By Durrell Namasani
President Lazarus Chakwera has fired Minister of Agriculture Lobin Lowe and his Deputy Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima over the handling of the AIP Fertiliser saga. He has since appointed Sam Kawale as the new Minister.
Chakwera announced this during the state of national address. The President said a litany of bad decisions about the program smack of high incompetence and gross negligence.
The Malawi leader says the contract which the Ministry went into with a British company which has allegedly duped the government of way over K750 million is unacceptable.
Chakwera says an instituted investigation shows that the Ministry paid sums of money to two different bank accounts in different countries
The President also announced that he has appointed Hon Sam Kawale as the Minister of Agriculture
