Wilsa condemns police for selective justice
Women and Law in Southern Africa (Wilsa) Malawi Chapter has condemned the police for what it described as selective justice following the brutal beating of a maid, Mercy Mapundu, allegedly by her boss Cicel Green for unknown reasons.
The police have since said they are looking for the suspect and that the law will take its course.
Mapundu, who worked as a housemaid at Green’s house in Zingwangwa, Blantyre, had six ribs broken, according to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) officials where she was admitted to since last Friday.
Recounting her fate on a hospital bed on Monday, Mapundu said she had been working for the Greens for sometime and had just returned from her home in Phalombe when she discovered that they had employed another maid.
“I was told to go and start work at his mother -in-law [Mrs. Fatch]’s house at Green Corner. I started work and when I went to bid farewell to Mrs. Fatch after work, Mr. Green pushed the door [to Fatch’s bedroom] open, grabbed and started beating me up,” claimed Mapundu at the hospital.
She claimed she was pushed outside the house where she continued receiving the beating.
Mapundu claimed she was later thrown into a vehicle to the suspect’s house in Zingwangwa where the beating continued.
“When the stick he was using broke, he started kicking me with the leg, but I managed to escape when he went to get a horse pipe. I hid in the maize field,” said Mapundu, in pain.
The maid said some well-wishers took her to Mrs. Fatch’s house and QECH. The case was reported to Blantyre Police where a statement was recorded, she said.
Blantyre Police deputy public relations officer Elizabeth Divala said no statements were recorded at the station, a revelation that surprised Mapundu’s husband, Yohane Ligomba.
“When he was taken to Blantyre Police, a statement was taken. The following day, two police officers came to the hospital to record another statement,” said Ligomba.
Divala, however, said police officers from Soche Police would take over the matter.
But Wilsa-Malawi executive director Seodi White said she is surprised that no arrest has been effected.
“I have tried to contact the police since Friday, but to no avail. This is grevious body harm and the one doing that should face justice. However, there are no arrests and police seem not to be bothered. Is it because the victim is poor and a woman?” asked White.
Green could not pick his phone after several attempts.
IT IS VERY GREVIOUS FAULT THAT BECAUSE OF MONEY PEOPLE ARE NOT RESPECTING THE LIVES OF THEIR FRIENDS. GOD SAID WE HAVE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS WE LOVED OURSELVES. HERE IT IS LIKE THIS BECAUSE OF RICHES THAT GREEN HAVE, RICHES IS LEADING HIM TO DO EVERYTHING EVEN TO PAY BRIBES TO POLICE. BUT REMEMBER ANALIPO AMZANU “KAMUZU” , ABINGU NDI ENA AMBIRI ANALI NAZO ZAMBIRI KOMA ANAPITA KUMANDA. ZONSEZO MUDZAZISIYA POPITA KUMANDA. CHONDE TIYENI TILEMEKEZANE NO MATTER WE ARE RICH OR NOT. PANALI MFUMU SOLOMONI YOLEMERA PADZIKO LAPANSI KOMA ITAFIKA NTHAWI YA IMFA NDI CHUMA CHAKE ANAKANIKA KUGULA MOYO.
May be I am missing the point, but we are not being told as to why she was beaten? Is it a case of being suspected to be in an affair with the husband to her boss such that the man was furious that she has let the cat out of the bag or what? If the beating did not happen at the Greens house in Zingwangwa, why did it happen at Green Corner. And why did she run to the man’s parents (Mrs Fatch) where the beating started from. I agree with Seodi but can the reporter tells us more otherwise the story has lost its plot in terms what, where, when how and why?
inu tanenani kuti cicel malunga oasati mukutiuza kuti cicel green like ndiwinawake bwanji. A cicel nanunso upanza onsewo kumamenya wantchito ur a shame to Malawi man, apolice amangidwe ameneyu basi kutengela za abamboako eti ur dad ws better of than u tho nayenso amatcha azimai amalonda yeah like father like son
the best is to show solidarity with this poor woman, PROTEST KU POLISI station mpaka atamangidwa munthuyo, without that apolisi azingozengereza basi mpaka kuzizira. kapena kuwauza apolisi atimetumu ya week apo bii protesting mwina zingasinthe