By Patience Longwe

Lilongwe, October 18, Mana: President of India, Shrimati Droupadi Murmu, Friday morning visited the War Memorial Tower at Area 18 and Kamuzu Mausoleum in Lilongwe as part of her three-day official visit to Malawi.

On arrival at the war memorial tower, she was welcomed by the Minister of Local Government Unity and Culture, Richard Chimwendo Banda, Minister of Health Khumbidze Kandodo Chiponda, Minister of Water and Sanitation, Abida Mia, Deputy Secretary for the president and Cabinet, Dr. Janet Banda, and Councillor Esther Sagawa, Mayor of the city of Lilongwe.

President Murmu signed a visitors book at the site as part of her tour of the memorial tower.

After Visiting the war memorial tower, the Indian president, also visited the Kamuzu Mausoleum were she laid a wreath and paid her respects in honour of Malawi's founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

The Indian President is expected to hold bilateral talks with President Lazarus Chakwera at Kamuzu Palace among her other engagements while in the country.