Ugly face of police brutality: Police officer hacks teenage boy while in cell

A 13-year-old boy in Mangochi is nursing a deep cut wound on his hand which he is said to have sustained while being beaten by an officer at Chiponde police Unit who was using a Panga Knife.

Mother to the boy, Annie Shaibu, has told us today that their son was picked on 8th August 2021, for suspecting to have stolen a mobile phone, and claimed that a police officer who was interrogating him used a panga knife to beat him and in the process hacked him.

Mangochi Police Station Spokesperson, Amina Tepani Daudi, has confirmed the incident saying they have received the complaint and investigative police officers are on the matter.