Two arrested in Mulanje over Admarc maize
Two people have been in arrested in Mulanje district for buying maize from Admarc depot in bulks, which is against the official set quantity of a minimum of 20kgs per individual.
Malawi is currently experiencing maize shortage and the food shortage situation is worsening as people are being forced to spend nights at Admarc depots just to access the grain.
The situation has forced government to take restrict measures in how the maize is sold in Admarc depots and has since deployed police officers in all depots to monitor and manage the situation.
And on Wednesday the law-enforcers in Mulanje arrested Jefrey Maliyango, 22, and Steven Mahaya, 35, for buying maize bulks from the government-owned grain marketer.
Mulanje police Public Relations Officer, Gresham Ngwira said the two hired some women to buy maize for them at Mulanje Admarc depot.
“They were paying each woman K800 for every 20kgs bought. Officially 20kgs costs K2, 200. When officers monitoring the sales noted this, they immediately arrested the two who by then had bought 7 bags weighing 60kgs each,” explained Ngwira.
The two will appear in court soon after police investigations.
”We wish to warn the public against this malpractice. Anyone found will be arrested and prosecuted accordingly. We will not relent, officers are in all Admarc selling points to monitor the situation”.
Currently over 2 million are about to face food shortage, according to government’s assessment done last year.
The country is experiencing food shortage and there is no hope from authorities that the situation will improve any time soon.
Boma talolani ufa wa Zambia ulowe wambiri vutoli litha, ngati Malawi talephela kukwanilisa kudyesa dziko lathu. Lolani Zambia ilowese ufa chifukwa chiwelengelo cha mavendernso chichepa ofuna chimanga chichepa.
Za ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii what will we benefit???? apawo ndi mizu imakumana pansi pompo
SUCH THEFT DE BLAME HAS TO GO TO THE BGOVT AND AUTHORITIES IN CHARGE …………….CAUSE CORRUPTION STARTS RIGHT AWY KW AKULU AKULU…………ND IF THE ARRESTED KULD BE BROUGHT TO TESTFY………YU WILL SUPRISED KUMVA KUTI THE ADMARC BOSS HAD A HAND……KOMANO SANGAMUWULURE………………..
Good move but not enough.
Arrest also the Admarc officials who sold the maize. They knew what they were doing.
Arrest also those ministers or MPs who bought maize in bulk from Admarc backdoors at night and distributed to their constituencies when most Malawians were queuing for days to get the same maize.