Month: November 2022 Posts

Activists say Chakwera should apologise for promising Malawians cheap fertilizer

Nov 14, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has demanded President Lazarus Chakwera to apologise because he promised Malawians that they would be buying fertilizer under Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) at K4,500 per 50… ...

AIP beneficiaries to buy fertilizer at K15,000 per bag

Nov 12, 2022 Mike Kalumbi 0 &

Government has announced that Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) beneficiaries will this year be buying a 50kg bag of fertiliser at K15,000. For seed, the farmers will be buying at a price of K5,000 for a… ...

Malawi Attorney General in Germany to recover US$543,000

Nov 10, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda is in Germany to recover part of the K750 million which was paid to United Kingdom based Barkaat Foods Limited. The money, $543,000 (K550 million), was frozen in Germany after… ...

Fraudsters selling fake fertilizer in Malawi

Nov 07, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Minister of Agriculture Sam Kawale says authorities are investigating reports that some people are selling fake fertilizer in Malawi. The minister has said this in a statement today after a video circulated on social media… ...

Joint Parliamentary Committee sends back SPC Colleen Zamba

Nov 04, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The Joint Parliamentary Committee which is investigating the fertilizer procurement scandal has today sent back Secretary to the President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba. According to the Chairperson for Parliamentary Agricultural Committee Zameeer Suleman, the failure… ...

Barkaat Foods offered cheap prices – Lowe

Nov 03, 2022 Mwayi Mkandawire 1 &

Former Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe has explained the decision to choose United Kingdom based butchery as a supplier of fertilizer saying the cheap prices offered by the company excited the ministry. Lowe made the… ...

AIP exposes Chakwera

Nov 03, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

The Office of the President and Cabinet has been implicated in the fertilizer procurement scandal in which the Lazarus Chakwera administration flouted procedures and paid K750 million to a butchery for the procurement of fertilizer.… ...