Police say they have launched a man-hunt for Chipiliro Kaliyopa, a man alleged to have duped Youth League members of the governing Malawi Congress Party (MCP) with a pledge to help join them join the Malawi Police Service.

Kaliyopa, who held a news conference earlier this week in Lilongwe, disclosed that he had plans to surrender himself to police over the recruitment scam.

But in an interview, Deputy Police spokesperson Harry Namwaza said the suspect is yet to surrender himself.

He said: “The issue about him, Kaliyopa, us as police we are hunting him and once he is found we will arrest him.
You know there is an allegation against him concerning the issue of the youth which we returned from our various training institutions.”

Namwaza has since pleaded with the public to assist the Service on Kaliyopa’s whereabouts.

“So as you are saying that he held a press briefing that he will hand over to police, I can tell you that he is yet to hand over to us if he was serious about that.
Mr. Kaliyopa is nowhere to be seen, but if he is hearing us he should come and handover himself to police as he said to journalists during the briefing he conducted at a place where we don’t know,” said Namwaza.

During the media interface, Kaliyopa admitted that he received K37,000 from his fellow MCP youth members not K150, 000 as earlier reported arguing that he considered the move with an aim of assisting many jobless youth who are sailing through serious economic challenges in the country.