Government, through the Ministry of Homeland Security is set to release former commissioner of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) Linda Kunje this festive season.

In a document that faceofmalawi has seen signed by minister of Homeland Security Jean Sendeza, The Chief Commissioner of Prisons has been notified that Kunje has been included on the list of those to be released under the presidential pardon.

Sendeza has therefore ordered Chief Commissioner to release Kunje ‘immediately’.

Kunje was serving a 18 months jail sentence after she was found guilty for blocking president Lazarus Chakwera’s convoy as he was travelling from Zomba in the year 2021.