Public Relations Officer for Dowa Police Station Sergeant Alice Sitima said uncle to the deceased, Mathews Kadammanja revealed that Precious had a disagreement with his family on February 16th, 2025 after failing to buy fertilizer and returned home intoxicated.

“On the day of the incident, Mtambalika’s wife left home to fetch water while he went to an unknown location and at around 11:00 AM, some children went to the maize field to pick avocados and were shocked to find Mtambalika hanging from the tree,” Sitima revealed.

The children immediately returned to the village to inform others and the matter was reported to the Chezi Police Unit where officers, accompanied by medical personnel, visited the scene.

Meanwhile, a postmortem examination revealed that the cause of death was suffocation secondary to strangulation,” she said