By Abiola Olawale
A military plane carrying Malawi’s vice president Saulos Chilima and nine others mysteriously went missing on Monday.
This was confirmed in a statement issued by the office of the Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera.
In the statement, it was revealed that the plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima left the capital, Lilongwe, but failed to make its scheduled landing at Mzuzu International Airport.
Aviation authorities lost contact with the plane when it went off radar.
Meanwhile, Chakwera has ordered an immediate search operation and cancelled a trip to the Bahamas.
The president had ordered national and local authorities to “conduct an immediate search and rescue operation to locate the whereabouts of the aircraft,” the statement said.
