{"id":45376,"date":"2023-07-09T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-frees-former-judiciary-spokesperson-mlenga-mvula"},"modified":"2023-07-09T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T18:52:05","slug":"chakwera-frees-former-judiciary-spokesperson-mlenga-mvula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-frees-former-judiciary-spokesperson-mlenga-mvula","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera frees former Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned former Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula who has served seven months of his 30-month sentence on charges of corruptly soliciting about K10.7 million.<\/p>\n

As part of this year\u2019s celebration marking 59 years of independence commemorated on July 6, Chakwera granted pardons to over 2,000 prisoners and Mvula was one of them.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the local media, Mvula said due to the remission law that reduces the prison sentence by one-third, he was supposed to serve 20 months. During the Easter Holiday this year, Chakwera reduced sentences for all prisoners by six months and Mvula was one of the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this time around it has pleased him to release me out of the prison walls,\u201d Mvula said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank the President for considering me in a special manner. I missed my family and I missed friends. I am back in the fold,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mvula was arrested alongside Reverend Daniel Mhone in 2017 for corruptly soliciting money about K10.7 million from United Methodist Church between 2016 and 2017 in the name of High Court Judges and the Attorney General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

On February 15, 2023, Judge Sylvester Kalembera sentenced the former Judiciary spokesperson to 30 months in jail while Reverend Mhone got a two year suspended sentence.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Malawi. President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned former Judiciary spokesperson Mlenga Mvula who has served seven months of his 30-month sentence on charges of corruptly soliciting about K10.7 million. 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