Chakwera frees veteran politician Henry Mussa, 10 others from prison on medical grounds

By Chisomo Phiri

President Lazarus Chakwera has on Friday pardoned veteran politician and former information minister in the Democratic Progressive Party(DPP) regime Henry Mussa, on medical grounds.

Minister of Homeland Security Kenneth Zikhale Ng’oma confirmed the development in an interview with local media.

Ng’oma further disclosed that Mussa had been pardoned together with 10 other prisoners who were chronically ill.

Henry Mussa



The former minister was arrested in 2020 on allegations of stealing computers and generators meant for District Information Offices across the country.

He was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment for conspiring and receiving stolen property contrary to section 404 and section 328 of the Penal Code.