Jumbe suspended as Admarc CEO, 2 directors Mwala and Gwembere fired: ‘Clearing the rubble’
The board of the State grain marketer, the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC), has suspended the institution’s acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Felix Jumbe, and two other top bosses from their positions.
The two others are Harold Mwala was the Director of Finance and Garnet Gwembere who has been holding the position of the Director of Operations.
This comes a week after the President told the press in Lilongwe that board of directors of various parastatals must act on individuals who were appointed through dubious ways, mostly on political affiliation of the previous DPP administration.
In a memo dated November 10, 2020, and addressed to the members of staff, the ADMARC Board chairperson, Alexander Kusamba Dzonzi, said the following the development, the Board has appointed Mrs. Dhlelisile Matando Phiri to act in the position of the CEO while Gerald Ganizani will be the acting Director of Finance with Michael James Mnenula acting as the Director of Operations.
“This will be the position until further notice. May I therefore urge you all to join me in congratulating them and further urge you all to offer them your untiring support,” implores Kusamba Dzonzi in the letter.
Jumbe confirmed the suspension: “I have been told to step aside.”
His suspension comes barely a few weeks after he had told the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture in Lilongwe that the government was owing the parastatal in excess of K23 billion.
He said the outstanding debt was one of the factors contributing to the poor performance at the corporation.
Jumbe disclosed that the corporation needs close to K300 billion to bring the operations of ADMARC back to those cherished old days when the institution led in grain trade.
“If government could pay us the K23 billion it owes us, we could have somewhere to start from. But with the longstanding debt, most of our operations have now been paralysed,” he said.
Chairperson for the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Ulemu Chilapondwa, said his committee would lobby members of Parliament (MPs) to consider allocating adequate resources to ADMARC.
Chilapondwa added that the committee wants to propose that the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) should stop buying maize and that the role should be given to ADMARC only to avoid duplication of work for the two institutions.
“For a long time, ADMARC has been a strategic grain trader for agro-produce. It’s very important that we should give adequate resources so that it functions effectively and efficiently,” he said.
At the meeting, members of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, including the outspoken Rumphi East legislator Kamlepo Kala, Chilapondwa and others, assured Jumbe of their support to formalize his appointment at ADMARC.
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Please tell Chakwera that the government payment system called IFMIS has not been functioning for four weeks now nationwide. Government has gone to the ICU. What is he doing about this? So you shall blame Civil Servants for poor delivery of service when systems are not functioning?
Does Chakwera operate the IFMIS system? Or does he repair the system when it breaks down? Be sensible and think before posting your ‘ideas’! There are trained IFMIS specialists employed by government and these are the ones who can work on your concerns and not the president – he is not a computer or IFMIS specialist!
Owkey noted.
Nkholokolo iyi. Pitani kwa APM adakupatseni zina zochita.
Mr Jumbe is a seasoned marketer and knows his job,it’s a loss to the government for making these stupid decisions.I don’t see the logic here than appeasing your cousins and girlfriends.mind you these pple will not last after 2025
Bwana Dzonzi. mabwana ena pamenepa anachera misampha yawo yoti atole khobwe kwa ma venda amene anawalemba kuyi awagule chimanga. Yalakwatu pamenepa.KKKKKKK. Mwaiwerenga bwino game Boss.
Not surprising and the one to go there is an MCp executive member. Saukila at NFR is next because they are sending Chidanti Malunga there. So when MCp makes these political appointment it’s ok and HRDc just watches. Stupid
Already Ganizanis sister is a Kadzamira
Kapumeni bambo jumbe. Anzanu nawoso adyerereko
Ndiye ntchitozi mudzazilegeza liti kuti anthu omwe ali ndi oziyeneza andzalembere? Musaiwale munkatiuza kuti anthu ,muzidzawachita ma interview pa television kuti dziko lonse lidzaonere. Tikudikiratu. Zikudabwitsa mukuthamangira kuikamo anthu anu popanda ma interview. Zenizeni mziti? we shall hold you accountable in the near future.
This is a welcome development, the same should also be extended to LIHACO where it’s CEO thought he was running his personal estate, to begin with his appointment as the Director of finance leaves slot to be desired let alone his ascendancy to the post of CEO was even more questionable, above all things the guy is nothing but a complete nuisance that is loothed by many.
What does LIHACO stand for?
Lilongwe Handling Company
Kodi Gerald Ganizani zoti anamuchosa ku Celtel mulandu wa Fraud simukudziwa? Analembedwa bwanji ku ADMARC kapena ndi NOCMA part 2?
Clearing the rubble must start with the HR departments in these institutions …Amalowesa ndi kukweza anthu ma Udindo because ndi a Chipana in the Process Frustrating Deserving People …It is people like these who will Frustrate Implementation of Government programmes …Their loyalty is to the Party which employed them ….Kale ma Public Servants had to pass through Mpemba where they were taught not to Indulge in Politics and that their loyalty is to the Government of Malawi but nowadays you take Politicians into the Public Service at the expense of those who had dedicated their lives to Serving Malawian People….
”I have been asked to SET ASIDE” IDHIOT FOOL BASTARD WITH YOUR CHAPONDA
My only worry is that in clearing the dpp rubble, we are replacing it with MCP rubble. How is this different? Have these Kusamba Dzonzis been proffessionary appointed, or another appeasement policy? Should another Government come into power in 2025, these too will be replaced because their appoint,ents have political connotations.
Government will spend a lot of money in paying two CEOs because the Jumbe and company have not yet been fired.
Malawi mmanja mwa Dictator who does not want to see an opponent eye to eye.
Mr. Jumbe needs ‘mindset change’. To survive in the swamp. [..the rains are around the corner! ..the swamp will be more dangerous to navigate…]
Jumbe surely you want an explanation? You are a cadet. You are an active politician and you arrived at that position through dpp. You left MCP mwamwano. You and Helen Buluma are in the same boat.
Admarc has been overtaken far too much by private traders, it cant survive morden marketing that needs quick navigation in troubled waters of a volatile and small economy.
This company should be closed and assets sold
Please do the same in all parastals. Ku Lilongwe water board kuli ziibwenzi za Nankumwa and Chimulirenji, komanso abale a Muhara ku ESCOM omwe adangowayika m’maundido akulu akulu opanda interview
Very good development Sir…Otherwise people like this ones are not part of our agenda for 3 meals per day.
Keep on cleaning the swap so that we can have the right people who will help as deliver our campaign promises to malawian…Wosati ana anjokawa ayi.
Jumbe was dpp sympathiser yes, but was also visionary and had very sensible turnround strategy which if supported and implemented, would have resurrected admarc. Unfortunately Alexander Kusamba dzonzi is staunch mcp and it’s former MP, who will regret this decision just like chakwera will. Malawi for all includes dpp members, apikene?
Mukunamatu inuyo, this man amatuma anthu it you can never ever link them to him kumsksmugulira mbeu ngati ma vendor nkumakagulitsa ku admarc. One of them amazandiuza ine atu kundinyafisa kuti amazieana ndi ma big.
Ziri chonchi kumpando tichosereni CEO wa Lilongwe City Assembly amene ukanso was planted to mess up Lilongwe. Please send him packing abwerere ku Blantyre City Assembly. Better than ku Quantanamo Bay wa ku Capital Hill . Ma rubbish sanathandize mtundu was a Malawi koma mbava zinzawozo…vote them away!
Ma rubbish!
Let us try new people/ideas. Jumbe has failed us already.
Chakwera v Jumbe Part 2
kodi is it wrong to a dpp member, masiku ano eti no matter what you can do it you are not part of Tonse, ur gone .Jumbe awapweteka cos anapikisana ndi chakwera pa convertion.Koma abusa mwala ku mwala eti.Koma nanga nkhani ya mwana wanu Nicj=k a cb mukuti chiyani a matemba?
Malawi was tonse includes dpp?Nooo refused and voted your adadi. Lero muziti this Malawi includes you. Ana a njoka inu.
Chakwera alibe uzimu ndithu. In fact he is already wielding excessive power. Typical of a dictator.
This is not clearing the rubble rather its exorcising the system from individual with no affiliation to MCP. Party loyalists will then be at the helm. It’s the same old story of nepotism and cronyism. No matter how you christen the name it’s still the same old shameful acts.
Uchira The Patriot
Honestly tell me which party is Jumbe supporting and then substantiate what you’re saying. was he fit to bring the much needed change? Which party’s ideology is he having? Yankhani
Umbuli ndi matendadi.
CEO does not work based on party ideology. CEO works based on policy dictated by the board.
It’s not the fault of the CEO when politicians interfere it’s the fault of the board.it’s the boards job to say no to politicians.
The problem starts like in this case,the board chair is a party loyalist,and it will not matter how good a CEO is,he will go by the wishes of a board headed by a party loyalist.
When a new government comes in they will blame the wrong person the CEO.
All these partys are the same come election time ADMARC vehicles will be ferrying MCP women.
You are right but as far as he/she is assuming position during a certain regime the officer will be considered so
How I wish what we read in books really worked the way you are contemplating, unfortunately that’s not practically true
Party ideologies aside, there was a conflict of interest. He was hiring ma vendor kumamugulira produce from poor farmers nkumakagulisira ku admarc ko. In the alleged 23billion Malawi Kwacha muli chunk yake .. One of the vendors amazandiuza Isa kuti anapanga ma business ndi ma big. This is not all political…look at some of these cases from an ethical point of view. His is a Gross Misconduct. Ma rubbish enieni, rubble I can accommodate!
If it’s about alignment to party ideologies then I think you are agreeing to what I said. In that case then let me rephrase a bit just for your joy. “Its not about clearing the rubble but appointing people who align with MCP political ideologies”. In Malawi however to align with a part’s ideology simply means being loyal to the party nothing else.
That’s why tikuti party loyalists will then be appointed to replace these supposedly DPP operatives. Now tell me how different is this from the previous regime which we condemned. I hope you see clearly the point that this is just the same old stuff and the manner the nation is being run hasn’t changed a bit. Political affiliation aside let’s have a sober look at issues. Let’s love our country and push for necessary change. Let’s be patriotic.
This may mean, therefore, that we can only compare those outgoing against those incoming in terms of the degree of their political lineages, and fortunately, while doing so, some things a very obvious and does not need much effort in analysing them. Hence, political zealots such as Jumbe deserve no microscopic analysis for their misdeeds are too rampant in the public dormain….so just boot them out, period!
If the degree of political lineages as you put it is indeed comparable between a party which has been in power for just a few months and one which has been there for years then the former’s case can be projected to be worse. Imagine just a few months but they have a comparable degree. What will happen after a year? This is what we need to avoid and I pray as Patriot Malawians we should not allow such mediocrity to continue.