{"id":33272,"date":"2022-10-23T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/csos-condemn-mzuzu-city-council-for-issuing-notice-on-mayors-arrest"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T17:56:23","slug":"csos-condemn-mzuzu-city-council-for-issuing-notice-on-mayors-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/csos-condemn-mzuzu-city-council-for-issuing-notice-on-mayors-arrest","title":{"rendered":"CSOs condemn Mzuzu City Council for issuing notice on mayor\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Civil society organizations (CSOs) have condemned Mzuzu City Council Chief Executive Officer, Gomezgani Nyasulu, for issuing a notice deemed sympathetic to defilement suspect and the city\u2019s mayor Gift Desire Nyirenda.<\/p>\n<p>The CSOs, which include Action Hope Malawi, Forum for National Development (FND), Development Concept and Centre for Adolescent and Youth Organization (CAYO), have since given Nyasulu seven days to retract his \u201cinsensitive, insidious and injudicious statement and apologies to the victim, her family and entire people of Mzuzu and Malawi.\u201d The CSOs argue in their press release issued on Wednesday that the CEO\u2019s statement is an insult to Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe the undersigned Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) find the notice from the Mzuzu City Council dated 15 \u2013 08 \u2013 2022 titled ARREST OF MAYOR GIFT DESIRE NYIRENDA, imprudent, insensitive and abhorring especially on the last part of the notice. You cannot be seen to be sympathetic to a person accused of defilement,\u201d reads the press release in part.<\/p>\n<p>They further say for the entire Council to state that their thoughts, prayers are with an accused person of defilement shows that the Council does not recognize the trauma and suffering the victim, who is a minor and the family is going through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking at the nature and gravity of the offense that Mr. Nyirenda is being accused of, we demand that he resign or be relieved of his role as a Mayor with immediate effect. You cannot have a city father presiding on the affairs of the City while he is accused of defilement and sexual offense, this is not a misdemeanour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are firm believers of rule of law and well aware that every person is innocent until proven by the court of law, but we also are firm defenders of child and people\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case Mr. Nyirenda is being accused of a gravest crime and the best we can do is to allow the law take its cause and not be sounding as if we are siding with sexual offenders,\u201d thus emphasize the CSOs.<\/p>\n<p>Nyasulu was not immediately available for a comment. Meanwhile, Mayor Nyirenda is set to return to court this Friday for ruling on his bail application.<\/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. Civil society organizations (CSOs) have condemned Mzuzu City Council Chief Executive Officer, Gomezgani Nyasulu, for issuing a notice deemed sympathetic to defilement suspect and the city\u2019s mayor Gift Desire Nyirenda. The CSOs, which include Action Hope Malawi, Forum for National Development (FND), Development Concept and Centre for Adolescent and Youth Organization (CAYO), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-33272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"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>CSOs condemn Mzuzu City Council for issuing notice on mayor\u2019s arrest - Malawi<\/title>\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\/csos-condemn-mzuzu-city-council-for-issuing-notice-on-mayors-arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CSOs condemn Mzuzu City Council for issuing notice on mayor\u2019s arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. 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