{"id":5797,"date":"2011-10-26T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2011-10-26T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T08:40:17","slug":"joyce-seeks-possible-aslyum-in-zambia-for-fear-of-being-arrested-in-her-country-on-tramped-up-treason-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/joyce-seeks-possible-aslyum-in-zambia-for-fear-of-being-arrested-in-her-country-on-tramped-up-treason-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Seeks Possible Aslyum In Zambia For Fear Of Being Arrested In Her Country On Tramped-Up Treason Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/joyce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5727\" title=\"joyce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/joyce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>MALAWI\u2019s State Vice President, Joyce Banda is stuck in Zambia, fearing a possible arrest by the Government on tramped-up treason charges.<br \/>\nAccording to security officers at Lusaka\u2019s Pamodzi hotel, Banda was expected to leave for Malawi but made an unceremonious return to the hotel midday, Tuesday. Banda arrived in the country on Sunday Opctober 23rd 2011 to attend the country\u2019s 47th independence celebrationson Monday, October, 24 at the invitations of new Zambia\u2019s leader, Michael Sata.<br \/>\nSources familiar with the development disclosed the Malawian Vice President is now intending to seek aslyum in Zambia.<br \/>\nHowever, Zambian Government officials were not available for a comment.<br \/>\nZambia has been entangled in a diplomatic row with Malawi after the Zambian president while the leader of the opposition was detained and declared a prohibited immigrant bundled into a vehicle and driven across the country to the Malawi-Zambia border in Chipata.<br \/>\nSata did not attend the Heads of State and Government summit in Malawi from October 14 to 15, 2011, accusing the malawian leader, Bingu wa Mutharika of failing to apologize for unceremoniously deporting him in 2007 as leader of Zambia`s main opposition Patriotic Front.<br \/>\nAccording to the Nyasa Times of Malawi Plans to arrest Banda come fast on the heels of the Sata\u2019s avoidance of Mutharika to be part of the Lusaka independence party.<br \/>\nSata seems to have a soft spot towards the opposition political leaders in Malawi after he granted Malawi\u2019s opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) a television broadcasting licence recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALAWI\u2019s State Vice President, Joyce Banda is stuck in Zambia, fearing a possible arrest by the Government on tramped-up treason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[465,466,467],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peoples-party-2","tag-dpp","tag-joyce-banda","tag-peoples-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}