Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima, is lacking. A navy aircraft carrying Chilima and 9 others did not land and disappeared from radar Monday morning, the federal government stated.
The aircraft had taken off from Lilongwe shortly after 9am for a flight to Mzuzu. “All efforts by air authorities to contact the plane because it left radar have failed at this stage,” the federal government stated in a press release.
President Lazarus Chakwera instantly ordered a seek for the aircraft and canceled his deliberate journey to the Bahamas to observe the state of affairs carefully.
In 2022, Saulos Chilima was suspended from workplace after being arrested and prosecuted for corruption in a scandal involving an Anglo-Malawi businessman. Nonetheless, in Could this yr, a Malawi court docket quashed the costs after a number of hearings within the presence of Mr Chilima.
