The Katengeza Murder Case: Police Net Full of Holes, Real Killers Busy Eating Kalongonda Somewhere

Lilongwe – Aah, my dear Malawians!

Today in the High Court before Justice
Bruno Kalemba, Amos and Egnat Katengeza stood up and said the magic words: “Not guilty, Your Lordship.” The court has now set 21 to 23 July 2026 for the full trial. The charges? Murdering their sister/relative Agnes, stealing her belongings, and dumping her like people who were in a hurry to finish the job.

But let me tell you straight, if this case was being judged under a big mango tree in Nyezelera, with serious men eating Kalongonda with their hands and women by the side preparing zigege za chinangwa for their malnourished kids asking in hlomwe accent “Apolisiwo ati chaniiii?”, this murder case would have collapsed faster than a cheap Chinese phone.

The Platform for Investigative Journalism (PIJ) dropped a bomb on 29th April 2026 titled “Who Killed Agnes Katengeza?” and my friends, that report left the police story looking like a punctured tyre.

Let’s start with Amos’ so-called confession. The man says police at Area 3 beat him like a rented donkey. They pointed a gun at his head three times. Kept him in solitary, no proper lawyer, no family. Then forced him to sign statements he never even read properly.

You know how our police work, abi? Some of you have been there. They don’t ask nicely.They squeeze your private parts by tying a rope and hanging bricks on it so you stand for hours in pain.In the old days, they would take you to the forest near NRC, cover your face, make you run as if they had released you, then shoot in the air to scare you badly. After that they would catch you and force you to sign the confession right there in the bush before throwing you back into the cell. These are the usual games. How can we trust such methods to send people to jail for life? Please!!!!!

Then there are the phones and cosmetics. Police are shouting, “Aha! He had Agnes’ iPhone 13, iPad, laptop!” as if that automatically means he injected her with poison and strangled her.

Amos told PIJ the cosmetics were business stock registered in his name. The phones? One was a broken gift from Agnes herself. Another was bought and sold normally. But you know how police are: they can turn ordinary Mangochi business which happened decades back into “cross-border criminal enterprise” faster than a politician changes parties after elections like Uladi Mussa AKA Chenji Golo.

The real comedy is the motive they pinned on Egnat. Police say she killed her own sister for K800 million. The only problem? Even the Reserve Bank people say nobody knew about that money until after Agnes was dead and buried. Those nomination forms are locked tighter than a Malawian’s pocket during election time. They only opened them after the funeral in front of the whole family.

So Egnat killed her sister for money she didn’t even know existed? That’s not a motive, my friends. That’s a script from a very drunk writer.

The killing itself was professional work. The post-mortem showed poison injection (strong veterinary stuff) plus strangulation a “double kill” as one old police expert told PIJ. That’s not the work of a cousin who was just staying in the house or a sister with a normal job. That’s cold, calculated, needs connections. The kind of work real professionals do and then go back to drinking Carlsberg like nothing happened.

And here is where my blood pressure rises like fuel prices: CCTV footage shows three people involved at the scene. Three! Not two. Not the cousin and sister combo the police are pushing. So tell us, mabwana in khaki uniforms, who are these three mysterious visitors? Why are you not chasing them like hungry dogs after a goat? In the best interest of justice, don’t you think it would be wise to find these three instead of squeezing small fish in Maula Prison? Or is it easier to just lock up the ones whose faces you already know?

Police changed their story more times than a cheating husband caught in the act. First it was robbery. Then Nigerians and drugs. They even arrested one Nigerian woman,Annie Nwozuzu Chinyere, then released her quietly. Only later when they found the bank papers did they suddenly shout “It’s the sister! She wanted the money!” hahahahaha

Meanwhile, the two sisters were close. They ate together, prayed together. Egnat had her own good job. But you know how it goes in Malawi when police fail to catch the real fish, they fry the small ones near the shore and call it success.

Three years later, the big question remains: Who had the skills, the connections, and the cold heart to carry out that professional hit? Are those people still walking free, eating kanyenya at bwandiro, while these two rot in jail?

This case has more holes than a malaria net in Ndirande. When July comes, I suspect Justice Kalemba will have a very interesting time. On murder, I smell “not guilty.” On the smaller charges? Maybe a fine or small time. But murder? No.

The police threw a broken net into the river and want us to clap when they catch rotten plastic instead of the big fish.

Malawians are watching. The truth is still hiding somewhere, laughing at all of us.