A Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court has cancelled the search warrant police used to storm President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera’s home in Area 10. What should have been a routine legal process has now exposed the dark, chaotic behaviour that many Malawians say makes this administration look more like a mafia government than a democratic one.
According to the former president’s lawyer, George Jivason Kadzipatike, the police allegedly lied to the court in order to obtain the warrant. He told the magistrate that the officers misled the court so convincingly that the judge unknowingly authorised a warrant that should never have been issued. Without those alleged lies, the court would not have allowed such an operation.
This whole drama began with claims that dogs had been smuggled out of the State Residences — accusations directed at the security officer in charge, Godfrey Jalale. Jalale is currently in police custody and has applied for bail, which the court is expected to rule on tomorrow. All signs suggest he will be released.
But what matters more than the dogs is what this episode says about the state of our nation.
Police acting on shaky stories.
Courts being misled.
The presidency being targeted in bizarre operations.
A government behaving like it has no rules, no brakes, no shame.
This is exactly why so many Malawians now believe the country is being run by political mafias, not public servants. When officers can allegedly twist the truth just to justify a raid, it shows a system rotting from the inside — a system driven by fear, intimidation, and internal power wars.
A government that behaves this way is not governing.
It is bullying.
It is intimidating.
It is losing legitimacy day by day.
And Malawians are watching closely. Because once the state machinery starts acting like a mafia network, the nation’s democracy is already in danger.
