The Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Zomba has convicted former Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Commissioner Linda Kunje and her driver Jones Tewesa for the offence of obstructing President Lazarus Chakwera’s convoy in 2020.
Kunje and Tewesa were answering the charge of obstructing the presidential convoy after the car which Tewesa was driving in which Kunje was passenger failed to give way for the presidential motorcade to pass despite several warnings.
Delivering the rulling on Friday, the court convicted both Kunje and her driver.
The court has since revoked bail for Kunje and the driver and they will be remanded to prison awaiting sentencing.
Meanwhile both the state and defense are set to make sentencing submissions on August 23 before the court sets a date for sentencing.
Kunje was appointed as MEC Commissioner by the former rulling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
She is one of the commissioners that presided over the nullified 2019 Presidential Polls.
