Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:42:18 +0000 By Bennie Mundando MALAWI’S Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda has been fired by President Peter Mutharika over the maizegate scandal as details are emerging that Malawi was not facing a food crisis requiring the import of maize from Zambia as it could have sourced the commodity internally. ADMARC chose to declare a crisis and import because it did not have ready cash to pay peasant farmers within that country. Dr. Chaponda has been fired to pave way for investigations into the suspicious maize purchase from Zambia following mounting pressure from civil society groups to President Mutharika to get rid of Dr Chaponda for his involvement in the scam. According to a report from the committee of inquiries, Dr. Chaponda unduly interfered in the import of maize from Zambia by overlooking the operations of ADMARC and decided to bring in Transglobe after a personal private meeting […]
