Man donates to police station a week after being released from cell

A man in Mulanje has donated stationaries to a police unit barely a week after his arrest on an offence of threatening law enforcers on duty.

Patrick Kamkwamba was arrested on Monday last week at Mulanje Police Station and he was charged with intimidation contrary to section 88 of the Penal Code for threatening police officers.

The fact of the matter is that traffic officers from Mulanje Police Station led by Assistant Superintendent Vincent Kachitsa were enforcing road safety regulations near the police station.

At around noon, Kamkwamba arrived driving an unregistered BMW vehicle going towards Blantyre. The officers stopped him and told him that he had committed an offence for using unregistered motor vehicle.

Kamkwamba just disembarked from the vehicle and proceeded with his journey leaving the vehicle behind which was later taken to Mulanje Police Station by another officer, a driver.

“After sometime, Kamkwamba came back and when the officers tried to reason with him about the offence, he became violent and threatened that if the officers dared impound his vehicle again next time, he would hit them especially Assistant Superintendent Kachitsa who is in-charge of traffic in the district. This moved the officers to arrest Kamkwamba,”said Grasham Ngwira.

While there, Kamkwamba noted that the officers were struggling to take a statement from him due to lack of stationery hence the donation.

“Last Monday when I was arrested at Mulanje. It was difficult for the noble police officers to take a statement from me due to scarcity of stationary.

“When everything was done I thought of coming in to help. So yesterday I donated 10 rims of paper, a box of pens and a package of carbon papers,” wrote Kamkwamba.

He added: “Nthawi Zina ubale umayamba munjira zovutirapo koma ndiubale basi. A police ndi abale athu let’s support and motivate them.”