Lobin Lowe Archives

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… ...

Talking Blues: All leaders lead by example…whether they intend to or not

Oct 31, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

If you see a snake, just kill it - don’t appoint a committee on snakes. This quote is from Ross Perot, an American billionaire who shook up US presidential politics in the 1990s. Perot was… ...

Chakwera fires Agriculture Minister Lowe and his deputy

Oct 25, 2022 Chikondi Magalasi 0 &

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has fired his Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe and his deputy Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima following a serious fertilizer procurement scandal which saw Malawi Government being duped out of USD725,000 (about K750 million).… ...

Ministry of Agriculture involved in another fertilizer scam

Oct 21, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe The Tonse Alliance Government through the Ministry of Agriculture told Paramount Group to supply 10,000 tonnes of fertilizer for the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP) even though the company had no… ...

Lowe fired as AIP committee chairperson

Oct 19, 2022 Russell Kondowe 1 &

President Lazarus Chakwera has fired Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe as chairperson the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP) Committee amid revelations that Government has been duped out of K750 million meant for the AIP. Chakwera has… ...

Talking Blues: Mr President, why are you tempting fate?

Oct 16, 2022 Mapwiya Muulupale 0 &

Thanks to Mr C.Y. Maweru, a principal secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, I have shelved an already completed discourse on expenditures incurred by our delegation to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and matters… ...

London butchery at centre of K30 billion loot was set to be closed in August

Oct 16, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

London based butchery Barkaat Food Limited which Malawi Government and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) officials used as conduit to loot over K30 billion (US$30 million) was set to be closed down in August this year.… ...

Malawi Govt paid K750 million to butchery for fertilizer procurement

Oct 13, 2022 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

President Lazarus Chakwera with Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe Malawi Government paid US$727,000 (K750 million) to a meat company for the procurement of fertilizer meant for the Affordable Inputs Programme (AIP). The Ministry of Agriculture has… ...

CDEDI wants Parliament to summon Agriculture Minister over maize, AIP

Sep 15, 2022 Martha Chikoti 0 &

Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has penned Parliamentary Chairperson for agriculture Committee to summon Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe in a quest to seek light on maize scarcity and Affordable Input Programme (AIP)… ...