CHIEF Chanje of the Chewa people in Chipangali must be commended for smashing the fertiliser stealing syndicate that was hell-bent on disrupting the government’s agricultural programme.This is what is expected of traditional leaders, that they do not just sit on their thrones at palaces but get to know what is going on in their chiefdoms.They would be shocked at what they would learn is happening in their areas.Chief Chanje has handed over an agriculture camp officer who was allegedly caught with 160 by 50 kilogramme stolen bags of fertiliser under the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) to Mgubudu Police Post in Chipangali.According to Chief Chanje, the camp officers at Mtambalala Camp had allegedly diverted a truck laden with fertiliser which was meant to be distributed to the cooperatives and started selling to unsuspecting farmers.He said the detained suspect in connivance with other camp officers, caused an artificial crisis of fertiliser claiming that Government had not yet delivered the inputs.Chief Chanje explained that unknowingly, the agriculture camp officer approached one of his village headman that he was selling cheap fertiliser who in turn alerted him.We just […]
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