By Chisomo Phiri
Principal Resident Magistrate Roderick Michongwe on Monday granted bail to United Transformation Movement (UTM) Secretary General Patricia Kaliati.
He stated that the reasons the state provided to the court for denying her bail were insufficient.
Michongwe noted that the state should have completed its investigation before making the arrest.
Kaliati was arrested on Thursday last week in the capital Lilongwe.
She is accused of conspiring with two others to assassinate President Lazarus Chakwera.
According to the charges, Kaliati and two others currently at large, Joseph Odala and Frank Chinedu, conspired to assassinate the head of state between March 2024 and June 2024.
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