Police uproot and burn three acres of chamba in Nkhotakota reserve
Nkhotakota police and game officers uprooted and burned about three acres of Indian hemp planted inside the Nkhotakota Game Reserve along the Likowa River. Officers also found further large chamba fields nearby that they had yet to act on, and no arrests were reported.
Nkhotakota police, together with the Nkhotakota game officer, destroyed a field of Indian hemp planted inside the Nkhotakota Game Reserve along the Likowa River.[1]According to Nkhotakota criminal investigation officer Assistant Superintendent Kadzandira, the officers uprooted about three acres of chamba and burned it.[1]The Likowa River lies in the reserve between Traditional Authority Mwansambo and Traditional Authority Mwadzama in Nkhotakota district.[1]
In the same operation the officers discovered further areas with large chamba fields along the river, at Mwalawamphasa and Kanjedza 1, 2 and 3.[1]Kadzandira said the police had yet to take action on those newly found fields.[1]
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The article gives no separate date for the operation, so 16 September 2015 is its publication date.
No arrests, growers, charges or court outcomes were reported.
Police named further large fields at Mwalawamphasa and Kanjedza 1, 2 and 3 that they had yet to act on; any later clearing there would be a separate event.
Only one opened account of this event was found after searching in English.
Police in Dedza arrested 46-year-old Mayamiko Empraim on suspicion of supplying chamba to three pupils aged 13 to 15 at Kapalamula Primary School. He was in custody and expected to face a charge of possessing cannabis sativa after a school outreach programme led to the report.
Ntcheu police uprooted about 500 cannabis plants in Njolomole Village in late February 2026 after residents tipped off officers; three suspected growers fled before the operation ended. The clearance came days after officers destroyed another cannabis field in nearby Wanyemba Village.
Nkhotakota police burned more than three tonnes of Indian hemp accumulated between June and December 2019 inside the Nkhotakota Game Reserve, in an exercise witnessed by the district council, the magistrate's court and the media. The hemp had been seized at the district roadblock, on uncharted routes and in homes.
Nkhotakota police burned five tonnes of confiscated chamba at a dumpsite near the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, hemp accumulated since mid-2017. The district registers at least one smuggling case a week, and police say the lakeshore road is a favoured traffickers' route.
