{"id":34614,"date":"2022-11-11T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:04:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:04:58","slug":"chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance refutes MK30bn missing allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Tonse government through the Ministry of Agriculture has refuted rumours that MK30 billion meant for 2022\/2023 Affordable Input Program (AIP) has gone missing.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press statement the ministry issued on Thursday and was signed by its Principal Secretary, Sandra Maweru, government engaged Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) as is always the case to process procurement of fertilizers for the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSFFRFM made contracts with a number of companies to supply 2022\/2023 AIP fertilizers and one of such companies was a UK based company called Barkaat Foods Limited which has a production line with a well known supplier, Yara Limited (UK), for an initial 25, 000 metric tons of fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSFFRFM was requested to pay a commitment fee amounting to US$727, 000 ( about MK750 million) to lock the price, which was remitted through Ecobank,\u201d reads the statement in part.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company failed to supply the fertilizers and subsequently terminated the contract and agreed to transfer the fee back to SFFRFM through the same back.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday this week, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Samir Suleman, was on record to have told the nation that the Ministry of Agriculture has been ripped off MK30 billion meant for this season\u2019s AIP by a UK based company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Tonse government through the Ministry of Agriculture has refuted rumours that MK30 billion meant for 2022\/2023 Affordable Input Program (AIP) has gone missing. According to a press statement the ministry issued on Thursday and was signed by its Principal Secretary, Sandra Maweru, government engaged Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-34614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance refutes MK30bn missing allegation - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Tonse government through the Ministry of Agriculture has refuted rumours that MK30 billion ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance refutes MK30bn missing allegation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Lazarus Chakwera\u2019s Tonse government through the Ministry of Agriculture has refuted rumours that MK30 billion ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T22:23:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T23:04:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_7-636ed4f61e8f8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance refutes MK30bn missing allegation\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-11T22:23:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-11T23:04:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\"},\"wordCount\":232,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_7-636ed4f61e8f8.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakweras-tonse-alliance-refutes-mk30bn-missing-allegation\",\"name\":\"Chakwera\u2019s Tonse Alliance refutes MK30bn missing allegation - 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