LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned 49 prisoners as part of 2024 Easter celebration.
According to The Ministry of Homeland Security statement issued on March 30, Chakwera has grant pardon to a total of fourty-nine (49) prisoners as part of the “Easter Holiday, pursuant to Section 89(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of Malawi, Section 111 of the Prisons Act, and the Guidelines for the Granting of Pardon to Convicted Persons”.
Read part of the statement signed by Homeland Security Ministry’s Principal Secretary Steven Kayuni, “These include convicted prisoners who have served half of their sentences, the chronically-ill, the elderly and female convicts who were accompanied by their children to prison.
“Furthermore, it has also pleased His Excellency the President to reduce the sentences of all other prisoners by Six (6) months as an act of clemency during this Easter Holiday and as a measure to decongest the prisons”.