Malawi President, Peter Mutharika, says he will introduce a new law to deal with “evil-minded” people involved in the killings of persons with albinism in the country.
Muntharika announced this at a development rally held in the former Malawi capital, Zomba.
The president’s announcement follows a series of abductions and killings of people with albinism in the country for ritual practices.
The Malawi leader denounced the trend and described as “total nonsense” the notion of hoping to get rich by killing persons with albinism for their body parts.
Malawi’s laws stipulate death sentence as a maximum penalty to those convicted of murder but no president has ever endorsed one before.
In the wake of the albino killings in Malawi, some sectors of the society have been pushing the authorities to put the death penalty into effect.
With President Mutharika’s announcement of the introduction of a new stiffer law on the matter, it remains to be seen what the Malawi leader has in store for the perpetrators of the infamous killings of people with albinism.
Meanwhile, close to 20 cases of cold-blood killings of people with albinism have been reported since 2015.
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