The Malawi police service have today arrested over 145 people in Chikwawa over non compliance to the newly gazzetted COVID 19 measures.
Confirming the arrests, Deputy National Police spokesperson Thomeck Nyaude said so far 118 people have paid the 10 thousand kwacha penalty.
The development comes few days after government effected new Covid 19 measures which include the compulsory wearing of face masks in public places.
The arrests translate that government will collect 1 million 400 thousand kwacha since the new law stipulates that anyone found not wearing a face mask in public places shall pay a penalty of ten thousand kwacha.
However, there have been complaints that some police officers are forcing people to put on face masks when they themselves are not wearing their own mask.
Nyaude has since bemoaned the tendency and says that the law enforcing agency will ensure that the enforcers should also comply to the requirement.The newly gazetted laws have been met with mixed reactions.
140 poor Malawians arrested? Out of these 140 so called poor Malawians 118 have managed to pay k10000 but they can not afford to buy a face mask sold at less than K2000?
Wow what a story…..obviously this can only come out of the one and only the Malawi Voice online….