By NATION REPORTER THE company set to be single-sourced to procure, supply and deliver D-Compound fertilizer failed to provide the commodity and was instead forced to buy last year from local market, and re-bag the input for distribution to farmers, highly placed and credible market sources have revealed.The same preferred company, the sources said had delivered and distributed substandard fertilizer to unsuspecting farmers in Northern Province, whose maize crop has since been destroyed.Part of the fertilizer was reportedly sourced from Tanzania, the sources said.And now, Mulenga Fube, the Patriotic Front (PF) Chilubi Member of Parliament says revelations that high-ranking government officials have advanced plans to single-source the same company that failed to meet contractual obligations was confirmation that the UPND administration has been state captured.Mr Fube has charged that attempts by high-ranking government officials to single-source a newly established fertilizer company to supply and deliver fertilizer without a track record amounts, not only to grand […]
State capture in fertilizer scandal
