By Vincent Gunde
The Malawi Police Service [MPS] in Eastern Region has offered unreserved apology for use of teargas within the Campus of University of Malawi [UNIMA] in Zomba on Friday, 23rd September, 2022.
On this day, Chanco students were holding peaceful protests over unfavorable academic calendar demanding them to go for a-five month’s holiday.
The Police came into the Campus to quell the situation but this did not go with the students who in so sooner engaged with the police in running battles leaving them with no option but to fire teargas into the air to disperse the protesting students.
The teargas spread into the hostels forcing students to run away for their lives leaving behind fellow students with disabilities who could not run out of the hostels for safety.
After the students were dispersed and the situation under police control, the police issued a verbal apology describing the officer’s conduct as unprofessional and misjudgment promising to bring to book officer’s leaders who ordered firing of teargas into the Campus.
In the letter to President, UNIMA Zomba Students Representative Council dated 26th September, 2022 signed by Miss Violet Magwaya, Commissioner of Police for Eastern Region, says the Malawi Police Service [MPS] values the right of education of the citizen and the cordial relationship that exists between UNIMA Student Body and Malawi Police.
…..’’It is our interest that this relationship should be nurtured and grown’’…..reads the lines of Police Commissioner Magwaya’s writing on the wall.
In the letter, the Malawi Police says following the incident, the Eastern Region Management will institute measures to ensure that incidents of similar nature should not happen again within UNIMA Campus.
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