Bushiri ‘cheap’ maize storms Mangochi: Hundreds walk home smiling
South Africa-based Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri’S cheap maize continue to shake the country with the latest being Mangochi district where hundreds are walking home smiling, singing praise of the Enlightened Christina Gathering (ECG) church leader.
Bushiri, who also heads the Shepherd Bushiri Investments (SBI), is selling the maize at K5 000 per 50 kilogramme (kg) bag, almost a quarter of the prevailing market price in some districts.
After launching the exercise in Ntcheu on Wednesday, the sales hit Malombe Village in Village Head Mtuwa in Mangochi on Friday and hundreds scrambled for the staple to beat off their hunger.
“It’s amazing how, in few minutes, people stormed the selling point here and bought off the stock—a clear symbol of the challenges they are facing,” said Ephraim Nyondo, Bushiri’s communications director.
The sales are continuing this Saturday and according to Nyondo the Salima selling point is opening this Monday.
Nyondo said the maize SBI is selling is grown locally.
Ntcheu was the first district to be supplied with the affordable maize. Salima, Chikwawa, Karonga, Chitipa and Phalombe are next on the schedule.
The maize distribution followed an announcement by Bushiri on Tuesday, to respond to the hunger situation in the country, with a promise to ensure they reach every area where there is a need for maize.
Estimates by the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (Mvac) report indicate that the number of food-insecure people in the country rose from 1 062 674 in May 2019 to 1 879 391 in January 2020.
The May 2019 Mvac report projected that 1 062 674 people were at risk of food insecurity in 27 districts except Likoma during the 2019/20 lean season, with Balaka, Neno and Nsanje topping the list of higher population of food insecure people. Each of those districts have 25 percent of their populations food-insecure
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Papa,may our good Lord bless you more for being a destiny helper to your country people.Thank you for being a real man after God’s heart.
On behalf of all those benefitting from this cheap maize I say thank you so much Bushiri. May God bless you.
Mudzagulitsekoso pa Mphomwa in Kasungu munthu wa Mulungu anthu akufa ndi njala kumeneku
Kusonyenza chikondi ndi responsibility.Amen.God bless you more.Where are the other so called millionaires and billionaires in the country.
Bushiri is a star, no matter what his adversaries think of this young man! He is what men of God should be doing: bringing food to the hungry and helping the poor. Ofcourse, Malawians are jealous by nature and look at where and who is doing what before they can praise someone!
Komatu if u look at this thing critically, you’d think what am thinking. But i cant say what am thinking.
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I put this guy as a strongest man in the country the man who can fight for his nation salute Mr bushiri, in Islam we believe that the person who feeds to the poor God will give more ahead of what you have, the people who will survive in the country are not ECG only it’s all mix of people with their respective cultures and religions. this is a real man in this country of malawi he is more than politician and the all governments