Police in Chikwawa are keeping behind bars a 24-year-old man for murdering his two grandparents after accusing them of practising witchcraft.
Chikwawa police public relations officer Foster Benjamin identified the suspect as Ephraim M’bumpha.
According to Benjamin, M’bumpha is suspected to have brutally killed his grandparents identified as Wilfred M’bumpha, 96, and Ntchayi M’bumpha Nyamande.
Police disclosed that the incident occurred on the night of 9th January at Nankumba village in the area of Sub-Traditional Authority Masache in the district.
“On the particular night, the suspect, who deals in second hand clothes at Ngabu Trading Centre, travelled to his home village.
“Whilst there, he summoned his grandparents and one of his uncles on the pretext of discussing family matters,” said Benjamin.
In the course of discussion, the suspect produced a panga knife and hacked the two grandparents while accusing them of bewitching him in the same way they did to his late father.
M’bumpha fled from the scene, leaving the two dead.
On Wednesday, morning law enforcers nabbed him at his rented house at Ngabu trading centre.
Postmortem results showed that the two died due to severe bleeding secondary to deep head cuts.
M’bumpha is expected to appear before court soon after all investigations are concluded to answer murder charges.
Both Wilfred M’bumpha and Ntchayi M’bumpha Nyamande hailed from Namkumba village in the area of Traditional Authority Masache of Chikwawa district.
Malawi has a 1911 Witchcraft Act which was enacted on May 12, 1911 and premised on the belief that witchcraft does not exist in the country.
The law was developed with an aim of dealing with trials by ordeal, witchcraft and the use of charms.
The Witchcraft Act forbids any trial by ordeal that involves ‘poison, fire, boiling water, or any ordeal which is likely directly or indirectly to result in the death of or bodily injury to any person’.
The Act also forbids accusing anyone of being a witch or practising witchcraft, employing a ‘witch finder’ to identify ‘the perpetrator of any alleged crime or other act complained of,’ and representing oneself as ‘a wizard or witch or as having or exercising the power of witchcraft’.
Wachita bwino ameneyo….
waitha anyanya ufiti nawo. iwowo amapha nawoso aphedwa
munthu akafa ndiumphawi basi zonse magogo phwii
mfiti ndiiyeyo wapha anthu
Ameneyu amuphe ndi mabomba basi
Ngati anali afiti NDE iyeyo sakanakulatu
Exodus : amati musamulole wanyanga kuti akhale ndimoyo koma aphedwe ndithu.
Exodus :yemweyo amati Usaphe!!
Sitikuweluza
ufiti wanyanya ku malaw kuno.asamumange sanalakwise nkuluyo
Kunyasalande munthu akangokalamba walakwa
Iwe mwana oyenda ndi themberero.Kupwanya mwa nkhaza kumene kuja?Mizimu yawo izikubwerera ndithu
ndiye kuti mfiti amakhala munthu okalamba basi?
Mfiti ndi iyeyo, kukalamba nditchimo? Pliz amalawi osamva ngati inu, muziganizile muli inu mutakalamba nanuso azakupheni?
Zimachitika
Iyeyoso akuoneka kuti ndi muthakati yaikulu zed tamuonani pachipumipo kulimba ngat kwale mix cement ,,, mwana opusa iwe nayeso anyongedwe basi osamulekelela flishiii…..
Loya wake kaya nde mu court azikapanga defend chani kkkkk
Is malawi a province in Zambia or what?
Timuthokoze kwambiri simbazako adagwila ntchito yayikulu kulanda nyanga zowopsa bwezi anthu ambirinu kulibe mutizuzilanj
Kodi munthu akangokalamba ndi mfiti eti?. Nanenso ndakalamba bwera uzandiphe ndili ndi ufiti…mxiiw!!
Amfiti nonse mukutha tsopano simbazako akhala akupha mfiti zonse mumdziko muno. lidalakwa ndi boma kumati ufiti kulibe.
What is his name the face looks familiar and I can’t open the lik…
If Lilongwe city council were thinking like their counterpart we would have a safe town but…
KKKKKK,koma si long packing?
Yeniyeni, apatseni fine…
Chipha afiti chapezeka afit noxe muli mmadzi
Kkkkkkkkkkkkk
Ifeyo anthu a ku Africa tikamati uyu ndi mfiti timakhala tili ndi umboni koma boma akuti kulibe ufiti,ndiye tizingowapha
afiti nonse hokoyo take cover!
Nonse amene mukuyikila kumbuyo amfiti simukuziwa mene amapwetekesela mtima agalu amenewo no mistenk no blander
mfiti yoyamba ndi imene imaziwa kuti gogo uyi ndi mfiti nayenso ndi mfiti aphedwe, komanso inu ndinu mfiti ya msogolo bola mukalambe basi ufiti muvala.
Why don’t you just kill that idiot waona ufiti pano analera makolo ake pano chifukwa akalamba akhala afiti
Tsono a Mw24 uyuyu zatani kuti muyikepo chithuzi chake!? mesa nkhani ngati izi mumayikapo kandodo kanukaja!kkkkkkk chisoni kumatenda apa! ndi pamaliro nkhani kholophete tiseko wayz wayz, kumuweruza m’baleyu sintchito yathu koma ya Namalenga.
afitiwa akuonjeza kumawapha kumenechifukwa iwonso amapha anzawo mosanyengelera ndipo pakadali pano apolice muntuluse muthuyo ndiosalakwa abwerenso kuno azaphe ena.
Kikkkkkk km skidoo ????
wachita bwino afiti aziphedwa basi,,,,,ndi chifukwa kuno Ku afrika kumakhala ana ambili opanda makolo chifukwa cha anyani ngati amenewa
Wadziwa bwanji kuti ndi afiti akulodzera bambo ako munthu akakalamba mwati ndi mfiti kuganiza mopusa uku ngati anali afiti iyeyo anakwanisa bwanji kumukuza
Charles naweso bwino tu bwino ukuoneka kuti ukuziwapo kanthu bwanji ukuwabakila afitiwo
ameneyu sanazionepo chikakhala pa nzako ndi choncho kfititu imafika po wawisa moyo uzaziona
ndi mfitiso ameneyu kkkkkk,,,,,,i hate witchcraft,,,,,,,
Tit for a tat is afair game!!!!!!
Kutembeleledwa kwameneyi kukhale kumudula chiwalo chimodzi chimodzi pachaka.Sitikufunanso kuzamuona kumtendele kuno ameneyi.Ndiye timve kapena kumuona atatuluka,apolice mulandidwa unyoro komanso Jombo.
Mbuya opusa uyu
OSAMU WERUXA CHIRANGO NDI CHIWERUXO CHAKE NAMALENGA.
Zoonadi Palibe Olungama
Abale mpaka kupha makolo,udzakhala otembeleledwa moyo wako onse.
Mbuzi nayonso iphedwe,