Friday, 30 July 2004
National-Catholic priest,nun caught having sex
by George Ntonya, 29 July 2004 - 09:17:25

A Catholic priest and nun on Wednesday threw the vow of celibacy to the wind and decided to have sex in the car park at Lilongwe International Airport (Lia). But they might not have completed the act because police officers rushed to the scene and arrested them, according to officials at the airport.

“They were found naked. The woman had hidden her official attire in a bag,” said a worker at the airport who refused to be identified. The police confiscated the car and took the two into the airport police office, half naked to record their statement. “The woman was only allowed to wear a piece of cloth. Her breasts were bare,” reported the source, adding that tens of people thronged the car park as the police took the two out of their tinted vehicle.

Officials at the airport confirmed having received reports that the “people of God” were using the car park for “ungodly” things. “What I hear is these people have been parking their car here to do their thing and they drive off without coming out of the vehicle,” said a senior official, adding that some workers agreed to let the cat out of the bag because “it was becoming too much”.

As usual the priest, who heads a parish within Lilongwe Diocese, parked the car at a strategic position, got undressed and slid the chair on which the sister sat, sources said. “When people saw that the car was shaking they knew that the two were having sex and rushed to report to the police,” said another eyewitness, adding that the nun was from a parish under Dedza diocese. “I don’t why these people decided to have sex at the car park instead of going somewhere else, to a guesthouse for example,” remarked another employee at the airport, where operations were disturbed by confusion that ensued after the rare incident was uncovered.

The police refused to comment on the kind of charge the two were likely to face.
“It’s too early for me to comment. I don’t want to give you wrong information,” Kelvin Maigwa from the Police public relations office said about two hours after the incident.
At the time of contacting Maigwa, the priest and nun were still under police detention at the airport.