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Malawi: President Chakwera Sabotaged As Legislator Slam Govt Over More Fertilizer Saga


President Lazarus Chakwera is being sabotaged by officials including cabinet ministers who are either incompetent or pursuing personal agenda as further rottenness is revealed in the Affordable Input Program (AIP).

Chakwera was even misled by trusted investigators who deliberately withheld information about warnings sounded by intelligent technocrats at the Ministry of Agriculture that all deals pursued under the AIP failed simple due diligence but Ministers trashed all the red-lines.

Former Agriculture Minister Lobin Lowe, former Secretary to the President and Cabinet Zanga Zanga Chikhosi, former Principal Secretary Sandram Maweru pursued personal gain ahead of national interest.

Inexperienced Richard Chikunkhuzeni is said to have been brought in as Chief Executive Officer at Smallholder Fertilizer Revolving Fund to “mastermind” the deals with all dirty crystallising on his plate.

Sources say a team of ministers in the fertilizer task force have personally benefit at the expense the poor masses whom President Chakwera seek help.

Other quarters are blaming the scammers of deliberating by-passing the Attorney General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda who later has to clean up the mess, like turning him into an international debt collector.

Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for Thyolo Central Ben Phiri has chastised the government for giving a US$170 million (K180 million) guarantee to a year-old UK based company to secure fertilizer for Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM).