ANIVA BAIL DENIED

Nsanje Magistrate’s Court on Friday den

ied bail to Eric Aniva, the Nsanje man who confessed to defiling more than 100 adolescent girls as part of initiation rites into womanhood and sleeping with widows in a sexual cleansing ritual when he was HIV positive. Aniva: Denied bail, claimed that custom did not allow him to use condoms. Aniva: Denied bail, claimed that custom did not allow him to use condoms. Aniva, 45, was nabbed last month, when President Peter Mutharika ordered his arrest, after he admitted to the act during a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television interview on July 21. He revealed that families paid him between to have sexual intercourse with their children, in a traditional custom meant to prepare them to become good wives. Nsanje First Grade Magistrate Anderson Masanjala denied the ‘hyena’ man bail saying “it is wise for Aniva to remain on remand so that police can finish their investigation.” Aniva was formally charged with ta case of prohibited harmful act which is contrary to Section 5 of the Gender Act. He appeared before a packed courtroom without a lawyer, because he could not afford one. But Malawi Law Society (MLS) has offered to represent in court Aniva. Lawyer Mandala Mambulasa, a representative from MLS came appeared before the Nsanje Magistrate’s Court to alert the court that the Constitutional body wants to represent Aniva, who comes from Chiphwembe Village in Traditional Authority(T/A) Malemia.

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