying is everywhere in the world\u201d and people \u201cshould accept that they are under surveillance\u201d.<\/p>\n

He justified snooping on communications, saying the genocide in Rwanda was partly caused by Journalists and that people are already surveilled through security cameras but they do not complain.<\/p>\n

Last month, Gregory Gondwe, an investigative Journalist who was arrested for publishing a story containing legal opinion of the Attorney General, alleged that authorities, before arresting him, listened to his phone conversations and then interrogated his sister about Gondwe\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n

Malawians have since condemned the Attorney General for the remarks. \u201cAG has lost a plot here. Surveillance cameras are not to be confused with spying. Someone can spy on your phone or computer, security cameras such as those at the airport are surveillance not spying,\u201d said one person social media.<\/p>\n

Another person said: \u201cThat\u2019s an unfortunate thing for an AG to say. This push for mass surveillance leads to the erosion of civil liberties. No citizen deserves to live with the feeling that they are under the watchful eye of the government, unless there is just cause for watching such an individual. It is only in circumstances where an individual or a grouping evidently poses a danger to society that the right to privacy would be forfeited.\u201d<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda that they are spying on journalists, opposition and all Malawians, saying there is nothing wrong with such measures. Speaking during a MISA Malawi panel discussion on surveillance on Friday, Nyirenda said \u201cspying is everywhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1213,306,234,255,369,312],"class_list":["post-22369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-attorney-general","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-police","tag-social-media","tag-tonse-alliance"],"yoast_head":"\nChakwera admits to spying on Malawians - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...\" \/>\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\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\" \/>\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=\"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"572\" \/>\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\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Attorney General\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\",\"Malawi Police\",\"social media\",\"Tonse Alliance\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\",\"name\":\"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":572,\"caption\":\"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians - Malawi","description":"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians","og_description":"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":572,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians","datePublished":"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians"},"wordCount":280,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Attorney General","Lazarus Chakwera","Malawi","Malawi Police","social media","Tonse Alliance"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians","name":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg","datePublished":"2022-05-10T18:41:49+00:00","dateModified":"2022-05-10T19:33:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The administration of President Lazarus Chakwera has come out in the open through Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirend ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/img-627abda2dfb93.jpg","width":720,"height":572,"caption":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-admits-to-spying-on-malawians#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chakwera admits to spying on Malawians"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}