The police in Lilongwe have arrested two men and one woman on suspicion of robbing people they pick up in their car, and yesterday they wanted to rob a police officer.
Lilongwe police spokesperson, Hastings Chigalu, said that yesterday the people were carrying a person from Kanengo at 5 o’clock in the morning to the town, but on the way they changed that they would not reach the town.
The people said that they started fighting with the man, not knowing that he was a police officer, with the intention of taking his bag. When he failed, they let him.
The officer informed his fellow police officers and the Chitsime police arrested the three that afternoon at a police station on the M1 road.
These people are Chimwemwe Banda aged 25, Gift Mbewe (26) and Charity Kathumba (26).
Mr. Chigalu said that the three have revealed that they have been robbing people through such a method, and the police have already found some property.
The three will appear before court soon.
