BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—As the father of Robert Chasowa, a polytechnic student who was found dead on the campus at the height of anti-government protests during the Bingu Wa Mutharika regime, fears that the culprits may never be brought to justice, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu has revealed that the government intends to hire foreign investigators to probe the death.

This was revealed on Thursday when Malawi Human Rights Commission officials presented the state of human rights report to President Peter Mutharika.

The commission of inquiry which was set by Joyce Banda few months after taking over the country’s leadership following the death of Mutharika, found that Chasowa was murdered by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) officials led by the then Southern region governor Noel Masangwi and some police officers.

But speaking on Thursday, Tembenu trashed the commission’s findings, arguing the investigations were not thoroughly done.

The then police publicist Willie Mwaluka however said Chasowa killed himself as he allegedly jumped from a pavement roof.

Tembenu however has not indicated when the government will hire the investigators and how much it will cost.

On the death of Issah Njauju, the third in command at the graft busting body, the Anti Corruption Bureau, President Mutharika said the staste is doing all it can to bring those who killed him to book.

“I call the Inspector General of Police Mr Lexten Kachama every week to find out the progress on their investigations, you can check phone call logs,” he said.

Njauju was killed two years ago in Lilongwe and the police arrested two people, including a police officer who was overheard boasting at a drinking joint that he knows the killers and someone who was found with the mobile phones of the deceased.

Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC) chairperson Robert Mkwezalamba said the civil society is surprised with government’s disinterest in expediting murder cases of Njaunju and Chasowa.

“The slow pace of these cases [Njaunju and Chasowa] simply tells us that someone somewhere senior enough is part and parcel of these cases,” he said.

DPP has a history of killing and intimidating critics.

Meanwhile, youthful activist Charles Kajoloweka who together with other activists obtained an injunction restraining George Chaponda from discharging ministerial duties paving way for investigations in Zambia maizegate scandal, is receiving death threats from the ruling party zealots.