Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Principal Secretary, Erica Maganga has been removed from her position over reports that he had allowed businesses which were bankrolling former ruling DPP, to be considered for the 2012/2013 Farm Input Subsidy Program. Nyasa Times understands that Maganga has been deployed to what civil servants are calling it “concentration camp” in the Office […]
British government has been persuaded to reinstate its general budget support for Malawi following brave reforms ” for the better carried by new President Joyce Banda, according to MPs on the International Development Committee. In a report released on Tuesday and seen by Nyasa Times from the House of Commons website, the committee’s chairman, Sir Malcolm Bruce, recommended that […]
One of the Malawi’s leading suppliers of fertiliser, Nyiombo Investments, has been named the leading and successful player in terms of preparedness for the 2012/13 Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) programme. This is according to a recent draft report released by the Government commissioned assessment and has been confirmed by Nyiombo finance manager Honest Tembo. Tembo […]
: Members of Parliament have commended government for maintaining the Farm Input Subsidy Program initially started by the late president Bingu wa Mutharika. This comes after the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) has been given the highest amount of K40.6 billion out of the K68 billion allocated to the Agriculture and Food Security Ministry, for the […]
Malawi Government intends to tighten security for this year’s distribution of the subsidized fertilizer in order to prevent theft. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Professor Peter Mwanza made the remarks in parliament on Thursday in response to a question from Member of Parliament for Phalombe south Daveson Nyadani who asked him to consider […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Mpenu, Watson Makala Ngozo, (MCP) has asked government to completely suspend the use of fertilizer subsidy coupons which targets the most vulnerable households in communities. Ngozo told parliament that the coupons which are being used are causing a lot of problems including corruption. “There is too much corruption […]
Preamble: Shocking information is coming up revealing just how deeply President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led administration was mired in corruption, contrary to the song of “zero tolerance”. A lot of dirt is and will flow. In confidence and without pre-empting others, I have been made to believe that a lot of information […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Wednesday said she has forgiven chiefs who were making disparaging remarks against her when she was virtually an opposition figure but urged the traditional leaders not to practise politics. Speaking at Mount Soche Hotel in Blantyre as a special convening conference with the traditional leaders, President Banda said chiefs “are […]
Presidential aspirant Atupele Muluzi, son of former president of Malawi, Bakili Muluzi, has demanded a corruption investigation into the country’s fertiliser subsidy programme, saying organised crime and corruption is undermining its potential benefits for the poor. Speaking on Sunday at Mulanje Limbuli, near the Malawi border with Mozambique, the Machinga North East parliamentarian claimed the […]
The controversial Member of Parliament for Thyolo Thava, Lifred Nawena on Tuesday took his time on Capital FM’s hard-hitting flagship interview programme, Straight Talk, to criticise President Bingu wa Mutharika, saying he has lost his edge as a leader. In the Straight Talk consisting of in-depth half-hour one-on-one interview with host Brian Banda, Nawena said emphatically […]
President Bingu wa Mutharika has always boasted as a person who respects traditional leaders but on Wednesday the Malawi leader barked at the chiefs threatening to strip them off of their chieftaincies. The president attacked the chiefs in Zomba when he launched the 2011-2012 National Tree Plating Season at Jali in the area of TA […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda says the Head of State Bingu wa Mutharika has earned himself the position of a hate administration from citizens including herself because she is leading a “suffering” nation. Banda, said she cannot take blame of the government she is part of, because she has “no opportunity to provide counsel” to it […]
Police in Mzuzu have arrested two employees of the Smallholder Farmers Fertiliser Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) on allegations that they have been behind the pilferage of subsidised fertilizers from the Mzuzu depot. Mzuzu Police Publicist Edward Longwe confirmed the development to Nyasa Times adding that they had received numerous reports of pilferage since the […]
Some officials and security officers involved in the distribution fertiliser under the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) have started abusing their positions by selling the commodity meant for the poor at market prices. Already government has warned that people who are doing so will be arrested and prosecuted because it cannot condone such criminal acts. […]
Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda has condemned what she has described as a ‘fertilizer cartel’, which is responsible for the current scarcity of fertilizer resulting in unbearably exorbitant prices on the market. “I am aware that fertilizer contracts under the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) are granted to family friends and relatives of the people […]
Tisunge Chimombo, 23, of Namtapo village in Traditional Authority Nkalo’s area in Chiradzulu was arrested Thursday, November 24, 2011 by Bvumbwe Police in Thyolo for an alleged illegal transaction in subsidized fertilizer coupons after being found with 82 and K40, 000 cash she could not readily account for. According to Limbe police publicist, Chifundo Chibwezo, […]
People in Mulanje West Constituency are bitter with their Member of Parliament Patricia Kaliati because she is buying government subsidized fertilizer to herself at the expense of the poor people. Malawi Broadcasting Corporation announced over the weekend that Kaliati was visiting Admarc markets in her constituency to stop corruption that was going on there in […]
Malawi government has received a boost from Ireland, the UK and Norway who have released over MK 7.7 billion in support of in support of the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) for the 2011/2012 planting season. President Bingu wa Mutharika introduced the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) in 2005 to improve national food security and […]