Category Archives: Obituaries

MaraviPost : most recent significant obituaries in Malawi and those affecting the Malawi Diaspora all over the world.

Nepalese dies after falling into meat-mincing machine in Malaysia

Nepalese dies after falling into meat-mincing machine in Malaysia

MALACCA-(MaraviPost)-A 47-year-old man has died after falling into a meat-mincing machine at a factory near Masjid Tanah in Malacca state.

The victim was fixing the meat mincer when it suddenly turned on and trapped him below the waist.

As quoted by Daily Mail, Zulkhairani Ramli from Malacca fire department said: “The victim was doing maintenance with three other workers when suddenly the machine was turned on”.

Emergency workers were called to the scene and it took them about 30 minutes to extricate the man’s body from the machine but the worker died on the spot.

Meanwhile, officials have launched investigations into the matter.

Nigerian man arrested for killing his girlfriend with pastor’s help to perform rituals

Favour Daley-Oladele was murdered on December 8 at Ikoyi-Ile in Ikire, Osun State

OGUN STATE-(MaraviPost)-The Ogun State Police Command has arrested Adeeko Owolabi, 23 for killing his girlfriend accompanied by a white garment church, Segun Philip to perform rituals.

The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi confirmed the incident.

The victim who has been identified as Favour Daley-Oladele was murdered on December 8 at Ikoyi-Ile in Ikire, Osun State.

The boyfriend confessed to have used a pestle that the pastor gave him to smash the head of his girlfriend who was sleeping the time of the crime.

He added that the pastor quickly used a knife to cut off her neck, ripped open her chest and removed her heart, which he used in preparing a concoction for him and his mother to eat for money rituals.

As quotes by The Punch, Ogun State Police in a statement said: ” The deceased was reported to have left home to an unknown destination since the 8th of December, 2019 and has not been seen since then; hence, she was reported missing by her parents at Mowe Police Station.

The detectives went into full-scale technical and forensic investigation of the case and their efforts paid off when the movement of the deceased was traced to a white garment church in far away Ikoyi-Ile in Osun State being pastored by one Segun Philip”.

In reaction to the incident, the Management of the Lagos State University, Ojo, has called for caution from its students following the alleged murder of one of its final-year-female students, Favour Daley-Oladele.

It has also urged the students to remain calm to allow the law enforcement agents conclude their investigation into the matter.

“I received with great shock the news of the death of Miss Favour Daley-Oladele. The university’s management hereby commiserates with the parents and other family members of the deceased, the staff and students of the department, and the entire university community.

“The Police have assured us that justice will be served in this case as the perpetrators of this heinous crime will be charged to court immediately investigation is concluded,” said the university Vice chancellor

Meanwhile, Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to the homicide section of the State criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for proper investigation.

He has described the gruesome murder of the deceased as superlative degree of wickedness and has vowed to ensure that all the suspects face the full wrath of the law.

Weird!!Boko Haram kills woman just five days to her wedding

A promising young Nigerian woman has died a painful death after being killed by Boko Haram terrorists some days to her wedding.

Martha Bulus was killed by Boko Haram terrorists 5 days to her wedding
Martha Bulus was killed by Boko Haram terrorists five days to her wedding

ADAMAWA STATE-(MaraviPost)-woman identified as Miss Martha Bulus and her friends have been killed on Boxing Day by suspected Boko Haram terrorists who attacked their vehicle while they were travelling from Maiduguri for her wedding ceremony, scheduled for December 31, 2019, in Yola, Adamawa State.

It was gathered that her friends were supposed to be members of her bridal train.

They were ambushed and all killed by suspected terrorists at a village near Gwoza.

Ms Bulus was expected to tie the knot with her fiance, Joseph Zamdai.

The bride-to-be was traveling with a sister, Zainab, who was also killed.

Source: tori.ng

Malawi’s Karonga witchcraft allegations claim three lives

KARONGA-(MaraviPost)-Angry villagers in the northern district of Karonga on Thursday killed three elderly people over allegations that the three were practising witchcraft.

The murder occurred at Lupembe in the district.

Eye witness told The Maravi Post that a witchdoctor in the area declared that three are witches and they were later murdered.

The victims (circled)

Northern Region Police Spokesperson Peter Kalaya said the police are yet to get more details about the incident.

One of the victims (in yellow) before the murder

Malawians on social media have condemned the murder of the three and have called on authorities to take action.

“Too bad, I think the Herbalist Association of Malawi should look into issues to do with the so-called “witchdoctors” these are the people fueling these barbaric acts,” said one person in a comment on Facebook Page.

Witchcraft allegations is punishable by Malawi laws.

Tragedy!!Kazakhstan plane crash claims 14 lives

Kazakhstan plane crash claims 14 lives

At least 14 people have died after a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s largest city.

Rescue crews rushed to the scene soon after the tragedy and managed to save several others.

At least 17 people including eight children are are being treated in the hospital following a crash.

President of the country, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has pledged to provide families of the victims with compensation.

He added that government will investigate the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.

This has happened after similar plane, Bek Air Fokker-100 in March with 116 passengers made an emergency landing at the capital’s international airport after its landing gear failed to deploy

Kazakhstan’s industry ministry said in a statement Friday that the Fokker-100 model would be grounded until the cause of the accident became clear.

Exclusive: How Zimbabwe VP General Chiwenga had a handle on Solomon Mujuru death

HARARE-(MaraviPost)-General Solomon Mujuru died in 2011 in a fire at his Beatrice farmhouse just outside the capital Harare under mysterious circumstances

AIR Force Commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Phillip Sibanda and Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantine Chiwengwa lead the funeral parade in honour of General Solomon Mujuru at One Commando Barracks in Harare

An inquest into Mujuru’s death concluded that there was no foul play despite speculation to the contrary.

General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga’s actions over the decades prove he might be responsible for Mujuru’s murder.

He has proven to be a ruthless operator with no regards for his comrades and even his wives.

In 2012 Nehanda Radio reported that a senior army officer said that there is even more serious infighting within the army over Mujuru’s death.

This is because a secretly conducted investigation by the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and police is accused Chiwenga of killing Mujuru.

It’s become very clear that General Chiwenga was gunning to succeed President Robert Mugabe and so determined to eliminate anyone opposing his plans.

According to the report Chiwenga was running a hit squad within Zanu PF and the army which is seeking to assassinate anyone that he views as an obstacle.

Chiwenga’s bitterness with Solomon Mujuru

Solomon Mujuru and Dabengwa

In the 1980s it became public knowledge that Solomon Mujuru was sleeping with Chiwenga’s wife.

The wife (not named for legal reasons) is also an ex-combatant.

When Chiwenga was tipped off the affair soon after he returned from his post in Bulawayo where in 1981 was attested to the newly formed Zimbabwe National Army as a brigadier commanding First Brigade.

One lunchtime Chiwenga returned home only to find his wife naked in his bedroom and Mujuru had escaped through an open window.

Mujuru forgot his jacket and beret in Chiwenga’s bedroom. Chiwenga as a junior to Mujuru could not confront him, but he sent his wife and kids packing.

Later on, after failing basic Officers course at the Zimbabwe Staff College he bribed a junior officer to give him answers for practical Intermediate Staff Course.

It is alleged that he accepted a green coded paper with suggested solutions which are available only after the exam.

Chiwenga was expelled from the course after refusing to name the junior officer who had given him the paper.

He then went on to shoot himself through the right shoulder in an attempt to end his life and was admitted at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare.

To save himself from the military job, Chiwenga told President Mugabe that his senior Mujuru and the wife he had sent away affected his performance.

He presented the Mujuru’s items that he had left in his bedroom.

Mugabe gave Chiwenga a lifeline and since then Mujuru and him only had a working relationship.

Chiwenga and his relationships

Chiwenga has been married and divorced several times. His known first wife is in Mozambique and is a war veteran.

Chiwenga son Tawanda, far right

He then married another ex-combated who now lives in Nuneaton in United Kingdom and have four children, all boys.

Soon after he cohabited with a Harare socialite and businesswoman only identified as Mwamuka.

Their relationship went sour after Mwamuka one lunchtime turned up at the officers’ mess at KG6 barracks and lashed out at Chiwenga. She scolded him that he was not man enough and barren.

She told him of his poor bed performance in front of his colleagues.

Chiwenga was so embarrassed and the wife was later restrained.

Chiwenga parted ways with Mwamuka soon after .

Jocelyn Chiwenga kicked out of farm
Jocelyn Chiwenga kicked out of farm

In 1998 he later married Jocelyn Jacobsen (née Mauchaza) who was a waiter at Jobs Nightspot in Harare and they divorced in 2012.

There were no children from his marriage to Jacobsen, but in June 2009, as the wife of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, grabbed the triplets of a poverty-stricken mother who appealed for help on national television.

Chiwenga is reported to have pulled up at the young mothers Unit F lodgings in a convoy of Mercs, accompanied by army bodyguards and said she was taking the three babies.

The whereabouts of those kids is unknown today. Their divorce ended so bitter and went all the way to Supreme Court exposing a vast amount of wealth.

Chiwenga also dragged his ex-wife to court over missing guns telling the courts Jocelyn used to beat him up with fists.

Chiwenga with his influence used the military to evict and bar her from his properties.

In 2011 he married Marry (Mary) Mubaiwa, a former model and wife of footballer Shingi Kawondera, while still married to Jacobsen.

Marry’s relationship to Chiwenga was through the late heroine Kiki Divaris whose Miss Zimbabwe project was a prostitution ring to recruit sex workers for chefs. 

Joice Mujuru and Oppah Muchinguri revealed in past interviews that these practices all started from Mozambique during the war of liberation and late Robert Mugabe, Solomon Mujuru and all used to get women of their choices that way.

In 2012 Marry bore their first child, a son, and a year later she bore a girl. In 2019, suffering from an undisclosed ailment, Chiwenga checked into a South African hospital.

A fracas arose when his wife Marry visited him. She was later charged with attempted murder.

In December 2019 Chiwenga filed for divorce from Marry citing infidelity issuesforged marriage certificate and that she takes drugs.

It is also reported that one of their child’s DNA failed to match his.

He grabbed his children and handed over Marry’s kids with footballers to her mother. Right now Marry spends her Christmas in prison.

Chiwenga is currently linked to other two women. Reports suggest that he plans  to reunite with his UK based wife, a move ZAOGA leader Ezekiel Guti has engineered .Chiwenga has a son who is a pastor in that church.

Kawome: Is she engaged to Chiwenga?

The other woman is Uncle Roland Muchegwa’s ex-wife, Michelle Kawome.

Reports say Michelle is very unlucky when it comes to love relationships.

After leaving an abusive relationship with South Africa based Zimbabwe tycoon Uncle Roland, she fell in love with a top married Harare lawyer who died behind wheels in December 2017.

Kawome recently announced she is engaged to a mysterious man.

Who is it? Mystery surrounds the circumstances leading to the fatal accident that claimed the life of prominent Harare lawyer, Edmore Jori who left behind his wife and three children.

Chiwenga’s Greatest Betrayal

On 6 November 2017, when Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was dismissed by President Robert Mugabe, he fled the country two days later, citing “incessant threats” against his family.

At the time Chiwenga as army head was on an official visit to China, where he learned that Mugabe had ordered his arrest upon his return to Zimbabwe.

However, soldiers loyal to Chiwenga, disguised as baggage handlers, overpowered the police at the airport and cleared the way for his arrival on 12 November 2017.

On 13 November 2017, Chiwenga released a press statement chastising those responsible for the dismissals of government officials in the ruling ZANU-PF party.

He warned that the armed forces would be forced to intervene should the “purging” not stop.

In response, ZANU-PF’s spokesperson Simon Khaya-Moyo released a press statement accusing Chiwenga of “treasonable conduct”.

On 14 November it was reported that soldiers and armoured military vehicles were seen headed towards the capital, Harare.

Several roads were later blocked in the city including the one leading to President Robert Mugabe’s private residence, as well as one leading to the ZANU-PF aligned national broadcaster, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).

In the early hours of the next day the military spokesperson, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, appeared on ZBC Television announcing that the military had not taken over the country and that the president and his family were safe.

He also announced that the armed forces would be “targeting criminals around him [Mugabe] who are committing crimes… that are causing social and economic suffering in the country”.

It was later reported that several ZANU-PF politicians and government ministers were detained or arrested, including the finance minister, Ignatius Chombo

In all this, Chiwenga has been disloyal to a man who has been by his side throughout his career, Robert Mugabe.

Attempts to kill his Brother Apostle Talent Chiwenga

Videos uploaded on August 17, 2019, have since been removed.

Solomon Mujuru’s death

“What led to his (Mujuru) death may have been political or some business enterprise that went wrong.

There are people who think it was to do with a diamond mine in which he had some shares,” former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube wrote.

He added that Mujuru’s wife was destined to be President of Zimbabwe.

A simple reflection on the past of General Chiwenga tells a big story of brutal and ruthless  man with an ambition.

Not so bright but the man either knows what he wants or at least he is advised to do so.

Marry is a vulnerable 38 year old who is possibly seeking her way out.

But what  Chiwenga’s life reflets is a man who can do anything for power and status. 

Saviour Kasukuwere has been linked to Mujuru’s death and he was the last man to see him alive.

Chiwenga bought a ring for exiled former ZANU PF Commissar Savior Kasukuwere during his wedding.

Hagiographer Douglas Rogers reveals in his book Two weeks in November that Chiwenga was Kasukuwere’s political mentor and godfather. He narrates that due to the father-figure influence that Chiwenga had on Kasukuwere the house of the exiled former PC was designed by the same people who did Chiwenga’s.

Read the narrative below:

The biggest mansion in the Borrowdale Brooke, overlooking the entire community from a high rocky promontory, is the private residence of General Constantino Chiwenga.

A neighbouring mansion on a steep hillside had no such qualms: the modern, cream-coloured, triple-storey palace of Saviour Kasukuwere, the ZANU-PF Political Commissar.

With its Gatsby-like gables and reinforced walls and floor-to-ceiling bulletproof windows, it looked like something out of Malibu.

Ironically, as things were later to turn out, it was designed by the same architect as Chiwenga’s home in the Brooke, for Chiwenga had been a mentor and father figure to Saviour. Indeed, ED had been too.

Saviour was a daring young intelligence agent in the late 80s and 90s during and after the period that ED, as Minister of State Security, oversaw the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), the country’s secret police.

Saviour gained renown for a hair-raising 1991 operation when, aged 21, he helicoptered into the remote mountain hideaway of Mozambique’s RENAMO resistance rebels disguised as a journalist, locating the camp’s coordinates.

ED used to walk to Saviour’s house for tea; Saviour would visit Chiwenga at the Titanic to watch Wimbledon tennis and Premiership soccer games

During August 1 2019 in Harare , a friend tells me when approached during a Politburo meeting on what to do with protesters in Harare, VP Chiwenga simply said “ Shoot Them “.

Soldiers later shot and killed at least six people during opposition protests.

Mnangagwa later established a commission of inquiry into the post-election violence, chaired by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe.

At time of writing, the commission had not published its findings.

Source:.-TheZimbabwenewslive.com

Nigeria road accident claims five lives on Christmas Eve

five dies in road accident on Christmas Eve in Nigeria

BONU-(MaraviPost)-The Federal Road Safety commander in Nigeria, Joel Dagwa has urged road users to obey traffic rules and regulations during the festive season to avoid accidents.

Dagwa made the remarks following a road accident on Christmas Eve that has claimed the lives of five people with several overs on treatment after sustaining some injuries.

The accident that involved 21 people occurred in Bonu village along Lambata-Minna road of Gurara Local Government Area Niger state involved a Sharon wagon and a wagon Golf.

According to police, the accident has occurred due to speeding and dangerous overtaking.

Meanwhile, all the five corpses are at Federal Medical Centre, Gawu waiting for identification by relatives of the deceased.

Killer Crocodile in Malawi

Crocodile kills 15yr-old boy in Nkhotakota

Crocodile kills a boy in Nkhotakota

NKHOTAKOTA-(MaraviPost)-A-15 year old boy from the area of senior chief Malengachanzi in Nkhotakota district has been killed by a Crocodile in the evening of Sunday December 22, in Ling’ona river.

Nkhotakota police Public Relations officer Williams Kaponda said according to witnesses, on the day, the deceased identified as Mickson Jamson in accompany of his friends went to Ling’ona river for swimming.

While swimming, the deceased was caught by a Crocodile which compelled his friends to call for help but when well-wishers arrived, the boy was already dead.

Kaponda said Postmortem results done by Nkhotakota district hospital indicates that the death was due to suffocation.

Meanwhile Nkhotakota police has appealed to all parents to take good care of their children in this rainy season and also considering that children are on school holiday.

Five Saudis sentenced to death for Journalist Jamal Khashoggi

The late Jamal Khashoggi

Following investigations in death of one of the most influential Arab journalists in the world, Jamal Khashoggi court on Monday sentenced five people to death penalty and three others to jail terms totaling to 24 years.

Khashoggi, who was a critic of Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was killed in October 2018 and 11 people were bought to questioning in connection to his death.

His death raised suspicions leading CIA and other Western governments believing the Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman had a hand in his death.

According to UN report, the investigations in the death of the Arab journalist pointed out to the involvement of Saudi officials despite their denial in any attachment to the crime.

The U.N. special rapporteur for extrajudicial summary, Agnes Callamard said masterminds behind this brutal murder have walked free and this can be simply described as “mockery” of justice.

Saudi prosecutor also said that Saud al-Qahtani, a former high-profile Saudi royal adviser discussed Khashoggi’s activities with the team which went on to kill him days prior to his death.

The royal adviser acted in coordination with deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Asiri and both were dismissed from their positions after the revelation but Qahtani was never tried.

Human rights group Amnesty International has also criticized the trial labeling it as “whitewash” due to its failure to address the involvement of Saudi authorities and location of Khashoggi’s remains.

Belorussian monster who killed two women has been executed with a bullet

Belarusian monster who killed two women has been executed with a bullet

MOGILEV-(MaraviPost)-Alyaxandr Asipovich has finally breathed his last after being executed with a bullet at the back of his head for killing two women using a hammer and knives.

Senior state prosecutor of Mogilev region, Olga Ivanova has confirmed the incident.

The killer claimed the two women had attacked and tried to rob him before he killed them and tried to hide the evidence. One of the victims was stuck 77 times with a hammer before she died and the other sustained 16 stab wounds.

Police discovered the incident shortly after the murderer made a call to them from his apartment and confessed on his intentions to kill the two women he met the women at a nightclub.

Asipovich appealed to be spared from executive and his plea was rejected in court. This is the first execution since 2018 in this Europe’s last remaining dictatorship country.