By Vincent Gunde
Counsel Silvester Ayuba James has reacted angrily over people that are saying Lawyers should not comment on Police investigation procedures arguing that lawyers are duly qualified to comment on matters of criminal investigation.
Ayuba James reactions is following a WhatsApp video clip which is circulating in various social media platforms depicting Detective police officers parading suspects who fatally shot dead a medical doctor Victoria Bobe in Chigumula Township – Blantyre on 17th November, 2025.
In the video clip, suspects paraded are giving conflicting statements such as “AKaidi awa “and “informant” these two words made other people including Counsel Ayuba James to react with doubts that the paraded suspects were not the ones who fatally shot Dr. Victoria Bobe to death.
As this was not enough, other people quoted Prison authorities confirming that those that were being paraded were inmates of Chichiri Prison but this was dismissed in strongest terms possible by Prison authorities that they do not have a record of some prisoners paraded as demonstrators on the way they murdered Dr. Bobe.
Writing on his face book page, Counsel Ayuba James has dismissed claims that lawyers should not comment on Police investigation advising all who are behind these words that it is them who should shut up their mouths.
Ayuba James said what the police were doing parading suspects to demonstrate how they fatally shot Dr. Bobe was drama in public simply destroying their own case saying there is nothing political about this, it is about human rights, law, and crime.
“Judges are not police officers, they are lawyers, they subject evidence to law, not to Mtkataka Police Training School practices or the whims of some face book influencers,” he said.
He said he also attended intensive training on Criminal Law Advocacy with the University of Western Cape focusing cross- examination and evidence analysis saying the evidence analysis part dealing with investigation detailing including its critique from human rights perspective.
“I know what processes should be and what processes should not be included in criminal investigation if the evidence is to be relied on by the courts, I have used these skills and knowledge to get tens of people acquitted over the years,” reads Ayuba James’s writings on the wall.
But, some Malawians are demanding an apology from Counsel Ayuba James for his statement questioning those who are saying lawyers should not comment on Police investigation that what is their profession in the picture advising them to choose their size and it was a waste of their father’s sperms and energy to have them born.
