Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:36:20 +0000 By AARON CHIYANZO OPPOSITION United Progressive Party (UPP) leader Saviour Chishimba has been disowned by Malawi’s joint parliamentary committee for creating the infamous maizegate hoax. The committee has since warned that the whole thing was political and that Dr Chishimba who gave them information has his own corruption case and created the story to divert attention. Dr Chishimba has been accused by the committee of creating the maizegate hoax after he falsely accused Malawi’s Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation ADMARC of having a contract with Transglobe Produce Export Limited to supply 50,000 tonnes of maize from Zambia when that was totally false. Dr Chishimba told the committee at the weekend during its investigations that apart from the Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF), ADMARC also contracted Transglobe to deliver 50, 000 metric tonnes of maize. Parliamentary committee chairperson Joseph Malunga said that this piece of information that Transglobe Produce Export […]
