Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda has dismissed widespread social media speculations that security has elapsed in Lilongwe City.

The response by the Minister followed a question in Parliament from Lilongwe City Center legislator Alfred Jiya who quest Minister’s response and intervention on the widely circulated rumours.

“I wanted to inform the Minister about security elapse mainly as we go to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), there is a thick forest whereby people are losing their possession day in day out,” registered the concern Jiya.

Jiya added that people in the city are leaving in fear and that there is urgent need for the law enforces to intervene.

He said: “There are some people who are coming to me and say they have lost their property along that road even forcibly opening their vehicles when on queue and that it’s a clear testimony that something is taking place and the government ought to come in and make sure that must be halted.”

But in his response, Minister of Homeland security Chimwendo Banda has trashed the rumours describing them as social media lies and lacking evidence.

“I wanted to make it very clear that there are people that are spreading false statements they are saying there is lapse of security in Lilongwe, more especially behind Lingadzi called MASM Center, and they continue spreading such rumours every day, they don’t stop.

“The police are patrolling that area, they are going to that area and there is nothing of that nature, but just to prove the point, the hospital or the police has never recorded any of such statements,” said Chimwendo Banda.

He has since describing the people who are spreading such rumours as ill motives for the government and they want to bring fear in the people and bring down business for MASM Hospital and Lingadzi Inn.