By Vincent Gunde
The Inua Advocacy- an organization which was established to look after the welfare of all refugees and asylum seekers staying in the Dzaleka Camp in Dowa district, says it is aware of people who have had bad intentions for refugee community from Rwanda.
The organization said there have been stories published in various media platforms across Malawi documented by investigative journalists about the killings of Rwandans by possible alleged spies sent to Malawi by the Rwandan government.
Inua Advocacy’s Founder and Executive Director Innocent Magambi, was responding to a recent press conference organized by a Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) who have claimed that 12 refugees of Rwandan nationalities are linked to supporting MCP panga wielding thugs.
The Coalition of CSOs said they have identities of the 12 Rwandans and their business places and have written the UNHCR, UN and other international organizations and the Police, Home Affairs and Immigration in Malawi expressing the country’s concern for way forward.
The group said the 12 identified Rwandan refugees have been supporting the MCP, supporting MCP panga wielding thugs that have been terrorizing and hacking innocent people in Malawi as well as procuring illegal guns and pangas which were being distributed to the MCP youth operatives.
They say Malawi is harboring terrorists from Rwanda that are posing to be looking at them as business people advising the new government of the DPP to act swiftly on these Rwandan refugees on what best to do with them for sponsoring terrorism activities in Malawi.
Magambi said that the allegations claiming some Rwandan nationals come to Malawi to target refugees who refuse to align with the Rwandan ruling party have circulated widely, but only a government- led investigation can substantiate them.
“Some of these come to Malawi with Rwandan passports to do various business activities and end up applying for refugee status in Malawi as people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” he said.
However, Magambi said all these are rumors which can be substantiated by only the Police, Homeland Security, and Immigration Department for correct the information but they have heard this information and the Rwandan community themselves can provide more evidence on that.
Bakili Muluzi TV and Limpopo FM radio have from time to time in their programmes been alerting Malawians of Rwandan soldiers in the country targeting some refugees for the Government of Malawi to deport them to their country of origin.
At one time, both the two, television and radio station reported that 400 guns had found their way into Malawi to be distributed to MCP youth operatives targeting opposition party leaders and activists for death ahead of the 16th September, 2025 general elections.
