Two Zimbabweans with Malawian emergency travel documents have been denied entry into Malawi. Miriam Makawa and Patrick Patrick Maunda w...
Two Zimbabweans
with Malawian emergency travel documents have been denied entry into Malawi.
Miriam Makawa
and Patrick Patrick Maunda were rumbled at the Mwanza border post, according to
Mwanza border publicist Pasqually Zulu.
Zulu said the
two were in Trip Trans bus and were travelling using Malawi emergency
certificates which were issued at Malawi High Commission in Harare on 26
January, 2018. The pair who claimed to be related, told immigration officials
that they will be staying at a guest house in Lilongwe during their time in
Malawi.
Officers got
suspicious and detained the two for a search and further questioning. Later it
was discovered that the two know no one in Malawi even though the emergency
certificates were original.
Zulu said that
Maunda initially claimed that he came to look for his relatives in Malawi but
later admitted that he intended to acquire a Malawi passport and return to
Zimbabwe.
The two were
sent back on the same bus that brought them in.
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