The Rwandan government is holding discussions with Malawi to sign a deal which will see inmates exchanged between the two countries.
This is according to Rwanda Correction Service (RGS) Commissioner General of Prisons, George Rwigamba who confirmed that talks involving officials from prison services of the two countries is underway.
Rwigamba said they have already discussed legal aspects, terms and conditions of their agreement with Malawi.
He further said that in such an arrangement there are chances that a Malawian that commits a crime in Rwanda can be tried and sentenced in Rwanda and sent to serve their sentence in Malawi.
He added that the same will apply to a Rwandan committing a crime in Malawi.
It is also said that inmates exchange arrangements could also see Rwandan inmates sentenced in Rwanda transferred to Malawi to serve their jail sentence, and vice versa.
“If there is a fugitive in Rwanda or Malawi, the two countries’ prisons will be able to decide whether to transfer the convicts to serve their sentences in either of the countries,” Rwigamba told KT Press.
Rwigamba said both countries are still studying the conditions in which an inmate from Rwanda would have to serve a sentence in Malawi or vice versa.
Malawi hosts thousands of Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers including 1994 genocide suspects.
Malawi’s Dzaleka Refugee Camp has 5,000 Rwandan refugees. At least 36 genocide fugitives are also believed to be hiding in Malawi.
Rwanda and Malawi in February 2017 signed an extradition treaty, prisons cooperation and prisoner exchange treaties.
Last year Malawi arrested and sentenced Rwandan Genocide suspect Vincent Murekezi to five years in prison for attempting to evade tax worth Kwacha 2.2 million.
Rwandan authorities want Murekezi to be extradited to Rwanda for crimes he committed in that country but Murekezi is fighting the extradition arguing that Malawi cannot use the February, 2017 treaty to extradite him.
Boma siliphethiladi… Kenaka timva ayamba kusinthananso akazi. First lady konzeka.
Does Rwanda have Malawian inmates or exchange of MUREKEZI and other Rwandan suspects? Silly.
Oooops do we have our inmates in Rwanda?
Are there Malawian inmates in Rwandan prisons? How did they find themselves there? How many are there? Hey, sounds fictitious, right?
I can see the whole issue is surrounding on Mulekezi Vincent. He will be tried here, sentenced here and save jail term in Rwanda.
Bola pamenepo adzikwelako ndege pokatchetcha Ku Rwanda
This Murekezi guy is a Rwandan and he is refusing to go back to his homeland, why??
Umakhala umbuli kapena chani amalawi inu
Wr here n kigal rwanda peacefly n u mast liv them peacfly 2
Instead of finding ways of how to change peoples lives between these two countries,
Inmates…..Refugees….ndikuona ngati ambili tikupanga comment sirinavetsetse fundoyi.
Ine kudabwa2
Kkkkk amalawi phuma
inmate to me sounds like a “prisoner”
Probably yes! and refugees are those in camps monga ku Luwan,Mdzaleka and many more,nde apa nkhani ndi yama inmates nt refugees.
Ku Rwanda kuli a Malawi angst?
I hate this, Pliz to be a refugees is already a prison then y govt negotiate issues without values? Pliz leave the refugees and some of them r employers to the citizens y do we chase silently?
They are contributing to country’s economy.
Akuwafunila zina ndithu…. Sakabweraso amenewa akazapita…. Paja amuna akusowatu…
So there are Malawian inmates also in Rwanda?
Ask them.
wat benefit will come with such if it is not only waisting alittle we hve? asiyen anthu adathawa nde muwaonongere mtenderenso?
This is good but I wonder, why is it that we still hold refugees while now Rwanda is stable and sound economically? Alot of Mozambique after the war are not here they have gone back. These people if long stayed here I feel like they will no longer access their ancestral land. School me here please!!! Rwanda sitingayelekeze ndi Malawi.
we Malawian s we ar stupid ma men kigali is sweet than lilongwe
There are better off than Malawi.
A Ku Rwanda akuchalira mkulu uja eti akumufuna kwawoyu kkkkkk
Komadi amalawi munasiya kuganiza. Munthu uyenera kugwira chilango kudziko walakwa. Malamulo amayiko ngosiyana. Mwachitsanzo kwathu kumalawi kulibe kulangidwa kamba ka public drinking koma kumaiko kwina akugwira ukaidi. Tsono mukuganiza kuti munthu akagwire chilango kudziko lomwe lamulo lakulakwa kwake kulibe?
Maganizo abwino
Anthu othawa nkhondo kkkkkkkkk kuithawa infa samaziwa kuti infa sithawika nde tionetu asazafe
Ziwetani Zigandanga
Y?
for what?