Veteran musician Lucius Banda who is also Presidential Advisor on Arts has been discharged from hospital.

Banda, Campaign Director for the United Transformation Movement (UTM) was admitted at Mwaiwathu Hospital in Blantyre on Monday for high blood pressure.

According to his colleague, Jack Macbrams, Soldier as he is popularly known, has been discharged from Mwaiwathu to recuperate at home.

His discharge from hospital diffuses all death rumours that were circulating on the social media.