By Vincent Gunde
Social Commentator Dr. Samuel Lwala says he has joined an investigative team investigating circumstances surrounding a plane crash that claimed the lives of Dr. Saulosi Chilima and eight others, in the Chikangawa forest on Monday, 10th June, 2024.
Lwala said President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s instituted commission of inquiry did not come up with the real findings of what exactly caused the plane to crash and what happened for the corpses of the deceased to be found outside the crashed plane.
He said the death of Dr. Saulosi Chilima and eight others, is too political hence opposition political parties must be reminded that while they are concentrating and focusing on the 16th September, 2025 General Elections, they should be part of Chilima’s plane crash investigative team.
Speaking through an audio clip, Lwala said since 10th June, 2024 when the plane crashed in the Chikangawa forest, President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has not fired, arrested and even one resigned questioning Malawians that are they serious as a country?
Lwala said to be the President or Minister does not mean that one is on top of the affairs in the country observing that President Chakwera and his Ministers are all quiet on the matter making Malawians to be made to believe in them that Chilima’s plane crash was just a normal one.
He said he is very angry with President Chakwera for letting the country stands at a crossroads without answers on Chilima’s plane crash observing that Chakwera’s instituted commission of inquiry started after the remains of the plane were taken away.
The social commentator said it would have been better if the remains of the plane were there at the site claiming that he was one of the people who visited the scene of the accident to take pictures but was forced to delete the pictures in his phone and no one knows what the secret was.
“It is paining me when I see the whole government quiet, Malawians having millions of questions on the commission of inquiry findings, why the President, Army Commander, Minister of Defence didn’t go to the site,” said Lwala.
He said the investigative team has started its work saying they are a week and half on the ground and preliminary findings are indicating that the crashed plane wanted to land at a valley in the Chikangawa forest and had its tyres already out meaning that there was something happening in that plane.
Lwala has assured Malawians that the investigating team will take their findings to government and Malawians before 16th September, 2025 elections and whoever will be found guilty will be booked by the government coming on 17th September, 2025.
