The Malawi his is crying vice president. Saulos Klaus Chilima died in an accident with his plane, the wreckage of which was found in a wooded area around the mountain range of Chikangawa, located in the north of the country. The government made this known through an announcement which explained how none of the ten passengersamong these also the wife of Chilima, survived the crash. “May God give comfort to their families and the entire nation in this difficult time. A black cloud has fallen over us,” the president said Lazarus Chakwera.
The military plane (a double propeller type Dornier 228) on which Chilima, his wife and eight other people were crashed on Monday morning (10 June) after taking off from capital Lilongwe. The confirmation of their death came after a day of searches, which started when the vehicle was located disappeared suddenly come on radar. The group was headed to the funeral offormer Attorney General when, at a certain point during the journey, he had to deal with problems visibility. Air traffic officials had advised before landing at the airport Mzuzuabout 200 miles north of the capital, and then to do inversion as soon as possible. After that, the disappearance from the detection systems.
The president Chakwera called a day of national mourning for Chilima, 51 years oldconsidered in Malawi a possible contender for the Presidential Elections next year. Economist and politician, he had already held the position of vice president in 2014 and had been reconfirmed in 2020 alongside the current president. However, he was a person with a controversial past. In 2022 he was arrested on charges of corruption because he was supposed to have received bribes from a businessman for government contracts. The charges were dropped by the national prosecutor a few months ago.
