By Shaffie A Mtambo
A 41-year-old teacher at Milonde Primary School in Traditional Authority Chingala, Lilongwe, has taken own life by hanging himself to the roof of a house over unknown reasons on April 2, 2025.
Speaking with 247 Malawi News Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Inspector Hestings Chigalu says the man has been identified as John Mwalilino.
“Mwalilino, who joined the teaching profession in 2011 and was posted to the school in 2015, is said to have been struggling with a chronic health condition for a considerable period of time”Chigalu explained.
Looking at this, the ministry of education decided to transfer him [Mwalilino] to a school close to his home village in Karonga District.
And while logistics were yet to be finalized to ferry him to his new workplace, authorities advised him to stop reporting for duties at Milonde Primary School.
However, on Wednesday at around 07:00 hours, Mwalilino’s body was found hanging by the neck to the roof of the house he was renting.
The incident occurred just four days after he sent packing his second wife he was staying with. He was alone on this day.
Mitundu Police Unit detectives, accompanied by medical practitioner from Mitundu Rural Community Hospital visited the scene.
Postmortem by the said hospital revealed that death was due to suffocation secondary to strangulation.
He hailed from Peter Mwangalawa Village, Traditional Authority Kyungu in Karonga District.
