The Malawi Police Service (MPS) has suspended a scheduled interview with Director General (DG) of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB); Martha Chizuma.

Chizuma was summoned for an interview this morning at Police National Headquarters in Lilongwe following a court order issued by Mzuzu Senior Resident Magistrate court earlier this month.

But in a dramatic twist of events, the law enforcement agency says it has learnt that some people were mobilising to demonstrate against the Police because of the Chizuma interview.

Confirming the development to YFM online, Police Deputy Public Relations Officer Harry Namwaza said the service has resolved to conduct the interview at a later date.

“There has been misrepresentation by other quarters of Malawians who are saying that they summon is leading to the arrest of the ACB DG,” he said.

“So, after analysing the comments, the complaints from other people, this is why we wanted to do it in another way and we wanted to change strategy.”

Namwaza also disclosed that the Police has resorted to change venue of the interview when Chizuma will be summoned again.

“So this time we will interview at a later to be communicated, the place will not be here [Police National Headquarters] at the police information, but it will be another place to be communicated later.

We have just changed the strategy on how we want to use this because even if it was to be conducted here, it was wouldn’t be a private way because it’s a police investigation,” Namwaza said.

Most Malawian on various social media platforms expressed mixed reactions following announcement by the MPS that it intends to interview Chizuma after a court application by a private citizen Frighton Phompho who sought the court order.