By Chisomo Phiri
Opposition Democractic Progressive Party ( DPP) Members of Parlianment from Sourthen and Eastern Regions have today January 31,2021 sealed the main entrance to the SFFRFM warehouses at Chirimba in Blantyre.
The legislators are blocking any truck loaded with fertiliser from getting out of the premises.
According to what 247 Malawi News has gathered, the main opposition side MPs are demanding the release of Urea fertiliser which they claim is being deliberately held by the government.
The MPs claim the SFFRM has some Urea fertiliser which they have been told is under collateral management.
Their claim comes after government last week managed to get 5000 metric tones (MT) of Urea and only distributed 1000 MT to the two regions to share while the rest of the fertiliser “went somewhere else”.
“We have made attempts to plead with the Minister of Agriculture to consider us on Urea considering the level at which maize requires the product, if we don’t apply urea this week forget about harvest and we, as leaders, would have failed our people,” says Ben Phiri, from Thyolo Central Constituency.
Among the MPs spotted include Mary Mpanga, Mary Navicha, Joseph Grant and Ben Phiri.
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