Lilongwe (MaraviPost): reporting from Zodiak on Facebook say Police in Neno have been keeping an 89-year-old man at Zalewa roadblock for three weeks, after an angry mob descended on the man at Kasamba village in the area of Senior Chief Symon on allegations that he bewitched his grandson.
Neno police publicist, Austin Kamwendo, told Zodiak Online today that the man, Binwell Chabwera, was staying with his grandson since his childhood but on the 26th of August the grandson died after a short illness.
Kamwendo says soon after the death of the grandson, an angry mob wanted to kill Chabwera accusing him of having a hand in the death of his grandson. Meanwhile, the police are calling on elderly homes institutions to come to their rescue saying they are failing to feed the man due to financial constraints and that his home village is still hostile