Police officers who arrested two gays risk losing their jobs

Malawi Police officers in Lilongwe who last week arrested two gays may have placed themselves in trouble of losing their jobs if government gives in to pressure to do so by the donor community.

Reports that Malawi24 has been following show that some key donors to Malawi asked the Peter Mutharika led government not just to drop the charges of the two but also net the law enforcers who arrested the two.

It is said that the donors believe that the police officers impinged on the rights of the two.

The two Cuthbert Kulemela, and Kelvin Gonani hve since been set free but might as well smile home to hear the law enforcers who nailed them down are in for fresh problems too.

This comes hot in the heels of condemnation o the donor community by locals who have branded the donors ‘stupid’.

As it stands, Malawi24 has been highly tipped that the law enforcers who arrested the two just have their jobs hanging by thread waiting to be told the bad news.

A close source within top police management told our reporter in Lilongwe that a ‘big punishment’ for the police officers who might have done a commendable job on the eyes of Malawians is in the offing.

Just recently, US Ambassador o Malawi,Virginia Palmer condemned the arrest of the two before she met continued blasts on the social network after he office made the post on Facebook in the week just ending.

Malawi government has since said it will review laws that criminalize same sex marriages.

Section 135 sub section C of Malawi’s penal code states that “any person, who permits a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, with or without corporal punishment”.