Blantyre - A Malawian court has ordered a new probe into the death of a flamboyant tycoon and former politician, three years after he was thought to have committed suicide, court officials said on Friday.
The high court ordered an inquest after new claims by the children of James Makhumula, that he was shot at his posh residence outside the city of Blantyre on September 03 2005.
They claimed there was no blood at the scene, but that bullet holes were found in the ceiling.
The children's allegations prompted a private investigation whose report caused the country's prosecutions head, Wezi Kayira, to recommend an inquest into the death of the self-styled "Sir James".
The inquest would be heard by a magistrate later this year.
A former local government minister under the administration of president Bakili Muluzi, Makhumula made his fortune from a bus transport company.
His buses transported thousands of Mozambican refugees back home from Malawi, where they sheltered for years from the civil war that ended in 1992 in their neighbouring southeast African country.
Friday, 15 February 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment