Malawi’s powerful Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda on Monday failed to attend an event on tapping water from Mulanje after angry villagers blocked him from attending the event. Chaponda was due to visit Likhubula in Mulanje to see a new water source where Blantyre Water Board is expected to pump water […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda accused presidential aide Symon Vuwa Kaunda of lying that Malawi will only import maize when grain marketro Admarc exhaust buying local stocks from buyers. Kaunda made the remarks in Mzuzu after touring ADMARC depot. He claimed Malawi has “a lot of maize”. Vuwa Kaunda said: “ […]
Former Foreign Affairs minister George Chaponda now holding the agriculture portfolio in Peter President Mutharika’s cabinet and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) head Lucas Kondowe have been summoned by the United Nations (UN) over unpaid allowances to Malawi Defence Forces (MDF) soldiers. A team of international investigative journalists are probing the issue after it was discovered […]
Farmers Union of Malawi (FUM) has called upon government through Ministry of Agriculture to address numerous challenges which hard to reach farmers are facing in the country. The call was made in Lilongwe on Tuesday during the National Farmers’ Policy Conference which will precede its 12th Annual Congress under the theme Farming for Markets and Development: Partnerships […]
Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to continue working with Malawi in various sectors of the economy. He said, “Egypt is willing to continue working together with Malawi in all fields, and finalize the studies for the establishment a joint model fish and agricultural farm utilizing the resources available in Lake […]
Former ruling party, Peoples Party spokesperson Ken Msonda has blasted Agriculture minister George Chaponda for telling the UN chief Ban Ki Moon that Joyce Banda is in self imposed exile because the former president fears prosuction in the cashgate. “This is cheap politics, this is politics of the savages, this politics of the uneducated,” said […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda is under fire from the UN diplomatic community for “deliberately exaggerating” to a newspaper reporter that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon personally phoned him to meet at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on Sunday. The UN Chief landed in Malawi to refuel his plane and never […]
Malawi Parliament rose on Friday after a nine week seating which saw a swift enactment of the Anatomy Act and the passing of the K1.1 trillion budget among other highlights. During the scrutiny of the budget, the opposition took government to task on why it wanted to buy eight vehicles for the president’s convoy and […]
Leader of the House George Chaponda on Tuesday lost his cool and challenged Mzimba West MP Harry Mkandawire for a one to one bout outside parliament. The two picked a quarrel after Mkandawire presented his evidence to back up his allegations that the government has ‘sold’ Lake Malawi to Mota Engil, a Portuguese contractor. Chaponda […]
Minister of Agriculture and leader of the House, Dr George Chaponda entered defence against claims that seven ministers, including himself, have been implicated in the suspected K577 billion Cashgate in the forensic audit conducted by RSM Risk Assurance LLP of the UK covering 2009 to 2014 . The civil society reacted tot he news of Ministers […]
Seven senior cabinet ministers in the Peter Mutharika government have been fingured to have a key involvement in DPP-era Cashgate—the plunder of K577 billion (about $856 million) of public funds the forensic audit for the period 2005 to 2014 indicates. The National Audit Office (NAO) has submitted 13 files related to the pilferage of public […]
Grain reserves have now been depleted and the country within a month run out of maize which will trigger inflation and the cost of life. The general manager of the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) Nasinuko Saukira has said only four out of the 36 silos have maize which means the country has only 20000 […]
Minister of Agriculture George Chaponda has told parliament that irrigation experts who are supposed to initiate a massive irrigation project to tap water from Lake Malawi are in the country. Chaponda however could not give details on when the work would start of tapping the vast fresh Lake Malawi waters into fields for farming to […]
Rumphi east firebrand MP Kamlepo Kalua on Tuesday picked on minister of Agriculture George Chaponda, saying he has no moral ground to tell Malawians of their country because he was in self imposed exile when Malawians were fighting the oppressive one party system of government. Kalua also described the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as […]
Leader of the House George Chaponda has said the passing of the K1.1 trillion national budget is Thursday, June 30 amid fears opposition legislators are set to torpedo it in order to force the government give them K3 million each. Chaponda said from Monday, the House will enter into committee of supply stage where they […]
Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Dr. George Chaponda has stressed that Government is taking a keen interest in developing and diversifying the country’s agriculture production, expand its export base, and improve livelihood of the producers. He made the remarks when he presided over the opening of the National Rice Conference in Lilongwe which […]
Leader of the House, George Chaponda (Democratic Progressive Party—DPP) attracted the wrath of Malawi Congress Party (MCP) members in parliament when he alleged that the former ruling party had more nepotistic and tribalistic tendencies during its 30-year-rule. Chaponda was reacting to accusation from an MCP lawmaker who was making his contribution to the state of […]
Former state vice president and now member of parliament for Mzimba South West, Khumbo Kachali was ruled out of order in the House for making insinuations. Kachali congratulated Leader of the House, George Chaponda for being appointed Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development and thanked the President Peter Mutharika “for removing” him from the […]