{"id":57492,"date":"2024-01-27T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=57492"},"modified":"2024-01-27T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T20:40:18","slug":"dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case","title":{"rendered":"DPP drops Chakwera motorcade case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has dropped the case involving three people who were arrested for allegedly obstructing a presidential convoy. Chamkakala confirmed the development Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The three\u2014 Hector Ndawala, Pearson Chimimba and Lucy Namba\u2014 were arrested for various offences allegedly committed when President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s motorcade was stopped by some people who were part of a funeral procession at HHI Round-about in Blantyre. He said paper work would be done today [Friday].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I can confirm that using the powers vested in my office by the Constitution, I have discontinued these cases because much as any threat to the presidential convoy is a serious offence, I am not persuaded that the prosecution of this offence in this particular instance would serve the interests of justice or honour the spirit of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have since informed His Excellency the President of this decision, for it is he who appointed me to make such determinations in the interest of justice and in the spirit of serving Malawians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The three were suspected of being part of the crowd that disturbed the President\u2019s motorcade on Friday last week, when he was on his way to Chileka International Airport, Blantyre, to board a plane that would take him to the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/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. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has dropped the case involving three people who were arrested for allegedly obstructing a presidential convoy. Chamkakala confirmed the development Thursday. The three\u2014 Hector Ndawala, Pearson Chimimba and Lucy Namba\u2014 were arrested for various offences allegedly committed when President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s motorcade was stopped by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10,410],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-57492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-parties","category-to-homepage","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>DPP drops Chakwera motorcade case - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has dropped the case involving three people who were arrested f ...\" \/>\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\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPP drops Chakwera motorcade case\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has dropped the case involving three people who were arrested f ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\" \/>\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=\"2024-01-27T21:20:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/01\/sm_1706332627.756921.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1645\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"834\" \/>\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\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DPP drops Chakwera motorcade case\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-27T21:20:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\"},\"wordCount\":234,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/01\/sm_1706332627.756921.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-drops-chakwera-motorcade-case\",\"name\":\"DPP drops Chakwera motorcade case - 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