By Our Reporter
There are fresh calls for Malawi’s Minister of
Information and Digitization Moses Kunkuyu to either resign or be sacked over the murder of former Coca-Cola Beverages Company (Malawi) sales manager, Alan Wittika.
It is alleged that Kunkuyu and the late Wittika may have been seeing the same lady without each one of them knowing. This development may have led to the gruesome murder of Wittika in September, 2023 after a possible discovery by Kunkuyu that the lady might have also been in a relationship with the deceased.
Currently, Kunkuyu’s personal assistant Lester Maganga is facing murder charges in the High Court after he was arrested by Police in October last year. However, there has been less movement on the case due to suspicion that Kunkuyu may be pulling some strings behind the scenes in order to have the case stalled completely.
The slow movement of the case has angered some members of the civil society in Malawi who are now calling for the immediate resignation of the Information Minister or have him sacked from his post by the President.
“The slowness in the case is clearly too suspicious and people know that Kunkuyu is working behind the scenes to have the case thrown away. He is abusing his position because of his personal interests,” said a CSO member who didn’t want to be mentioned for obvious reasons.
The rights activist said that the fact that they arrested his personal assistant, it meant the Minister was obviously linked to the murder in one way or another.
Interestingly, instead of allowing the courts to do their work on the murder of Alan Wittika, Minister Kunkuyu has always given media interviews defending his PA Maganga as being innocent.
“Kunkuyu definitely knows something on the death of Wittika and he must be taken to task over that. Just like his PA who we believe is suffering in covering up for the Minister,” he said.
The human rights defender called upon President Lazarus Chakwera to consider firing from the cabinet Minister Kunkuyu with immediate effect. He said they will not rest until the late Wittika and his family get justice.
“He is a disgrace to the public and the government as a whole,” he concluded.
A Lilongwe based legal expert specializing in forensics, said that his preliminary findings show that Moses Kunkuyu definitely requires to answer some questions on the murder of late Wittika.
“The fact that his PA was arrested over that murder, it tells you now that likely the big fish wanted in the murder of late Wittika is actually Kunkuyu himself,” said the expert who has been involved in at least 17 murder cases before.
This is not the first time that Moses Kunkuyu has been involved in some form of controversy.
In 2008, Moses Kunkuyu allegedly got kidnapped by some unknown people.
However, investigations by the Malawi Police Service later concluded that Moses Kunkuyu lied to the Malawian public.
He is reported to have spent several days at Kanjedza Lodge faking up his abduction. He was sleeping Room 120.