Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) chief executive officer Margret Roka Mauwa has been removed from her position and former legislator Felix Jumbe has been appointed as new CEO. This development comes after Nyasa Times reported about Admarc employees’ demands. Last week Admarc employees threatened to down tools if government didn’t remove Mauwa and two […]
Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) employees have threatened to go on strike from Monday, December 2 2019 due to what one member of the workers described as “fragrant abuse of office and mismanagement of resources” by some senior managers, including the acting chief executive officer, Margaret Mauwa. The staff are calling for an immediate […]
Admarc officials came under intense fire from parliamentarians on Tuesday after it was revealed that over 7,000 tonnes of maize under the care of the state produce company has rotten. Acting general manager for Admarc Margaret Roka Mauwa told the joint Agriculture and Natural Resources cluster committee that the maize went bad due to moisture. […]
Latest audited financial reports for AHL Group, Malawi’s tobacco auctioneer and investments giant, show that the company has made a profit of K4.2 billion for the first quarter of the 2018/2019 financial after successfully cutting its loss by over 50 percent to K19 billion for the 2017/2018 financial year from K40 billion the previous year. […]
Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) has pleaded with parliament to authorize loans for the cash-strapped state grain trader, saying it is struggling to operate and cannot but maize and other produce on time. Admarc acting chief executive officer Margaret Roka Mauwa told the Budget and Finance committee of parliament that the only way out of the […]
Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Agricultural Development Corporation, Roka Mauwa has warned all Admarc unit market officials engaging themselves in some corrupt market schemes when buying maize in Admarc depots of facing immediate dismissal. This comes as government has pumped in another K5 billion on top of the initial K6 billion for Admarc to […]
Chiradzulu District Council officials Thursday cancelled the handover ceremony of Samikwa school block project in T/A Mpama constructed with funding from the Local Development Fund (LDF). Communities rejected the project arguing it was sub-standard as it would not provide a conducive learning environment for pupils. “On behalf of the community, we will not receive this […]
The official Malawi Commission of Inquiry on the death of president Bingu wa Mutharika on April 5, 2012 could not clear the suspicions Mutharika’s widow Callista had that her husband had sexual encounters with some of the women that met him before he suffered cardiac arrest. Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday made public the […]
Malawi opposition lawmakers walked out of parliament Tuesday in protest on what they termed “sarcasm” and the unparliamentarily words coming from Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Margaret Roca Mauwa. The members of parliament complained that Mauwa remarks were demeaning them when standing on a point of order, used the word “kukanyela” Malawi lingua franca Chichewa for “shit.” The MPs demanded that the Deputy Minister to withdraw […]