Malawi govt appoints Nyamilandu as Greenbelt Authority CEO

May 18, 2020 Nyasa Times Reporter 38 Comments

Government has appointed Football Association of Malawi (FAM) president Dr MacMillan Walter Nyamilandu  as  chief executive officer for Greenbelt Authority.

Walter Nyamilandu:  CEO of Greenbelt Authority

Office of the President and Cabinet says the appointment is with immediate effect.

He replaces Dr Henrie Njoloma whose contract expired.

In his last interview at the authority, Njoloma told the Malawi News Agency that apart from emphasising on development of irrigated agriculture and setting up irrigation schemes, the Greenbelt Authority is geared to go into the international market by exporting cotton-made linen.

He said the authority is looking at value addition facilities which will see exporting of cotton linen materialising.

He emphasised on the need to step-up efforts in value addition so that the country generates the-much-needed forex through exports such as cotton linen.

The former CEO said all projects under the authority are structured in a way that products should not end at the agricultural production only but there must be value addition.

He observed that the country is doing well in value addition of its agricultural products.

“In the cotton project, we are already ginning. We have partnered with ADMARC and once we have substantial investment in the production of cotton itself, we will go beyond ginning and start producing linen. This is what we are going to be doing going forward,” he said.

Apart from the cotton project, Njoloma cited the sugar project in Salima and Kilombero Rice Project in Karonga as some of the initiatives where value addition is taking place.

“At each project that we have, we have put up a factory to process the products so that they are not sold raw,” he said.

The authority was among the 16 companies, both public and private, which participated at the January UK-Africa Investment Summit and the UK-Malawi Investment Forum in London, United Kingdom (UK).

Njoloma hailed both the summit and the forum, saying there was a lot of interest which was generated by the UK investors on what they could do in the agriculture sector in Malawi.

He disclosed that the authority got more than 10 leads which they are following up to ensure the sector has structured investments on value addition facilities.

“Our main achievement in the January 2020 investment Summit was to be able to have three key and very big financiers that will be coming to the Greenbelt.

“We have Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), UK Africa Invest and UK Financing Services Institution which are coming. Talks about how to structure the financing will be conducted soon,” said Njoloma.

In November last year (2019), the then Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa launched the Malawi Cotton Development Strategy.

The strategy, which runs from 2019-2025 is meant to revitalise the cotton sector and allow it to return to optimal and consistent production levels that can adequately support value chain activities.

The 3,000-hectare Chikwawa-Nchalo Cotton Project was one of the projects that the Greenbelt Authority took to the Summit and the Forum for possible investment opportunities.

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38 replies on “Malawi govt appoints Nyamilandu as Greenbelt Authority CEO”

    1. Walter is not a Tumbuka. He is a sena. The Northern name comes from a step father. Even SKCs father is not from the Centre but from the South pa Lirangwe

  3. When they can’t stop siphoning money even in injury time, a milking agent at green belt. Let us simply make sure these thieves are kicked out and when you get in power kick this cadet out of there and let’s have irrigation/ agriculture technocrats running this serious green belt institution.

    1. Anzanu akuti Dr. inu mukuti Mr. Simunamupepule munthuyu. Nkutheka ali nei PhD ameneyu. Kikikikikiki. Kama eeee.

  8. Big up Dr Nyamilandu hopefully you will bring some new ideas in greenbelt initiative.

  9. Malawi needs to a pass a law called Equal Employment Opportunity Act, That law should ban all appointments to positions in government companies. Instead there should be equity in how people are given positions. This means there should be transparency. Jobs must be advertised. Candidates must apply and be interviewed. The best interviewee should be offered the job. Nepotism must be criminalized and this must apply to the private sector as well. I guarantee you, Malawi will change in the next 25 years. Otherwise, if we continue as we are doing good rid Malawi!

    1. Very tru..it take alot of pain to be educated alot of hard work makolo kugulitsa ziwero..imagine munthu wake chitipa or kukumidzi amavutika mpaka ikumaliza sukulu koma ntchito chabwino amapasidwa ndi anthu amtquni okhaokha ana a anthu olemela ngati Walter.. Suzuki loses ntchito..all jobs needs to be fairly advertised and recruited for..chilungamo for all..tonse timavutika ndisukulu why just give jobs to cadets…party members..anthu akwanu and abale..ife tikagwira ntchito kuti when u r giving a job to south african lawyers paying them 9billion for a job they didnt do ..a job which wasnt tendered in malawi..it is painful when my family had to sell a plot and a car kuti ndimalezee university but now I cant get a job. Because president nominated over 100 people into chief executive jobs without transparency.mphavu za president or whoever nominated board members and ceo etc zithe

  10. muntu uyu alindi udindo waukulu kale ku malawi football association farm ndipo kumeneko zikumukanika kale nde pano akuti apasidwe udindo wina waukuluso Kodi antuwa mumaika mumenemo azidya ndalama Basi kapena chani kweni apa nde mwatifikapo sono

  11. kalanga ineeee!!!!! Fired from Illovo. Heading a non-performing FAM. And now CEO at Greenbelt. Greenbelt is doomed. Mark my words. The guy is a thief.

  12. Kodi anthu alibe zochita izi ndiyomwe anthu akudana nazo kuti tozigomva za anthu amodzimodzi ngati anzeru ndiokha

  13. When somethings happen, you know exactly kuti nthawi yatha.
    CEO is very involving and Nyamilandu being the president of Malawi Football Association can’t work effectively.

    My advice to Mr Nyamilandu is this, Ndale zimachotsa ulemu wa munthu. Think of Dr Thom Mpinganjira mmene analili asanayambe ndale ulemu omwe anali nawo ndi now where he stands in the society?

    Bwererani bwana Walter

    1. U cant be appointed on this post with out having any political connections. Thom mukunenayo statted financing dpp from bingu era. Lachi 40 likafika limafika lokha.

  14. It’s amazing to see people having two jobs yet others with their right qualifications are sitting at home🙆‍♀️ yet this government always says we must create jobs and it’s there to show good examples but has failed us!!!

  16. This is a demanding position if the initiative has to succeed. Surely it does not require a CEO that will divide his time between Football and this Job.

  20. Another cadet rewarded though he has no clue in agriculture……by the way can the president prioritise the issue in hand ..

    We have elections coming up that no one knows the exact date not even MEC…..because parliament need to meet and set the date ..

    Instead of focusing on the most pressing issues the old senile man is busy making last minute rewards to his cadets.

    Can I remind the old man that we need new MEC commissioners as soon as possible as well……who advises this stupid old grandpa?

  21. The article seems as is in the praise of Njoloma, nothing much about Walter appointment

    1. @ Jerusalem bible college, your observation is perfectly correct. The headline talks about Nyamilandu but the entire context gives credit or praise to Njoloma. Our reporters should learn to link the headline to the contents of their report.

    2. @Jerusalem Bible College, the author is indirectly telling the appointing authority that Nyamilandu cannot do what the former CEO accomplished. Yes, Njoloma might have stolen as alleged in here but he accomplished something. But Nyamilandu has no clue where to start from. He is good at fixing elections in favour of DPP as he did in 2019

    4. I agree with you, as per the heading, the story was supposed to be Walter’s appointment not about projects or anything else, if anything then it was supposed to be what dreams does Walter has for the his tenure. We were supposed to hear things like his qualifications and experience for the job.

  22. This appointment should have waited for the new government in July and Njoloma’s contract should have been extended to July 2020.

  23. Greenbelt Initiative is one of institutions DPP is using to milk public resources. This institutions is on list for audit after July elections. Heads will roll here. Even the previous CEO will respond to audit findings. Malawians know very well that this is a way of paying this idiot for being royal to the ruling party and again means to easily access public resources. This is madness is about to end in this country.

  24. This is misallocation of human resources at its best, from sales management to irrigation management. A departure from the Lomwelisation policy but still within the DPP sympathisers appeasement policy.

  25. Kodi a Walter ankapangabe sukulu mpakana u doctorate? I hope si zomwezi amangogayira ma Africans just to feel better I.e mwanja wa bakili.

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