Tag archives: Foster Mulumbe

Minister rebuts MCP claims on Mulumbe appointment as NRB boss: ‘It is fake news on Malawi Watchdog’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Minister of Home Affairs Cecilia Chazama on Friday rejected reports that former chief executive officer (CEO) for State produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) Foster Mulumbe has been appointed to head National Registration Bureau (NRB). Dedza South West MP Clement Mlombwa (Malawi Congress Party-MCP) has told Parliament that President Peter Mutharika has appointed Mulumbe to NRB so […]

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Mulumbe implicates Chaponda: Malawi ex-minister, Tayub plead not guilty in  corruption-related Maizegate charges

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Former chief executive officer for the State produce trader, Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc), Foster Mulumbe on Tuesday told the Magistrate’s Court in Blantyre that former Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Dr George Chaponda, flouted procedures for the supply maize. Mulumbe  implicated  Chaponda  when he appeared before the Court Tuesday morning as first […]

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ACB spares Mulumbe in ‘Maizegate’ prosecution: Admarc yet to pay Zambia Co-op K1.2bn

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) chief executive officer, Foster Mulumbe,  stands  cleared  of any wrongdoing by the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in relation to the Zambia maize imports saga, Nyasa Times understands. ACB spokeswoman said all  the graft busting body arrested all suspects in the ‘Maizegate’ scandal and that Mulumbe is not one of […]

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Activist slams Malawi govt for shielding thieves

By Nyasa Times Reporter

A veteran human rights activist has slammed the government for shielding thieves by ignoring Admarc board recommendation to fire its chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe. Human Rights Consultative Council (HRCC) executive director Robert Mkwezalamba said this after the government ignored Admarc recommendation to fire  Mulumbe as chief executive officer following his connection to the Zambia […]

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ADMARC CEO Mulumbe fired over ‘maizegate’ scandal

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The board of the State produce trader, Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) has recommended the firing of suspended chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe and director of operations Feckson Kantonga for having  having flouted procurement procedures in the Zambia maize import deal. The special committee headed by one of the board members, Ken Ndanga, was tasked […]

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Mulumbe, Kantonga to know fate May 17: Admarc ‘maizegate’ probe concludes

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The fate of suspended Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) Foster Mulumbe will be known this Wednesd as a special committee which was hearing the matter will deliver its verdict. The Admarc board on April 3 announced its decision to suspend Mulumbe alongside Director of Operations Feckson Kantonga following recommendations […]

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Mulumbe’s ‘maizegate’ verdict in 2 weeks time — Admarc

By Nyasa Times Reporter

State produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) board chair James Masumbu says the state grain dealer firm has completed its investigations on its chief executive officer on corruption and abuse of office. Masumbu said the verdict, on whether they were wrong or not, would be pronounced in two weeks time. Mulumbe was sent on […]

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Masumbu says Ndanga to chair Admarc special disciplinary committee on Maizegate

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) board chairperson James Masumbu has said they have ste up a special committee chaired by board member Ken Ndanga to examine recommendations to the board made by the two commissions—one instituted by President Peter Mutharika and the other by Parliament—to begin disciplinary proceedings against Admarc’s senior management over […]

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Admarc CEO Mulumbe, DO Kantonga placed under suspension over ‘maizegate’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) board has placed chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe on suspension following recommendations to the board made by the two commissions—one instituted by President Peter Mutharika and the other by Parliament—to begin disciplinary proceedings against Admarc’s senior management over  the Zambia maize deal – the ‘maizegate’. Mulumbe was implicated […]

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HRCC calls for ADMARC board to be dissolved for failing to discpline CEO Mulumbe over ‘maizegate’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

President Peter Mutharika has been asked by Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC)to dissolve the sstate produce trader ADMARC board for failing to discipline its Chief Executive Officer Foster Mulumbe, whose conduct was faulted by the presidential commission of inquiry probing the maize deal. HRCC Chairperson Robert Mkwezalamba said in a statement that failure by the board […]

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Anti-Corruption Bureau raid houses of Chaponda, Mulumbe’: Find stacks of cash at Malawi Minister’s house

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The  graft busting body Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) which is investigating Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Thapatula Chaponda following a recommendation by the commission of inquiry into Malawi’s maize imports from Zambia on Tuesday searched the house of the embattled minister in the capital Lilongwe. ACB also searched the House of chief executive […]

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Admarc refuses to bring down maize prices, might fail to pay PTA bank loan

By Nyasa Times Reporter

State produce marketor Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) CEO Foster Mulumbe has ruled out bringing down the price of maize pegged at K12500 per bag unless parliament finds donors who can subsidize the price of the stapple food. Mulumbe said this on Wednesday when he appeared before a parliamentary inquiry on maizegate. “I am […]

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Mulumbe contradicts Admarc board on suspension: Insists no cash transferred to Zambia in maizegate

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Calm, collected and composed, that is how Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) Chief Executive Officer, Foster Mulumbe, appeared before the parliamentay inquiry on Wednesday but his contradictory statements and incosistencies failed to win the hearts of the legislators. Mulumbe also contradicted  the State-trader’s board of directors  that he was sent on ‘forced leave’ on his […]

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Admarc board sends Mulumbe on forced leave over ‘maizegate’: Mauwa acting CEO

By Nyasa Times Reporter

The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) board which met in Blantyre last Friday ordered chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe to go on forced leave to pave way for investigations on  the Zambia maize deal. Mulumbe, including Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Minister George Chaponda, are implicated in the maizegate scandal that they may have […]

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ADMARC board summons CEO Mulumbe, management over ‘maizegate’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) board has summoned its  chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe and management to explain procurement details of the Zambia maize saga. Board chair of Admarc, James Masumbu confirmed of the meeting Friday. “We have the meeting indeed and we have the one agenda, that of the issue of the procurement […]

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Mulumbe will not be suspended on ‘maizegate’: ADMARC yet to pay Zambia agency

By Nyasa Times Reporter

State-produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe will not be suspended from his duties as government claims to have information and weight of evidence that  he followed procedures with Government of  Zambia and its agencies in the controversial K26 billion procurement deal of maize now christened as ‘Maizegate’. The  civil […]

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CSOs press on Mutharika to fire Chaponda, Mulumbe until investigations are over on Malawi/Zambia ‘maizegate’

By Nyasa Times Reporter

Civil society organisations (CSOs) who have also called for the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and suspendion of State-produce trader Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) chief executive officer Foster Mulumbe to pave way for corruption investigation into the Zambian maize procurement saga are currently meeting in Lilongwe in […]

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