By: Draxon Maloya.
Lilongwe, Malawi. (News of The South) – It is not raining but pouring to some Malawians who entirely depend on purchasing maize as their staple food since many Agriculture Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) depots in the country are selling rotten maize.
It has been President Peter Mutharika’s statement at most of his political rallies that no one will die because of hunger in the country.
But News Of The South and other local media teams have proven the first citizen wrong having established facts on the ground that other Admarc depots have been closed since Malawi`s main staple food has gone bad, and one such a depot is Mwanza.
Almost 1000 metric tonnes of maize is expected to be discharged in front of high authorities anytime from now.
Many Malawians are finding it difficult to purchase the grain because of high cost as well as congestion in many Admarc depots.
The price of the commodity is not affordable anywhere else apart from these state grain outlet because otherwise else where the vendors take advantage of maize scarcity to dupe the consumer.
Government has not been buying maize from the farmers for the past three years having purchase maize from Zambia at a very exorbitant price in the infamous maize gate scandal in which a cabinet minister, George Chaponda was arrested.
Many Malawians depend on maize as their main food, but with this revelation there is a huge expectation that the price of maize will go up hence creating unnecessary food inflation.
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